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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
Tuesday 16th January 2018

Asked by: Tommy Sheppard (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

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.

Answered by Lucy Frazer

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.

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.

Losses and special payments 2017/18

(a) Losses

Number of cases

£000

Total

6,931

2007

(b) Special Payments

Total

5,086

14,037