Question follow-through · 97022
Ministry of Justice: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on software licenses from Microsoft in the last 12 months; and what proportion this represents of his Department’s total technology spend.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on software licenses from Microsoft in the last 12 months; and what proportion this represents of his Department’s total technology spend.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
In the last 12 months, the Ministry of Justice has spent £68 million on software licenses from Microsoft. This represents approximately 11% of the Department’s total technology spend.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Ministry of Justice: Software
10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has (a) renewed and (b) upgraded digital services and software licensing contracts with Microsoft in the last 12 months.
Ministry of Justice: Software
15 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 8 December 2025 to Question 97022, how much and what proportion of his Department's expenditure on Microsoft Software licenses and services was allocated to (a) new service impleme
Offences against Children: Pornography
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to stop the use and depiction of (a) actual and (b) doll babies in explicit pornographic online content.