Public Services Reform Information

Each quarter’s information will be published as soon as possible during the year at :

Payments with a value in excess of £25,000

Hospitality and entertainment			2011-2012
Date	Provided to	Value	Reason
nil return

Includes – taking each event separately, any non-contractual, discretionary benefit provided to a person where the value exceeds £25.  

Excludes – travel and subsistence allowances and the reimbursement of expenses that are reasonably incurred in relation to service as a member or employee of a public body (including directors).

Includes – all costs relating to a trip outside of the UK (hotels, conference fees, travel and subsistence and any other related expenses).

Overseas travel 2011 -2012

Consultancy	2011-12	cost £
Towers Watson UK		2,900
Core Solutions Group Ltd		2,788
		5,688

External consultancy

We outsource much of our IT, Estates and FM services and developments and so we do make use of companies that are classified as business consultancies, though the services we procure may not always be consultancy in nature, we will disclose this information based on the company’s classification.

Public Relations Expenditure	2011-2012	cost £
Pay of staff solely dealing with SCS and judicial communications		146,000
Miscellaneous		889
Outsourced production of literature/information resource		40,267
		187,156

Includes – the cost of staff who wholly deal with internal and external communications, printing cost of annual report.

Excludes - advertising costs for recruitment of staff, the cost of producing internal newsletters, any literature, advertising or media campaigns that are associated with our core business activity (e.g. jurors’ information, forms, fines media campaign).