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Written Question
Crown Prosecution Service
Monday 9th May 2016

Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, (a) how much funding he has allocated to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the CPS's Proceeds of Crime Unit in each year since 2009.

Answered by Jeremy Wright

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) allocated the following funding to its Proceeds of Crime Unit since 2009.

2008/09 £ 2,556,535

2009/10 £ 4,339,422

2010/11 £ 7,311,688

2011/12 £ 6,096,729

2012/13 £ 5,967,226

2013/14 £ 6,125,024

2014/15 £ 8,378,651

2015/16 £10,035,821

The following average full-time equivalent staff in post for Proceeds of Crime Unit since 2009 were:-

2008/09 41.9

2009/10 60.0

2010/11 73.1

2011/12 65.1

2012/13 77.3

2013/14 77.7

2014/15 124.4

2015/16 140.4

Written Question
Serious Fraud Office
Monday 9th May 2016

Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, (a) how much funding he has allocated to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the (i) Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and (ii) SFO's Proceeds of Crime Division in each year since 2009.

Answered by Jeremy Wright

The information requested is contained in the following tables.

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

SFO gross budget

£44.6m

£41.3m

£40.1m

£43.7m

£54m

£59.4m

£62.2m

SFO Proceeds of Crime Division 2

£0.920m

£1.021m

£1.571m

£1.683m

£1.931m

£2.304m

£2.674m

Full time equivalent staff 3

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

SFO

307

305

306

292

305

4014

393

SFO Proceeds of Crime Division

13

17

21

20

23.43

32.71

31.43

  1. The figures includes any blockbuster funding received in each year. They exclude capital expenditure, annually managed expenditure.
  2. The Proceeds of Crime figures include the budget for the current year and outturn for the previous years. They do not include £110k funding received from the Department for International Development in the financial years 2014-15 & 2015-16.
  3. This data covers FTE staff in post as at 31st March each year including fixed term contractors, but not agency staff. Complete records for staff in post in the Proceeds of Crime division before 2011-12 are not held centrally and the figures provided for these years are based on available data.
  4. This is a revised figure which corrects the number previously published in the SFO Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15.
Written Question
Attorney General: Staff
Tuesday 1st March 2016

Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many full-time equivalent staff his Department provided to assist with (a) Home Office immigration and asylum cases and (b) other Home Office legal cases in reach year since 2009-10; and how much was spent by his Department on such cases in each of those years.

Answered by Robert Buckland

The Government Legal Department (GLD) conducts litigation for most government departments. GLD charges its government department clients for the litigation services it provides on an hourly fee basis. The remaining Law Officers’ Departments do not have any notable involvement in Home Office litigation.

It is not possible to identify how many full time equivalent GLD staff were working on Home Office cases each year because this will inevitably change during the year and staff will also work on cases for other client departments.

Any spending incurred by GLD is recovered by charges received from the Home Office for litigation services provided.