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1702395

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Confucius Institutes: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many cases have been forwarded to the Prosecution Service concerning people who are based in Confucius Institutes in the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	22702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on whether defendants are based in or members of Confucius Institutes or indeed any other similar organisations.</p><p>It would not be possible to determine whether a defendant in any specific case was based in or associated with a Confucius Institute without an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 25/04/2024 09:57:34 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1700875

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff left his Department in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	21686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on leavers in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Law Officers’ Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, Government Legal Department, Serious Fraud Office, and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) for the financial year 2023/24 is expected to be published at the end of July 2024.</p><p>Data on leavers in the AGO and the Law Officers’ Departments for previous years is published by the Cabinet Office in data tables which accompany the annual Civil Service statistics bulletin. These can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">Civil Service statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 21690 21691 21692 21693 question first answered 22/04/2024 09:37:30 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1700879

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	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: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff left the Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	21690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on leavers in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Law Officers’ Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, Government Legal Department, Serious Fraud Office, and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) for the financial year 2023/24 is expected to be published at the end of July 2024.</p><p>Data on leavers in the AGO and the Law Officers’ Departments for previous years is published by the Cabinet Office in data tables which accompany the annual Civil Service statistics bulletin. These can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">Civil Service statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 21686 21691 21692 21693 question first answered 22/04/2024 09:37:30 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1700880

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Government Legal Department: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff left the Government Legal Department in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	21691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on leavers in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Law Officers’ Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, Government Legal Department, Serious Fraud Office, and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) for the financial year 2023/24 is expected to be published at the end of July 2024.</p><p>Data on leavers in the AGO and the Law Officers’ Departments for previous years is published by the Cabinet Office in data tables which accompany the annual Civil Service statistics bulletin. These can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">Civil Service statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 21686 21690 21692 21693 question first answered 22/04/2024 09:37:30 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1700881

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Serious Fraud Office: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff left the Serious Fraud Office in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	21692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on leavers in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Law Officers’ Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, Government Legal Department, Serious Fraud Office, and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) for the financial year 2023/24 is expected to be published at the end of July 2024.</p><p>Data on leavers in the AGO and the Law Officers’ Departments for previous years is published by the Cabinet Office in data tables which accompany the annual Civil Service statistics bulletin. These can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">Civil Service statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 21686 21690 21691 21693 question first answered 22/04/2024 09:37:30 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1700882

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff left HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	21693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on leavers in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Law Officers’ Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, Government Legal Department, Serious Fraud Office, and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) for the financial year 2023/24 is expected to be published at the end of July 2024.</p><p>Data on leavers in the AGO and the Law Officers’ Departments for previous years is published by the Cabinet Office in data tables which accompany the annual Civil Service statistics bulletin. These can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics" target="_blank">Civil Service statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 21686 21690 21691 21692 question first answered 22/04/2024 09:37:30 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1697880

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Zane Gbangbola
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, if she will apply to the High Court to order a new investigation into the death of Zane Gbangbola during flooding in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	19925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2024 answer text <p>The Surrey Senior Coroner has already carried out a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding Zane Gbangbola’s death, taking into account a considerable amount of evidence. The Coroner, as an independent judicial office holder, drew his own conclusions based on this evidence.</p><p><br> If there is a belief that the evidence was not considered properly during the original inquest, or that there is new evidence available, the correct process is for an application to be made to the Attorney General asking her to apply to the High Court to quash the inquest and order a fresh investigation. The High Court would take this course of action if it believed that it would be in the interests of justice.</p><p><br> If the Hon Member or the victim’s family would like to make such an application to the Attorney General, they are welcome to contact the Attorney General’s Office at correspondence@attorneygeneral.gov.uk for information and guidance on how to apply.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 02/04/2024 09:27:56 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1695241

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	International Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether she has agreed with Cabinet colleagues on the circumstances in which international law may supersede domestic legislation.
	tabling member constituency	Stone
	tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
	uin	18032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Law Officers’ Convention requires that it is not generally disclosed outside Government whether I have been asked to provide advice or the contents of any such advice. This is a longstanding principle of Cabinet collective agreement which enables the Government of the day to obtain frank and full legal advice in confidence.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 15/03/2024 11:43:40 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

1694996

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Domestic Visits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the destinations were of domestic overnight visits undertaken by Ministers within their Department in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Dame Nia Griffith
	uin	17846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my response to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-07/17533" target="_blank">UIN 17533</a> tabled on Wednesday 13 March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 14/03/2024 13:20:17 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1694531

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Legal Opinion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what guidance she has provided to Cabinet colleagues on when to publish (a) full and (b) summaries of legal advice.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	17531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Departments are responsible for procuring their own legal advice and may decide when and how to disclose that advice outside Government. However, advice provided by the Law Officers is subject to the Law Officers’ Convention and may not be disclosed outside Government without the Law Officers’ consent. This is a longstanding principle of Cabinet collective agreement.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 12/03/2024 10:38:37 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter