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<p>Requests for temporary staff to be appointed within agreed budgetary provision
in the CPS are not required to be accompanied by a formal business case within the
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Requests for consultancy staff do require a formal
business case within the CPS.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has not employed
any consultants within the past financial year or during the current year. Spend on
consultants would require a business case setting out the need for such expenditure
to the SFO Finance and HR teams. Requests for temporary staff are agreed when the
SFO budget is set at the beginning of the financial year. Any additional temporary
recruitment during the year is dependent on discussions with the SFO Finance team
and Human Resource team, and on occasion the Chief Operating Officer and would require
a business case.</p><p>At GLD, HMCPSI and the AGO, agency workers are engaged through
Civil Service contractual arrangements to cover short term vacancies and to secure
specific specialist legal and support skills that are not available in-house. For
that reason, a formal business case is not normally required, unless it is for new
posts where agreement is required to increase the headcount in that business area
to support a project to improve the department. The approval mechanism for consultancy
spend is not via a resources board although a request for consultancy would need to
be accompanied by a business justification.</p>
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