Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 6
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Deferred
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High-quality data is essential for MoJ to determine court capacity and predict caseloads.
Conclusion
Improving the quality of data in the justice system will help the MoJ to determine whether the courts have the capacity they need to deal with cases in a timely fashion. The Government needs to have access to high-quality data in order to be able predict how the number of cases are likely to change and to be able to analyse the ability of the courts to process cases.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government deflected the recommendation regarding improving data quality for court capacity analysis, instead committing an extra £477 million to the Criminal Justice system over three years to reduce the Crown Court backlog to 53,000 cases by March 2025.
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Government Response
The government responded to this report on 7 July 2022. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