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<p>Just Solutions international (JSi) was established in the previous parliament as
the internal commercial brand of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).</p><p>
</p><p>Given our ambitious justice reform programme and the need to focus departmental
resources on domestic priorities, the Justice Secretary has decided that JSi should
cease to operate. NOMS will therefore not pursue any new projects with international
partners through JSi.</p><p> </p><p>One project led by NOMS through JSi is sufficiently
far advanced that the Government has decided withdrawing at this late stage would
be detrimental to HMG’s wider interests. Under the JSi brand, NOMS submitted an initial
bid to the Saudi Arabian authorities in August 2014<strong><ins class="ministerial">,
and a final bid in April 2015,</ins></strong> to conduct a training needs analysis
for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia prison service staff, via ELM, an executive agency
of the Saudi Ministry of Finance. <del class="ministerial">Following the submission
of a final bid in April 2015, NOMS is now liable for financial penalties should the
bid be withdrawn.</del> NOMS’s bid was signed off through the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) process, and was supported
by UKTI and the British Embassy in Riyadh.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS will therefore honour
this outstanding bid and enter into a contract subject to the final decisions of ELM.
All work relating to this project will be completed within 6 months of starting.</p><p>
</p><p>My Department will continue to promote the rule of law, good governance and
judicial reform internationally, working with FCO, DFID and other Government Departments
as required. In future, any support will be provided on a cost recovery rather than
a commercial basis.</p>
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