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64113

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in each of the past five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to proceed under sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.), including cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL618 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:25 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64114

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in each of the past five years where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to proceed under sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.), including cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL617 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:24 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64111

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Coroners and Justice Act 2009
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to charge under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, including those cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL616 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:56 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64112

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Coroners and Justice Act 2009
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the last five years where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to charge under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, including those cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL615 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:55 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

347772

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	FIFA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether criminal investigations are being carried out to determine whether UK financial institutions have been used to carry out illegal transactions related to FIFA.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been aware of allegations relating to FIFA for some time and has kept the situation under active review. It would not be appropriate to go into the details of those allegations.<br><br>For the SFO to open an investigation, the Director must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect serious or complex fraud within the UK's criminal jurisdiction.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 627 question first answered 04/06/2015 12:01:01 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

347774

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	FIFA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, when the Serious Fraud Office first became aware that UK financial institutions may have been used to carry out illegal transactions relating to FIFA; what action was taken; and when he was first made aware of this possibility.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been aware of allegations relating to FIFA for some time and has kept the situation under active review. It would not be appropriate to go into the details of those allegations.<br><br>For the SFO to open an investigation, the Director must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect serious or complex fraud within the UK's criminal jurisdiction.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 626 question first answered 04/06/2015 12:01:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

656986

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employee in the Law Officers' Departments.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	56980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>Government departments do not publish details of the salary of their highest to lowest paid employees.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics do, however, publish the salary ratio of highest to median earners for each Civil Service organization. These ratios are published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics and can be found on the Office for National Statistics website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/civilservicestatistics/2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/civilservicestatistics/2016</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 57024 question first answered 19/12/2016 13:47:04 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

656988

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in the Law Officers' Departments and average full-time pay in that Department.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	57024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>Government departments do not publish details of the salary of their highest to lowest paid employees.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics do, however, publish the salary ratio of highest to median earners for each Civil Service organization. These ratios are published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics and can be found on the Office for National Statistics website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/civilservicestatistics/2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/civilservicestatistics/2016</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 56980 question first answered 19/12/2016 13:47:04 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

752505

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in the Law Officers' department have responsibilities relating to the UK's exit from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	5143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments use their resource flexibly and a number of staff from across the organisations have been involved in work that supports the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Legal Department has a team that specifically provides legal services to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). Currently, there are 41.5 full-time-equivalent staff in this team and GLD would expect to charge DExEU £3.731m for the services of this team in the 2017/18 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining Law Officers' Departments (Attorney General’s Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) do not keep a separate record of expenditure for work relating to the UK’s exit from the EU. It would not be proportionate to quantify the number of staff involved and calculate costings, – particularly as the numbers of staff involved and the time requirements from each vary over time.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 5370 question first answered 27/07/2017 13:52:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

387360

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what instructions have been given to staff in the Law Officers' Departments dealing with freedom of information requests on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No. 19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, in considering whether to apply the exemptions in section 38 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	5319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The information which is available on the use of section 38(1)(a) and 38(1)(b) by the Law Officers Departments is contained in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Number of occasions Section 38(1)(a) applied</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Crown Prosecution Service</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of occasions Section 38(1)(b) applied</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Crown Prosecution Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Treasury Solicitors Department</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More detailed figures for the constituent parts of section 38 are not readily available for the remaining Law Officers Departments, as their systems are not designed to provide a more detailed breakdown than is required for published statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions by the Law Officers Departments are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports). They are available here </em><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a><em>. </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These statistics provide the number of times section 38 as a whole has been used by each government department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No guidance has been issued to staff on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No.19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, about the application of section 38 of the Act. However, the Ministry of Justice has published its own guidance on the use of this exemption. This is available here: <a title="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 5277 5298 question first answered 08/07/2015 10:10:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant