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781358

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	International Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how the Government complies with Article 16 of the International Law Commission's Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Unlawful Acts, with specific reference to the sharing of intelligence to identify targets with our coalition partners.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	110693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>Whilst the International Law Commission’s <em>Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Unlawful Acts</em> have not been adopted as a treaty, the Government considers that Article 16 generally reflects customary international law. The Government is committed to upholding international law and when cooperating with other States the Government will always seek to ensure that its actions remain lawful at all times. The Government does not comment on specific matters concerning the sharing of intelligence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 03/11/2017 09:14:54 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

384628

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many non-executive directors of his Department who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments he has made since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	3549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>No non-executive directors of the Law Officers’ Departments have left their post since May 2015. The non-executive directors who have been appointed since 2010 are detailed in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appointments made since May 2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>Alan Jenkins, Derek Manuel, Alison Porter, Jeremy Newman, Caroline Johnstone** and Richard Szadziewski**.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Fraud Office</p></td><td><p>Simon Duckworth, Tony Osbaldiston, Norman Pickavance and Ruth Evans.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Legal Department *</p></td><td><p>Celia Carlisle, Jeremy Newman and Oonagh Harper.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>* Previously the Treasury Solicitor’s Department.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>** Caroline Johnstone and Richard Szadziewski were both recruited in August 2009 and had their contracts extended in 2012.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details on non-executive directors in the Law Officers’ Departments are routinely published in respective departmental Annual Reports and Accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 3550 question first answered 26/06/2015 09:25:46 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

384629

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many non-executive directors of the Law Officers' Departments who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments he has made since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	3550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>No non-executive directors of the Law Officers’ Departments have left their post since May 2015. The non-executive directors who have been appointed since 2010 are detailed in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appointments made since May 2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>Alan Jenkins, Derek Manuel, Alison Porter, Jeremy Newman, Caroline Johnstone** and Richard Szadziewski**.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Fraud Office</p></td><td><p>Simon Duckworth, Tony Osbaldiston, Norman Pickavance and Ruth Evans.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Legal Department *</p></td><td><p>Celia Carlisle, Jeremy Newman and Oonagh Harper.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>* Previously the Treasury Solicitor’s Department.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>** Caroline Johnstone and Richard Szadziewski were both recruited in August 2009 and had their contracts extended in 2012.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details on non-executive directors in the Law Officers’ Departments are routinely published in respective departmental Annual Reports and Accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 3549 question first answered 26/06/2015 09:25:46 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

175646

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Employment Agencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many recruitment and employment agencies the Law Officers' Departments have used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	222076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of recruitment and employment agencies that have been recorded as being used by the Law Officers’ Departments to source both permanent and temporary staff in each complete financial year since 2010-11:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Recruitment or Employment Agency</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Treasury Solicitor’s </strong></p><p><strong>Department*</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Crown Prosecution </strong></p><p><strong>Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Serious Fraud </strong></p><p><strong>Office</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>* TSol data also covers the Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 02/02/2015 13:50:12 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169926

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) the Law Officers' Departments, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer to parliamentary question 217821 given to her by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the 15<sup>th</sup> December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 17/12/2014 13:06:56 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169927

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>The following tables contains details of the expenditure on taxis, first class rail travel and business class air during the last five financial years. The figures only cover expenditure recorded as being made through central framework travel contracts. In addition to this some journeys may have been paid for directly by staff and reimbursed via departmental expenses systems, however verifying such expenditure would involve reviewing all claims made over the past five years which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Recorded Taxi expenditure </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Treasury Solicitor’s</strong></p><p><strong> Department <sup>(1) </sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Attorney General’s Office<sup> (1)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Serious Fraud Office</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£26,209</p></td><td><p>£3,460</p></td><td><p>£30,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£18,791</p></td><td><p>£498</p></td><td><p>£25,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£21,067</p></td><td><p>£218</p></td><td><p>£14,360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£27,243</p></td><td><p>£263</p></td><td><p>£12,139</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£29,567</p></td><td><p>£247</p></td><td><p>£8,628</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>(1) </sup><em>Additionally, the cost of other taxi journeys taken by TSol, AGO and HMCPSI staff would be reimbursed to staff via the expenses system. To identify the cost of these journeys would require a detailed exercise to review all expenses claims made over the last five years and this cannot be achieved without disproportionate cost.</em></p><p>CPS do not hold any central records on expenditure incurred on taxis. To calculate this would involve checking large numbers of paper records at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Recorded First Class Rail Travel</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TSOL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CPS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p>£7,051</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£170,736</p></td><td><p>£975,154</p></td><td><p>£9,352</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>£746</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£27,613</p></td><td><p>£87,334</p></td><td><p>£22,347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>£200</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£2,022</p></td><td><p>£20,790</p></td><td><p>£2,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>£395</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£720</p></td><td><p>£25,241</p></td><td><p>£868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£2,641</p></td><td><p>£21,564</p></td><td><p>£1,448</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Recorded Business Class Air Travel</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TSOL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CPS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p>£23,690</p></td><td><p>£2,016</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td><td><p>£29,929</p></td><td><p>£118,834</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,811</p></td><td><p>£285</p></td><td><p>£1,117</p></td><td><p>£20,810</p></td><td><p>£44,769</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>£7,793</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£8,920</p></td><td><p>£34,794</p></td><td><p>£34,866</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>£8,793</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£29,032</p></td><td><p>£71,616</p></td><td><p>£28,383</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>£14,456</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£8,822</p></td><td><p>£39,022</p></td><td><p>£5,463</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 12/01/2015 14:14:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168822

