Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the staffing cost was for teams in his Department with responsibility for monitoring the delivery of contracts for prison maintenance by private sector companies in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.

Staffing costs for the teams in the Department with responsibility for monitoring the delivery of contracts for prison maintenance by private sector companies is as follows:

1. 2015: £2,491k
2. 2016: £4,471k
3. 2017: £4,438k

Please note that the Amey and Carillion prison maintenance contracts didn’t commence delivery until June 2015.