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1003680

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of contracts issued by his Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	189562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>Wherever possible the Attorney General’s Office and the Law Officers Departments (the Crown Prosecution Service, the Serious Fraud Office, The Government Legal Department and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) let contracts over £10,000 using call-off contracts from frameworks procured by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). These frameworks include provision for payments to sub-contractors within 30 days of receipt of undisputed invoice.</p><p>Central records are not held for procurements partially, or fully, managed outside the procurement service. To confirm that these contracts include provisions for prompt payment of sub-contractor invoices would require a manual check of all procurement records, which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/11/2018 14:12:04 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

691761

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the total (a) number and (b) value of Government contracts that have been contracted out by the Law Officers' Departments was in each year since 2010; what the value of pro bono costs was in each such year; and what estimate he has made of the number of work days contracted out in each such year.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	64388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>Contracted out is defined as <em>‘the transfer of the provision of services previously performed by in-house personnel to an external organisation under a contract with agreed costs and conditions’.</em></p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD ) and Attorney General’s Office (AGO)primarily provide legal services to government and while they use external suppliers, including law firms and barristers, to support this legal work, none would fall under the definition of contracted out and therefore no pro bono work has been received as part of such arrangements.</p><p>The (AGO), GLD and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) use third party suppliers to provide human resources, finance, information technology, facilities management and other accommodation services. Some elements of these services may have previously been provided in-house but there has been no significant contracting out of these services since 2010. There are no plans for significant contracting out in 2016-17.</p><p><strong>SFO</strong></p><p>The SFO’s procurement team oversees contract awards at the SFO and has records of 944 contracts awarded since 2010. Some low value contracts which are handled by individual teams may not be captured in these records. To provide a breakdown of the number awarded and cost per year would require data to be gathered manually and therefore incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Since 1 April 2015, details of SFO contracts over £10,000 have been published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a> .</p><p>The SFO does not undertake or commission pro bono work.</p><p>SFO contracts are not awarded or recorded on a working day basis, and it would incur disproportionate cost to review each contract in order to provide an estimate.</p><p>Crown Prosecution Service:</p><p>Since 2012 the Crown Prosecution Service has shared a purchasing service with the Government Legal Department. The department does not hold complete records of the information and to assemble the material would incur disproportionate cost. Estimates of the number and value of contracts completed by the Commercial team have been made as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year ended</p></td><td><p>No. Contracts</p></td><td><p>Estimated Value (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2013</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>16,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>32,004</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>27,083</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>8,964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>- 28 February 2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>13,085</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It has not been practical to estimate the value of pro bono costs or the number of work days contracted out in each year.</p><p>Since January 2011, central government departments have been required to publish details of contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive</a></p><p>Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 01/03/2017 16:41:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

693135

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	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, how many civil servants of the Law Officers' Departments oversee contracts which have been awarded to external providers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	64992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>It is not possible to be precise about the exact number of civil servants employed by the Law Officers' Departments who oversee contracts that have been awarded to external providers.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 06/03/2017 17:32:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

694187

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Senior Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of senior civil servants of the Law Officers' Departments are (a) men, (b) women, (c) disabled, (d) from working-class backgrounds and (e) from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	65549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The details below are in respect of members of the senior civil service in the Law Officer’s Departments that are (a) men, (b) women, (c) disabled, (d) from working-class backgrounds and (e) from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>GLD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CPS</strong> <strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Men</strong></p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>53.9%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>61.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Women</strong></p></td><td><p>75%</p></td><td><p>56.1%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td><td><p>38.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disabled*</strong></p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>9.2%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Working class background</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Information not held</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>BAME*</strong></p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>7.8%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>8.5%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Disability and BAME is declared by all staff on a voluntary basis and this data has been calculated using such declared information so these figures might not be wholly accurate.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/03/2017 09:48:16 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

