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Crown Prosecution Service Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2010 - 2011

Note 9 to the Departmental Resource Accounts

9. Programme Costs

Programme Costs Note 2010-11
£000
2010-11
£000
2009-10
£000
2009-10
£000
Rentals under operating leases:
  Hire of office equipment 370 612
  Other operating leases 21,593 22,914
Total Rentals under operating leases 21,963 23,526
Interest Charges on imputed finance leases 2,120 2,439
PFI service charges: 17,833 18,446
Non-cash items:
  Depreciation 11 8,757 10,385
  Amortisation 12 4,108 4,127
  Loss on disposal 11 and 12 795 834
  Loss on revaluation 1,793 -
  Cost of capital charge: (Note a)
    Civil Estate Charge - 164
    Other items credit - (660)
  Change in bad debt provision 1,142 1,947
  Provisions:
    Provided in year 18 7,270 17,600
    Unrequired provision written back 18 (12,818) (1,158)
    Unwinding of discount on provisions 18 285 181
Total Non cash items 11,332 33,420
Other expenditure
  Advocate fees 134,195 135,296
  Information Technology 26,152 24,341
  Accommodation and associated costs 22,140 22,629
  Non-expert witness expenses 6,385 6,646
  Printing and stationery 6,343 6,678
  Expert witness fees 6,328 6,768
  Postage and carriage 5,574 5,497
  Travel and subsistence 4,003 5,567
  Prosecution transcripts and translations 3,642 4,176
  Communications 2,723 5,451
  Costs awarded to CPS written off 25 2,673 2,996
  Consultancy and professional charges 2,350 2,777
  Interpreters and translators 1,720 1,679
  Prosecution presentational equipment 1,667 2,659
  Costs awarded against CPS 1,548 907
  File storage 947 851
  Books, reports and newspapers 898 1,168
  Permanent transfer costs 521 391
  Training 447 1,514
  Other expenditure 3,663 3,557
Total Other expenditure 233,919 241,548
Total programme costs 287,167 319,379
Less: programme income 10 (65,212) (62,499)
Net programme costs 221,955 256,880

Note a - From 1 April 2010, under HM Treasury's Alignment Project, the aligning of Departmental budgets, Estimates and accounts, cost of capital charges and credits were removed from accounts.


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