Note 25 to the Departmental Resource Accounts
25. Losses and special payments
Included within the Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure are losses and special payments as follows:
| Losses and special payments | 2010-11 Number of cases |
2010-11 £000 |
2009-10 Number of cases |
2009-10 £000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25(a) Losses Statement | ||||
| Cash losses | 63 | 43 | 80 | 35 |
| Administrative write-offs | 49456 | 2,673 | 60,315 | 2,996 |
| Losses of accountable stores | 1 | 18 | - | - |
| Constructive losses | - | - | 1 | 2,623 |
| 25(b) Special Payments | ||||
| Ex gratia | 46 | 1,464 | 28 | 728 |
| Total of losses | 49566 | 4,198 | 60,424 | 6,382 |
Cash losses are overpayments of pay and allowances paid to CPS staff and to suppliers which have not been recovered because it is not cost-effective to pursue recovery.
Administrative write-offs are cases relating to costs awarded to the CPS which the magistrates' courts are responsible for collecting. Between 1 April and 31 December 2010 the magistrates' courts had delegated powers to write off cases up to £100 in value. Cases in excess of £100 were written off by the CPS. During this period, the magistrates' courts wrote off 32,291 cases with a value of £1,460k under their delegated powers, and the CPS authorised a further write-off of £304k comprising 1,343 cases. From 1 January 2011 the CPS issued unlimited delegated authority to the magistrates' courts. Between 1 January and 31 March 2011 the magistrates' courts wrote off a further 15,822 cases with a value of £909k.
The loss of accountable stores is the loss or theft of a mobile phone, to which £18k of phone calls were charged before the loss or theft was discovered.
Ex gratia payments reported are payments made in settlement of Employment Tribunal, personal injury and other civil litigation claims made against the Department. Included within ex gratia payments are 11 payments the CPS had provided for (see note 18).
Details of cases over £250,000
A payment of £450,000 was made for a personal injury claim. A provision of £290,000 has been provided for in respect of the outstanding costs in this case.
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