Recommendation 19

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