Justice written question – answered at on 10 March 2014.
Sadiq Khan
Shadow Minister (London), Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) operating costs were and (b) income was generated by the commercial court in each of the last 10 years.
Shailesh Vara
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
The commercial court operates as part of the Queen's bench Division of the High Court, but HMCTS does not record separately the cost or income relating to specific types of work delivered in its civil courts. We therefore cannot separately identify the specific operating costs and income generated by the commercial court.
The operating costs for the civil courts in HMCTS are published in HMCTS annual report and accounts which can be found at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/corporate-reports/hmcts
HMCTS records fee income for the commercial court together with that of the admiralty court. We therefore cannot separately identify the fee income for the commercial court. However, we can confirm the amount received in fees by the public purse through cases held in the admiralty and commercial court combined which are provided as follows:
| Financial year1 | Fee income collected for both admiralty and commercial court (£) |
| 2005-06 | 978,467 |
| 2006-07 | 1,211,332 |
| 2007-08 | 1,085,547 |
| 2008-09 | 1,465,193 |
| 2009-10 | 1.805,184 |
| 2010-11 | 1,771,020 |
| 2011-12 | 1,866,377 |
| 2012-13 | 2,296,180 |
| 1 Information is not available prior to the commencement of HMCS in April 2005. | |
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