Asked by: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prosecutions there have been relating to the fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017, and how many of those prosecutions led to convictions.
Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General
The Metropolitan Police Service are still conducting their investigations into the fire at Grenfell Tower. As a result, as of August 2025, there have been no prosecutions for offences directly related to the circumstances surrounding the event.
The Crown Prosecution Service continue to work closely with the Metropolitan Police Service on the investigations and to provide advice on applicable charges.
Any charges are not expected to be announced until late 2026, with prosecutions currently due to start in mid-2027.
Asked by: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prosecutions for corporate manslaughter there have been in each of the past three years, and how many of those prosecutions led to convictions.
Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General
There have been 13 prosecutions for corporate manslaughter in the years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25. 10 of those prosecutions were successful and led to a conviction.
A breakdown of each year is listed below:
2022-23: 6 prosecutions, 6 convictions (1 guilty plea and 5 convictions after trial).
2023-24: 4 prosecutions, 2 convictions (1 guilty plea and 1 conviction after trial), 2 unsuccessful (1 no evidence offered after trial began and 1 left to lie on file).
2024-25: 3 prosecutions, 2 convictions (both convictions after trial), 1 unsuccessful (no evidence offered after trial began).
Asked by: Lord Kempsell (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask His Majesty's Government what their position is on seeking super-injunctions to restrict reporting of public policy issues.
Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General
The filing of an application for a super-injunction on behalf of His Majesty’s Government is recognised as a truly exceptional measure and would be justified only by the most compelling evidence.
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, what guidance has been posted on the Government Legal Service intranet since July 2024.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Government Legal Service no longer exists and has been replaced by the Government Legal Profession (GLP).
The GLP produces guidance to assist government lawyers as they work closely with ministers, policy makers and other professionals.
Lawyers across government have an important role in helping the Government deliver its manifesto and run effective public services.
Since July 2024, the following guidance has been published on the GLP intranet:
17/10/2024
Working with Legislation - Westlaw Edge UK
11/2024
Attorney General’s Guidance on Legal Risk
02/2025
Knowledge Sharing Across the GLP
Legal Professional Privilege
Being an Effective Government lawyer
12/02/2025
Legal Professional Privilege Guidance - Sharing Advice Across the GLP
20/05/2025
New legal awareness slides on producing Statutory Instruments
Asked by: Mike Wood (Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, with reference to the Civil Service 2024/2025 External Expenditure on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, published on 30 May 2025, which suppliers were used to provide the LGBTi internal conference.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The LGBTI conference was a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) event, and the supplier used to provide venue services was Calder Conferences.
Calder Conferences offers venue solutions for meetings, conferences, and other events, and works with various government departments.
The CPS has a contract with Calder Conferences through the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework for Travel and Venue Solutions. This framework allows CPS to access venues for meetings and conferences as needed.
The contract was signed in 2024 under the previous government for two years, with an option to extend for one additional year until February 2027, as is standard across government departments when contracting with conference suppliers. As standard, government contracts are routinely reviewed.
Asked by: Rupert Lowe (Independent - Great Yarmouth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many and what proportion of departmental procurement contracts were awarded to British companies in the 2024-2025 financial year.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
Details of central government contracts above £12,000 for procurements commenced before 24 February 2025 are published on Contracts Finder (Contracts Finder - GOV.UK). Contracts procured under the Procurement Act 2023 above £12,000 inc VAT are published on the Central Digital Platform Find a Tender service. (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Search).
No procurement contracts were awarded by the AGO below £12,000 during the 2024-2025 financial year.
Asked by: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many prosecutions there have been in each police authority area for drunken or drug influenced driving in each of the past three years; and how many of these prosecutions led to convictions.
Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General
A number of driving offences created by the Road Traffic Act 1988 relate to driving when under the influence of drink or drugs. These are as follows:
Section 3A(a) causing death by driving without due care and attention / reasonable consideration while unfit through drink or drugs.
Section 3A(b) causing death by due care while over prescribed limit.
Section 3A(ba) causing death by driving without due care / consideration while over specified limit - specified controlled drug.
Section 3A(c) causing death by due care and fail to provide specimen.
Section 3A(d) fail to give permission for a laboratory test on a blood specimen having caused a death.
Section 4(1) driving a motor vehicle when under the influence of drink or drugs.
Section 5(1)(a) driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration above the prescribed limit.
