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890041

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, when he plans to answer Question 132843.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	137093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 26 April 2018 to her Question 132843.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 26/04/2018 14:05:42 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

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

823376

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Beverage Containers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what estimate has been made of the number of hot drink cups that are (a) used each year and (b) sent for recycling by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	122859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not keep records of the use or recycling of hot drinks cups. However, during 2016/17, the CPS recycled or reused 94% of its total waste.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) provides recyclable paper cups for the use of visitors and interviewees only. Approximately 2,000 of these are purchased each year. Staff are encouraged to recycle all paper waste, but records are not maintained on the number of cups that are actually recycled.</p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) currently makes no estimation of the number of cups used annually; however, none of the GLD’s waste goes to landfill.</p><p>The hot drink cups provided by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and HMCPSI for use by staff and visitors are ceramic and therefore reused rather than recycled.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 31/01/2018 11:22:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

786316

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Serious Fraud Office has requested beneficial ownership information from registers of beneficial ownership from the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies since 1 July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	112101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The SFO does request information from the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies as well as other overseas partners in relation to its ongoing investigations. However, for operational reasons the SFO does not provide details of such requests as it could prejudice the conduct of those investigations.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 20/11/2017 10:00:37 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

521506

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Companies: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Serious Fraud Office is taking to address fraud by employees in large companies.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	38562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The role of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to investigate and prosecute serious or complex frauds.</p><p>The SFO is committed to investigating and, where appropriate, prosecuting such serious frauds, as seen in the conviction of Tom Hayes for offences related to manipulating LIBOR.</p><p>The Government is consulting and will introduce a new criminal offence to apply to corporations who failed to prevent their agents from criminal facilitating tax evasion.</p><p>The Government will also consult on extending the criminal offence of “failure to prevent” from bribery to other economic crimes such as fraud and money laundering so that firms are properly held to account for criminal activity that takes place within them.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/06/2016 15:13:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516595

registered interest
date	28/04/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, when he last discussed the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights with the Home Secretary.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	35968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>I meet regularly with Ministerial colleagues, including the Home Secretary, to discuss important issues of common interest, including domestic and international human rights law. I am not able to provide information about any legal content of those discussions because, by longstanding convention, the fact that the Law Officers have advised, or have not advised, and the content of their advice is not disclosed outside government.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 35969 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:54:47 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516596

registered interest
date	28/04/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	35969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>I meet regularly with Ministerial colleagues, including the Home Secretary, to discuss important issues of common interest, including domestic and international human rights law. I am not able to provide information about any legal content of those discussions because, by longstanding convention, the fact that the Law Officers have advised, or have not advised, and the content of their advice is not disclosed outside government.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 35968 question first answered 10/05/2016 15:54:47 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

479032

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Security Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2016 to Question 30579, which outsourced providers the Law Offices use for security services; and if he will request information from those providers on the rate of pay for security guards providing services to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	31326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>The available information is detailed in the following tables.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Law Officers’ </strong> <strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contracted security providers </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Security Guards</strong> <strong>hourly pay rates</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attorney General’s Office</p></td><td><p>Amey</p></td><td><p>Between £8.95 and £11.64 per hour</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>Bilfinger Europa Facility Management Limited</p></td><td><p>Between £8.09 and £10.31 per hour</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Law Officers’ </strong> <strong>Department</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contracted security providers </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Security Guards</strong> <strong>hourly pay rates</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>Government Legal Department<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>MITIE (One Kemble Street office, London)</p></td><td><p>Between £12.51 and £15.57 per hour</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MITIE (Southern House office, Croydon)</p></td><td><p>Between £7.75 and £9.73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walford Security (Riverside Chambers, Taunton)</p></td><td><p>£7.30 per hour</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1</sup>HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate are tenants in the One Kemble Street building.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Serious Fraud Office is a tenant in a managed building where security guarding is outsourced by the landlord, the Canadian High Commission. The details of these arrangements are subject to the contract between the landlord, the Canadian High Commission, and the outsourced security provider. The decision about whether to publish details is a matter for the Canadian High Commission.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/03/2016 10:34:11 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

458963

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Security Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much security guards in the Law Officers' Departments are paid.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	30579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>None of the Law Officers’ Departments employ any security guards directly. Security costs for all departments are instead paid as part of wider contracts for building services.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 16/03/2016 12:26:25 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

419783

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Syria: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the full legal basis was for the RAF drone attack carried out in Syria on 21 August 2015; if he will arrange publication of the original legal guidance on which the decision to carry out the attack was made; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	10720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the questions from the Hon. Member for Brighton Pavilion on the 12<sup>th</sup> of October 2015: (<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-09-16/10466/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-09-16/10466/</a></p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 15/10/2015 15:38:57 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West