To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate her Department has made of the average cost to a police force of (a) issuing a caution, (b) issuing a penalty notice for disorder and (c) bringing charges. (265751)

The amount of time spent by police officers on issuing a caution, issuing a penalty notice for disorder, or bringing charges is not collected centrally, and there are no general estimates of the average costs to police forces of undertaking these activities.