The Crown Prosecution Service requires a Contingencies Fund advance of £60 million to cover urgent payments of resource departmental expenditure limit expenditures, such as February payroll, and to pay suppliers’ invoices. Due to the uplift in funding sought at the supplementary estimate, this has led to the CPS requiring a Contingencies Fund advance to ensure it has the cash required ahead of the parliamentary approval of the supplementary estimate.
Parliamentary approval for additional resource of £60 million will be sought in a supplementary estimate for the Crown Prosecution Service. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £60 million will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.
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