Courts: Closures
(asked on 21st February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022, to Question 121764, on Courts: Closures, if he will publish (a) figures for the sale proceeds for each of those 164 sales and (b) details of to whom each property was sold.
The courts sales proceeds for each of the courts sold by HMCTS since 2010 is shown below. Purchaser information was published in PQ 132501 for the period 2010/11 to 2017/18, however, HMCTS does not hold this information from the 2018/19 financial year onwards.
Since 2015, sale proceeds totalling £211m have been reinvested in the HMCTS reform programme, to transform the justice system, including introducing 21st century technology and online services to increase access to justice and improve efficiency.
The decision to close any court is not taken lightly. It only happens following full public consultation and only when effective access to justice can be maintained.
As part of the Spending Review, we are investing £477 million in the Criminal Justice System over the next three years to help reduce the backlog further and deliver the swift access to justice that victims deserve.
Court | Sales Proceeds (£) |
Aberdare Magistrates' Court | 275,000 |
Abergavenny Magistrates' Court | 460,000 |
Abertillery Magistrates' Court | 81,000 |
Acton Magistrates' Court | 1,176,665 |
Alnwick Magistrates' Court | 20,000 |
Alton Magistrates’ Court | 908,310 |
Ammanford Magistrates' Court | 90,000 |
Andover Magistrates' Court | 537,500 |
Ashford Magistrates' Court | 375,000 |
Balham Magistrates' Youth Court | 2,000,000 |
Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court | 1,275,000 |
Barking & Dagenham Magistrates' Court | 505,000 |
Barry Magistrates' Court | 250,000 |
Batley & Dewsbury Magistrates' Court | 300,000 |
Bicester Magistrates' Court | 1,270,000 |
Bingley (Keighley) Magistrates' Court | 253,310 |
Birmingham Magistrates' Youth Court | 1,350,000 |
Bishop Auckland Magistrates' Court | 150,000 |
Blackfriars Crown Court | 64,258,161 |
Blandford Forum Magistrates' Court | 175,000 |
Blaydon Magistrates' Court | 144,990 |
Bournemouth Magistrates' Court | 1,920,299 |
Bow County Court | 3,500,000 |
Bracknell Magistrates’ Court | 1,000,001 |
Brecon Law Courts Magistrates' | 575,000 |
Brentford Magistrates' Court | 650,000 |
Bridgend Law Courts Magistrates' | 375,000 |
Bridgwater Magistrates' Court | 167,652 |
Burton Upon Trent County Court | 185,000 |
Burton upon Trent Magistrates' Court | 240,000 |
Bury Magistrates' & County Court | 400,000 |
Bury St Edmunds Crown & Magistrates' Court | 1,050,000 |
Caerphilly Magistrates' Court | 445,000 |
Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court | 13,492,500 |
Camborne Magistrates' Court | 137,500 |
Cardigan Magistrates' Court | 48,910 |
Carmarthen Law Courts (The Guildhall) Magistrates' | 223,000 |
Chesterfield County Court | 20,000 |
Chester-le-Street Magistrates' Court | 100,000 |
Chippenham Magistrates' & Civil Court | 2,500,000 |
Cirencester Magistrates' Court | 450,000 |
Coalville Magistrates' Court | 245,000 |
Coleford Magistrates' Court | 170,000 |
Consett County Court | 81,265 |
Consett Magistrates' Court | 225,000 |
Corby Magistrates' Court | 140,000 |
Cromer Magistrates' Court | 325,000 |
Dartford Magistrates' Court | 1,000,000 |
Daventry Magistrates' Court | 140,000 |
Denbigh Magistrates' Court | 165,000 |
Dewsbury County Court | 276,000 |
Didcot Magistrates' Court | 400,000 |
Dolgellau Crown & Magistrates' Court | 67,509 |
Doncaster County Court | 270,000 |
Dover Magistrates' Court | 350,000 |
Eastbourne Magistrates' & County Court | 805,000 |
Epping Magistrates' Court | 750,000 |
Ely Magistrates Court | 1 |
Fareham Magistrates' Court | 1,150,000 |
Feltham Magistrates' Court | 2,150,000 |
Flint Magistrates' Court | 87,500 |
Frome Magistrates' Court | 397,666 |
Goole Magistrates' Court | 60,000 |
Gosforth Magistrates' Court | 378,000 |
Grantham County Court | 112,000 |
Grantham Magistrates' Court | 560,000 |
Gravesend County Court | 100,000 |
Grays Magistrates' Court | 365,475 |
Greenwich Magistrates' Court | 12,005,000 |
Guisborough (East Langbaurgh) Magistrates' Court | 275,000 |
Halesowen Magistrates' Court | 314,250 |
Halifax County & Magistrates’ Court | 750,000 |
Hammersmith Magistrates' Court | 43,000,000 |
Haringey Magistrates' Court | 10,100,000 |
Harrow Magistrates' Court | 1,125,000 |
Hemel Hempstead Magistrates' Court | 650,000 |
Hinckley Magistrates' Court | 800,000 |
Holyhead Magistrates' Court | 112,500 |
Honiton Magistrates' Court | 183,000 |
Houghton-Le-Spring Magistrates' Court | 90,000 |
Ilford County Court | 1,313,013 |
Ilkeston Magistrates' Court | 610,000 |
Keighley County Court | 130,000 |
Kendal Magistrates' & County Court | 720,000 |
Kettering County Court | 200,000 |
Kettering Magistrates' Court | 187,500 |
Knowsley Magistrates' Court | 250,000 |
Knutsford Crown Court | 1,600,000 |
Lewes Magistrates' Court | 1,900,000 |
Liskeard Magistrates' Court | 380,000 |
Llangefni Civil and Family Court | 72,000 |
Llwynypia Magistrates' Court | 471,010 |
Lowestoft Magistrates' Court | 150,000 |
Lyndhurst Magistrates' Court | 900,000 |
Macclesfield Magistrates' Court | 385,000 |
Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court | 1,900,000 |
Market Drayton Magistrates' Court | 100,000 |
Market Harborough Magistrates' Court | 291,500 |
Melton Mowbray Magistrates' Court | 147,000 |
Mid-Sussex (Haywards Heath) Magistrates' Court | 2,105,000 |
Neath and Port Talbot Civil and Family Court | 250,000 |
Neath Magistrates’ Court | 450,000 |
Newark Magistrates' Court | 405,000 |
Northallerton Magistrates' Court | 450,000 |
Northwich Magistrates' Court | 260,000 |
Oldham Magistrates' Court | 650,000 |
Ormskirk Magistrates' Court | 250,000 |
Oswestry Magistrates' Court | 110,602 |
Penrith Magistrates' Court | 174,600 |
Penzance County Court | 230,000 |
Pontefract Magistrates' Court | 205,000 |
Pontypool County Court | 200,000 |
Pontypridd Magistrates' Court | 350,000 |
Pwllheli Magistrates' Court | 131,013 |
Rawtenstall Magistrates' Court | 135,000 |
Redditch County Court | 345,000 |
Redhill Magistrates' & Reigate County Court | 6,550,000 |
Retford Magistrates' Court | 151,000 |
Rhyl County Court | 92,150 |
Richmond-upon-Thames Magistrates' Court | 9,838,000 |
Rochdale Magistrates Court | 330,000 |
Rugby Magistrates' Court | 285,000 |
Runcorn (Halton) Magistrates' Court | 200,000 |
Salford Magistrates' Court | 544,000 |
Sandwell Magistrates' Court | 530,000 |
Selby Magistrates' Court | 200,000 |
Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court | 430,000 |
Skegness Magistrates' Court | 150,000 |
Solihull Magistrates' Court | 4,312,000 |
Southport (North Sefton) Magistrates' Court | 304,000 |
Spalding Magistrates’ Court | 270,430 |
Stafford Magistrates' Court | 435,000 |
Stoke on Trent Magistrates' Court | 186,000 |
Stourbridge County Court | 345,000 |
Sudbury Magistrates' Court | 112,000 |
Sunderland County Court | 326,000 |
Sutton Coldfield Magistrates' Court | 440,000 |
Sutton Magistrates' Court | 2,247,000 |
Swaffham Magistrates' Court | 155,000 |
Tamworth Magistrates' & County Court | 437,500 |
Thetford Magistrates' Court | 231,550 |
Torquay Magistrates' Court | 450,000 |
Totnes Magistrates' Court | 237,000 |
Tottenham Magistrates' Court | 4,570,000 |
Tower Bridge Magistrates' Court | 8,525,000 |
Trafford Magistrates' Court & Altrincham County Court | 3,235,000 |
Tynedale (Hexham) Magistrates' Court | 102,500 |
Wakefield & Pontefract Magistrates' Court | 360,000 |
Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court | 3,471,040 |
Wantage Magistrates’ Court | 657,000 |
Watford Magistrates' Court | 3,836,000 |
West Berkshire (Newbury) Magistrates' Court | 1,000,000 |
West Bromwich Magistrates' Court | 160,000 |
Weston-Super-Mare Magistrates' Court | 116,078 |
Whitehaven Magistrates' Court | 200,000 |
Wimborne Magistrates' Court | 310,000 |
Wisbech Magistrates' Court | 151,350 |
Witney Magistrates' Court | 330,000 |
Woking Magistrates' Court | 1,050,000 |
Woolwich County Court | 2,555,000 |
Woolwich Magistrates' Court | 335,000 |
Worksop County Court | 151,335 |
Worksop Magistrates' Court | 115,000 |
Yate (North Avon) Magistrates' Court | 1,350,000 |
| 264,287,135 |