Magistrates' Courts (Cost)

HC Deb 15 December 1976 vol 922 cc702-3W

Mr. Alan Clark

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost to his Department of running the magistrates' courts in England and Wales for the financial year ended April 1976.

Mr. John

The total expenditure on magistrates' courts in England and Wales for the financial year 1975–76 was £47.8 million, of which the Home Office met 80 per cent. or £38.2 million.