Crown Court: Standards
Commons · Question 15986 · Tabled 6 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 14 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what modelling he has undertaken of the Crown Court backlog under (a) current funding levels and (b) alternative funding scenarios; when the backlog will return to pre-pandemic levels; and whether regional projec
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 14 Jul 2026
The Department publishes Crown Court open caseload projections annually. The current release (from December 2025) is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2025-to-2030. We do not have equivalent projections...