Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 12
2nd Report - Transforming Courts and Tribunals: progress review
Published 5 Nov 2019
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
HMCTS has closed 127 courts since 2015. It told us that this first wave of closures focussed on courts with low levels of usage, where people would not have an unreasonable distance to travel to alternative courts.26 These closures took place prior to the changes planned under the reforms taking effect, meaning people still have to travel to physical courts that are now further away.27
From: Public Accounts Committee, 2nd Report - Transforming Courts and Tribunals: progress review (HC 27), 5 November 2019
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