Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 18 February 2025.
Blake Stephenson
Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many judicial reviews of (a) major infrastructure projects and (b) planning applications and (c) other issues have taken place in each of the last five years.
Alex Davies-Jones
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data on judicial review cases in England and Wales as part of the Civil Justice statistics quarterly bulletin (Civil justice statistics quarterly - GOV.UK). The consolidated figures for all judicial review cases since 2000 are available at the “Civil Justice and Judicial Review data (zip file)” link.
The table below sets out the number of judicial review cases categorised as (a) significant planning court claims, (b) other planning cases, and (c) all judicial reviews. Significant planning court claims include but are not limited to judicial reviews of nationally significant infrastructure projects provided for by the Planning Act 2008.
Year | (a) Significant planning court claims* | (b) Other planning cases* | (c) All judicial reviews* |
2019 | 40 | 150 | 3,385 |
2020 | 38 | 150 | 2,836 |
2021 | 62 | 176 | 2,332 |
2022 | 37 | 156 | 2,450 |
2023 | 31 | 170 | 2,536 |
2024 (to September) | 30 | 127 | 2,255 |
*Includes Regional Offices of the Administrative Court, although most cases received were issued in London.
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