The Justice Department does not possess the requisite knowledge to outsource effectively according to a statement from the chairman of the justice select committee.

Chairman Committee, Sir Alan Beith, said that new plans to outsource multiple functions within the Ministry of Justice risked being becoming a “multiple train crash", as the public sector lacks understanding of many of services it is seeking to contract out.

The concern follows the problems of the MoJ’s outsourcing of courtroom interpreting services in England and Wales.

Despite claims of teething problems in the MoJ’s attempts to outsource services, the Ministry achieved savings £16.7 million in the first year through the outsourcing of translator services to Capita.

MoJ scraps procurement programme

Ministry of Justice’s handling of outsourcing is ‘shambolic’