Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2015 to Question 5710, what the cost to the public purse has been of his Department's spending on the Secure College programme to date.

Total estimated spend on the Secure College pathfinder was £5.88m. This includes an estimated £1.56m resource spend (mainly expenditure on staff pay and procurement) and an estimated £4.32m capital spend (mainly design fees and site preparation costs). These figures are subject to review by the National Audit Office in January 2016.

All services were procured through a competitive process and assessed as providing value for money to the department. The design work produced for the pathfinder could be used or adapted for alternative provision, and the prepared site at Glen Parva could be used for a range of developments.