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HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Artificial Intelligence

Commons · Question 116610 · Tabled 27 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 9 Mar 2026

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Asked by James McMurdock

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Deputy Prime Minister sets out vision for the justice system, published on 24 February 2026, what estimate he has made of the time savings from the use of

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 9 Mar 2026

HMCTS is progressing work to expand AI-enabled transcription to support courts and tribunals. The Department has not published an estimate of time savings from the use of AI to transcribe hearings across the court system. It is worth noting that transcrip...