evidence: Largest funding increase in more than a decade for justice system Victims, courts and prisons will benefit from the Ministry of Justice’s largest funding increase in more than a decade, awarded in yesterday’s Spending Review. [...] In addition, £3.5 billion will fund the MOJ’s commitment to create 18,000 additional prison places - the biggest prison-building programme in more than a century. A further £250 million will fund an extra 2,000 temporary prison places.