§ Lord Coleraineasked Her Majesty's Government:
When the Lord Chancellor expects to receive the report by the chief executive of the Court Service on his Review of Judges' Lodgings.
§ The Lord ChancellorMy 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 I 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.
I will be considering the report in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice.