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.
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 |