Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9603 on Attorney General: Buildings, how many civil servants are assigned to work in her Department's headquarters in London; and how many individual desks are available in the headquarters office.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Attorney General’s Office is based in only one location in London, at 102 Petty France. I refer the Hon Member to the first line of my response to UIN 9602 tabled on Wednesday 6 November 2024. Please also refer to my response to UIN 9603 tabled on Friday 25 October 2024.
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of her Department's offices; and how many desks are available in each office.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
For the period 2 to 27 September 2024, there were 54 civil servants assigned to work in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and 42 desks available.
The AGO superintends the Law Officers’ Departments: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Government Legal Department (GLD), HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), and Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Further information on the Law Officers’ Departments is set out below.
As of 30 September 2024, the CPS had a headcount of 7,286 allocated against 4,347 desks.
The GLD has staff based in five sites across the country: 102 Petty France, London; 1 Ruskin Square, Croydon; 7-8 Wellington Place, Leeds; 2 Rivergate, Bristol; and Three New Bailey, Manchester.
For the period 2 to 27 September 2024, the table below shows a breakdown of the number of civil servants based in GLD offices and the number of desks in each office.
Please note that data for 102 Petty France, London, includes 10 HMCPSI staff, which share this office.
Location | Number of civil servants assigned to work in GLD offices | Number of desks in office |
102 Petty France, London | 1509 | 737 |
1 Ruskin Square, Croydon | 86 | 100 |
7-8 Wellington Place, Leeds | 244 | 100 |
2 Rivergate, Bristol | 106 | 38 |
Three New Bailey, Manchester | 135 | 60 |
HMCPSI also shares office space with the CPS in Foss House, York. For the same period, HMCPSI had 10 civil servants assigned to work in Foss House.
As of 30 September 2024, the SFO had 534 permanent employees and 133 temporary agency workers, a total of 667 people. The total number of desks available is 432.
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how much was spent on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in her Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament; and on what items this was spent.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
Following the dissolution of the last Parliament on 30 May 2024 and before the General Election on 4 July 2024, and prior to the appointment of the Attorney General and I, officials in the Attorney General’s Office arranged for the two ministerial offices to be modestly refurbished. The refurbishment was completed on 30 June 2024 and the costs are set out below.
| Description | Cost |
| Painting and decorating | £3,510.95 |
| Replacement of carpet tiles | £6,448.51 |
| IT monitor | £151.00 |
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many and what proportion of desks were occupied in each of her Department’s offices in the most recent four weeks for which figures are available; and how many staff attended each office in person in the same period.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
Heads of Department have agreed that 60% minimum office attendance for most staff continues to be the best balance of working for the Civil Service. Office occupancy data for the period July - September has been published, with further publications to now happen on a quarterly basis. The data is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-hq-occupancy-data.