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1504304

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many data incidents her Department (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20 and (iii) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	46067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Attorney General’s Office have had no data incidents recorded or reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20 and (iii) 2020-21.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 08/09/2022 12:06:35 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1504425

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	46135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The number of staff employed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) during the periods specified is available in the table below. During this period the CPS has undertaken continuous improvement and modernisation programmes to improve efficiency and effectiveness. These included digitalisation, development of a national resourcing model, standard operating practices, resource efficiency measures, smarter/remote working practices, and establishment of remote teams. As a national service for England and Wales, the consequence of these measures is that we now have the ability to shift work to where capacity resides which is both much more efficient, and also fairer on the workforce. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year Q1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Full Time Equivalent Staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>7093</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>6568</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>6034</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p>5708</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p>5505</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p>5594</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p>5554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p>5589</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p>5790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p>6414</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p>6714</p></td></tr></tbody></table><em>*The system reports data as at the last day of the month rather than the first or any date in-between therefore the table is presented to the nearest reportable date to the questions asked.</em> <em> </em> <em>The data has been extracted from the CPS Oracle HR database and is accurate at point of enquiry on 5 September 2022. Consequent changes to data input may mean that this data will change at some point in the future</em> <em> </em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 08/09/2022 12:13:59 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1504426

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many of the cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision in each of the past five years were still awaiting a charging decision after six months.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	46136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Data is collated by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) showing the number of individual pre-charge consultations that are recorded as taking longer than 180 days (six months). The table below shows the number and proportion of these in each of the last four years – this data was introduced from April 2018. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2019-2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Total Consultations</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>288,319</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>289,529</p></td><td><p>299,587</p></td><td><p>253,836</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Consultations over 180 days (6 months)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,336</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>507</p></td><td><p>461</p></td><td><p>491</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>% over 180 days (6 months)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.5%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.2%</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table>CPS consultation data counts the number of consultations submitted for a full code or threshold test, also known as pre-charge reviews, recorded on the Case Management System.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 08/09/2022 12:10:16 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

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

1491641

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	Unaoil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the meeting between her predecessor and Mr David Tinsley referred to in chapter 10, paragraph 5(h)-(i) of Sir David Calvert Smith's report into the Serious Fraud Office’s handling of the Unaoil Case, if she will set out (a) when, (b) where, (c) for what purpose that meeting took place and (d) whether it was declared in her Department's transparency publications for ministerial meetings or hospitality.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	41958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The then Attorney General (the Rt Hon member for Torridge and West Devon), met David Tinsley for 20 minutes in the waiting room of his barristers’ chambers on 18 October 2018, after an acquaintance requested that he meet informally with an unnamed contact with links to the US government about a matter affecting the public interest.</p><p> </p><p>It transpired that Mr Tinsley wished to draw the then Attorney General’s attention to the value of his services and those of his company in facilitating a better working relationship between the English investigation and prosecution authorities and US authorities. The then Attorney General brought the meeting to an end, pointing out that he did not have responsibility for the issues Mr Tinsley had raised.</p><p> </p><p>Neither the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into Unaoil, Mr Tinsley’s involvement in it, nor the defendants in that case or any other case, were raised in the meeting or discussed. The then Attorney General took no action in connection with the meeting and had no further contact with Mr Tinsley.</p><p> </p><p>The meeting was not declared in the transparency returns for the Attorney General’s Office as the then Attorney General did not meet Mr Tinsley in his ministerial capacity.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 06/09/2022 09:13:43 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1491112

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much her Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>For the last five years, The Attorney General’s Office has had a nil spend for external consultants*</p><p> </p><p>Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcontracts-finder&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cemmy.clarkson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C332dd3e59a5f4b1b1e5308da6b104a3e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637940014946084226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EHT%2Bj9EH86g04c73Xn7YYL0Qyi3Lc4Dm8J%2F8B8YuCNE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.</p><p> </p><p>* <em>Whilst preparing this response the department have not considered the use of specialist counsel or short-term contractor contracts as consultancy.</em></p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:32:37 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491114

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Crown Prosecution Service has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The spend on externally contracted consultancy services for CPS in each of the last five years, as recorded in the CPS’ published accounts, is shown in the table below: <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> 2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£219,000</p></td><td><p>£64,000</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are in the public domain and published on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcontracts-finder&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cemmy.clarkson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C332dd3e59a5f4b1b1e5308da6b104a3e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637940014946084226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EHT%2Bj9EH86g04c73Xn7YYL0Qyi3Lc4Dm8J%2F8B8YuCNE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 22/09/2022 14:38:30 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491116

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Government Legal Department: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Government Legal Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) spent the following amounts on external consultants over the past five financial years. This information is available in the public domain and is as follows:</p><p><strong></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£79,000</p></td><td><p>£101,000</p></td><td><p>£144,000</p></td><td><p>£111,000</p></td><td><p>£342,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The breakdown of this consultancy spending by each firm contracted is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of consultancy firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount paid to firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Specific matters on which they were consulted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Highland</p></td><td><p>£80,000</p></td><td><p>Productivity improvements in legal activity delivery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quo Imus Ltd</p></td><td><p>£20,000</p></td><td><p>Work on a review of shared service communications across AGO, GLD and HMCPSI</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AMEO Professional Services Ltd</p></td><td><p>£99,000</p></td><td><p>Improvements to GLD's recruitment and resourcing strategy and processes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TPX Ltd</p></td><td><p>£228,000</p></td><td><p>Improvements to GLD's recruitment and resourcing strategy and processes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ixia Consultancy Ltd</p></td><td><p>£40,000</p></td><td><p>Design work on programme to enhance GLD’s Leadership capability</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mike Curtis Reward Solutions Ltd</p></td><td><p>£137,000</p></td><td><p>Support to the development of a new pay framework for GLD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Incendium Consulting Ltd</p></td><td><p>£57,000</p></td><td><p>Provision of specialist legal market analysis to development of GLD’s future accommodation strategy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alexander Mann Solutions Ltd</p></td><td><p>£32,000</p></td><td><p>A review of corporate services capability and design for GLD and its shared service customers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rainmaker Solutions</p></td><td><p>£79,000</p></td><td><p>Development of cloud analytical solutions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Various</p></td><td><p>£5,000</p></td><td><p>Short-term project and consultancy support</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 22/09/2022 09:10:47 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491117

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Serious Fraud Office: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Serious Fraud Office has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The spend on externally contracted consultancy services for the Serious Fraud Office in each of the last five years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> 2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£95,000</p></td><td><p>£42,000</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcontracts-finder&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cemmy.clarkson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C332dd3e59a5f4b1b1e5308da6b104a3e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637940014946084226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EHT%2Bj9EH86g04c73Xn7YYL0Qyi3Lc4Dm8J%2F8B8YuCNE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used.</p><p> </p><p>Government departments, their individual agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:29:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1491119

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of the (a) amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) name of each consultancy contracted and (c) specific matters on which they were consulted.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	40935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>For the last five years, HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate has had a nil spend for external consultants.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/09/2022 08:17:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill