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UIN 96722

Crown Court: Sentencing

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3 December 2025

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10 December 2025 · Answer

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10 December 2025

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who will be sentenced to more than three years in prison by new swift courts within the Crown Court in each of the next five years.

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  1. 3 December 2025

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who will be sentenced to more than three years in prison by new swift courts within the Crown Court in each of the next five years.

    Source: Commons

  2. 10 December 2025

    Answer

    The new ‘swift courts’ will operate within the existing Crown Court which means the same procedures in the Crown Court will apply, apart from mode of trial. Judges will assign triable-either-ways cases to the new Crown Court Bench Division where the likel...

    Source: Written answer

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