Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many staff her Department has seconded from Hakluyt since July 2024.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
Secondments are one way of bringing talent and experience into the Civil Service for short periods of time and has been used by successive governments.
Secondments are arranged at a business unit level and data is held at business unit Level.
Since July 2024, the Attorney General’s Office has not seconded any staff from Hakluyt.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many of her Department's officials have been seconded from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together since July 2024.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Attorney General’s Office has not seconded any officials from (a) the Institute for Economic Affairs, (b) the Policy Exchange, (c) the Adam Smith Institute and (d) Labour Together since July 2024.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many staff her Department has seconded from Palantir since July 2024.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Attorney General’s Office has never seconded any staff from Palantir.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
Answered by Robert Courts
We do not routinely publish this data, as has been the case under successive administrations.
All Business Units within the Attorney General's Office (AGO) have a responsibility to keep official hospitality costs as low as possible and demonstrate good value for money. Details of ministerial and senior official hospitality are published on a quarterly basis and are available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson
Nothing has been spent on first class train travel in a) 2020, b) 2021 and c) 2022.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson
The table below set outs the amount spent by Attorney General’s Office on taxis over the last 3 years.
2020-21 £54.31
2021-22 £191.80
2022-23 £796.05
Total £1,042.16
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much her Department has spent on (a) agency workers and (b) agency retainer fees in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Agency workers are subject to a Cabinet Office controls framework to ensure robust governance of spending in this area. Commentary on Contingent Labour usage, if applicable, is available in departmental annual reports.
The Attorney General’s Office does not pay agency retainer fees and the annual spend on agency workers, since 2020, is set out below.
Year | Cost |
2020-21 | £27,841.17 |
2021-22 | £78,790.99 |
2022-23 (P1-3) | £12,663.46 |
Total | £119,295.62 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The table below sets out the amounts the Attorney General’s Office spent on air travel per financial year.
2020-21 | 0.00 |
2021-22 | £110.98 |
2022-23 | £2,391.36 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The table below sets out the amounts the Attorney General’s Office spent on advertising in the periods requested. These costs relate to the advertising of communications roles externally
2019-20 | £0.00 |
2020-21 | £1,194.00 |
2021-22 | £0.00 |
2022-23 | £1,470.00 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Attorney General exercises a number of public interest functions in relation to legal disputes, including appointing advocates to the court in family proceedings and intervening in proceedings to protect charities. The amounts spent by the Attorney General’s Office on external legal advice, include litigation and legal costs incurred in respect of the public interest activities of the Attorney General, for the calendar years of 2020 and 2021 and for the period 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2022 is as follows:
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These figures relate to costs of the Attorney General’s Office only because while the Office superintends a number of bodies, they are not agencies of the AGO.