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date	30/01/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the procedure is for presenting a case to the Crown Prosecution Service independently of the police.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	62297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal prosecuting authority for England and Wales. The functions of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) as head of the CPS are set out in section 3 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.</p><p> </p><p>The DPP may instigate a prosecution in any case investigated by the police or any of the Government departments or other agencies specifically set out in section 3 and in the exercise of any power specifically assigned to her by the Attorney General. There is no power to prosecute offences which have been investigated by any person or body not listed in section 3 or in an assignment, with the exception that the DPP may also institute criminal proceedings in any case where it appears to her to be appropriate to do so, including cases of particular importance or difficulty.</p><p> </p><p>The use of this power is rare, and anyone approaching the CPS asking them to consider a case for prosecution under this section will usually be recommended to contact the police, as the CPS has no power to investigate a case.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, section 6 of the same Act preserves the right of any individual to commence a private prosecution although the DPP may also take over such proceedings where it is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 02/02/2017 18:03:42 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

638048

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the staff budget of the Crown Prosecution Service was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	53463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The staff budget of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in each year since 2010, is given below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Staff Budgets £’000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>737,667</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>372,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>361,278</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>347,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>313,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>291,472</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/11/2016 16:37:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

638051

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, in what proportion of cases the Crown Prosecution Service used (a) in-house lawyers and (b) independent barristers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	53467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cases are not prosecuted exclusively by in-house lawyers or independent barristers. Many cases are transferred between in-house and self-employed advocates. Therefore it is not possible to report on the proportion of cases prosecuted solely by one type of advocate or the other.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does record the proportion of work undertaken across the 13 CPS Areas in the Crown Court and High Court by in-house and self-employed advocates by value, in accordance with the prosecution fee schemes. Data for the last 6 years is contained in table 1.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>TABLE 1 - Proportion of the work undertaken in the Crown Court by in-house and self-employed advocates by value </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated in-house advocate costs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure on external advocates</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of in-house costs (%)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of external costs (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>20,020,236</p></td><td><p>134,194,870</p></td><td><p>13.0%</p></td><td><p>87.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>20,787,591</p></td><td><p>111,041,044</p></td><td><p>13.5%</p></td><td><p>84.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>20,286,293</p></td><td><p>110,608,524</p></td><td><p>13.2%</p></td><td><p>84.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>21,759,812</p></td><td><p>114,606,542</p></td><td><p>14.1%</p></td><td><p>84.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>15,932,453</p></td><td><p>118,557,077</p></td><td><p>10.3%</p></td><td><p>88.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>14,953,333</p></td><td><p>132,024,999</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td><td><p>89.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: CIS Crown Advocacy &amp; Finance modules</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the magistrates’ courts the CPS collects data on half-day court sessions conducted by in-house advocates (Associate Prosecutors, Crown Prosecutors and Senior Crown Prosecutors) and external advocates (Agents). Data for the last 6 years is contained in table 2.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>TABLE 2 – The number of half-day court sessions conducted by in-house and external advocates </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lawyer Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AP Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AP2 Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agent Sessions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Covered by Agents %</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>198,798</p></td><td><p>103,626</p></td><td><p>4,358</p></td><td><p>33,033</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>175,670</p></td><td><p>93,715</p></td><td><p>7,257</p></td><td><p>27,892</p></td><td><p>9.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>132,932</p></td><td><p>76,515</p></td><td><p>8,181</p></td><td><p>55,703</p></td><td><p>20.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>115,717</p></td><td><p>64,239</p></td><td><p>5,781</p></td><td><p>66,717</p></td><td><p>26.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>104,098</p></td><td><p>57,450</p></td><td><p>4,030</p></td><td><p>63,295</p></td><td><p>27.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>101,156</p></td><td><p>51,914</p></td><td><p>3,368</p></td><td><p>65,675</p></td><td><p>29.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: CIS Manpower module</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/11/2016 16:38:13 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds