Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s Office
Harriet Cross Excerpts(6 days, 14 hours ago)
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The Solicitor General
The Government are disappointed that this prosecution did not go ahead. If the previous Conservative Government had tightened our laws in relation to national security before 2022, we may not have found ourselves in this position. It is absolutely right that there was no political interference with the witness evidence. It is an important part of our constitution that criminal prosecutions are done without political interference.
Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan) (Con)
When was the Attorney General informed that the case was going to collapse?
The Solicitor General
The Attorney General will be setting out his evidence to the Joint Committee next Tuesday.
Attorney General’s Office: Conflicts of Interest
Harriet Cross Excerpts(9 months ago)
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Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan) (Con)
Does the Minister accept that the Law Officers’ convention does not extend to questions of recusal or conflicts of interest, and that the House and the British people have the right to have questions on those matters answered transparently?
The Solicitor General
I have been abundantly clear on this: where the Attorney General has conflicts, he will recuse himself. The Law Officers’ convention does not permit me to say in relation to which matters he has recused himself, because in doing so I would reveal the matters that the Law Officers have been asked to advise on, or indeed have advised on.