Justice written question – answered at on 23 May 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 16 May 2012, Official Report, column 180W, on alternatives to prison: Greater Manchester,
(1) whether his Department keeps records of payments made to meet defendants' costs from central funds in private prosecutions;
(2) how much has been paid from central funds to meet defendants' costs in private prosecutions in (a) total and (b) cases brought by the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals in each of the last five financial years.
The Department keeps records of payments made to meet defendant's costs from central funds, but departmental accounting systems do not identify centrally payments where the prosecution had been brought (a) privately or (b) by the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals.
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