Crown Prosecution Service: Staff
(asked on 10th December 2021) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutors were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service as of (a) 1 January 2017, (b) 1 January 2018, (c) 1 January 2019, (d) 1 January 2020, (e) 1 January 2021 and (f) 1 December 2021.
The number of prosecutors employed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are as follows:
| Year*** | CPS Prosecutor Headcount |
| 31/12/2016 | 2623 |
| 31/12/2017 | 2634 |
| 31/12/2018 | 2694 |
| 31/12/2019 | 2800 |
| 31/12/2020 | 3025 |
| 30/11/3021 | 3118 |
*The data has been extracted from the CPS Oracle HR database and is accurate at point of enquiry on 14th December 2021. Consequent changes to data input may mean that this data will change at some point in the future.
**The system reports data as at the last day of the month rather than the first therefore the table is presented to the nearest reportable date to the questions asked.