00:00The concern that the Institute for Government report highlights is that magistrate courts
00:04will struggle to absorb such a large increase in demand.
00:09So we may not see the faster justice that he is promising under these proposals.
00:15Will he recognise, for those of us who cannot support this legislation as it currently stands,
00:20it is that concern to look at the data and look at whether actually juries are a red
00:24herring when it comes to the investment that we so sorely need because of the damage done
00:28by the previous Government.
00:30I am very grateful to my Honourable Friend and let me say to her that that is why we have
00:38uncapped sitting days for our magistrates and that is why I will set out further investment
00:44in our magistrates.
00:45I want to get the magistrate back to the sort of numbers they were when the Labour Party
00:48was last in government.
00:49It was 29,000 magistrates dropped to 21,000 under the last government.
00:55So she is right, we will have to invest, we will have to increase our magistrate.
00:59I would like to make sure that the army will set up a day and work on whether they
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