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Recommendation 4
4
Deferred
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Require Ministry of Justice to publish progress and final cost of HMCTS court reform programme.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Ministry of Justice publish an update on the progress made on each project within the HMCTS court reform programme and, in particular, the date by which the programme is expected to complete and its anticipated final cost.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government deflected the recommendation to publish updates on the HMCTS court reform programme's progress, completion date, and cost, instead detailing efforts to recruit up to 1100 judges in 2022/23 and improvements in HMCTS staff pay and reward.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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We are investing £1.3 billion to transform the justice system, including introducing 21st Century technology and online services to increase access to justice and improve efficiency. The programme is continuing to reform the remaining services and is on track to complete by December 2023 as planned. HMCTS will continue to publish information about the services that are being reformed on their website. The NAO have included the Court Reform programme in its pipeline of work, and this is expected to publish in Winter 22/23. This study builds on the NAO’s past work on HMCTS’s reform programme, including Early progress in transforming courts and tribunals and Transforming courts and tribunals: a progress update. It will examine HMCTS’s progress in implementing its reform programme, including following up on previous NAO recommendations.
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