Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much revenue has been raised by the court closure programme in the last 10 years.
Since 2010, £322m has been raised from the sale of surplus court and tribunal buildings. Since 2015 sale proceeds totalling £211m have been reinvested as part of the HMCTS reform programme.
The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation. We have been clear that courts have only closed where they were underused, dilapidated or too close to one another.