708425

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of Civil Service positions in the Law Officers' Departments was vacant for a week or longer in each year since 2010; and what the average turnover rate for civil servants in the Law Officers' Departments has been in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	66683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) retains records on recruitment vacancies from 1 June 2014. From 1 June 2014, 100% of vacancies remained vacant for a period in excess of five working days.</p><p>The rest of the Law Officers’ Departments do not hold information about the number of positions that have been vacant for a week or longer. Such a situation arises frequently, for example, when an individual moves post and there is a gap of a week or more before his or her successor takes up post.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>GLD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CPS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2010 – 31/03/2011</p></td><td><p>47.23%</p></td><td><p>12.53%</p></td><td><p>13.00%</p></td><td><p>8.6%</p></td><td><p>11.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2011 – 31/03/2012</p></td><td><p>26.14%</p></td><td><p>13.11%</p></td><td><p>21.03%</p></td><td><p>9.775%</p></td><td><p>14.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2012 – 31/03/2013</p></td><td><p>27.88%</p></td><td><p>9.78%</p></td><td><p>20.03%</p></td><td><p>8.925%</p></td><td><p>18.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2013 – 31/03/2014</p></td><td><p>31.76%</p></td><td><p>13.48%</p></td><td><p>24.05%</p></td><td><p>12.3%</p></td><td><p>14.04%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2014 – 31/03/2015</p></td><td><p>42.45%</p></td><td><p>9.83%</p></td><td><p>22.16%</p></td><td><p>11.05%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2015 – 31/03/2016</p></td><td><p>42.22%</p></td><td><p>8.89%</p></td><td><p>12.04%</p></td><td><p>9.35%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*The majority of staff based at the Attorney General’s Office are on loan to the department for a period of two to three years and return to their home department at the end of their loan. This business model also operates in HMCPSI although to a lesser degree than AGO</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 20/03/2017 11:40:28 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

709263

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2017
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 64992, on Attorney General: procurement, how many civil servants of the Law Officers' Departments have contract management responsibility for external providers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	66990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>It is not possible to be precise about the exact number of civil servants who oversee contracts which have been awarded to external providers.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of the 330 lawyers GLD’s Litigation Group are engaged in managing contracts, for example instructing expert witnesses and counsel.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>12.5 (fte) CPS staff spend more than 50% of their time on commercial work - including 2.0 staff specifically engaged to provide the Government Legal Department purchasing advice.</p><p> </p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has a central procurement team of three individuals who oversee SFO procurement including managing high value contracts and advising staff on best practice.</p><p> </p><p>There will be other staff across the LODs that are responsible for overseeing contracts however central records are not currently maintained on each staff member involved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 13/03/2017 17:32:30 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

710898

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2017
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2017 to Question 66990, what the pay grades are of the (a) 330 lawyers from the GLD's litigation group, (b) 12.5 full-time equivalent Crown Prosecution Service staff and (c) three Serious Fraud Office staff employed.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	68004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>(a) Government Legal Department: The 330 lawyers in the Litigation Group are at Senior Civil Service, Grade 6 and Grade 7.</p><p>(b) Crown Prosecution Service: The grades of the 12.5 (FTE) members of commercial staff are shown in the below table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Civil Service Grade</p></td><td><p>CPS Commercial staff @ 31/01/2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AO</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AA</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(c) Serious Fraud Office: The three members of the procurement team are one Grade 6 (who also manages the Facilities Management Team), one Senior Executive Officer and one Higher Executive Officer.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 21/03/2017 13:41:59 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

714032

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Management Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2017 to Question 65676, how much of the procurement spending in each of those years related to the services of management consultants.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	69292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Expenditure on management consultants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AGO</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SFO</p></td><td><p>£1,382,460</p></td><td><p>£772,659</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS</p></td><td><p>£684,314</p></td><td><p>£13,347</p></td><td><p>£9,793</p></td><td><p>£960</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GLD</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMCPSI</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The CPS does not separately record expenditure on management consultancy and the amounts in the table above represent expenditure on all consultancy services and may include non-management consultancy services such as IT, legal, HR and project management.<strong><br></strong></p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 04/04/2017 11:18:03 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

715543

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people holding security passes for other Government Departments are granted access to the Law Officers' Departments' premises with that pass, by Department.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	70054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2017 answer text <p>Civil servants have to ability to work flexibly across government sites where there is a business need to do so. The issuing of all passes is controlled by the local security teams who follow strict procedures and protocols. Information on the number of people holding security passes for other government departments who are granted access to the different AGO premises is not centrally recorded.</p><p>At present the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) do not accept other Government Department passes to access the CPS Headquarters office.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 21/04/2017 11:17:12 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

715544

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many security passes giving access to the Law Officers' Departments' premises have been issued in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	70033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The number of security passes issued each year since 2010 for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Passes created</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>282</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>531</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5632</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1068</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The number of security passes issued each year since 2014 for the Government Legal Department (GLD), and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Passes Activated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1396</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>699</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2698</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Reliable figures are only available from 2014.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is currently a tenant of the Canadian High Commission (CHC) who are responsible for the administration of security passes allowing access to their premises. The CHC do not hold a reliable central record detailing the exact number of historical passes issued in each year since the SFO moved into the premises in 2012 and such information could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>The AGO has issued 11 passes since moving to new office premises in February 2017. Reliable information is not available for prior years when AGO was located at 20 Victoria Street, London.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 24/04/2017 11:09:21 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett