The Ministry of Justice is nearly a year behind the prime minister’s transparency commitments for all departments to publish details of items of spending above £25,000.

Whitehall is required by central government to publish monthly datasets on spend, as part of the Cabinet Office’s transparency policy.

In 2010, David Cameron called for departments to take ‘immediate action to meet the timetable for data transparency’. But more than three years later the MoJ has fallen behind the transparency targets, having last published data on spend in October 2012.

In contrast, the majority of large central government departments have published data up to June 2013, including the Home Office, the Department for Work & Pensions, HMRC, the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Health.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: ‘Work to update our transparency data is ongoing and we will publish our figures in due course.’