Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, whether her Department permits (1) Ministers, (2) Special advisers and (3) officials to use (a) Chat GPT, (b) Google Gemini, (c) Claude, (d) Deepseek and (e) Grok as part of their official duties.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

The Attorney General’s Office does not permit the use of external generative artificial intelligence tools of the type referenced in the Question, unless they have been formally approved and assessed as meeting the required security and data protection standards.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions have there been for the false or misleading information offence under Section 92 of the Care Act 2014 since it came into force.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

There have been no finalised prosecutions by the Crown Prosecution Service against defendants where offences of providing false or misleading information offences under Section 92 of the Care Act 2014 have been charged since it became law.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, how much (a) her Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its public bodies has spent on lanyards since 4 July 2024; what designs of lanyards have been purchased; and what the cost and number of each lanyard design purchased was.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

Since the 4^th July 2024:

The AGO has bought no lanyards.

The SFO have bought 250 SFO lanyards, for a total cost of £251.50.

The GLD have bought 400 lanyards, for a total cost of £454.20.

The CPS have bought 3405 lanyards, for a total cost of £5,117.59.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, whether her Department permits civil servants employed in the UK to work from overseas on a regular basis.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not permit civil servants employed in the UK to work from overseas.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, what special measures Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors offer to vulnerable witnesses to support them in giving evidence.

Answered by Ellie Reeves - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

Witnesses are eligible to apply for special measures to support them to give their best evidence during criminal proceedings.

Special measures, under the YJCEA, include:

• Screens to prevent the witness seeing or being seen by the defendant
• Video link to enable the witness to give live evidence from outside the trial courtroom
• Evidence given in private
• Removal of wigs and gowns to make proceedings less intimidating
• Video-recorded interviews used as evidence-in-chief
• Pre-recorded cross-examination
• Intermediaries to assist with communication
• Communication aids such as symbol boards

Special Measures play an important role in facilitating access to justice for vulnerable and intimidated witnesses. The Crown Prosecution Service will support witnesses by making an application for the most beneficial special measures when it is appropriate to do so.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government what communications the Attorney General has had with Lord Mandelson since July 2024.

Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General

I refer the Hon Member to the Government’s statement and release of information on 1st June, providing an update on the response to the Humble Address. The documents published in the first and second tranches contain the entirety of the documents the Government has available for disclosure, except those being withheld at the request of the Metropolitan police.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hermer on 1 June (HL104), whether the Attorney General has received backdated payments since July 2024 relating to his past legal work as a barrister in Matrix Chambers, including payments relating to clients on no-win-no-fee conditional fee agreements.

Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General

As has previously been set out to the house both in January 2025 and in June 2025, there is an established rigorous system in place within the Attorney General’s Office to ensure that a Law Officer would not be consulted on any matter that could give rise to a potential conflict of interest.

This process also sits alongside the established system in place for declaration Ministerial Interests. I confirm that my relevant interests have been published for the public record, including my previous employment at Matrix Chambers.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following the Written Answer by Lord Hermer on 4 February (HL13872), whether the Attorney General has recused himself on matters relating to that International Court of Justice arrest warrant.

Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General

The Law Officers’ Convention applies to advice which may or may not have been given by, or requested of, the Law Officers. It can be found at paragraph 21.27 of Erskine May:

“By long-standing convention, observed by successive Governments, the fact of, and substance of advice from, the law officers of the Crown is not disclosed outside government. This convention is referred to in paragraph [5.14] of the Ministerial Code [updated on 6 November 2024]. The purpose of this convention is to enable the Government to obtain frank and full legal advice in confidence.”

Indicating whether or not the Law Officers have recused themselves from a particular matter would itself breach the Law Officers’ Convention.

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hermer on 1 June (HL104), whether there are details of financial interests which the Attorney General has declared to his Permanent Secretary or the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards but which have not been published in the List of Ministers' Interests.

Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General

As has previously been set out to the house both in January 2025 and in June 2025, there is an established rigorous system in place within the Attorney General’s Office to ensure that a Law Officer would not be consulted on any matter that could give rise to a potential conflict of interest.

This process also sits alongside the established system in place for declaration Ministerial Interests. I confirm that my relevant interests have been published for the public record, including my previous employment at Matrix Chambers.

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