To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much capital spending is planned to be brought forward by her Department to (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. (266290)

As announced in the pre-Budget report on 24 November 2008 £20 million of capital expenditure has been brought forward from 2010-11 to 2009-10 to improve the estates of the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Police Improvement Agency, developing and installing high technology systems and enhancing intelligence gathering against serious organised crime.