Labour 2024– government · 5 items

Government problems

Every item here was selected by the same deterministic rules that produce the improvements list: a target missed or off track, a backlog larger than the level inherited, or an indicator that moved past its stable band in the direction treated as worse. Nothing is added or removed by hand.

• BACKLOG INCREASED Crown Court open cases · 70,705 (2024 Q2) to 80,061 (2026 Q1).
• BACKLOG INCREASED Magistrates' courts open cases · 291,161 (2024 Q2) to 370,722 (2026 Q1).
• INDICATOR DETERIORATED Real household disposable income · Down 1.0% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1; a rise is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR DETERIORATED Crown Court open cases · Up 4.9% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1; a fall is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR DETERIORATED Proven reoffending rate · Up 1.9points from 2023 Q3 to 2024 Q3; a fall is treated as an improvement.

See also the improvements. Rules: targets on the targets page; backlogs on the backlogs page; indicator bands on the trajectory page.