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1000238

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total additional funding allocated to his Department for resource expenditure in Budget 2018 was.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	187365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>In Budget 2018, the Ministry of Justice received £52m additional funding, for which the allocation between resource and capital will be confirmed within the Supplementary Estimate.</p><p> </p><p>This will fund £30m of further improvements to safety, security and decency, £15 million on the maintenance and security of our court buildings, and another £6.5 million to be invested across the wider justice system, including a further £1.5 million for the Parole Board to boost its operational capacity.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury have also committed to funding the cost of building a new prison at Glen Parva in Leicestershire.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 187364 188116 question first answered 12/11/2018 17:32:27 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

423389

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public purse of his Department's proposed policies on (a) secure colleges, (b) the prisoners' book ban, (c) HMCTS privatisation and (d) Saudi prison contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	13074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>a) I refer the Honourable member to the answer given to question 6553 on 15 July 2015.</p><p>b) The policy on books was implemented using existing resources.</p><p>c) I refer the Honourable member to the answer given to 12150 on 6 November 2015.</p><p>d) The cost of preparing the bid to provide a training needs analysis for the Saudi Arabian Prison Service was met from within the National Offender Management Service’s existing resources.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 07/12/2015 16:12:14 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

426845

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising in real terms in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	15306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is published in the department’s annual accounts. These can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/217243/moj-annual-report-accounts-2010-11.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/217243/moj-annual-report-accounts-2010-11.pdf</a></p><p><a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/corporate-reports/MoJ/2012/moj-annual-report-accounts-2011-12.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/corporate-reports/MoJ/2012/moj-annual-report-accounts-2011-12.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/208728/moj-annual-report-2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/208728/moj-annual-report-2012-13.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323308/moj-annual-report-2013-14.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/323308/moj-annual-report-2013-14.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434016/moj-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-15.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434016/moj-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-15.pdf</a></p><p>Data for the current financial year will be published in due course.</p><p>The department is committed to reducing our back office and administrative budget by 50% by 2020. We only use temporary staff to fill business-critical posts and essential frontline services, where they can provide a fast, flexible and efficient way to obtain necessary skills that are not currently available in-house. We will continue to examine our use of consultants and agency staff to find savings where possible.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/02/2016 16:30:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

426846

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) the amount of any underspend expected against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year and (b) his Department's latest forecast of total AME spend for this year are; and what the forecasts were for those two sums at the time of the Summer Budget 2015 and March Budget 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	15316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department is not forecasting an underspend against departmental expenditure limits. At the time of the Summer Budget and the March Budget 2015, the Department was also not forecasting an underspend.</p><br /><p>Totals for Annually Managed Expenditure are published twice a year at Main and Supplementary Estimates. The latest figures for 2015-16 were published in the Main Estimates, presented to the House of Commons on 2 July 2015. A link is provided below. Updated totals will be published in the Supplementary Estimates later in the financial year.</p><p><br> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/main-supply-estimates-2015-to-2016</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 18/11/2015 17:01:09 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

428462

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of changes to his Department's policies on (a) the provision of secure colleges, (b) prohibiting prisoners from receiving books, (c) the sale of HM Courts and Tribunal Service, (d) Saudi prison contracts and (e) the timetable for the tender for criminal defence work.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	16336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer given to PQ 13074 on 7th December 2015. There was never any plan to sell HM Courts and Tribunals Service. There is no cost to the public purse from the delay to implementation of new criminal legal aid contracts.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 07/12/2015 16:12:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437977

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what costs his Department has incurred as a result of its policy change on (a) criminal court charges, (b) secure colleges, (c) the Saudi Arabian prison contract and (d) the closure of Just Solutions International.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	19832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answers given to PQ 19256 on 14 December 2015 (part a) and 13074 on 7 December 2015 (parts b, c and d). The closure of the JSi brand was also met from within the National Offender Management Service’s existing resources.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/12/2015 10:13:05 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

788611

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the charge has been to his Department's budget in real terms in each year since 2010; and what the projected charge will be in real terms in each year to 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	112641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the annual change in the Ministry of Justice’s funding from HM Treasury in real terms to 2019/20, this information is available on gov.uk. Budgets for the years 2020/21 and 2021/22 will be set in the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Resource DEL *</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Resource DEL (restated in 2017/18 prices)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8.9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7.9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6.4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6.6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6.4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6.0</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5.6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Annual real terms increase/(decrease)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>-4%</p></td><td><p>-7%</p></td><td><p>-6%</p></td><td><p>-7%</p></td><td><p>-12%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>-3%</p></td><td><p>-7%</p></td><td><p>-6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumulative real terms decrease</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>-4%</p></td><td><p>-10%</p></td><td><p>-15%</p></td><td><p>-21%</p></td><td><p>-31%</p></td><td><p>-29%</p></td><td><p>-31%</p></td><td><p>-36%</p></td><td><p>-40%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>* excludes depreciation/reserve claims/machinery of government changes/budget transfers</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/11/2017 11:39:36 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

794336

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many losses and special payments have been made by his Department in the 2017-18 financial year to date; and what the value of those losses and payments have been.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	115309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Losses are a decrease in a resource or asset that are outside the normal operations of the business. A special payment is one made outside the normal activities of the business, for example a compensation payment.</p><p>Details of losses and special payments for the 2017/18 financial year are set out in the table below. This information covers 1 April to 30 September 2017. Please note that this information has not yet completed the internal validation process and may change.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Losses and special payments 2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Losses</p></td><td><p>Number of cases</p></td><td><p>£000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6,931</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Special Payments</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,086</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14,037</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/01/2018 17:56:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

829975

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on (a) art, (b) wine and (c) hospitality in each of the last seven financial years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	124706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Information to answer this question is not held at departmental level. A check would have to be made of individual premises across the HMCTS and HMPPS estates to obtain the information requested and this would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>However, I can advise that the Ministry’s policy on Gifts and Hospitality states:</p><p> </p><p>When providing in-house hospitality (e.g. conferences and away days) for MoJ people, no alcohol is to be paid for from departmental funds. When providing hospitality to external parties, then discretion can be exercised with Director-level approval, e.g. a modest amount of wine with a meal.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 01/02/2018 14:41:59 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

837353

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much fruitless money has been spent by his Department in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	126472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Managing Public Money defines a fruitless payment as: “a payment which cannot be avoided because the recipient is entitled to it even though nothing of use to the department will be received in return<em>.” </em>The entitlement is classed as a legally binding entitlement.</p><p>The table below provides the total spend incurred in fruitless payments in each full financial year since 2010/11.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Fruitless Payments £000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£168</p></td><td><p>£111</p></td><td><p>£78</p></td><td><p>£14</p></td><td><p>£1,212</p></td><td><p>£5,985</p></td><td><p>£873</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/02/2018 17:19:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon