Written question WQ88252
- Asked by
- Rhys ab OwenIndependent
- To be answered by
- Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 8 days
Question
Will the Minister provide an update on the discussions the Welsh Government is having with the UK Government and other bodies on making Welsh-only justice and policing data available?
Answer
Answered by Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Further to my response to the written question dated 2 November 2022 (WQ86448).
My officials have, over the past six months, been working closely with UK Government counterparts to look at the data which is currently available in the criminal justice system and where there may be opportunities for providing richer or more transparent data to the public and for use by policymakers and operational leaders in Wales. To support this, Welsh Government officials have developed a Data Mapping spreadsheet which identifies our current assessment of data needs in the criminal justice sector and how this aligns with what is currently available.
The work focusses on areas such as prison and probation but our ambition is to expand it to other areas of the justice system such as civil, family and administrative justice, legal aid and the wider legal sector.
Further work has been done to source data from a number of UK government statistical releases brought together to display a Wales-wide view on justice, with dashboards for a number of topic areas such as Youth Justice and Courts and Tribunals. Analysts are working at pace to make these publicly available in the near future.
The Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution and Chief Whip have written to Lord Bellamy, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice to update and ensure continued momentum on this important matter .