Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 113911
Crown Court: Trials
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026
Question
Kim Johnson
Labour — Liverpool Riverside
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of either-way cases in the Crown Court backlog yet to elect mode of trial.
Answer
Sarah SackmanThe Ministry of Justice publishes information about cases in the open caseload at both the magistrates’ courts and at the Crown Court. This includes breakdowns of volumes and durations as part of the Crown Court open caseload published as part of Criminal...
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