UK courts service spending sees tenfold rise since 2010

The MoJ said the increase of agency and contract staff was the result of their reform programme and they expected numbers to decline.The courts service spent £50m last year on agency and contract staff, a more than tenfold rise since 2010 when it spent less than £4m, while courts have been closing at an unprecedented rate.The annual cost of temporary staff has rocketed over a period when the Ministry of Justice has suffered the deepest cuts of any Whitehall department and closed more