Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many applications the Law Officers' Department has received for (a) internal loans and (b) secondments from civil servants in each year since 2010.

The Law Officers’ Departments are committed to the benefits that can be brought for the taxpayer in the delivery of Government objectives from interchange and is always looking for opportunities to develop arrangements which further the delivery agenda of the Department.

It is the policy across the Civil Service that where individuals transfer temporarily between our department and another department they move on a loan basis.

A temporary move to, or from, an organisation outside the Civil Service is referred to as a Secondment and must be for a minimum of 12 months and normally not exceed two years. Therefore, secondment applications, by definition, will not be received from existing civil servants.

The information requested is only available for the CPS from 2014/15 when the current civil service recruitment system was introduced.

Number of applications received for internal loans from civil servants:

In the years since 2010 the SFO has had the following numbers of civil servants on loan from and to other government departments.

In relation to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), the Government Legal Department (GLD) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), the following table shows the number of applications for posts that have been advertised to be filled on loan within the Civil Service since April 2012, which is the earliest date for which records are available. GLD specifically does not hold information prior to 1 April 2014 as information on individual recruitment exercises is not required to be held for more than two years.