Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) relocation costs, (b) lease surrender costs, (c) legal fees and dilapidations and (d) other costs associated with the planned closure of Oldham County Court.

Oldham County Court is scheduled to close between July and September 2017. Work in preparation for this closure is ongoing and accurate estimates will only be available once this is completed. Estimates of lease surrender costs are commercially sensitive for HMCTS and the landlord and would therefore not be published in advance of the surrender of the lease, even where an estimate was held.