Expenditure data

In delivering public prosecutions the CPS resources and expenditure are analysed between Administration Costs and Crown Prosecutions and Legal Services.

Administration represents the costs of running the Department and includes only those costs not attributed to front line services directly associated with the prosecution of criminal cases. Administration includes staff salaries, other staff related expenditure, accommodation and related costs for administrative staff based in CPS Headquarters. Costs are also incurred in relation to legal and other advice on the extension of PFI contracts, leadership training and the costs of dealing with staff grievances.

Crown Prosecutions and Legal Services cover the direct and indirect costs of taking cases to court. After the cost of front line staff salaries, most of the expenditure is associated with the costs of the more serious cases, which are heard in the Crown Court and comprise the costs of employing barristers as advocates, paying allowances and expenses to prosecution witnesses who attend court, the cost of expert testimony and a number of other less significant costs associated with the prosecution process.

Staff expenditure accounts for around 55% of CPS expenditure. Other administration costs represent 22% of costs and other programme costs the remaining 23%.

NB - earler data on CPS Expenditure can be found in archived versions of the CPS website, available from the UK Government Web Archive, or from data.gov.uk.