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<p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service expenditure for last three financial years is provided
below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>£000s</p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>a</p></td><td><p>Maintenance
and repairs <strong><sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>86,700</p></td><td><p>74,900</p></td><td><p>88,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>b</p></td><td><p>Staff
costs <strong><sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>503,963</p></td><td><p>523,810</p></td><td><p>536,938</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>c</p></td><td><p>Public
communications strategies <strong><sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>939</p></td><td><p>1,165</p></td><td><p>1,397</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>HM Courts & Tribunals Service are working on an ambitious programme of
court reform, which aims to bring new technology and modern ways of working to the
way justice is administered.</p><p>We are building a modern system for administering
justice which will benefit everyone who uses it. By designing systems around the public
who need and use our services, we can create a more effective system for them and
generate efficiencies for the taxpayer.</p><p>The reform programme was launched in
September 2016, and the expenditure for maintenance and repairs, staff costs and communications
over the three year period 2016/17 to 2018-19 are each influenced by this.</p><p><strong><sup>1</sup></strong>
Maintenance and repairs expenditure includes fixed maintenance, variable and planned
works.</p><p><strong><sup>2</sup></strong> Staff costs includes permanently employed
staff, agency and contract workers. It does not include members of the judiciary,
who are independent office holders, not employees of HM Courts and Tribunals Service.</p><p><strong><sup>3</sup></strong>
The cost of public communications strategies is not separately identifiable in the
financial accounts. Consequently, the overall cost of HM Courts and Tribunals Service
communications directorate has been provided. This excludes press office costs borne
by the Ministry of Justice on behalf of HM Courts and Tribunals Service.</p>
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