Note 25 to the Departmental Resource Accounts: Losses and special payments
Included within the Operating Cost Statement are losses and special payments as follows:
| 25(a) Losses Statement | 2009-10 Number of cases | 2009-10 £000 |
2008-09 Number of cases | 2008-09 Re-stated £000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash Losses | 80 | 35 | 16 | 36 |
| Administrative write offs | 60,315 | 2,996 | 62,378 | 3,100 |
| Constructive losses | 1 | 2,623 | - | - |
| 25(b) Special Payments | ||||
| Ex gratia | 28 | 728 | 38 | 930 |
| Total of losses | 60,424 | 6,382 | 62,432 | 4,066 |
Cash losses are overpayments of pay and allowances paid to CPS staff which have not been recovered because it is not cost effective to pursue recovery.
Administrative write offs are 60,315 cases relating to costs awarded to the CPS totalling £2,996k of which the magistrates' courts, who are responsible for collecting costs awarded to the CPS, wrote off 58,424 cases with a value of £2,503k under their delegated powers, and the CPS authorised a further write off of £493k comprising 1,891 cases.
Ex gratia payments reported are payments made in settlement of Employment Tribunal and personal injury claims made against the Department.
As noted previously, during the year, the Accounting Officer authorised the abandonment of the development of the RCPO case management system, following the decision to merge CPS with RCPO. This gave rise to a write off of:
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Non-current Assets (IT and software licences) | 834,225 |
| Prepayments | 1,152,658 |
| Termination payments | 636,240 |
| Total | 2,623,123 |
Details of cases over £250,000
There were no losses or special payments over £250,000 made in 2009-10, other than the constructive loss detailed above.
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