Post by nickd on Jan 30, 2012 0:43:25 GMT 1
MOJ Annual Accounts 2010/2011
Not running to estimated budget - out by £600 million
When the Ministry of Justice made a request for resources at the start of the financial year 2010/2011 they initially made a request for £8.7 billion pounds, this was subsequently increased in a further estimate in spring to £9.3 billion pounds, reasons for the increase in estimates were principally changes arising out of devaluation of £220million in National Offender Management Service (NOMS) estate, and £145million to cover the devaluation of the HM Courts Service estate.
Reconciliation despite overspend
Although the MoJ managed to underspend on its revised estimate of £9.3 billion by 2%, there were still a number of significant overspends:
Significant overspends amounting to £616 million
£39 million overspend with the Tribunals Service (relating to immigration)
£41 million overspend with the National Offender Management Service at HQ
£278 million overspend with the National Offender Management Service on operations
£153 million overspend with Her Majesty's Court Service on Magistrate's pension scheme.
£30 million on Criminal Injury Compensation Authority 'Pleural Plaques)
£75 million on National Offender Management Service probation pensions
Unquantified payment by results projects - prisons
We will introduce a ‘rehabilitation revolution’ that will pay independent providers to reduce reoffending, paid for by the savings this new approach will generate within the criminal justice
system.
The Department has also launched a payment by results pilot in Peterborough in August 2010, and will design and run a further six between now and 2014.
These reforms are being undertaken against an uncertain economic back drop. The underlying demand for the Ministry’s services is unlikely to fall significantly over the SR period which means it will be necessary to maintain or improve performance and outcomes for less. MoJ will continue to monitor the demand for its services and the likely impact of other external factors such as inflation over the coming years and respond through changes to service delivery and plans where necessary. The financial impact of these factors will be monitored through the Financial Planning Model with oversight from the Financial Management Committee.
Civil disputes resolved out of Court - not litigation culture quoted by MOJ. Significantly higher number of benefit appeals don't appear to be reflected in the figures.
There has been a reduction of 9% in the number of civil proceedings started between 2009–10 and 2010–11. The number of civil proceedings where a small claims hearing or fast/multi track trial took place also fell (by 15% and 4% respectively).
There were 60,045 small claim hearings or fast/multi track trials involving civil disputes in 2010–11, and 1,622,531 civil proceedings started in total during the year. As a proxy estimate, this suggests that 96.3% of civil disputes were resolved without recourse to a full hearing or trial in the county courts in 2010–11, similar to the 2009/10 value of 96.2%.
Prison Placement costs
The average cost per prison place was £44,006 in 2009–10, and the average cost per prisoner was £40,378. These costs are down slightly from the 2008–09 values of £44,893 and £40,976
respectively.
Legal Aid 2010/2011 average cost per case
Civil Representation - £5,251
Legal Help - £293
Immigration - £615
Lower Crime - £308
Higher Crime - £2,461
Staff & Judiciary costings
Data for 2010–11 shows that total costs of staff and judiciary was £845 million, down slightly from total costs of staff and judiciary of £846 million in 2009–10. But see temporary & agency staff.
Sentencing costs and trends
In the 12 months ending March 2011, the number of prosecutions fell by 3.0% to 1.64 million and the total number sentenced fell by 2.9% to 1.36 million. The proportion sentenced to Immediate
Custody rose from 7.2% in the 12 months ending March 2010 to 7.6% in the 12 months ending March 2011. The proportion given sentences in the community (Community order or suspended
sentence order) rose from 17.0% to 17.6%, while the proportion being fined fell.
Prison population
As of the 1 July 2011 the prison population was 85,376, which was 837 below the low projection. What about the riots?
Civil & Family caseload
Civil (non-family) proceedings commencing in the county courts fell from 1.78m in 2009–10 to 1.62m in 2010–11, continuing a falling trend seen since 2006. This fall is driven by a fall in
‘specified amount’ money claims.
In the family courts, petitions filed for the dissolution of marriage decreased marginally in 2010–11 compared to 2009–10 (by less than 1% to 133,524), while disposals of ancillary relief applications increased (by 4 per cent to 83,210). There were 23,188 applications for domestic violence orders in 2010–11, a drop of 9%, continuing a generally declining trend over the last six years.
In matters concerning children, there were 23,400 public law applications and 118,400 private law applications received in 2010–11; these were falls of 10% and 14% respectively compared to 2009–10 but followed substantial increases in the previous year.
Spend on Consultancy
The spend on Consultancy by the Department in 2010–11 is £30.5 million. This includes MoJ HQ and its four executive agencies.
Spend on Temporary Staff
£125.9 million has been spent on Agency and Contract Staff in 2010–11.
Spend on Publicity and Advertising
£436,270 spend on Publicity and Advertising by the Department in 2010–11, this includes MoJ HQ and its four executive agencies.
Pensions (cash equivalent transfer values)
Ministerial
Cannot make comparisons between current government and previous due to insufficient time in office to compare on a like for like basis.
Executive (published rather than recalculated as March 2010)
Top three
Sir Suma Chakrabarti KCB, Permanent Secretary £1.07 Million
Peter Handcock CBE, Chief Executive, HM Courts & Tribunals
Service £1.7 Million
Phil Wheatley CB (until 2 June 2010), Director General, National Offender Management Service £1.8 Million
Departmental spend
Key expense only
Department expenditure limit (actual for 2010/2011 planned for 2011/12)
Noms 2010/2012 £4,056,083 2011/2012 £3,781,967
HMTCS 2010/2012 (0 as not merged) 2011/2012 £1,055,474
Criminal legal aid 2010/2011 £1,233,960 2011/2012 £1,139,000
reducing to 2014/2015 £930,600
Civil legal aid 2010/2011 £930,882 2011/2012 £1,005,000 reducing to 2014/2015 £912,400
Total resource department expenditure limit across all departments for 2010/2011 £8,954,478 2011/2012 £8,646,436 reducing to 2014/2015 £7,655,251
Ministry of Justice
Table 2 Outturn v Opening and Final Budget
Significant variances between opening and outturn
Key
Astonishing!
To be continued...
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