Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 19
19
Deferred
HMCTS confident remaining £120 million budget is sufficient to complete reform programme.
Conclusion
At December 2022, HMCTS had spent £1.1 billion on the programme. Of its £1.3 billion budget, HMCTS has £120 million of funding left to deliver remaining reforms. HMCTS explained that some of the total £1.3 billion budget was lost due to underspend in previous years that it cannot recover.37 HMCTS assured us that it was confident that it can complete the programme as reset with the remaining funding. It explained that it had assessed the outstanding changes required for each project across the programme and had a clear view of the work it has left to do. It also told us it had a small amount of reserve money left to address any unforeseen issues.38
Government Response Summary
The government commits to assessing the full cost of the programme, considering proposed inclusions, and will respond to the Committee by a six-month deadline (December 2023) setting out this assessment.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
4.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation Target implementation date: December 2023 4.2 The government will respond to the Committee by the six-month deadline, setting out how it will assess the full cost of the programme, considering the proposed inclusions where they are within the scope of the programme. 4.3 In some cases it will be necessary to rely on estimates rather than full costings as full information may not be available.