HC Deb 21 April 1994 vol 241 c594W
Mr. Boateng

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list the number and the names of all the courts and caller offices which he has determined to close in the last five years.

Mr. John M. Taylor

In the five-year period from April 1989 to March 1994 my Department has closed 22 county courts or caller offices and five Crown court centres. I set out a full list of their names in the table.

Court closures for the five year period April 1989—March 1994

County courts

  • Beverley
  • Bloomsbury1
  • Clacton
  • Devizes
  • Dolgellau
  • East Grinstead
  • Frome
  • Gainsborough
  • Great Malvern
  • Hexham
  • Maldon
  • Malton
  • Newtown
  • Northallerton
  • Sevenoaks
  • Sheerness
  • Sudbury
  • Thorne
  • Todmorton
  • Westminster1
  • Whitby
  • Widens

Crown court centres

  • Acton
  • Beverley
  • Huddersfield
  • Kendal
  • Wakefield
1 Closed prior to opening of Central London County Court.