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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 September 2016.

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Photo of Oliver Heald Oliver Heald The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice 12:00, 6 September 2016

My hon. Friend is right. We need a programme of transformation that maintains the very high quality of our legal system—I am sure Members would agree that it is one of the best in the world—but we want to make it the most modern as well, and that is what we are doing. We are investing £1 billion, we have saved a Shard-load of paper, as I mentioned earlier, and we are going to do a lot more, so that our courts can benefit from the digital revolution that every other part of society is already benefiting from.