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Courts: Video Conferencing

Commons · Question 89417 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 19 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of video links used for remote court proceedings.

Answer

Answered by Jake Richards, 19 Nov 2025

All prisons in England and Wales now have some modern video provision to support remote court hearings. In 2024/25, prisons facilitated almost 440,000 video links: over 212,000 of these related to remote court hearings, an increase of 17% on the previous ...