Question reference: S6W-09840
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 19 July 2022
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Current status: Answered by Keith Brown on 3 August 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09163 by Keith Brown on 4 July 2022, whether it can outline in detail (a) when and (b) how the summary case reform pilot will be reported on, and where the reporting will be made publicly available.
Answer
The summary reform pilots are judicially-led and an operational matter for the independent Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) in collaboration with other criminal justice partners. SCTS advises that while the pilots will be monitored and evaluated throughout, plans to report on their outcomes have yet to be fixed. However the Quarterly Criminal Court Statistics published by SCTS provides quarterly figures on criminal court activity in all High, Sheriff and Justice of the Peace courts, giving national trends as well as detailed figures for local courts in solemn and summary criminal business. The figures for the Pilot courts at Dundee, Hamilton and Paisley Sheriff Courts are and will continue to be, readily accessible via that publication .