Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much energy her departmental buildings have used in (a) each of the last five years and (b) 2020 to date.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is unable to provide information on its building energy usage as it is currently sharing a building and there is no way of identifying the AGO’s energy usage.
The Government Legal Department (GLD) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), who are GLD’s tenants, have used the following:
Energy Consumption (MWh) | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-to-date (end of May 2020) |
3,359 | 3,433 | 3,399 | 3,304 | 4,935 | 441 |
GLD publish this data in their Annual Report and Accounts. The 2019-20 publication can be found here. Please note that the 2019-20 total also covers the period of commissioning, decommissioning and relocating GLD’s Head Office from One Kemble Street to 102 Petty France and consequently includes the GLD proportion of energy usage for both buildings during this period..
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have used the following:
Energy Consumption (MWh) | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
3,359,251 | 3,433,141 | 3,399,001 | 3,303,878 |
CPS publish these figures in their Annual Report and Accounts. The 2018-19 publication can be found here. The figures for 2019-20 will be available in the CPS 2019-20 Annual Report and Accounts once it is published. Please note that The Ministry of Justice Estates Sustainability Team is responsible for reporting and managing sustainability in the CPS. Their data is gathered and validated by the Estates Sustainability Team and Building Research Establishment on behalf of DEFRA. The CPS is unable to report data from locations where property owners are not obliged to provide it. All data is UK only.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) routinely publishes details of its energy use in their Annual Report and Accounts which can be found here. The data for the most recent financial year 2019/2020 is due to be published in the near future.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in her Office had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Annual Civil Service People Survey includes a question on caring responsibilities. The affirmative responses to this question for the Government Legal Department (GLD), Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Serious Fraud Office (SFO) are listed below. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) responses are not included due to the small number of staff and the risk of individuals being identified.
Please note that figures collected from the People Survey may not fully represent the number of carers as it is reliant on responses to the question. The CPS and SFO do not hold records of the responses to the question for all of the past five years. The CPS cannot provide data before 2018, the SFO cannot provide data before 2019 and GLD is also unable to provide data for 2018 as those data stores are no longer accessible and records were not held by the departments. Please also note that the wording of the question in 2016 and 2019 were different and the higher figures are likely due to the inclusion of childcare responsibility in those years.
Government Legal Department (GLD):
2015 – 266 out of 1,602 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities
2016 – 580 out of 1,530 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities
2017 – 300 out of 1,780 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities
2018 – No data
2019 – 482 out of 2,214 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities
Serious Fraud Office (SFO):
2015 – No data
2016 – No data
2017 – No data
2018 – No data
2019 – 84 out of 448 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS):
2015 – No data
2016 – No data
2017 – No data
2018 – 1,359 out of 3,974 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities
2019 – 1,102 out of 3,720 who responded stated they had caring responsibilities