Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost to the public purse was of the court hearings about the bail sureties given in the case of Julian Assange.

HM Courts & Tribunals Service records the costs incurred in the operation of all our courts and tribunals and carefully monitors those costs on an ongoing basis. Average costs are published in the HMCTS Annual Report and Accounts. However, HM Courts & Tribunals Service does not record the cost of individual cases or hearings due to the complexity and additional costs this would incur.