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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what capital funding his Department has brought forward from its (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 budgets for use in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10; and to what ends this funding has been allocated. (266204)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much capital spending is planned to be brought forward by his Department to (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. (266297)

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has not brought forward any capital spending from 2009-10 or 2010-11 for use in 2008-09 or 2009-10. However, the MOJ is considering bringing forward capital spending on maintenance projects on existing operational estates.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his latest estimate is of his Department's capital expenditure in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12; and if he will make a statement. (268124)

The Ministry of Justice is currently forecasting to spend its full capital allocation of £961 million in 2008-09, as published in the Spring Supplementary Estimate (SSE). A copy of the SSE is available in both Libraries of the House.

The Department plans to spend its full allocation of funding of £768 million and £734 million respectively in 2009-10 and 2010-11, as published in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), a copy of which is available in both Libraries of the House. This does not include funding made available by HM Treasury following the Carter Review of Prisons to increase prison capacity. Also there is a sum of c. £370 million relating to additional prison expansion projects that we are expecting to spend during 2009-10 and 2010-11.

For 2011-12, this falls outside the current CSR period and so it is not possible to provide details of planned expenditure until the next spending review has been finalised.