Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022, to Question 121764, on Courts: Closures, if he will provide a breakdown of how the referenced £211m has been spent.

Receipts from the sale of court and tribunal buildings since 2015 are used to form part of the overall budget for the £1.2 billion HMCTS Reform Programme. It is not possible to provide a breakdown for how sale receipts have been spent within the programme.

The HMCTS Reform Programme has already delivered services which allow people to apply online for cases in Immigration and Asylum, Divorce, Probate, Civil Money Claims, benefit decision appeals, and local authority childcare applications. We are also currently rolling out the new Common Platform system in the criminal courts which will ensure the courts, CPS and police all have access to the same case information.