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935256

registered interest
date	06/07/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Newcastle upon Tyne
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the oral contribution of the Solicitor General of 21 June 2018, Official Report, column 462, when he plans to respond to the Spicer report on the sexual exploitation of girls and young women in Newcastle.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	161552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>David Spicer’s comprehensive review sheds light on abhorrent child sexual exploitation and I have not taken this matter lightly. The Home Office will be writing to you on behalf of the Government shortly.</p><p> </p><p>I would like to reassure you that the CPS, along with the wider Government, is committed to improving the national response to tackling sexual exploitation. The CPS will be considering its guidance on the involvement of the Service with the changing local safeguarding arrangements in line with the broader recommendations. Specifically, CPS North East is working closely with Newcastle Crown Court and other partners within the Criminal Justice System to improve the experience of victims and witnesses when attending court and to ensure that the commitments to witness care set out in the Victim’s Code and the Witness Charter are properly delivered.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government has already taken significant action to tackle this issue. In February 2017, the Government published its Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Progress Report and announced a £40m package of measures to protect children and young people from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking, and to crack down on offenders. This included £7.5m for a new, ground-breaking Centre of Expertise that will identify, generate, and share high quality evidence of what works to prevent and tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation. The recommendations of the review cover a wide range of issues, which we will consider carefully in the context of this existing programme of work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 13:49:12 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 70407 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

935325

registered interest
date	06/07/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Public Legal Education Panel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work of the Public Legal Evaluation Panel to date.
tabling member constituency	Keighley
tabling member printed	John Grogan
uin	161517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As the Government’s pro bono champion, I am able to work closely with those involved in Public Legal Education, supporting initiatives to increase its profile and reach more members of the public.</p><p> </p><p>The Public Legal Education panel is formed of leading organisations who promote the importance of teaching people about the law and their basic civil and criminal rights. It features members from across the legal community, for example the Law for Life, Citizens Advice and the Bar Council.</p><p> </p><p>The Panel are currently combining their resources to map the provision and need of Public Legal Education around the county and to support and drive forward public legal education initiatives so more people can reap the benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 13:52:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 70406 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	382 label Biography information for John Grogan

928754

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Legal Profession: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how he plans to encourage practising lawyers to volunteer pro bono hours for Citizens Advice Bureaux in their local communities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	156426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As the Government's pro bono champions, the Attorney and I chair the pro bono panel and committee to bring together key players to steer and coordinate the overall work in this area. The panel and committee feature members from across the legal community, including Citizens Advice.</p><p>Each year the Attorney and I take part in National Pro Bono week. We attend and support pro bono events across the country, to encourage the excellent work being done by the pro bono community. This year Global Pro Bono Week is taking place 29<sup>th</sup> October – 2<sup>nd</sup> November, and will involve many organisations across the legal community including members of our pro bono panel and committee like Citizens Advice.</p><p>In the past year over 1,000 lawyers provided pro bono help through local Citizens Advice offices and I will continue to encourage more lawyers to do this.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 13:52:11 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 68157 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

890333

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many of his Department's invitations to tender have received no bidders in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	137435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD), Attorney General Office (AGO) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HM CPSI) engage a centrally managed procurement service in procurements of more than £10,000. For 2016-17 and 2017-18, an examination of records held by the centrally managed procurement service indicated that there were no instances of an invitation to tender where bids were not received.</p><p>Similarly, during the financial years 2016-17 and 2017-18 no invitations to tender by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) or the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) exceeding OJEU thresholds received no bidders.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/05/2018 13:24:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 56730 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

882546

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what his Department's implementation plan is for banning the box on job applications.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2018 answer text <p>The application process for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Government Legal Department (GLD), Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and HMCPSI does not include a declaration box for candidates to declare a criminal record.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/05/2018 08:57:45 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 55028 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

