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Seventh Report - The role of adult custodial remand in the criminal justice system
Justice Committee
HC 264
Published 17 January 2023
Recommendations
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Accepted in Part
Publish comprehensive quarterly data on remanded defendants, including bail refusals and demographics.
Recommendation
It is only on the basis of good quality data in respect of the use of custodial remand that there can be effective policy-making. More data needs to be collected and published on remanded defendants, particularly in relation to the …
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Government Response Summary
The government partially accepts the recommendation, rejecting a new dedicated quarterly publication for remand data but committing to improving existing publications. They will add a new table on remand prison population by ethnicity to the Offender Management Statistics and will consider the Centre for Public Data's recommendations when published.
Ministry of Justice
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Conclusions (1)
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Conclusion
Accepted in Part
Para 146
We recognise that for routine hearings there is a benefit of using video links from prison so a remanded defendant does not have to experience frequent disruption going to and from court. However, the convenience of video technology must not affect a defendant’s access to justice, and should not become …
Government Response Summary
The MoJ will consider what research might be undertaken to provide assurance that the use of remote technologies such as video links does not have any undue adverse impacts on remand hearings and on the rate of custodial remand.