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Spending Review
SR2002/Leg
15 July 2002
Additional resources to fund a step change in efforts to improve the working of the Criminal Justice system were announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown today.
The Lord Chancellor's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service, working with the Home Office, will improve the delivery of justice with a target of 1.2 million successful criminal prosecutions by 2005-06. Other key features of today's announcement include:
In response to the new spending plans, Lord Goldsmith the Attorney General said:
"Progress has been achieved in reducing unnecessary delays in criminal cases. The settlement will lay the foundations for ensuring the more effective disposal of cases. The Government wants to see pre-trial and trial processes which are more tightly managed, less wasteful and more responsive to the needs of victims, witnesses and the wider public. "
1. The 2002 Spending Review provides the following increases:
| £ million | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Lord Chancellor' Departments | ||||
| Legal aid budget (all resource) | 1,748 | 1,819 | 1,874 | 1,929 |
| Other Resource Budget | 1,106 | 1,271 | 1,404 | 1,414 |
| Capital Budget | 74 | 77 | 101 | 117 |
| Total Departmental Expenditure Limit1 | 2,855 | 3,082 | 3,293 | 3,293 |
| Near-cash spending in LCD DEL2 | 2,843 | 3,098 | 3,309 | 3,388 |
| Law Officers' Departments | ||||
| Resource Budget | 470 | 497 | 523 | 543 |
| Capital Budget | 10 | 6 | 14 | 16 |
| Total Departmental Expenditure Limit1 | 466 | 488 | 520 | 541 |
| Near-cash spending in Law Officers' DEL2 | 461 | 483 | 514 | 535 |
2. There will be additional resources to deliver:
3. For further details please contact the LCD Press Office on 020 7210 8512/3, or visit the LCD website: http://www.justice.gov.uk/.
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