To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department and its predecessor was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

There are more than 1,900 servers distributed across the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and National Offender Management Service (NOMS) IT estates. There are many different elements to server capacity utilisation and the information we have provided below is for server capacity utilisation as it relates to disc space. Figures are provided from November 2007 (the earliest data point after award of the new MOJ HQ and HMCS IT contracts) and for regular intervals thereafter.

On the NOMS estate (including HMPS), there are over 600 servers hosting a variety of services. Depending on the server and service provided, a number of capacities are measured, with alerts raised if these exceed per-defined thresholds. Detailed information for NOMS (including HMPS) is not held centrally, so cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.