My right hon. Friend the Attorney General has made the following written ministerial statement:
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Attorney-General’s total DEL will be increased by £8,271,000 from £736,695,000 to £744,966,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are set out in the following table:
Change New DEL Voted Non-voted Voted Non-voted Total Resource DEL 3,226 5,045 729,855 10,898 740,753 of which: Administration budget * - - 68,623 - 68,623 Near-cash in RDEL* 3,226 5,045 717,482 12,571 730,053 Capital DEL ** - - 12,730 - 12,730 Less Depreciation *** - - 8,517 - 8,517 Total DEL 3,226 5,045 734,068 10,898 744,966 *The total of ‘Administration budget’ and ‘Near-cash in Resource DEL’ figures may well be greater than total Resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping. **Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. ***Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) element of the Attorney-General’s total DEL will be increased by £44,343,000 from £643,992,000 to £688,335,000.
Changes in Near-cash Resource DEL arise from:
A machinery of Government transfer of £36,072,000 from the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office as a result of the previously announced merger.
Budgetary transfers from the Ministry of Justice totalling £8,123,000 consisting of:
£4,300,000 to help fund the Compass Case Management System
£2,600,000 from the Victim Surcharge collections
£806,000 to provide support for the Local Criminal Justice Boards
£417,000 to help fund the prosecution of new offences introduced in the Road Safety Act 2006
A budgetary transfer of £148,000 from the Home Office to help fund the delivery of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006.
The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) element of the Attorney-General’s total DEL remains unchanged at £40,932,000.
The HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor’s (TSol) element of the Attorney-General’s total DEL remains unchanged at £15,699,000.
The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Offices (RCPO) element of the Attorney-General’s total DEL will be decreased by £36,072,000 to £0 arising from a machinery of Government transfer to the Crown Prosecution Service as a result of the previously announced merger.