Note 23 to the Departmental Resource Accounts
23. Losses and special payments
Included within the Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure are losses and special payments as follows:
| Losses and special payments | 2011-12 Number of cases |
2011-12 £000 |
2010-11 Number of cases |
2010-11 £000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23(a) Losses Statement | ||||
| Cash losses | 29 | 21 | 63 | 43 |
| Administrative write-offs | 59,609 | 4,389 | 49,456 | 2,673 |
| Losses of accountable stores | - | - | 1 | 18 |
| Fruitless payments | 1 | 7 | - | - |
| Claims waived or abandoned | 1 | 112 | - | - |
| 23(b) Special Payments | ||||
| Ex gratia | 29 | 764 | 46 | 1,464 |
| Total of losses | 59,669 | 5,293 | 49,566 | 4,198 |
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. Cash losses include £10k of outstanding rent due from a subtenant. This amount was written off as part of a repayment agreement to recover the outstanding overdue balance of £111k.
Administrative write offs are cases relating to costs awarded to the CPS which the magistrates’ courts are responsible for collecting. Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012 the magistrates’ courts wrote off 59,609 cases with a value of £4.389 million under their delegated powers.
A fruitless payment was made to a supplier for printed stationery stock which became obsolete due to digital working.
A claim to recover a payment from a subtenant for property repairs was abandoned on legal advice.
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 12 payments the CPS had provided for (see note 17).
Details of cases over £250,000
Included in ex gratia payments is a payment of £290k which was made in respect of a personal injury claim.
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