§ Mr. FabricantTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department when the Lord Chancellor expects to receive the report by the chief executive of the Court Service on his review of judges' lodgings. [36383]
Mr. John M. TaylorThe Lord Chancellor's policy objective on judges' lodgings is to provide accommodation affording satisfactory working conditions and appropriate levels of security, privacy and comfort to High Court judges when they are on circuit; and to do so in an economic, efficient and accountable manner.
Last July the Lord Chancellor instructed the chief executive of the Court Service to carry out a review of the current lodgings and to submit a report making recommendations concerning the optimum means of managing and staffing lodgings. Copies of the report have today been placed in the Library of the House.
1302WThe Lord Chancellor will be considering the report in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice.