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435752

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Secretaries of State for Defence and International Development on ensuring that full and proper account is taken of the importance of international humanitarian law in areas of potential conflict and war.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	19036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>I meet regularlywith Ministerial colleagues to discuss important issues of common interest, including on international humanitarian law. I am not able to talk about any legal content of those discussions because, by convention, whether the Law Officers have given advice or not is not disclosed outside Government. All legal advice provided by the Law Officers is confidential and subject to legal professional privilege.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/12/2015 13:02:56 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

432469

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Military Intervention: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the information provided to Parliament on the legal basis for supporting coalition air strikes in Syria.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	902357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the oral answer I gave to the Hon Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Alan Brown) earlier today.</p><br /> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 26/11/2015 11:38:54 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

426979

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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 steps his Department has taken to embed the family test into its policy making.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	15371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. DWP published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and whenever appropriate the Law Officers’ Departments would follow that guidance.</p><br /> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 16/11/2015 15:49:14 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

426980

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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 steps his Department is taking to implement the family test; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
tabling member printed	Caroline Ansell
uin	15400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. DWP published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and whenever appropriate the Law Officers’ Departments would follow that guidance.</p><br /> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 16/11/2015 15:50:10 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4512 label Biography information for Caroline Ansell

426981

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what estimate he has made of the total expenditure on (a) in-house advocates and (b) external advocates in (i) magistrates' courts and (ii) the Crown court in each year since 2010-11; and what the average saving to the Crown Prosecution Service was from using in-house advocates in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	15558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) estimate of costs of in-house advocates conducting magistrates’ courts advocacy and actual expenditure on agents in magistrates’ courts for each of the last five years is contained in table 1.</p><br /><p>The CPS estimate of costs of in-house advocates conducting Crown Court advocacy and actual expenditure on external advocates in relation to Crown Court (and Higher Court) advocacy for each of the last five years is contained in table 2.</p><br /><p>CPS estimate of savings generated by deploying in-house advocates in the Crown Court for each of the last five years is contained in table 3.</p><br /><p>Data is not available on average or cumulative savings generated by using in-house advocates in magistrates’ courts. However, the comparative costs of Associate Prosecutors, Crown Prosecutors and agents for conducting a half-day session for each of the last five years are contained in table 4.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TABLE 1</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Estimated costs of CPS Magistrates’ Courts advocacy</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>Associate Prosecutor </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crown Prosecutor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agent Expenditure</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>12,164,068</p></td><td><p>29,655,623</p></td><td><p>4,098,666</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>11,581,064</p></td><td><p>26,877,107</p></td><td><p>3,490,891</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>9,931,437</p></td><td><p>20,121,006</p></td><td><p>7,286,085</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>8,159,307</p></td><td><p>17,867,614</p></td><td><p>7,666,157</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>7,182,378</p></td><td><p>16,812,230</p></td><td><p>7,318,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>1) Estimated costs of Crown Prosecutor sessions, include Senior Crown Prosecutor</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>2) Estimated in-house costs on three hours activity per half-day session at full-cost rates</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>3) Agent expenditure is actual expenditure, including VAT</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>4) Expenditure data source: CPS accounting system</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>5) Prosecutor cost data source: Sessions = CIS; Cost = Finance Directorate 6) The figures above are not inflation adjusted</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TABLE 2</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Estimated costs of CPS Crown Court advocacy</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated in-house advocate costs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure on external advocates</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>20,020,236</p></td><td><p>134,194,869</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>20,787,591</p></td><td><p>111,041,044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>20,286,293</p></td><td><p>110,608,524</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>21,759,812</p></td><td><p>114,606,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>15,932,453</p></td><td><p>118,522,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>1) External advocate costs include VAT</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>2) Expenditure on external advocates will include some advocacy in Higher Courts.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>3) Expenditure on external advocates includes central Casework Divisions</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>4) In-house advocacy cost data source: CPS Corporate Information System</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>5) Expenditure data source: CPS accounting system</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>6) The figures above are not inflation adjusted</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>TABLE 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CPS estimated savings in external advocate fees by deploying in-house advocates in the Crown Court</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>11,808,667</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>12,375,099</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>10,321,942</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>7,130,080</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>9,672,863</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>1) Savings based on estimate of counsel fees saved minus full cost of deploying in-house advocate</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2) Savings data source: CPS Corporate Information System <br> 3) The figures above are not inflation adjusted</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>TABLE 4</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>CPS estimated cost of conducting half-day magistrates' courts session</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£</p></td><td><p><strong>Associate Prosecutor </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crown Prosecutor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agent </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>153</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>1) In-house costs estimated, based on 3 hours activity, at full-cost rates</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2) Crown Prosecutor session costs includes Senior Crown Prosecutor</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>3) Agent half-day session rate includes VAT at 20%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>4) Data source for staff costs: Finance Directorate 5) The figures above are not inflation adjusted</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 19/11/2015 13:16:55 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

426985

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what estimate he has made of the amount of expected underspend for his office against departmental expenditure limits in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	15536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Departmental Expenditure Limit for HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor includes the Government Legal Department (GLD), the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI). The estimated underspend against the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit is £2.69m. Total expenditure is estimated to be £190m.</p><p>GLD sets its fees and fee rates at the beginning of the year with the aim of achieving full cost recovery and in line with HM Treasury guidance <em>Managing Public Money</em>. In setting the fees and fee rate judgements about volumes of work, the impact of inflation, and cost are made and as a result it is normal for there to be a variance.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 16/11/2015 15:47:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

426986

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Trials: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2015 to Question 11888, for what reason the (a) prosecution cost per defendant and (b) overall spend per completed case has increased since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	15538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The increase in (a) average prosecution cost per defendant and (b) overall spend per completed case reflects the significant change in the caseload mix since 2010-11.</p><p>For example, the prosecution of low level traffic offences has been transferred to the police since 2010-11, leading to a fall of 61.1% in motoring cases. A rising proportion of the CPS workload is now geared towards larger and more complex cases, including non-recent sexual abuse cases.</p><p>The average costs are also unadjusted for inflation. If average costs for each prior year were all restated in terms of 2014-15 prices, then they would all be increased accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 16/11/2015 15:42:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

425595

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	National Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2015 to Question 10237, when he expects to publish proposals for the future of the National Debt Fund.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Hurd
uin	14565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to my Answer of 17 September 2015. Work is on-going on the possible application to the court for directions on the future of the National Fund, consistent with its object of extinguishing or reducing the national debt. I am also continuing to consider other options. I will update my Hon. Friend as soon as I can.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/11/2015 12:18:01 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd

424458

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many civil servants in the Law Officers' Departments are members of trades unions; how much working hours facility time is claimed by each such civil servant; and what the cost of that facility time is to the Law Officers' Departments.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
uin	13895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Law Officers Departments do not hold complete records of the number of staff who are enrolled in a trade union as there is no obligation placed on a trade union to disclose this information to employers.</p><br /><p>Records are however maintained on the amount of facility time claimed during the financial year 2014/15 and the cost involved, as detailed below.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Law Officers’ Departments – Trade Union facility time and costs in 2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Facility time (hours) <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Legal Department<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2,206.2</p></td><td><p>£46,302</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Fraud Office</p></td><td><p>129.6</p></td><td><p>£4,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>14,267</p></td><td><p>£351,929</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1</sup> <em>The GLD data also covers the Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.</em></p><p><sup>2 </sup><em>Only nominated trade union representatives are granted facility time.</em></p><br /><p>The Cabinet Office publishes data relating to Civil Service facility time on a quarterly basis. The latest data is Quarter 4, 2014 at and is available at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time</a> .</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/11/2015 10:21:29 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

424189

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Volkswagen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether the Serious Fraud Office is undertaking an investigation into defeat devices used by Volkswagen in emissions tests.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	13688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text As and when matters are brought to the attention of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) they are assessed in the context of the SFO's remit to investigate fraud, bribery and corruption. If appropriate, relevant matters will be considered for criminal investigation in line with SFO internal procedures. The SFO does not comment on its assessments or their status at any one time but does publish on its website details of those cases formally adopted for criminal investigation, when this is possible without prejudice to the investigation. answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 30/10/2015 14:51:18 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh