Courts: Closures

(asked on 14th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much revenue has been raised by the court closure programme in the last 10 years.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 22nd September 2020

Since 2010, £322m has been raised from the sale of surplus court and tribunal buildings. Since 2015 sale proceeds totalling £211m have been reinvested as part of the HMCTS reform programme.

The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation. We have been clear that courts have only closed where they were underused, dilapidated or too close to one another.

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