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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 471: debated on Wednesday 30 January 2008

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. (174991)

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 provided £2,000 (000s) in capital grants for 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 owing to the machinery of Government changes, a transfer of a number of business areas with funding from the Home Office took effect in the winter supplementary estimate.