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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES BY CONNÉTABLE OF GROUVILLE
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 28th APRIL 2009
Question
Following the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2007 that the monies from the Criminal Offences Confiscation Fund and the Drugs Trafficking Confiscation Fund should become part of the general revenues of the States, can the Minister explain what has happened to the Funds, advise whether any distributions have taken place and, if so, to whom?
Answer
The Treasury and Resources Minister accepted in principle the recommendations in the Comptrollerand Auditor General's Confiscation Funds Report to augment them into the States General Revenues.
Work is in progress to identify how best to implement the recommendations, particularly in relation to deciding what Law changes are necessary. The intention is to have augmented the Funds into the States general revenues for the 2010 financial year. However, this will be dependent on the timescales within which the Law changes can be achieved.
In the meantime, the Funds continue to be administered in accordance with the relevant Laws (Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 and Drug Trafficking Miscellaneous Provisions (Jersey) Law 1996).
Since the publication of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report in September 2007, the following grants have been issued from the Funds, in accordance with the Laws.
Drug Trafficking Confiscation Fund
Financial Year | Issued to | Brief description | £ |
2008 | Health & Social Services/Home Affairs | Building a Safer Society – continuation of 5 year projects | 527,000 |
2009 | Health & Social Services/Home Affairs | Building a Safer Society – continuation of 5 year projects | 534,000 |
|
|
| 1,061,000 |
Nov-07 | Charity | 2 year project run in partnership with Prison | 100,000 |
Dec-08 | Charity | Educational programme | 5,000 |
|
|
| 105,000 |
Feb-08 | Health & Social Services | Expansion of drug related programme | 20,000 |
Jun-08 | Health & Social Services | Drug related programme | 12,000 |
Oct-08 | Health & Social Services | Expansion of drug related programme | 85,000 |
|
|
| 117,000 |
Nov-07 | Customs & Immigration | Software package | 304,000 |
Feb-08 | Customs | Equipment | 49,000 |
Feb-08 | Police/customs | Equipment | 40,000 |
Feb-08 | Police | Equipment | 56,000 |
Feb-08 | Police | Equipment | 21,000 |
Jun-08 | Home affairs | Equipment | 10,000 |
Oct-08 Police Information related 13,000 Oct-08 Customs Equipment 26,800 Oct-08 Prison Information related 50,000 Dec-08 Prison Equipment 20,000 589,800
Criminal Offences Confiscation Fund
Financial Year Issued to Brief description £
2008 Judicial Greffe Grant 310,000 2008 Law Officers Grant 745,000 2008 Viscount/ Bailiff /Home Court & Case costs 2,511,000
Affairs/Law Officers/Judicial
Greffe
3,566,000 2009 to date Judicial Greffe Grant 310,000
310,000