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Sir Ivan Lawrence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total balance of income and expenditure on the criminal justice system over each of the past 10 years; and how that analysis breaks down under the more important main headings.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke
The available information on net expenditure on the criminal justice system in England and Wales during this period is as follows:
| 1982–83 | 1983–84 | 1984–85 | 1985–86 | 1986–87 | 1987–88 | 1988–89 | 1989–90 | 1990–91 | 11991–92 | |
| Crown Prosecution Service6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 67 | 121 | 143 | 170 | 198 | 226 |
| Serious Fraud Office7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | 9 | 13 | 18 |
| TOTAL5 | — | — | — | — | 4,624 | 5,186 | 5,837 | 6,712 | 7,650 | 8,657 |
| 1 Provisional outturn. | ||||||||||
| 2 Central and local government expenditure. | ||||||||||
| 3 Current and capital expenditure. | ||||||||||
| 4 Including administration. | ||||||||||
| 5 Separate figures for expenditure on civil and criminal business in the Crown Courts are not available for 1985–86 or earlier years. | ||||||||||
| 6 Figures for local government spending prior to 1986–87 (when its responsibilities for criminal prosecutions were transferred to central Government) are not available. | ||||||||||
| 7 Set up with effect from April 1988. | ||||||||||