Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contingency plans his Department has put in place in the event of future probation and courts IT systems failure.
The department is conducting a review of the resiliency of our core IT systems. The review is being conducted by a Non-Executive Director, with support from a third-party technical consultancy, and will report within eight weeks. Individual agencies, including HM Courts and Tribunals, the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies have their own operational contingency arrangements in case of further IT systems failures.