Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many Senior Civil Service away days have taken place in calendar year 2026 to date; in what specific venues across the Attorney General’s Office and each of its superintended departments; at what cost; and if there was any associated social or team-building activity at public expense.
Answered by Ellie Reeves - Attorney General
The Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) held no Senior Civil Service (SCS) away days in calendar year to date 2026.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has held two SCS away days, held at the Civil Service Club. The total cost was ÂŁ1,390.75. There were no associated social or team-building activity at public expense.
The Government Legal Department (GLD) has held two centrally organised SCS away days. They were held at Herbet Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, Exchange House and at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. There were no costs attached for the venue or associated social or team-building activity.
The Crown Prosecution Service has held one SCS away day, at the Manchester Marriott Hotel Picadilly. The total cost of this event was ÂŁ37,367.60.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 4161, on Government departments: marketing, how much has been spent on branded goods and merchandise by (a) the Attorney General’s Office and (b) each of its superintended departments since the Government Chief Commercial Officer letter was sent; on what items, and at what cost.
Answered by Ellie Reeves - Attorney General
The table below contains data for the Attorney General's Office and each of its superintended departments relevant to the question.
Total Spend on branded goods and merchandise
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Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2026 to Question 3763 and with reference to the Answer of of 19 January 2026 to Question 104195 on Government Communication Service: Staff, how many headcount staff in (a) the Attorney General’s Office and (b) each of its superintended departments are (i) members of the Government Communication Network and (ii) embedded communicators who are not counted as members of the Government Communication Network.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Government Communication Service (GCS) is the professional network of all communications staff across Government.
The table below contains the headcount for the Attorney General’s Office and each of its superintended departments who are communications professionals.
Department | Headcount | Member of GCS |
AGO | 8 | 8 |
CPS | 65 | 65 |
GLD | 14 | 14 |
SFO | 15 | 12 |
HMCPSI | 0 | 0 |
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, further to the answer of 3 June 2026, to Question 3339, on Special Advisers: Public Appointments, whether any delivery advisers have been appointed to date, broken down by (a) special advisers, (b) Direct Ministerial Appointments, (c) civil servants appointed by exception, and (d) permanent civil servants appointed through open competition.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
No delivery advisers have been appointed either by Direct Ministerial Appointment, as civil servants appointed by exception, or as permanent civil servants appointed through open competition. A list of special advisers is published each year in the Annual Report on Special Advisers.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, further to the answer of 22 June 2026, to Question 10189, on Databases: EU law, if they will list the data and reporting requirements that the Attorney General’s Office and each of its superintended departments must make to the European Commission and its agencies.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The UK and EU share information and data as part of our broader cooperation on trade, economy, and security.
The Attorney General’s Office is a small ministerial department and does not maintain any databases for the purpose of reporting information directly to the European Commission or its agencies. Where information is provided in relation to international obligations, this would ordinarily be coordinated through the lead Government department responsible for the relevant policy area.
The Crown Prosecution Service does not have any formal direct reporting requirements to the EU Commission. For the Government Legal Department (GLD), any reporting obligations arising from policy or operational activity would generally sit with the relevant client department, rather than with GLD itself. The Serious Fraud Office does not provide any reporting to the European Commission. HMCPSI does not have any data and reporting requirements in relation to the European Commission and its agencies.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, further to the answer of 8 July 2026 to Question 14349 on Civil Service: Temporary Employment, if she will list each of the internship schemes that have been made available in the last 12 months through the Attorney General’s Office and each of its superintended departments, other than the Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Attorney General’s Office has not operated or made available any internship schemes in the last 12 months.
The Crown Prosecution Service has not provided any internship schemes in the last 12 months.
In the last 12 months, the following internship schemes have been made available through the Government Legal Profession and the Government Legal Department, excluding the Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme: the Sutton Trust week-long internship, the GLP Diversity Summer Scheme, and the Government Legal Department Law Placement Scheme. These internship and placement schemes are offered to improve access to the legal profession.
The Serious Fraud Office do not have internship programmes in place.
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate has not made any internship schemes available.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, further to the answer of 25 June 2026, to Question 11148, on Civil Service: whether any internship schemes managed by (a) her Department and (b) each of its superintended departments are restricted to applicants on the basis of (i) ethnicity, (ii) social class and (iii) both.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Attorney General’s Office does not operate any internship schemes that are restricted to applicants on the basis of (i) ethnicity, (ii) social class, or (iii)both.
The CPS, SFO and HMCPSI do not offer internship schemes.
The Government Legal Department (GLD) supports three internship and placement schemes that aim to improve access to the legal profession: the Sutton Trust internship, the Government Legal Profession (GLP) Summer Diversity Scheme and the GLD Law Placement Scheme. None of these schemes restricts applicants on the basis of ethnicity. Eligibility criteria for some schemes are designed to support social mobility.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what is the percentage office workplace attendance requirement in each office of the Attorney General’s Office and each of its superintended departments offices, broken down by location; and whether attendance statistics are collated for each of those individual offices.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) requires staff to attend the workplace for a minimum of 60% of their contracted working time, in line with the Civil Service office attendance expectation. The AGO operates from a single office location in London. Attendance data is collated at a departmental level.
As the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is a geographically dispersed organisation with staff working across offices, courts, police stations and other government departments' buildings, local leadership provide assurance of compliance with CPS’s hybrid working policy and conduct local monitoring, but attendance statistics are not specifically collated at a national level.
The Government Legal Department (GLD), irrespective of site, has a 60% attendance expectation, but we do not currently collect attendance statistics for each of our individual sites.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) requires 40% workplace attendance, which is an exception to the Cabinet Office guidance for 60% occupancy. This is due to the SFO having reduced its space at its current office (Canada House) based on 40% attendance and secured space in its new office (Cabot Square, Canary Wharf) based on the same. The SFO operates from a single office site, currently at Canada House and is set to move to Cabot Square before the end of the financial year. However, employees also work from other locations, including court or across the country when conducting executive action. Attendance is currently managed locally by line managers and statistics are not collated automatically.
For HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), the nature of the work is such that inspectors are frequently “on-site” for inspection work in the offices of those they inspect. HMCPSI staff meet at both the London and York offices regularly for inspection and other meetings as per their inspection methodology as business need dictates. All staff are required to attend a mandated office day once a month as well as all staff days and all-inspector days, which are mandated, in addition to the above. Central attendance statistics are not collated for either office by HMCPSI as they share space in both locations with other departments.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department’s (a) Permanent Secretary and (b) Ministers have had correspondence with Flint Global since July 2024.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
It is not routine to disclose correspondence between Ministers or Permanent Secretaries and any individual or organisation.
Asked by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what written representations have Law Officers received from the Mayor of Greater Manchester since July 2024.
Answered by Andy Slaughter - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
It is not routine to disclose correspondence between Ministers or Permanent Secretaries and any individual or organisation.