Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 1.287 of Budget 2016, what estimate he has made of how many civil servants will be relocated in his Department as a result of the programme to create centres of expertise outside the capital.

By the middle of this Parliament, MoJ will distribute more of its staff to locations around the country. We are currently developing options for how to do this, including the exact numbers that will be relocated to the regions.