Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the years from 2010 to 2015.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The number of full-time equivalent people employed on the Crown Prosecution Service’s staff in each of the years from 2010 to 2015 is shown below.
Financial Year | FTE Staff |
2010-11 | 8,094 |
2011-12 | 7,464 |
2012-13 | 7,046 |
2013-14 | 6,611 |
2014-15 | 6,135 |
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many full-time equivalent staff who are qualified (a) barristers and (b) solicitors were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2010 to 2015.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The number of full-time equivalent staff who are qualified (a) barristers and (b) solicitors who were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2010 to 2015 is shown in the table below
| Barristers | Solicitors |
2010-11 | 740.3 | 2085.0 |
2011-12 | 741.3 | 1845.5 |
2012-13 | 646.8 | 1705.4 |
2013-14 | 612.2 | 1617.9 |
2014-15 | 627.7 | 1627.7 |
Notes: Data extracted from the CPS HR Database iTrent as at the 31st March in each year Data may be subject to change due to retrospective changes in the HR database Data may differ from previously published data due to differing specifications
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of the budget of the Crown Prosecution Service was spent on (a) premises, (b) administration, (c) staff, (d) external suppliers, other than external Counsel, (e) external Counsel and (f) other costs in each of the years 2010 to 2015.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The proportion of the budget that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spent on (a) premises, (b) administration, (c) staff, (d) external suppliers other than external Counsel, (e) external Counsel and (f) other costs in each of the years 2010 to 2015 is given below.
Financial year | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
Premises | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% |
Administration | 3% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
Staff | 53% | 56% | 57% | 57% | 55% |
External suppliers | 13% | 14% | 13% | 13% | 14% |
Counsel | 19% | 16% | 17% | 19% | 21% |
Other | 1% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% |
Note: The figures for the years 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 do not sum to 100% because in each of these years the CPS reported a small underspend against its budget.
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many criminal prosecutions were undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the years 2010 to 2015.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The Crown Prosecution Service publishes its casework statistics on a financial year basis. The number of criminal prosecutions finalised between April 2010 and March 2015 are as follows:
| 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 |
Finalised Prosecutions | 958,834 | 896,505 | 806,458 | 738,064 | 664,493 |