Courts: Disclosure of Information

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish details of his Department's funding allocations for the next three financial years to improve the data infrastructure of the courts service as a result of the Ministry of Justice's Spending Review 2021 Settlement.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 10th February 2022

It is estimated that £12m implementation costs will be required in total to fund the published HMCTS Data Strategy.

Of that £12m total, approximately £5m is forecast to be spent in the current financial year ending 31 March 2022. During the financial year to date, approximately £1.8m has been spent on the construction of a secure data platform to contain and ingest all data relating to court cases, approximately £0.4m on measurement development, and approximately £1.9m on reference data identification and reporting capability.

Following the completion of the 2021 Spending Review, the detailed allocation of funding to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) for 2022/23 is still being finalised. This will be concluded in line with the concordat agreement between the Lord Chancellor and the senior judiciary, under which the funding allocation for HMCTS is set each year.

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