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1656720

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Federalist Society
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the transparency data entitled AGO transparency data - January to March 2023, published on 21 July 2023, whether any matters related to the work of her Department were discussed during the hospitality she received from the Federalist Society on 9 February 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	196464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Neil M. Gorsuch spoke at a lunch hosted by the Federalist Society on his role as a Supreme Court Justice. The Attorney attended, she did not speak at the lunch or discuss her role in detail.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 11/09/2023 16:54:42 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1655980

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	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, if they will take steps to visit Solihull constituency in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Attorney General and I inform Members of Parliament ahead of time when we are visiting their constituencies.</p><p>We are unable to confirm or disclose details of planned Ministerial visits too far in advance for security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 08:57:15 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657025

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps they are taking to reduce backlogs of Member correspondence in their office.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published the data on the timeliness of responses to correspondence from Members for 2022 for all government departments on GOV.UK in March 2023. The data for Q1 and Q2 2023 will be published shortly. The 2022 data can be found here:<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers-2022</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have a backlog of Member correspondence, and the AGO consistently ranks among the best in terms of response timeliness across all central government departments. Nonetheless, the AGO continually monitor and look for ways to improve our performance in relation to correspondence handling.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 16:48:36 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657050

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what data their Department holds on the average response time to enquiries by Members; and what assessment they have made of the adequacy of that response time.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office published the data on the timeliness of responses to correspondence from Members for 2022 for all government departments on GOV.UK in March 2023. The data for Q1 and Q2 2023 will be published shortly. The 2022 data can be found here:<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers-2022</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have a backlog of Member correspondence, and the AGO consistently ranks among the best in terms of response timeliness across all central government departments. Nonetheless, the AGO continually monitor and look for ways to improve our performance in relation to correspondence handling.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 16:48:04 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657069

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps their Department is taking to improve response times to written parliamentary questions.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Every effort must be made to reply to written parliamentary questions within the original deadline. However, if the matters raised in the question require substantial investigation, it might not be possible to provide a substantive reply to a case within the departmental deadline.</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office ensures that strict internal deadlines are in place and training sessions on written parliamentary questions are carried out.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 08:52:08 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657089

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what data their Department holds on the average response time to written parliamentary questions in the last six months; and what assessment they have made of the adequacy of that response time.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Departmental performance on written parliamentary questions is published at the end of each session by the Procedure Committee and is therefore publicly available. You can find details of the last session's PQ performance here:</p><p>https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html</p><p>This year’s data will be published by the Procedure Committee when the session concludes.</p><p>Every effort must be made to reply to written parliamentary questions within the original deadline. However, if the matters raised in the question require substantial investigation, it might not be possible to provide a substantive reply to a case within the departmental deadline.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 08:55:25 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657112

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps his Department is taking to (a) enhance cybersecurity and (b) protect personal data.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Being cyber secure and protecting personal data underpins everything we do in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO). In accordance with the Government Cyber Security Strategy, we are working to ensure that our critical functions will be significantly hardened to cyber-attack by<br>2025, with all government organisations across the whole public sector being resilient to known vulnerabilities and attack methods no later than 2030.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service provide digital services to the Attorney General’s Office which includes responsibility for AGO cybersecurity and protecting personal data.</p><p>The AGO does not have an external public facing internet site other than gov.uk and Cabinet Office manage digital development.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 08:48:40 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657134

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps their Department is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Official national statistics on Freedom of Information (FOI) request performance for all central government departments and other monitored bodies can be found on www.gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</p><p>The statistics cover calendar rather than financial years. In 2022, 97% of FOI requests received by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) were responded to or extended appropriately within the 20 working day statutory deadline.</p><p>The AGO consistently ranks among the best in terms of response timeliness to FOI requests across all central government departments. Nevertheless, the AGO continually monitor and look for ways to improve performance in relation to FOI request handling.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 16:32:27 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657155

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the average time taken by his Department to respond to freedom of information requests in the 2022-23 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Official national statistics on Freedom of Information (FOI) request performance for all central government departments and other monitored bodies can be found on www.gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</p><p>The statistics cover calendar rather than financial years. In 2022, 97% of FOI requests received by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) were responded to or extended appropriately within the 20 working day statutory deadline.</p><p>The AGO consistently ranks among the best in terms of response timeliness to FOI requests across all central government departments. Nevertheless, the AGO continually monitor and look for ways to improve performance in relation to FOI request handling.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 16:31:43 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657179

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps their Department is taking to improve its digital services to provide better (a) accessibility and (b) user experience for the public.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) provide digital services to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), which includes our internal intranet.</p><p>The AGO does not have an external public facing internet site other than the page on gov.uk and Cabinet Office manage the digital development.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2023 08:46:05 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight