questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his planned timetable is for reducing the Crown Court backlog in absolute terms.
answerText: This Government inherited a record and rising courts backlog. The last government promised to reduce the Crown Court backlog to 53,000 by March 2025. Instead, the backlog increased to 76,957 by March 2025. We have taken immediate action including funding ...
heading: Crown Court: Standards