§ Mr. MalinsTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what is the average cost per day 403W to the Exchequer of (a) a Crown court, (b) a magistrates court with lay justices sitting and (c) a magistrates court with a stipendiary magistrate sitting. [5032]
§ Mr. HoonThe Home Office "Model of Flows and Costs in the Criminal Justice Process" for 1995–96 shows the total cost excluding capital expenditure in the Crown Court was £202,544,937 and in the magistrates' courts for criminal matters was £257,885,498. The number of days sat in the Crown Court in 1996 was 90,956. The number of hours sat in the magistrates' courts in 1996 was 1,173,071. It is not possible to break this information down between lay and stipendiary magistrates.