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1669585

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the condition of the court estate.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	1543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>We will be investing £220m in the two years to March 2025 to improve the overall quality and enhance the resilience of the court and tribunal estate and enable us to plan major estates projects with certainty.</p><p>We are working to ensure that those buildings most in need of investment get it, and this investment is a step forward in improving the quality of the court estate.</p><p>Additionally, work is underway to create new state-of-the-art court buildings in central London and Blackpool.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 21/11/2023 13:52:06 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1565146

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Magistrate Court and (b) Crown Court sitting days were lost due to planned and unplanned maintenance in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	119232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>Based on manually collated data, in the 2022 calendar year 305 Magistrates’ Court sitting days and 380 Crown Court sitting days were lost as a result of planned and unplanned maintenance.</p><p>This represents less than 1% of sitting days during this period.</p><p>We will have spent over £175 million on court maintenance and repairs in the two years to April 2023, to enhance the resilience of the estate and maintain court capacity. The HMCTS estate is kept under regular review and spending is prioritised to ensure that buildings are safe, secure, meet statutory requirements and protect continuity of service. When unexpected breakdowns occur, officials and contractors make it a priority to complete repairs quickly and minimise any impacts on hearings, as far as possible.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/01/2023 16:19:18 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1434127

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding his Department provides to courts in England and Wales for the maintenance of their premises.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	127420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>The HMCTS Annual Report and Accounts, published on GOV.UK, provide information regarding annual estate expenditure across England and Wales.</p><p>In 2020/21 HMCTS was provided with an additional £105m in capital funding that allowed extra investment into high priority maintenance, to enhance the resilience of our estate, maintaining capacity to help our courts get back up to speed.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 03/03/2022 17:21:17 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1402328

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2022 to Question 98968 on Courts: Repairs and Maintenance, what data HMCTS holds on the effect of (a) planned and (b) unplanned maintenance of the courts estate on the loss of sitting days prior to 4 October 2021.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	102651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>HMCTS does not hold data on lost sitting days as a result of planned or unplanned maintenance, prior to 4 October 2021.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/01/2022 15:32:29 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1400473

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
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 number of court sitting days lost as a result of broken heating systems, lifts and disrepair in courts in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	98968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>HMCTS does not hold court sittings data that provides this level of detail.</p><p> </p><p>Since 4 October 2021 HMCTS has been explicitly capturing the effect of planned and unplanned maintenance on our estate, and this has resulted in the lost availability of 754 courtroom days up to 1 January 2022. This represents less than 1% of sitting days during this period. Not all lost courtroom days result in a lost sitting day as these can be transferred to other rooms, if available.</p><p> </p><p>The HMCTS estate is kept under regular review and priority is given to ensuring that buildings are safe, secure, meet statutory requirements and protect continuity of service.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 11/01/2022 17:02:00 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1173941

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of the maintenance of the court estate in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	8979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service expenditure on maintenance each year since <em>2016</em> is provided below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><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><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong><strong>₂</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Maintenance and repairs </strong><strong>₁</strong></p></td><td><p>71,274</p></td><td><p>80,478</p></td><td><p>90,890</p></td><td><p>48,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em> Maintenance and repairs expenditure includes fixed maintenance, variable and planned works. </em></p><p><sup>2 </sup><em>2019-20 figures are actual costs until December 2019 and are not full year maintenance costs for 2019-20.</em></p><p>Information relating to annual maintenance costs for 2015/16 financial year is not available on our current systems and we are unable to extract on a similar basis. Therefore we have not provided here due to the disproportionate cost of doing so.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service seeks to make sure that the court and tribunal estate is in the best possible condition to provide appropriate court and hearing room facilities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/02/2020 14:09:04 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1169224

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve courtroom availability through court estate restoration and renewal.
tabling member constituency	Orpington
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Bacon
uin	1093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service seeks to make sure that the court and tribunal estate is in the best possible condition to provide appropriate court and hearing room facilities.</p><p> </p><p>Since the commencement of the Reform Programme, we have spent over £167m on capital projects investing in our buildings. This has delivered significant improvements, including replacing heating and cooling systems, lifts, roofs and windows.</p><p> </p><p>We have also re-procured our facilities management contracts from April this year, which will allow us to improve the way our buildings are maintained day to day. Under the new arrangements, facilities management work will be more user focused with new objectives based on previous customer experiences. Repair and improvement works will also be more efficient, with response times that match industry standards.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/01/2020 16:56:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon

1166883

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many outstanding repairs across HM Courts and Tribunals estate there were in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	6332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 31/10/2019 15:58:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1043026

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of the number of courts that require repair work.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	209748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>All court and tribunal buildings require routine maintenance to resolve issues that arise, and to keep them operational. Since 2015/16, as at January 2019 we have invested approximately £123m on capital maintenance to improve our estate.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has undertaken a programme of surveys over the last 12 months to identify the capital maintenance repairs required at courts and tribunals across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>A rolling programme of repairs and investment is in place to deal with the areas of highest maintenance priority and in December 2018, it was announced an extra £15 million was being set aside this year for security and maintenance work.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/01/2019 15:32:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 96835 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

865133

registered interest
date	16/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days of court time have been lost in each court due to unscheduled maintenance becoming necessary in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	133000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/03/2018 15:00:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon