Crown Prosecution Service

HC Deb 01 February 1996 vol 270 cc858-9W

Mr. French

To ask the Attorney-General what changes he proposes for the Crown Prosecution Service's cash and running costs limits for 1995–96. [13344]

The Attorney-General

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class IX, vote 4 will be increased by £1,500,000 from £229,754,000 to £231,254,000. The increase will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.

The running costs limit of class IX, vote 4 will be reduced by £1,200,000 from £225,754,000 to £224,554,000. The reduction will fund an increase in capital provision and, with the increase mentioned earlier, will fund the accelerated implementation of team working and the CPS's SCOPE—standard case operations system—computer system.