Section 5A(1)(a) and (2) driving a motor vehicle with a concentration of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any data which shows the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted of the above offences and to establish whether defendants charged with these offences were convicted would require a manual review of case files and this would be at disproportionate cost.
The figures in the table below relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual defendants. It can be the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence. No data are held showing the final outcome or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at finalisation.
Management information is available which shows the number of offences of charged by way of the above list of Road Traffic Act 1988 offences in which a prosecution commenced. The table below shows the number of these offences in each police force area from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2024.
Offences of attempt, in charge, aid and abet have been excluded but failure to provide specimen following drunken or drug influenced driving have been included to produce a list of offences that meet the criteria of ‘drunken or drug influenced driving’ prosecutions.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Avon & Somerset | 1,761 | 1,562 | 1,753 |
Bedfordshire | 432 | 400 | 373 |
British Transport Police | 19 | 23 | 17 |
Cambridgeshire | 758 | 720 | 640 |
Cheshire | 1,814 | 1,623 | 2,134 |
City of London Police | 230 | 244 | 220 |
Cleveland | 1,351 | 959 | 1,273 |
Cumbria | 840 | 976 | 949 |
Derbyshire | 950 | 973 | 978 |
Devon & Cornwall | 1,989 | 2,401 | 2,246 |
Dorset | 710 | 661 | 682 |
Durham | 1,062 | 921 | 920 |
Dyfed-Powys | 961 | 1,076 | 653 |
Essex | 1,929 | 1,743 | 1,780 |
Gloucestershire | 949 | 836 | 786 |
Greater Manchester | 2,075 | 3,086 | 3,421 |
Gwent | 1,073 | 1,075 | 856 |
Hampshire | 2,469 | 2,287 | 2,204 |
Hertfordshire | 761 | 723 | 657 |
Humberside | 1,106 | 838 | 1,084 |
Kent | 2,281 | 2,140 | 2,141 |
Lancashire | 2,138 | 1,643 | 2,219 |
Leicestershire | 1,024 | 884 | 757 |
Lincolnshire | 1,063 | 1,064 | 982 |
Merseyside | 3,024 | 2,990 | 2,896 |
Metropolitan Police | 5,286 | 3,561 | 3,971 |
Norfolk | 1,120 | 1,120 | 976 |
Northamptonshire | 910 | 995 | 970 |
Northumbria | 1,460 | 1,330 | 1,429 |
North Wales | 1,263 | 1,507 | 1,372 |
North Yorkshire | 1,196 | 889 | 1,010 |
Nottinghamshire | 1,557 | 1,628 | 1,156 |
South Wales | 1,716 | 1,761 | 1,619 |
South Yorkshire | 1,305 | 1,227 | 1,309 |
Staffordshire | 1,235 | 1,065 | 1,125 |
Suffolk | 835 | 985 | 960 |
Surrey | 1,287 | 1,217 | 1,412 |
Sussex | 2,036 | 1,836 | 1,696 |
Thames Valley | 2,798 | 2,806 | 3,303 |
Warwickshire | 569 | 468 | 444 |
West Mercia | 1,526 | 1,483 | 1,583 |
West Midlands | 1,656 | 1,376 | 1,356 |
West Yorkshire | 2,623 | 2,400 | 2,362 |
Wiltshire | 852 | 846 | 746 |
44 Police Force Areas Total | 63,999 | 60,348 | 61,420 |
Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System | |||
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Crown Prosecution Service has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spent the below amounts on equipment such as chairs, monitors and desks to enable to staff to work from home effectively in the last three years:
Financial year | CPS homeworker Spend |
2024-25 | £295,822 |
2023-24 | £336,206 |
2022-23 | £448,551 |
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Serious Fraud Office has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
All Serious Fraud Office (SFO) staff are routinely provided with laptops that enable them to work flexibly in the office, at home or other locations.
In financial year 2024-25, the SFO spent £1311.77 on equipment to enable a small number of staff needing workplace adjustments to work from home. No data is recorded specifically on workplace adjustment expenditure for home-working in the previous two years.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how much the Government Legal Department has spent on equipment to enable staff to work from home in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
In line with the Government Legal Department’s (GLD) hybrid working policy, the Department has spent the following amounts for each financial year on providing staff with the relevant equipment and furniture to enable them to work effectively at home:
Financial Year | Total Amount Spent |
2022-23 | £33,537.96 |
2023-24 | £63,729.61 |
2024-25 | £62,864.02 |