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	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of local authorities in England and Wales have adopted the new information-sharing protocol between the Crown Prosecution Service, police and councils.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	210546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Implementation of the measures in the national protocol is secured through agreement of local arrangements. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central records of the number of local authorities that have adopted the national 2013 Protocol. However, in a recent survey of Chief Crown Prosecutors, the CPS found that, following the publication of the national multi-agency 2013 protocol, 82 of the 174 Local Authorities responsible for children’s services have so far signed local disclosure protocols.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 21/10/2014 16:10:41 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 22626 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

100080

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Judicial Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many judicial reviews there were involving Government departments according to records held by the (a) Treasury Solicitor and (b) Administrative Court Office in each of the last four years; and how many such reviews were upheld in whole or in part in each such year.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	211271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The Treasury Solicitor’s Department holds records relating only to those cases in which it has acted. The Treasury Solicitor represents most, but not all, government departments in litigation. For example, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs normally conducts its own litigation. According to records held by the Treasury Solicitor, the number of judicial reviews involving government departments in which it has acted in each of the last four years is as follows:</p><p>2010 – 8,566</p><p>2011 – 9,603</p><p>2012 – 10,274</p><p>2013 – 16,449</p><p>Information relating to how many of those reviews were upheld in whole or in part in each year is not held centrally and could not be created without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p><del class="ministerial">The Administrative Court Office does not collate the information requested centrally and determining the number of reviews and how many such reviews were upheld in whole or in part would incur a disproportionate cost.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The information requested in respect of the Administrative Court Office is published online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267408/additional-court-tables-2012.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267408/additional-court-tables-2012.xls</a> . The 2013 data is not currently available.</ins></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 28/10/2014 15:10:43 question first ministerially corrected 05/01/2015 17:35:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 24759 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

705510

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the procurement spend of the Law Officers' Departments was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	65676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The following figures, based on <del class="ministerial">published</del> accounts for <ins class="ministerial">the financial years from</ins> <ins class="ministerial">April</ins> 2010 to <ins class="ministerial">April</ins> 2016, show the procurement spend (all expenditure on goods, assets or services, not including expenditure relating to the remuneration of employees, non cash costs such as depreciation and local/national taxes such as rates and excluding any case settlement costs) for the Law Officers’ Departments. <ins class="ministerial">Figures for the financial year from April 2016- April 2017 are not yet available. </ins></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> Value </ins> <ins class="ministerial">(£000s)</ins></p></td><td><p>2010<ins class="ministerial">-11</ins></p></td><td><p>2011<ins class="ministerial">-12</ins></p></td><td><p>2012<ins class="ministerial">-13</ins></p></td><td><p>2013<ins class="ministerial">-14</ins></p></td><td><p>2014<ins class="ministerial">-15</ins></p></td><td><p>2015<ins class="ministerial">-16</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2016</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GLD*</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">52,300</del> <ins class="ministerial">49,533</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">49,533</del> <ins class="ministerial">52,426</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">52,426</del> <ins class="ministerial">47,070</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">47,070</del> <ins class="ministerial">60,167</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">60,167</del> <ins class="ministerial">70,649</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">70,649</del> <ins class="ministerial">68,804</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">68,804</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AGO</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,800</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,589</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,589</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,520</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,520</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,457</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,457</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,348</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,348</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,470</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,470</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,354</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,354</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMCPSI</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">821</del> <ins class="ministerial">893</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">893</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,032</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,032</del> <ins class="ministerial">417</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">417</del> <ins class="ministerial">409</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">409</del> <ins class="ministerial">388</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">388</del> <ins class="ministerial">419</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">419</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">315,581</del> <ins class="ministerial">307,168</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">274,816</del> <ins class="ministerial">270,597</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">269,612</del> <ins class="ministerial">255,429</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">244,121</del> <ins class="ministerial">252,916</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">284,482</del> <ins class="ministerial">289,727</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">347,658</del> <ins class="ministerial">258,876</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">325,560</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SFO</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21,696m</del> <ins class="ministerial">21,696</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">18,968m</del> <ins class="ministerial">18,968</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">17,884m</del> <ins class="ministerial">17,884</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">31,689m</del> <ins class="ministerial">31,689</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">26,887m</del> <ins class="ministerial">26,887</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">22,358m</del> <ins class="ministerial">22,358</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21,904m</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The Treasury Solicitor’s Department until 31 March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 06/03/2017 17:33:33 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2017 17:48:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 38730 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

706180

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	65977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>GLD expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: £12,252.00</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: £24,933.12</p><p> </p><p>GLD has consistently consumed 13,960 boxes (69,800 reams) of paper per annum for the last 5 years. The cost for the period 2016-17 to date was £76,241. Accurate costs for earlier periods cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>HMCPSI Expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: nil</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: nil</p><p> </p><p>Accurate costs for paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>CPS and AGO</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not spent any money on iPads in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS, including the Attorney General’s Office, spend on tablets over the last five years has been provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost of Tablet including VAT(£)</p><p>2012 75,412</p><p>2013 0</p><p>2014 0</p><p>2015 46,077</p><p>2016 25,885*</p><p>*costs are estimated for 2016</p><p> </p><p>(b) The CPS estimates that it has spent the following amounts on paper over the last 5 years:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost (£)</p><p>2012* 1,120,904</p><p>2013* 926,609</p><p>2014** 983,802</p><p>2015** 847,431</p><p>2016** 445,717</p><p>* costs for 2012 and 2013 are based on historic data provided by CPS stationery suppliers</p><p>** costs for 2014, 2015 and 2016 are estimated and based on total stationery spend for the periods.</p><p>To identify all expenditure that relates solely and specifically to paper would involve the manual checking of thousands of invoices and would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Accurate costs for AGO paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">SFO </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The SFO does not separately record paper costs from overall stationery expenditure.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Stationery Year Cost (£) </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 64,094</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 69,657</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 74,750</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 52,721</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 40,916 </em></ins><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>iPads &amp; Tablets <em>Year Cost (£)</em></em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 10,423</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 9,475</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>*</em><strong><em>Spend as at 31/01/2017</em></strong></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/03/2017 16:25:26 question first ministerially corrected 09/03/2017 14:52:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 39303 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

824730

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many contracts his Department holds with government strategic suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	123531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD)<ins class="ministerial"> holds contracts with eight Government strategic suppliers</ins> and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) hold six contracts <del class="ministerial">each</del> with Government strategic suppliers.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) holds three contracts with Government strategic suppliers.</p><p>HMCPSI holds two contracts with Government strategic suppliers; and the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) holds <del class="ministerial">one</del> contract<ins class="ministerial">s with three suppliers</ins>.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 01/02/2018 17:39:32 question first ministerially corrected 23/03/2018 14:34:08 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 38874 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett