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<p>Contracted out is defined as <em>‘the transfer of the provision of services previously
performed by in-house personnel to an external organisation under a contract with
agreed costs and conditions’.</em></p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD ) and
Attorney General’s Office (AGO)primarily provide legal services to government and
while they use external suppliers, including law firms and barristers, to support
this legal work, none would fall under the definition of contracted out and therefore
no pro bono work has been received as part of such arrangements.</p><p>The (AGO),
GLD and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) use third party suppliers
to provide human resources, finance, information technology, facilities management
and other accommodation services. Some elements of these services may have previously
been provided in-house but there has been no significant contracting out of these
services since 2010. There are no plans for significant contracting out in 2016-17.</p><p><strong>SFO</strong></p><p>The
SFO’s procurement team oversees contract awards at the SFO and has records of 944
contracts awarded since 2010. Some low value contracts which are handled by individual
teams may not be captured in these records. To provide a breakdown of the number awarded
and cost per year would require data to be gathered manually and therefore incur a
disproportionate cost.</p><p>Since 1 April 2015, details of SFO contracts over £10,000
have been published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a>
.</p><p>The SFO does not undertake or commission pro bono work.</p><p>SFO contracts
are not awarded or recorded on a working day basis, and it would incur disproportionate
cost to review each contract in order to provide an estimate.</p><p>Crown Prosecution
Service:</p><p>Since 2012 the Crown Prosecution Service has shared a purchasing service
with the Government Legal Department. The department does not hold complete records
of the information and to assemble the material would incur disproportionate cost.
Estimates of the number and value of contracts completed by the Commercial team have
been made as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year ended</p></td><td><p>No.
Contracts</p></td><td><p>Estimated Value (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March
2013</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>16,273</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>32,004</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31
March 2015</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>27,083</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March
2016</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>8,964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>- 28 February
2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>13,085</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It
has not been practical to estimate the value of pro bono costs or the number of work
days contracted out in each year.</p><p>Since January 2011, central government departments
have been required to publish details of contracts above the value of £10,000 are
published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be
viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive</a></p><p>Those
published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search"
target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p>
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