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Courts: Harpenden and Berkhamsted |
| Question ID: |
1807518 |
| UIN: |
55951 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5201 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Victoria Collins
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| Asking Member handle: |
TweetingCollins
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@TweetingCollins
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to tackle backlogs in the courts in Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5204 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
This Government inherited a record and rising courts backlog. For this financial year (25/26), this Government is funding a record allocation of Crown Court sitting days to deliver swifter justice for victims – 110,000 sitting days this year, 4,000 higher... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |