Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2020 to Question 13456, on Terrorism Offences, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of answering that question; and if he will provide a breakdown of that cost.

Question 13456 exceeded the £850 cost limit because it would have required us to identify ‘terrorist-related’ offences, and the detailed context of each offence is not available to us in our criminal histories data. As such, we would have had to review more than 225,000 court records.