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Written question asked by Oliver Letwin (Conservative) on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 December 2007. It was answered by Maria Eagle (Labour) on Wednesday, 30 January 2008 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates (HC 29), if he will break down his Department's (a) main estimate and (b) winter supplementary estimate provision by subhead in (i) near cash and (ii) non-cash terms.
Answer

Near-cash and non-cash are essentially used as departmental expenditure limit (DEL) budgetary control concepts and are not specifically identified with voted resources in estimates. However, we have been able to break down net total resources for each section in the 'Part II: Subhead' detail table of our main and winter supplementary estimates as follows:

£000
Section Main estimate Winter supplementary estimate
Spending in (voted) DEL Near-cash Non-cash Total Near-cash Non-cash Total
Headquarters and Associated Offices 414,473 17,994 432,467 544,024 407,532 951,556
Judicial Pension Administration 12 — 12 12 — 12
HM Courts Service 705,090 256,040 961,130 745,741 236,583 982,324
Office of the Public Guardian and Court of Protection -1,000 2,100 1,100 -973 2,100 1,127
Costs from Central Funds 45,000 — 45,000 5,000 40,000 45,000
Tribunals Service 293,942 5,680 299,622 297,249 5,680 302,929
Princess of Wales Inquest 515 — 515 370 — 370
Criminal Justice Reform — — — 117,379 15,865 133,244
National Offender Management Service HQ — — — 647,729 390,383 1,038,112
Prisons Private Sector — — — 224,309 23,720 248,029
Prisons Public Sector — — — 2,008,902 27,100 2,036,002
Probation HQ — — — 57,251 457 57,708
Total RfRl only 1,458,032 281,814 1,739,846 4,646,993 1,149,420 5,796,413

The following table relates to cash grants to the relevant bodies.

£000
Non-budget Main estimate Winter supplementary estimate
Legal Service Commission 116,800 121,978
Criminal Defence Service 1,172,300 1,153,246
Community Legal Service 860,000 896,354
Information Commissioner's Office 4,999 5,000
Judicial Appointments Commission 5,700 7,130
Parole Board — 7,789
National Probation Service (Local area boards) — 881,090
Youth Justice Boards — 448,881
Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority — 223,789
Criminal Cases Review Commission — 6,815
Loan Charges — 2,190
Total grant 2,159,799 3,754,262

In addition, the Department was provided £2,000 (000s) in capital grants to local authorities in the winter supplementary estimate. Capital grants are treated as resource in the estimate and capital in terms of departmental expenditure limit (DEL).In line with the creation of the Ministry of Justice and due to the machinery of government changes, a transfer of a number of business areas with funding from the Home Office took affect in the winter supplementary estimate.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
471 c482-4W; 174991
Session
2007-08
Related items
Subjects
Public expenditure Ministry of Justice
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