Ministry of Justice: Facilities Agreements

The Ministry of Justice has published information on trade union facility time as part of its previous Annual Report and Accounts, including the number and full-time equivalent of trade union representatives, facility time costs, and the proportion of paid facility time spent on trade union activities. This information is publicly available through the Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts, published on GOV.UK.

For the purposes of this response, funding for trade union activities has been interpreted as paid facility time for trade union activities.

In 2023-24, the Ministry of Justice reported 622 trade union representatives, no representatives were reported as spending 100% of their working hours on facility time, and facility time costs of £3,063,170.47. The published return recorded 0% paid trade union activities.

In 2024-25, the Ministry of Justice reported 647 trade union representatives, no representatives were reported as spending 100% of their working hours on facility time, and facility time costs of £3,286,702.78. The published return recorded 0% paid trade union activities.

Information for 2025-26 is not currently available. Following changes introduced through the Employment Rights Act, departments were no longer required to publish trade union facility time data through the previous statutory reporting arrangements. While some MoJ business areas continued to record facility time information during 2025-26, equivalent Department-wide information has not been collated and quality assured and is therefore not currently available.