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Magistrates Courts

Volume 398: debated on Wednesday 29 January 2003

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Mr. Hawkins

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many magistrates courts have closed since May 1997. [87644]

Yvette Cooper

Decisions about magistrates court closures are made by independent Magistrates Courts Committees (MCCs). MCCs are not required by statute to inform the Government of court closures.The best information indicates that the number of court closures is as follows:

Number
199621
1997121
199825
19997
200013
200133
20025
1Five before May and 16 after May.
Details are in the following table:

Date
Bromley (South Street)28 February 1996
Mansfield (Commercial St)28 February 1996
Hornsea31 March 1996
Howden31 March 1996
Market Weighton31 March 1996
Old Street12 July 1996
Halstead31 August 1996
Biddulph30 September 1996
Cheadle30 September 1996
Kidsgrove30 September 1996
Tonbridge31 October 1996
Amlwch31 December 1996
Colwyn Bay31 December 1996
Bedale31 December 1996
Blaenau Festiniog31 December 1996
Easingwold31 December 1996
East Dereham31 December 1996
Ingleton31 December 1996
Leyburn31 December 1996
Llangollen31 December 1996
Thirsk31 December 1996

Date

Ellesmere Port31 March 1997
Hampstead31 March 1997
Marylebone (185 Marylebone Rd) 31 March 1997
Otley31 March 1997
Seaham 31 March 1997
Bromsgrove31 May 1997
Ledbury31 May 1997
Hebburn5 June 1997
South Shields (Kepple Street) 5 June 1997
Chippenham (Market Place)30 June 1997
Ashton under Lyne (Manchester Rd)31 August 1997
Duckinsfield31 August 1997
Thorne31 August 1997
Pontardawe9 October 1997
Braintree31 December 1997
Stokesley31 December 1997
Clacton on Sea31 October 1997
Bargoed31 December 1997
Monmouth31 December 1997
Pontlottyn31 December 1997
Pontypool 31 December 1997
Malton6 February 1998
Marlborough Street31 March 1998
Bishop's Stortford31 March 1998
Hatfield31 March 1998
Hitchin31 March 1998
Market Rasen31 March 1998
Chertsey31 March 1998
Farnham 31 March 1998
Oxted31 March 1998
Lutterworth31 July 1998
Ripon1 August 1998
Barnard Castle31 December 1998
Clerkenwell31 December 1998
Sheerness31 December 1998
West Mailing31 December 1998
Lytham31 December 1998
Diss31 December 1998
Corwen31 December 1998
Felixstowe31 December 1998
Haverhill31 December 1998
Saxmundham31 December 1998
Stowmarket31 December 1998
Newmarket31 December 1998
March31 December 1998
Saffron Walden31 December 1998
Christchurch31 March 1999
Abingdon31 March 1999
Henley on Thames31 March 1999
Windsor31 March 1999
Morley31 March 1999
Pudsey31 March 1999
Stow on the Wold30 June 1999
Apmthill1 January 2000
Biggleswade1 January 2000
Dunstable1 January 2000
Leighton Buzzard1 January 2000
Lichfield31 March 2000
Keighley1 April 2000
Keswick30 April 2000
Windermere31 May 2000
Wigton31 May 2000
Appleby 31 May 2000
Gravesend9 June 2000
Wootton Bassett2 October 2000
Abergele31 December 2000
Alfreton1 January 2001
Ashboume1 January 2001
Bakewell1 January 2001
Matlock1 January 2001
Leigh31 March 2001
Middleton31 March 2001
Leek31 March 2001
Worcester31 March 2001

Date

Warrington Patten Hall1 April 2001
Macclesfield Park Green1 April 2001
Bideford30 April 2001
Exmouth30 April 2001
Kingsbridge30 April 2001
South Molton30 April 2001
Teignmouth30 April 2001
Tavistock30 April 2001
Axminster4 May 2001
Tiverton4 May 2001
Newquay30 June 2001
Southampton (Commercial Road)31 August 2001
Womborne1 September 2001
Gillingham30 September 2001
Bridlington9 November 2001
Brough9 November 2001
Driffield9 November 2001
Hull (Guildhall)9 November 2001
Hull (Lowgate)9 November 2001
Pocklington9 November 2001
Withernsea9 November 2001
Evesham1 November 2001
Droitwitch1 November 2001
Arundel1 December 2001
Bridgenorth31 January 2002
Leominster31 January 2002
Fakenham1 May 2002
Tunbridge Wells2 June 2002
Beaconsfield1 July 2002
Buckingham1 July 2002
Fakenham1 May 2002
Tunbridge Wells2 June 2002
Beaconsfield1 July 2002