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438072

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Courts: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse has been since December 2014 of the Government defending cases which have been appealed to the European Court of Justice following a ruling in the Royal Courts or the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	20112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>Cases are not appealed to the Court of Justice of the European Union from UK courts but they can ask for preliminary rulings on a point of European law from the Court of Justice of the European Union.</p><p>The amount of disbursements paid by the Government for Counsel’s fees and for travel and accommodation costs for hearings in requests for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union from United Kingdom Courts since December 2014 was £33,288.42.</p><p>This includes requests for preliminary rulings made by UK Tribunals, but not other legal proceedings in the CJEU in which the UK Courts and Tribunals have played no part. It does not include disbursements incurred but not yet paid, the cost of government lawyers and other staff involved in these cases within the Government, or costs incurred in relation to the domestic aspects of the proceedings, which are not centrally recorded.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/12/2015 10:35:45 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

438152

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2015 to Question 15443, for what reason the (a) Government Legal Department's expenditure on temporary agency staff and (b) Crown Prosecution Service's expenditure on (i) consultants and (ii) non-payroll staff increased between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	20018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) provides legal services to government. It engages temporary and contract staff as a way of managing short term variations in demand. Where an increase in demand for legal services is expected to continue for the medium or long term, the department will use temporary staff to resource the work until permanent staff can be recruited. The increase in temporary staff from 2010-11 to 2014-15 reflects increased demand for legal services and the growth of GLD as a result of the Shared Legal Services programme that has brought into one organisation legal teams from across government. As a result overall staff numbers have increased by 69% between 2010-11 and 2014-15.</p><p>As outlined in the previous answer the actual expenditure incurred by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on consultants and non-payroll staff between 2010-11 and 2014-15 was as follows.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultants</p></td><td><p>Non-payroll staff</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£684,314</p></td><td><p>£392,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£13,347</p></td><td><p>£23,355</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£9,793</p></td><td><p>£2,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£960</p></td><td><p>£273,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£1,350,317</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between 2010-11 and 2014-15 the CPS has actually reduced its expenditure on consultants by £684,314.</p><p>In 2014-15 the CPS set up a project to manage the transition from its existing main Information Technology service provider. The Project Manager and remaining team are non-CPS staff, and their costs of £1,350,317 were the only non-payroll staff costs incurred last year.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 04/01/2016 16:51:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

437057

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many alleged human traffickers have been prosecuted by the CPS as a result of calls made to the NSPCC human trafficking and modern slavery helpline between July 2014 and June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	19543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>In the last financial year the CPS successfully prosecuted 130 human trafficking cases. However, the CPS does not record how an allegation of human trafficking or modern slavery was brought to the attention of the investigative authorities.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 15/12/2015 13:01:57 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

433716

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Evidence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what factors the Crown Prosecution Service takes into account when assessing the reliability of evidence which is more than 30 years old.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	18455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>Evidence is assessed in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors in arriving at a decision whether to prosecute a case. A prosecutor will look at whether the evidence is admissible in court, its importance in relation to the evidence as a whole, its reliability, accuracy, integrity and credibility. It is the duty of prosecutors to make sure that the right person is prosecuted for the right offence and to bring offenders to justice wherever possible. In doing so a prosecutor must be satisfied that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/12/2015 12:17:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

433717

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2015 to Question 16871, what the budget allocated to the Specialist Fraud Division was in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	18484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The budget allocated to the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years was:</p><br /><p>2009/10 - £7.3m</p><p>2010/11 - £23.4m</p><p>2011/12 - £22.1m</p><p>2012/13 - £26.8m</p><p>2013/14 - £25.6m</p><p>2014/15 - £23.6m</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/12/2015 15:35:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

433718

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2015 to Question 16871, how many full-time equivalent staff worked in the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	18485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff that have worked in the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years is shown below.</p><br /><p>March 2010 - 142 FTE</p><p>March 2011 - 134 FTE</p><p>March 2012 - 138 FTE</p><p>March 2013 - 258 FTE</p><p>March 2014 - 233 FTE</p><p>March 2015 - 230 FTE</p><br /><p>Note: The figures presented above reflect staff in post on 31 March of each year.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/12/2015 15:37:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

433719

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions a special adviser in the Law Officers' Departments accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	18494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>None. The Attorney General's Office does not employ any special advisers.</p><br /> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/12/2015 10:38:22 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

433418

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of prosecutions involved more than one perpetrator in the latest year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	18371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions involving more than one defendant. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/12/2015 15:28:10 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

432600

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much of the Law Officers' Departments funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Nicola Blackwood
uin	17757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>Spending Review 2015 set out settlements for departments and showed how the government will deliver on its priorities, eliminate the deficit, and deliver security and opportunity for working people.</p><p>Final decisions on internal departmental funding allocations for future years, including for research and development, have not yet been made.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 03/12/2015 11:11:25 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

432601

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what training the Law Officers' Departments have provided to staff on the family test; what other steps he has taken to raise awareness of the family test among staff of the Law Officers' Departments; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Caroline Ansell
uin	17921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department provides training to all lawyers within the Government Legal Service, Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, and hosted a training session on the legal implications of The Family Test in May 2015. While training places were prioritised for lawyers advising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), all government lawyers were eligible to apply.</p><p>In addition, the training committee within the DWP legal advisers will consider the inclusion of further training on The Family Test in response to any further needs identified.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office and Crown Prosecution Service are not directly involved in frontline policy development and whilst they are aware of the published DWP guidance on applying the test, no specific training has been deemed necessary at this stage. However, they would of course apply the test should the need arise.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 03/12/2015 11:06:43 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4512 label Biography information for Caroline Ansell