Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, if she will make an estimate of the average length of time between a case being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service and a prosecution decision being reached.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The average number of days (in calendar days) from a case being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision or early advice and decision to charge and prosecute being reached in the period 2022-2023 (1 April 2022 – 30 March 2023) was 45 days.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department has contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme within the last 3 years.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Attorney General’s Department have not contracted any work to the businesses named in the scheme. All employers need to pay their staff correctly. Paying the minimum wage is not optional, it’s the law. Under the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme, employers who have previously broken minimum wage law can be publicly named. The Department for Business and Trade follows a clear and thorough process allowing firms to make representations against being named if they meet our published criteria. Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search |
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what recent assessment she has made of the extent of delays in Crown Prosecution Service decision-making.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not collect data showing the average time from receiving a referral to making a legal charging decision. Legal charging decisions are decisions to authorise a charge, to take no further action or recommend and out of court disposal.
However, data is collected showing the average time from the first police referral to the CPS making the decision to authorise a charge. This data is published on the CPS website and on the CJS Delivery Dashboard and shows that during the calendar year 2021, it took on average 39 days from referral to charge.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what the average time was between the Crown Prosecution Service receiving a referral and making a charging decision in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not collect data showing the average time from receiving a referral to making a legal charging decision. Legal charging decisions are decisions to authorise a charge, to take no further action or recommend and out of court disposal.
However, data is collected showing the average time from the first police referral to the CPS making the decision to authorise a charge. This data is published on the CPS website and on the CJS Delivery Dashboard and shows that during the calendar year 2021, it took on average 39 days from referral to charge.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, if she will list the companies that have supplied Union Jack flags to her Department since 2019.
Answered by Alex Chalk - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO), Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) have not purchased any Union Flags over the last two years.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of Union Jack flags purchased by her Department in each of the last two years were manufactured in the UK.
Answered by Alex Chalk - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO), Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) have not purchased any Union Flags over the last two years.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of organisations that hold contracts with his Department pay the National Living Wage.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Attorney General’s Office does not hold direct contracts with organisations. Goods and services are obtained through direct ordering with a supplier, or through contracts held by other government departments.
The Attorney General’s Office holds no information on rates of pay for other organisations. Specific rates of pay are a matter for each individual organisation.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department has paid to hon. Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Attorney General’s Office has made no payments to Honourable Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
Since 13 July 2016, two Ministers have left office, both were as a result of a Ministerial reshuffle and as such no severance payments were made.
Reports of any Ministerial severance pay are published in the audited annual report and accounts for HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor and can be found on gov.uk.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments has spent on (a) hotels, (b) hospitality, (c) food and drink and (d) transport in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
CPS
Category | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Hotels | - | 1,010,080 | 1,396,952 | 1,327,147 | 1,483,386 |
Hospitality | - | - | - | - | - |
Food and drink | 154,553 | 166,225 | 173,708 | 181,970 | 183,470 |
Transport | - | 4,161,445 | 4,445,346 | 4,276,918 | 4,511,405 |
SFO
Category | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17* |
Hotels | 87,844 | 80,616 | 95,414 | 101,582 | 104,782 |
Hospitality | 2,648 | 1,628 | 3,007 | 2,634 | 2,733 |
Food and Drink | 6,238 | 2,090 | 3,023 | 507 | 1,103 |
Transport | 113,964 | 153,723 | 231,954 | 186,622 | 224,170 |
*Figures as of 28 February 2017
GLD, including AGO and HMCPSI
UK Hotels
£ | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
GLD* | 6,772 | 10,549 | 6,403 | 19,363 | 26,628 |
AGO | 402 | 2,265 | 2,210 | - | 375 |
HMCPSI | 49,023 | 41,803 | 42,759 | 23,642 | 35,369 |
Hospitality
£ | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
GLD* | - | 657 | 177 | 47 | 204 |
AGO | 2,897 | 41 | - | 18 | - |
HMCPSI | 123 | 6 | - | 64 | - |
Travel
£ | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
GLD* | 79,539 | 106,161 | 139,103 | 252,523 | 307,457 |
AGO | 153,893 | 123,566 | 98,644 | 110,462 | 116,192 |
HMCPSI | 86,678 | 61,841 | 72,149 | 61,753 | 72,175 |
Other related cost
£ | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
GLD* | 42,126 | 57,906 | 56,464 | 58,153 | 70,390 |
AGO | 3,536 | 3,451 | 554 | 918 | 911 |
HMCPSI | 20,323 | 10,982 | 10,815 | 23,828 | 16,639 |
This includes all expenditure on food and drink, foreign hotels and other subsistence costs and the cost of meeting refreshments. This expenditure cannot be broken down further without looking at individual invoices which would incur disproportionate cost.
*The Treasury Solicitor’s Department until 31 March 2015. GLD has increased in size as a result of the merger programme to create a shared legal service for government and expenditure has increased as a result.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what the five most visited websites were by staff of the Law Officers' Departments in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
CPS & HMCPSI
SFO
Details of the websites visited most often by SFO staff during the past 12 months are not held centrally. However, records are held on the SFO’s internet proxy server covering the 6 month period up to 27 March 2017
GLD
The Attorney General’s Office has recently changed IT providers and is unable to access this data.