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Court Reform Programme: progress review

Status: Closed Opened: 15 Feb 2023 Closed: 24 Sep 2023 10 recommendations 17 conclusions 1 report

In 2016, HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) set up a set of change programmes to introduce new technology and working practices to modernise and upgrade the justice system. The reform programme, which covers crime, civil, family and tribunals, was driven by the need to address complex and inefficient case management systems and to achieve …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Sixty-First Report - Progress on the courts and tribunals r… HC 1002 30 Jun 2023 27 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
19 Conclusion Sixty-First Report - Progress on the co… Deferred

HMCTS confident remaining £120 million budget is sufficient to complete reform programme.

At December 2022, HMCTS had spent £1.1 billion on the programme. Of its £1.3 billion budget, HMCTS has £120 million of funding left to deliver remaining reforms. HMCTS explained that some of the total £1.3 billion budget was lost due to underspend in previous years that it cannot recover.37 HMCTS …

Government response. The government commits to assessing the full cost of the programme, considering proposed inclusions, and will respond to the Committee by a six-month deadline (December 2023) setting out this assessment.
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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
30 Mar 2023 Andrew Baigent · HM Courts and Tribunals Service, Antonia Romeo · Ministry of Justice, Gemma Hewison · Ministry of Justice, Nick Goodwin · HMCTS View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
28 Mar 2023 — Correspondence from Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, HM Courts & Tribunals Servic…