To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the estimated resource expenditure is of the Judicial Appointments Ombudsman in the current three-year comprehensive spending review period. (241844)

The office of the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman has a resource budget allocation of £125,000 for the 2008-09 financial year. Funding plans for 2009-10 and 2010-11 have not yet been settled.