Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public purse of his Department's proposed policies on (a) secure colleges, (b) the prisoners' book ban, (c) HMCTS privatisation and (d) Saudi prison contracts.

a) I refer the Honourable member to the answer given to question 6553 on 15 July 2015.

b) The policy on books was implemented using existing resources.

c) I refer the Honourable member to the answer given to 12150 on 6 November 2015.

d) The cost of preparing the bid to provide a training needs analysis for the Saudi Arabian Prison Service was met from within the National Offender Management Service’s existing resources.