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1675473

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Official Hospitality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	5199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>We do not routinely publish this data, as has been the case under successive administrations.</p><p>All Business Units within the Attorney General's Office (AGO) have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money. Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis and are available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 13/12/2023 15:06:47 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1521321

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	61746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>Nothing has been spent on first class train travel in a) 2020, b) 2021 and c) 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 25/10/2022 12:27:20 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1523003

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Taxis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	63940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The table below set outs the amount spent by Attorney General’s Office on taxis over the last 3 years.</p><p>2020-21 £54.31<br>2021-22 £191.80<br>2022-23 £796.05<br>Total £1,042.16</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 25/10/2022 12:23:44 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

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

1488907

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Aviation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	35857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>The table below sets out the amounts the Attorney General’s Office spent on air travel per financial year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£110.98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£2,391.36</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/07/2022 09:52:03 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488237

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	34824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The table below sets out the amounts the Attorney General’s Office spent on advertising in the periods requested. These costs relate to the advertising of communications roles externally</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020-21 </strong></p></td><td><p>£1,194.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p>£1,470.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/07/2022 14:09:58 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486079

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	29877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>Details of Government contracts valued between £10,000 and £25,000 are published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. As Contracts Finder was implemented in 2016, not all records before this period are held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Legal Department, (GLD) frequently award contracts to support legal work, the size, nature and timing of these awards is uncertain, and it is not possible to ascertain how many of £1m - £3m or more than £3m will be agreed in the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) estimate 8 contracts will be between £1m to £3m and 10 above £3m over the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) are not able to provide this information due to commercial sensitivity.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information on how much departments spend on monitoring the contracts or how many staff have monitored the contracts is not held.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/07/2022 16:03:55 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486906

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Attorney General exercises a number of public interest functions in relation to legal disputes, including appointing advocates to the court in family proceedings and intervening in proceedings to protect charities. The amounts spent by the Attorney General’s Office on external legal advice, include litigation and legal costs incurred in respect of the public interest activities of the Attorney General, for the calendar years of 2020 and 2021 and for the period 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2022 is as follows: <table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2020 (£k)</strong> <strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021 (£k)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6 months to 30 June 2022 (£k)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attorney General’s Office (approximately*)</p></td><td><p>240*</p></td><td><p>155*</p></td><td><p>200*</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>These figures relate to costs of the Attorney General’s Office only because while the Office superintends a number of bodies, they are not agencies of the AGO.</em></p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/07/2022 14:08:13 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1484747

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Official Hospitality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much her Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	27517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) spent £18,547.96 on hospitality in 2020 financial year. This was the departments contribution towards the annual meeting of the five Attorneys-General from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, held in London on the 20<sup>th</sup> July 2019.</p><p> </p><p>There was no spend on hospitality in the 2021 financial year. In 2022, the AGO spent £1146.09 hosting the Ukrainian Prosecutor General during her visit to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 14/07/2022 11:41:28 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1485119

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in her Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	28384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office wage ratio is as follows (a) 1:6.10 (b) 1:4.45 (c) 1:6.05.</p><p> </p><p>As a small ministerial department with a limited number of staff disclosing salary figures would make staff potentially at risk of being identified.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 12/07/2022 12:58:19 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett