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1491473

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much her Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	41946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Agency workers are subject to a Cabinet Office controls <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contingent-labour-spend-control" target="_blank">framework</a> to ensure robust governance of spending in this area. Commentary on Contingent Labour usage, if applicable, is available in departmental <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts-for-central-government-departments" target="_blank">annual reports.</a></p><p> </p><p>The Attorney General’s Office does not pay agency retainer fees and the annual spend on agency workers, since 2020, is set out below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£27,841.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£78,790.99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23 (P1-3)</p></td><td><p>£12,663.46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£119,295.62</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:39:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1491641

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Unaoil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the meeting between her predecessor and Mr David Tinsley referred to in chapter 10, paragraph 5(h)-(i) of Sir David Calvert Smith's report into the Serious Fraud Office’s handling of the Unaoil Case, if she will set out (a) when, (b) where, (c) for what purpose that meeting took place and (d) whether it was declared in her Department's transparency publications for ministerial meetings or hospitality.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	41958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The then Attorney General (the Rt Hon member for Torridge and West Devon), met David Tinsley for 20 minutes in the waiting room of his barristers’ chambers on 18 October 2018, after an acquaintance requested that he meet informally with an unnamed contact with links to the US government about a matter affecting the public interest.</p><p> </p><p>It transpired that Mr Tinsley wished to draw the then Attorney General’s attention to the value of his services and those of his company in facilitating a better working relationship between the English investigation and prosecution authorities and US authorities. The then Attorney General brought the meeting to an end, pointing out that he did not have responsibility for the issues Mr Tinsley had raised.</p><p> </p><p>Neither the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into Unaoil, Mr Tinsley’s involvement in it, nor the defendants in that case or any other case, were raised in the meeting or discussed. The then Attorney General took no action in connection with the meeting and had no further contact with Mr Tinsley.</p><p> </p><p>The meeting was not declared in the transparency returns for the Attorney General’s Office as the then Attorney General did not meet Mr Tinsley in his ministerial capacity.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 06/09/2022 09:13:43 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1491112

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much her Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>For the last five years, The Attorney General’s Office has had a nil spend for external consultants*</p><p> </p><p>Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcontracts-finder&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cemmy.clarkson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C332dd3e59a5f4b1b1e5308da6b104a3e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637940014946084226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EHT%2Bj9EH86g04c73Xn7YYL0Qyi3Lc4Dm8J%2F8B8YuCNE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.</p><p> </p><p>* <em>Whilst preparing this response the department have not considered the use of specialist counsel or short-term contractor contracts as consultancy.</em></p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:32:37 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491117

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Serious Fraud Office: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Serious Fraud Office has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The spend on externally contracted consultancy services for the Serious Fraud Office in each of the last five years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> 2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£95,000</p></td><td><p>£42,000</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcontracts-finder&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cemmy.clarkson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C332dd3e59a5f4b1b1e5308da6b104a3e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637940014946084226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EHT%2Bj9EH86g04c73Xn7YYL0Qyi3Lc4Dm8J%2F8B8YuCNE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used.</p><p> </p><p>Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:29:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491119

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>For the last five years, HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate has had a nil spend for external consultants.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:17:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1490548

registered interest
date	19/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	War Crimes: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department is providing support to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in prosecuting war crimes.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	39789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government is appalled by the atrocities being committed in Ukraine by Russian forces, including the targeting of civilians, mass graves, and rape and sexual violence being used as weapons of war. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukraine, at the forefront of international efforts to ensure there is no impunity. The Attorney General personally had a long and very fruitful dialogue with the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, having signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with her to underline UK support for her Office’s work investigating and prosecuting crimes committed in the course of the conflict. The Attorney General visited the former Prosecutor General in Ukraine and hosted her for a two-day visit in London at the end of May. We look forward to continuing working closely with the Prosecutor General’s Office. Importantly, the Attorney General appointed Sir Howard Morrison QC, one of the UK’s leading war crimes lawyers, to support the Prosecutor General directly on Ukraine’s domestic investigations. The Attorney General also convened a meeting of the Quintet of Attorneys General from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with Prosecutor General Venediktova. Following this meeting, we published a joint statement which makes clear our countries’ support for Ukraine’s domestics war crimes investigations and prosecutions, and our commitment to work together with the Prosecutor General and Office of the Prosecutor General to ensure every perpetrator faces justice. The preservation and collection of evidence is vital. The UK, together with the United States and EU, has launched the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) to directly support the War Crimes Units of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in its investigation and prosecution of conflict-related crimes. The ACA seeks to streamline coordination and communication efforts to ensure best practices, avoid duplication of efforts, and encourage the expeditious deployment of financial resources and skilled personnel to respond to the needs of the Office of the Prosecutor General as the legally constituted authority in Ukraine responsible for dealing with the prosecution of war crimes on its own territory. This shows the Government’s clear commitment to supporting Ukraine in its investigations. We will continue to work with Ukraine, partners and international mechanisms in their investigations and to collect and preserve evidence of war crimes in Ukraine. Those responsible will be held to account.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 26/07/2022 12:01:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1489950

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department’s legal position in respect of challenges to the UK-Rwanda Migration Partnership in the courts is that the partnership agreement is compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p><p> </p><p>As you are aware, litigation is ongoing. It is the Government’s position that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership is fully compatible with all of our domestic and international legal obligations including ECHR rights.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2022 08:16:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490240

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	VAT: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the review of EU retained law, what discussions she has had with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and her officials on the legal risk of (a) applying sunset clauses to and (b) attempting to codify the existing applications of VAT rules in the UK derived from EU case law concerning the (i) definition of business and (ii) abuse principle.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38563 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:20:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490241

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	VAT: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Government's review of EU retained law, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the legal risk of (a) applying sunset clauses to and (b) attempting to codify the existing applications of VAT rules in the UK derived from EU case law concerning the (i) definition of business and (ii) abuse principle.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38562 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:20:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490271

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Belfast Agreement: European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if she make assessment of the potential effect of the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights on the operation of the Good Friday Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38568 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:43:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry