Note 24 to the Departmental Resource Accounts
24. Related-party transactions
The CPS has close working relationships with all agencies within the criminal justice system and particularly HMCTS, their ultimate controlling party being the Ministry of Justice. HMCTS is regarded as a related party with which the Department has had material transactions, being mainly costs awarded by HMCTS to the CPS (see Note 10) less amounts written off (see Note 9).
In response to the recommendations of the Glidewell review in a number of locations the CPS and the Police have combined the administration of case files through the co-location of Criminal Justice Units.
More recently Integrated Prosecution Teams (IPTs) now merge the Police and CPS teams together to manage an integrated single file and administrative process. By reducing duplication, IPTs deliver significant efficiencies and improvements in the criminal justice service, including timeliness, quality and readiness of files for court.
The CPS requests that each Board member completes a declaration, stating whether they or their spouse and close family members have been in a position of influence or control in organisations with which the CPS has transactions. All Board members, including those who left the CPS during the year, completed a declaration.
The declarations advised no material transactions had taken place.
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