PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Public Expenditure (10 July 2014)

To ask the Attorney General, how much the (a) Serious Fraud Office and (b) Crown Prosecution Service spent on (i) travel, (ii) furniture and fittings and (iii) any dilapidation claims arising from the quitting of premises in each year since 2008.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The Serious Fraud Office moved from its premises at Elm House on Elm Street and part of the ITN building on Gray's Inn Road at the end of 2012. It is now located on one site in Cockspur Street.

The information requested is set out in the table below. There were no relevant costs in 2008/09 or 2009/10.

	2010/11 £‘000's	2011/12 £‘000's	2012/13 £‘000's	2013/14 £‘000's
Travel	-	-	9	24
Furniture and fittings	-	-	23	-
Dilapidations	750	290	-	-

The Crown Prosecution Service spent the following amounts on furniture and fittings and dilapidations in each year since 2008.

	2013/14	2012/13	2011/12	2010/11	2009/10	2008/09
	£‘000's	£‘000's	£‘000's	£‘000's	£‘000's	£‘000's
Furniture and Fittings	386	497	957	4,210	4,462	3,197
Dilapidations	1,992	917	1,595	201	362	185

Expenditure incurred on dilapidations occurred as a result of quitting premises. Expenditure on furniture and fittings covers all such expenditure. To identify spend that relates solely and specifically to quitting premises would involve the checking of thousands of invoices and would incur a disproportionate cost.

From records held it is also not possible to identify spend on travel arising from quitting premises without incurring a disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Buckland (Conservative)
17 July 2014