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Witnesses

Answer

A breakdown of the amount spent by each Crown Prosecution Service business area on witness expenses during the last four years is contained in the following tables.

Witness expenses all
	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-131
Cymru Wales	334,272	349,498	308,889	268,138
East of England	391,668	347,691	309,680	260,326
East Midlands	367,489	405,022	432,196	344,329
London	1,421,717	1,235,780	1,061,812	767,239
Merseyside and Cheshire	228,962	182,305	168,812	122,306
North East	250,586	248,105	243,827	201,181
North West	550,259	553,132	523,318	406,110
South East	533,712	500,114	438,595	335,211
South West	382,070	374,113	373,367	285,360
Thames and Chiltern	400,635	415,434	380,566	302,406
Wessex	403,667	419,979	374,817	262,105
West Midlands	491,094	486,017	441,809	342,774
Yorkshire and Humberside	532,668	522,235	448,827	329,682
Organised Crime	21,031	23,788	40,117	32,885
Special Crime and Counter Terrorism	43,981	17,326	31,474	21,560
Central Fraud Group	91,089	83,760	82,235	78,755
Welfare, Rural and Health	0	0	0	1,015
Totals	6,444,899	6,164,98	5,660,341	4,361,381

Ordinary witness expenses
	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-131
Cymru Wales	297,728	319,003	289,389	250,484
East of England	329,824	328,001	289,552	224,770
East Midlands	329,389	372,820	402,826	327,879
London	846,502	844,471	723,552	537,108
Merseyside and Cheshire	175,135	151,647	149,801	12,082
North East	221,032	227,843	233,223	185,718
North West	496,733	522,223	488,599	380,888
South East	432,305	454,124	408,435	310,446
South West	336,208	347,845	346,855	268,486
Thames and Chiltern	333,659	362,123	346,222	276,624
Wessex	339,768	387,673	343,384	246,607
West Midlands	416,056	416,729	378,886	291,029
Yorkshire and Humberside	481,509	473,862	420,417	310,300
Organised Crime	14,327	12,887	23,332	15,213
Special Crime and Counter Terrorism	25,892	8,987	23,017	18,642
Central Fraud Group	64,074	54,834	61,362	41,717
Welfare, Rural and Health	0	0	0	0
Totals	5,140,143	5,285,072	4,928,849	3,799,006

Professional witness expenses
	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-131
Cymru Wales	24,068	29,011	13,183	12,603
East of England	33,763	12,783	16,344	19,165
East Midlands	25,051	17,599	19,625	11,624
London	107,890	56,049	39,433	35,414
Merseyside and Cheshire	37,492	28,750	14,991	9,602
North East	20,366	14,933	7,381	7,996
North West	34,368	25,366	26,471	16,037
South East	34,001	22,614	18,885	12,853
South West	30,978	17,777	14,604	13,627
Thames and Chiltern	40,106	49,156	28,091	20,466
Wessex	26,173	20,639	24,682	13,574
West Midlands	57,636	53,925	55,372	47,183
Yorkshire and Humberside	26,673	32,745	18,775	15,720
Organised Crime	413	4,240	8,139	669
Special Crime and Counter Terrorism	12,152	2,045	4,282	2,714
Central Fraud Group	3,685	3,096	5,133	22
Welfare, Rural and Health	0	0	0	0
Totals	514,814	390,727	315,392	239,269

Foreign witness expenses
	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-131
Cymru Wales	12,477	1,484	6,318	5,052
East of England	28,080	6,907	3,784	16,391
East Midlands	13,050	14,603	9,745	4,826
London	467,325	335,260	298,826	194,716
Merseyside and Cheshire	16,334	1,909	4,021	623
North East	9,188	5,329	3,223	7,468
North West	19,159	5,544	8,249	9,185
South East	67,405	23,376	11,275	11,912
South West	14,885	8,492	11,907	3,248
Thames and Chiltern	26,871	4,155	6,253	5,316
Wessex	37,725	11,667	6,751	1,924
West Midlands	17,401	15,363	7,552	4,562
Yorkshire and Humberside	24,485	15,628	9,635	3,662
Organised Crime	6,290	6,660	8,646	17,003
Special Crime and Counter Terrorism	5,937	6,294	4,174	204
Central Fraud Group	23,330	25,830	15,740	37,015
Welfare, Rural and Health	0	0	0	0
Totals	789,943	488,502	416,100	323,105
1 2012-13 year to date figures to the end of January.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

146271; 559 cc1038-9W

Session

2012-13

Subjects

Allowances Crown Prosecution Service Finance Witnesses

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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