873531

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2018 to Question 123531, on Attorney General: Procurement, if he will list (a) the suppliers of and (b) the purpose of the (i) the Government Legal Department's contracts with the eight strategic suppliers (ii) the CPS's six contracts with strategic suppliers, (iii) the Serious Fraud Office's three contracts with strategic suppliers and (iv) Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate's contracts with which two strategic suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	134646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2018 to Question 123531, the table below summarises the purpose of the six contracts between the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and government strategic suppliers.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose of contract </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>Supply of interim and temporary staff let via a pan government framework.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CGI</p></td><td><p>(1) ICT Applications, Hosting and Management let via a pan government framework. (2) Managed payroll services let via a pan government framework. (3) Oracle finance system managed service let via a pan government framework. (4) Fully managed ICT services including; applications, hosting and management, system integration and management, service desk and end user computing.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>National contract let via the Cabinet Office G-Cloud framework for managed video conferencing services.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In addition, the CPS has no major contracts but multiple agreements with the following government strategic suppliers:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>BT –for land line phones, alarm systems and business broadband lines.</p></li><li><p>Microsoft - for MS office products, server and networking applications and other software products.</p></li><li><p>Oracle - for server and networking applications and other software products.</p></li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below summarises the purpose of the contracts between the Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) and government strategic suppliers. It is the policy to engage with suppliers using central government frameworks and call off arrangements.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>GLD – purpose of contract</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMCPSI - purpose of contract</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT plc</p></td><td><p>Provision of phone services for business continuity (disaster recovery).</p></td><td><p>Provision of mobile connectivity services and video conferencing at the York office</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cap Gemini</p></td><td><p>Provision of a supplier invoice receipt and scanning service; provision of a cloud-based invoice approval and electronic document management system; and secure destruction of paper documents.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>Predominately temporary staff, mainly lawyers, and training courses.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fujitsu</p></td><td><p>Provision of e-disclosure services to support legal cases.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Microsoft</p></td><td><p>Software licences and support for Microsoft products, for example, Windows and Office Suites.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mitie</p></td><td><p>Office cleaning services.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oracle</p></td><td><p>Software licences and support.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>Provision of mobile phone and connectivity services.</p></td><td><p>Provision of mobile phone and connectivity services.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The table below summarises the purpose of the contracts between the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and government strategic suppliers.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose of contract</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amey</p></td><td><p>Facilities management</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT</p></td><td><p>Network lines</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>IT services</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The table below summarises the purpose of the contracts between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and government strategic suppliers.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose of contract</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT PLC</p></td><td><p>Broadband lines at Southwark Crown Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>IT support contract</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>network services contract</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 02/05/2018 12:51:09 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 54416 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

869437

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127856 on money laundering, how many of those businesses have been fined more than once; and what the (a) average, (b) lowest and (c) highest value of those fines was.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	133951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>The ‎work of the FCA is a matter for HMT. Officials at HMT have advised that in January 2017, the FCA fined Deutsche Bank £163 million, its largest ever financial penalty for AML failings.</p><p> </p><p>All FCA fines levied against businesses are published online. The link to the webpage can be found below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/2017-fines" target="_blank">www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/2017-fines</a></p><p> </p><p>HMT does not hold data on how many firms have been fined more than once, the lowest fine, nor the average value of fines.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 28/03/2018 14:53:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 49945 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

864359

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what information he holds on the rate of remuneration for cleaners in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	132843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not directly employ cleaning staff. Cleaning services in buildings managed by the Department are outsourced. The suppliers pay, as a minimum, the National Living Wage.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) pays for cleaning services as part of its service charge. The contracted cleaners are paid at least the minimum wage.</p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) contract out their cleaning services; the providers have committed to pay a minimum of the London living wage to the staff who clean GLD’s London offices.</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) contracts out its cleaning services. The contracted cleaners are paid the National Living Wage.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 26/04/2018 13:57:51 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 50885 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

860726

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of his Department's estate is (a) rented, (b) owned and (c) occupied through any other type of agreement.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	132083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) does not own any estate but rents all of its office space. GLD teams co-located with their client teams occupy client building space as part of an overall fee agreement for the provision of legal services to clients.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) estate is comprised of 42 buildings with the types of occupation shown in the table below. The HMCPSI estate is included as part of this.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type of Occupation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Buildings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Square Meters</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Freehold/Owned</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4,426 (7%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commercial Lease</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>52,991 (78%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Licence to occupy</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>10,404 (15%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO’s) estates have always been rented either by a lease agreement, or a Civil Estate Occupancy Agreement (MOTO). The SFO’s current estate is leased. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) estate is also leased.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/04/2018 14:14:24 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 49875 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

837792

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects to which that funding has been assigned.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	126823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Given the role of the Attorney General’s Department, it does not lead on specific projects related to the UK leaving the EU and therefore has not incurred any additional expenditure. None of the Law Officers’ Departments has received direct funding therefore for work relating to the UK leaving the EU. Members of staff across the Law Officers’ Departments provide advice and analysis on different issues as required, and different Government departments bid for funding from HMT to pay for their resource needs, including the services of the Government Legal Department (GLD).</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/02/2018 07:46:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 42260 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams