Andy Slaughter – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2015-12-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of changes to his Department’s policy on the criminal courts charge.

Mr Shailesh Vara

From 24 December the Criminal Courts Charge will be suspended, pending a review of all financial impositions imposed in the criminal courts. There are no direct financial costs involved in making this change.

The updated Impact Assessment estimated that the Criminal Courts Charge would bring in approximately £95m per annum in steady state (from 2019/20 onwards). The Impact Assessment can be found here http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/796/impacts.

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