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Departments: Buildings

Volume 461: debated on Monday 11 June 2007

To ask the Solicitor-General what the (a) rental and (b) other accommodation costs were for premises occupied by the (i) Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission and (ii) Public Prosecutions Service in 2006-07. (141248)

The costs for the Public Prosecution Service for the year in question were as follows:

£

Rent

1,917,014

Rates

412,029

Shared Charges

275,282

Electricity

151,228

I am informed by the Ministry of Justice that the rental and other accommodation costs for premises occupied by the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission since its establishment are set out in the following table.

£

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Premises Rental

114

250

251

272

Other Accommodation Costs:

147

245

251

265

Cleaning

11

27

30

30

Other Building Costs

31

11

8

23

Service Charges

43

63

61

97

Electricity

15

27

29

32

Rates

47

117

123

83

Other

Telephone Costs

8

26

19

23

Insurance

10

23

8

3

Equipment and furniture

11

7

6

11

Rental and maintenance of equipment

0

2

21

23

Total

290

553

556

596

To ask the Solicitor-General what the (a) rental and (b) other accommodation costs were for premises occupied by the (i) Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions and (ii) Police Central Process Offices in the last five financial years. (141249)

The rental and other accommodation costs for the Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland and then the Public Prosecution Service over the last five years are as follows:

£

2006-07

Rent

1,917,014

Rates

412,029

Shared Charges

275,282

Electricity

151,228

2005-06

Rent

1,463,368

Rates

391,098

Shared Charges

235,579

Electricity

126,702

2004-05

Rent

1,084,031

Rates

379,165

Shared Charges

207,140

Electricity

101,604

2003-04

Rent

891,946

Rates

355904

Shared Charges

324,371

Electricity

74,351

2002-03

Rent

467,344

Rates

184,835

Shared Charges

314,830

Electricity

31,174

I am informed that as the Police Central Process Office (CPO) use accommodation within the existing Police Estate, the use of this incurs no direct rental or accommodation costs to the CPO and no figures are available.