Ministry of Justice: Written Questions

Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 19 March 2018.

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Photo of Richard Burgon Richard Burgon Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2018 to Question 130238, on Prison Officers, what is estimate his Department has made of the cost of answering that question.

Photo of Rory Stewart Rory Stewart The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice

The requested information is not recorded centrally as this is not a business requirement. In respect of cost related to collate the information requested, we would need to check individual records for the past 12 months; estimated to be around 7,280 records. The time taken to complete this work would far exceed the Department’s cost limit of £850 for answering a parliamentary question. We estimate a minimum cost of around £14,000 to create and collate this information separately.

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