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349628

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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 full-time equivalent staff who are qualified (a) barristers and (b) solicitors were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2010 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
	uin	1930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent staff who are qualified (a) barristers and (b) solicitors who were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2010 to 2015 is shown in the table below</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Barristers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Solicitors</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>740.3</p></td><td><p>2085.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>741.3</p></td><td><p>1845.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>646.8</p></td><td><p>1705.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>612.2</p></td><td><p>1617.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>627.7</p></td><td><p>1627.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes: </strong>Data extracted from the CPS HR Database iTrent as at the 31<sup>st</sup> March in each year Data may be subject to change due to retrospective changes in the HR database Data may differ from previously published data due to differing specifications</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/06/2015 09:26:44 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

349629

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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 full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the years from 2010 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
	uin	1931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent people employed on the Crown Prosecution Service’s staff in each of the years from 2010 to 2015 is shown below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FTE Staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>8,094</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>7,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>7,046</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>6,611</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>6,135</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/06/2015 09:30:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

349631

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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, what proportion of the budget of the Crown Prosecution Service was spent on (a) premises, (b) administration, (c) staff, (d) external suppliers, other than external Counsel, (e) external Counsel and (f) other costs in each of the years 2010 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
	uin	2030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The proportion of the budget that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spent on (a) premises, (b) administration, (c) staff, (d) external suppliers other than external Counsel, (e) external Counsel and (f) other costs in each of the years 2010 to 2015 is given below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Premises</strong></p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Administration</strong></p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Staff</strong></p></td><td><p>53%</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>External suppliers</strong></p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Counsel</strong></p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other</strong></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Note: </strong>The figures for the years 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 do not sum to 100% because in each of these years the CPS reported a small underspend against its budget.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/06/2015 09:25:33 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

421294

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	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 wasted cost orders were made (a) in favour and (b) against the Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 2010-11; and for what reasons such wasted cost orders were made against the Crown Prosecution Service.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	11885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Servicedoes not maintain a central record of the number of wasted cost orders made in favour of, or against, the prosecution. To obtain this information would require a manual file examination incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 15:56:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

638048

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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, what the staff budget of the Crown Prosecution Service was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	53463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The staff budget of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in each year since 2010, is given below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Staff Budgets £’000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>737,667</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>372,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>361,278</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>347,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>313,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>291,472</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/11/2016 16:37:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

638051

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	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, in what proportion of cases the Crown Prosecution Service used (a) in-house lawyers and (b) independent barristers in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	53467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cases are not prosecuted exclusively by in-house lawyers or independent barristers. Many cases are transferred between in-house and self-employed advocates. Therefore it is not possible to report on the proportion of cases prosecuted solely by one type of advocate or the other.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does record the proportion of work undertaken across the 13 CPS Areas in the Crown Court and High Court by in-house and self-employed advocates by value, in accordance with the prosecution fee schemes. Data for the last 6 years is contained in table 1.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>TABLE 1 - Proportion of the work undertaken in the Crown Court by in-house and self-employed advocates by value </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated in-house advocate costs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure on external advocates</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of in-house costs (%)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of external costs (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>20,020,236</p></td><td><p>134,194,870</p></td><td><p>13.0%</p></td><td><p>87.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>20,787,591</p></td><td><p>111,041,044</p></td><td><p>13.5%</p></td><td><p>84.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>20,286,293</p></td><td><p>110,608,524</p></td><td><p>13.2%</p></td><td><p>84.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>21,759,812</p></td><td><p>114,606,542</p></td><td><p>14.1%</p></td><td><p>84.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>15,932,453</p></td><td><p>118,557,077</p></td><td><p>10.3%</p></td><td><p>88.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>14,953,333</p></td><td><p>132,024,999</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td><td><p>89.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: CIS Crown Advocacy &amp; Finance modules</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the magistrates’ courts the CPS collects data on half-day court sessions conducted by in-house advocates (Associate Prosecutors, Crown Prosecutors and Senior Crown Prosecutors) and external advocates (Agents). Data for the last 6 years is contained in table 2.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>TABLE 2 – The number of half-day court sessions conducted by in-house and external advocates </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lawyer Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AP Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AP2 Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agent Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Covered by Agents %</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>198,798</p></td><td><p>103,626</p></td><td><p>4,358</p></td><td><p>33,033</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>175,670</p></td><td><p>93,715</p></td><td><p>7,257</p></td><td><p>27,892</p></td><td><p>9.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>132,932</p></td><td><p>76,515</p></td><td><p>8,181</p></td><td><p>55,703</p></td><td><p>20.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>115,717</p></td><td><p>64,239</p></td><td><p>5,781</p></td><td><p>66,717</p></td><td><p>26.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>104,098</p></td><td><p>57,450</p></td><td><p>4,030</p></td><td><p>63,295</p></td><td><p>27.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>101,156</p></td><td><p>51,914</p></td><td><p>3,368</p></td><td><p>65,675</p></td><td><p>29.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: CIS Manpower module</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/11/2016 16:38:13 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

681287

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2017
	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, what the procedure is for presenting a case to the Crown Prosecution Service independently of the police.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	62297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal prosecuting authority for England and Wales. The functions of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) as head of the CPS are set out in section 3 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.</p><p> </p><p>The DPP may instigate a prosecution in any case investigated by the police or any of the Government departments or other agencies specifically set out in section 3 and in the exercise of any power specifically assigned to her by the Attorney General. There is no power to prosecute offences which have been investigated by any person or body not listed in section 3 or in an assignment, with the exception that the DPP may also institute criminal proceedings in any case where it appears to her to be appropriate to do so, including cases of particular importance or difficulty.</p><p> </p><p>The use of this power is rare, and anyone approaching the CPS asking them to consider a case for prosecution under this section will usually be recommended to contact the police, as the CPS has no power to investigate a case.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, section 6 of the same Act preserves the right of any individual to commence a private prosecution although the DPP may also take over such proceedings where it is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 02/02/2017 18:03:42 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce