Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what cost-benefit analysis has been conducted of the Common Platform.

I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 16 December 2021 to PQ 91957 which advised:

“A full cost benefit analysis of Common Platform was undertaken as a component part of the wider portfolio of investment in courts’ transformation. This analysis fully conformed to the Treasury’s “Green Book” - which provides detailed guidance in Chapter 6. Treasury guidance was followed and the portfolio level cost benefit analysis was subject to scrutiny and validation by the Government Major Projects Portfolio in February 2021 and approved, having met the required standard of a robust assessment of the costs and Benefits."