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Information on recorded expenditure by the Law Officers’ Departments consultants, temporary staff and contingent labour in each of the last five financial years is contained in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Attorney General’s Office</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£1,182</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£4,258</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£4,000</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£9,745</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£42,479</p></td><td><p>£54,185</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Treasury Solicitor’s Department</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£9,095,385</p></td><td><p>£296,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td><td><p>£5,248,180</p></td><td><p>£251,466</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£29,050</p></td><td><p>£3,585,399</p></td><td><p>£635,299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£9,182</p></td><td><p>£2,880,789</p></td><td><p>£774,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£244,531</p></td><td><p>£6,664,899</p></td><td><p>£827,670</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£4,022</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£15,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£5,481</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£9,998</p></td><td><p>£4,311</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£31,530</p></td><td><p>£20,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£27,284</p></td><td><p>£27,527</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Serious Fraud Office</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Temporary Staff /Contingent Services Expenditure <sup>(2)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£48,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£3,926,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£31,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£2,672,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£856,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£2,296,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1,557,000 <sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£3,693,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£2,199,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£6,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Crown Prosecution Service</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure <sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£960</p></td><td><p>£189,624</p></td><td><p>£273,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£9,793</p></td><td><p>£66,866</p></td><td><p>£2,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£13,347</p></td><td><p>£257,057</p></td><td><p>£23,355</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£684,314</p></td><td><p>£1,616,284</p></td><td><p>£392,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£1,881,834</p></td><td><p>£2,464,073</p></td><td><p>£3,293,676</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>(1) </sup></em><em>During the preparation of an answer to an earlier PQ (206676), the SFO identified that this figure is incorrectly stated in their accounts and should be £1,568k. The original figure is given here for consistency.</em></p><p><em><sup>(2) </sup></em><em>The totals shown in this table are for contingent labour (excluding consultants). This total includes all other temporary staffing (including agency staff, interim managers and specialist contractors).</em></p><p><em><sup>(3) </sup></em><em>CPS Expenditure for 2009/10 relates to expenditure with consultancy firms for professional services and may include payments for services not covered by the Office of Government Commerce’s Consultancy Value Programme definition. </em></p><p> </p><p>Records are not held centrally of the number of individuals such employed during these years, the length of their contracts or their equivalent civil service salary band. To verify these details would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 16/12/2014 15:40:09 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

91342

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 15 August 2011 calling for a family test to be applied to all domestic policy, which policies of the Law Officers' Departments have been so assessed to date.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	208844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>On 18 August 2014 the Prime Minister announced that the family test was being formalised as part of the impact assessment for all domestic policies. From October 2014, every new domestic policy will be examined for its impact on the family.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 13/10/2014 14:22:11 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

47116

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by the Law Officers' Departments since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	195504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments have not transferred any permanent jobs from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

45151

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of employees in the Law Officers' Departments of each (a) Civil Service pay grade and (b) gender work (i) reduced hours, (ii) flexi-time, (iii) from home, (iv) a compressed working week, (v) job share, (vi) term-time only and (vii) part-time.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	193956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>Tables containing the information requested where available have been deposited in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald attachment 1 file name Tables relating to PQ 193956.docx title Tables - Working hours by gender and grade - AGO
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell