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Criminal Proceedings: Standards

Commons · Question 6652 · Tabled 3 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 19 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by James McMurdock

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the primary causes of ineffective trials in criminal courts.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 19 Jun 2026

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on trial effectiveness in the Criminal Court Statistics release in the ‘Trial effectiveness at the criminal courts tool’. This tool contains data on both the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court and covers the per...