§ Mr. SimpsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the cost of the decommissioning and lay-up of nuclear-powered submarines in each of the past 15 years. [16561]
§ Mr. ArbuthnotThis is a matter for the chief executive of the Ships Support Agency. I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from R. V. Babington to Mr. Alan Simpson, dated 25 February 1997:
I am replying to your question to the Secretary of State for Defence about the costs of decommissioning and laying up of nuclear powered submarines in each of the last fifteen years, as this matter falls within my area of responsibility as Chief Executive of the Ships Support Agency.The cost details on the attached table relate to the period 1990/91 to 1996/97 exclusively; prior to that date only HMS DREADNOUGHT underwent decommissioning and lay-up, in 1982/83, and it is not possible to provide costs for this vessel.
§ The Attorney-GeneralCases discontinued by the CPS fell from 193,110, or 13.3 per cent. of completed cases in magistrates courts, in 1992 to 153,274, or 12 per cent. of completed cases, in 1996.
Tables providing detailed information about the outcome of cases conducted by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the past five years were placed in the Library of the House as part of my written answer yesterday to the hon. Member for Tooting (Mr. Cox), Official Report, 24 February 1997, column 22. The Crown 189W Prosecution Service records the outcome of proceedings by numbers of defendants rather than charges, and statistics are maintained for CPS areas which correspond to the police forces as shown on a new table which, to assist the hon. Member, I have added to the tables in the Library.
List of police forces served by each CPS area CPS area Police force North Cumbria Durham Northumbria Cleveland Yorkshire North Yorkshire West Yorkshire Mersey/Lancashire Lancashire Merseyside Humber Humberside Lincolnshire South Yorkshire North West Cheshire Greater Manchester East Midlands Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Leicestershire Northamptonshire Wales North Wales Dyfed-Powys South Wales Gwent Midlands Staffordshire West Midlands Warwickshire Anglia Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Essex Norfolk Suffolk Severn/Thames West Mercia Gloucestershire Wiltshire Thames Valley South West Avon and Somerset Devon and Cornwall Dorset South East Hampshire Surrey Sussex Kent London City of London Metropolitan