PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Finance (1 December 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much and what proportion of the £80 million of additional covid-19-related funding for HM Courts & Tribunals Service announced on 6 September 2020 is planned to be spent on (a) criminal court services, (b) civil court services, and (c) tribunal services.

Asked by:
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)

A jurisdictional breakdown of forecast expenditure in relation to the additional covid-19-related funding for HM Courts & Tribunals Service announced on 6 September 2020 is provided below.

The financial forecast is provisional, as at 30th November, and reflects latest projections of judicial demand and supply, physical court room capacity and current recovery trajectories. This forecast remains subject to change during the recovery phase, as resources are deployed in line with HMCTS recovery priorities.

Jurisdiction	£000’s	% of total
Crime	27,515	34%
Civil and Family	14,116	17%
Tribunals	3,364	4%
Probate	400	0%
Multi-Jurisdiction	35,351	44%
Total	80,738

*Multi-jurisdiction includes services accounted for at a national basis, for which a jurisdiction is not identifiable in the financial system – examples include resources working across jurisdictions to manage priorities and demand, corporate services, telephone conferencing.

Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
7 December 2020