Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure

(asked on 5th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much fruitless money has been spent by his Department in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 13th February 2018

Managing Public Money defines a fruitless payment as: “a payment which cannot be avoided because the recipient is entitled to it even though nothing of use to the department will be received in return.” The entitlement is classed as a legally binding entitlement.

The table below provides the total spend incurred in fruitless payments in each full financial year since 2010/11.

Fruitless Payments £000

Year

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Total

£168

£111

£78

£14

£1,212

£5,985

£873

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