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Crown Court: Trials

Commons · Question 17589 · Tabled 9 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 17 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Katie Lam

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the (a) average length of a trial and (b) average time taken for a case to reach completion following receipt at the Crown Court, broken down by individual Crown Court centre, for each financial year fro

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 17 Jul 2026

The Ministry of Justice regularly publishes data on the average amount of time a case spends being heard and the average time taken for a case to reach completion following receipt at the Crown Court, as part of the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly: Cr...