Crown Prosecution Service

(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what progress the Crown Prosecution Service has made in reducing costs.


Answered by
Dominic Grieve Portrait
Dominic Grieve
This question was answered on 8th July 2014

In 2010-11, the baseline year for the current Comprehensive Spending Review Period, the Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) gross resource expenditure was £684,725,000.

The department is on target to meet its cost reduction plans through to 2015-16 and in 2013-14 the uncertified Annual Accounts report gross resource expenditure of £616,342,000, a reduction of £68,383,000, or 10%, in cash terms.

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