Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 13 January 2015 to Question 217622, what the resource requirements are for each planned stage of the court reform programme; what the planned (a) start and (b) finish time is for each stage of the programme; and what the planned staff allocation is for each planned stage of the programme.

Planning for the stages of the programme, which spans five years, is underway and will be subject to ongoing refinement through the mobilisation phase up to Summer 2015. The resource requirement for these stages has not yet been finalised and will be developed as part of the ongoing planning.