Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many West Yorkshire based organisations he has met in the last 12 months.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Attorney General has not visited any West Yorkshire based organisations in the last 12 months.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The Attorney General’s Office does not directly employ apprentices. The Attorney General’s Office has around 50 staff, the majority of whom are on two year loans to the Office. One such staff member is an apprentice, employed by the Government Legal Department and loaned to the Attorney General’s Office. The Law Officer Departments, (Attorney General’s Office, Government Legal Department, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and HM Inspectorate of Crown Prosecution Service) compile and submit quarterly apprenticeship returns to the Cabinet Office and these are published on www.Gov.uk . Apprentices located within HM Inspectorate of Crown Prosecution Service and the Attorney General’s Office are reported to Cabinet Office within the total figures for the Government Legal Department.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many times he has referred to an international treaty or convention and its guidance on interpretation and implementation when assessing whether to grant consent to prosecute for a criminal provision that derives from or implements that treaty or convention in the last five years.
Answered by Geoffrey Cox
The Law Officers consider each consent case on its merits and take in to account international treaties, conventions and associated guidance on their interpretation and implementation where necessary.
Data on what information was considered in each case can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, which international treaties and associated guidance he referred to when granting consent to prosecute; and what the offences were to which those treaties and guidance applied in each of the last five years.
Answered by Geoffrey Cox
The Law Officers consider each consent case on its merits and take in to account international treaties, conventions and associated guidance on their interpretation and implementation where necessary.
Data on what information was considered in each case can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The Crown Prosecution Service currently employs 183 apprentices, which equates to 3.3% of the workforce. As at 28 February 2018 the Government Legal Department had 19 apprentices representing 0.84% of the workforce. Whilst the SFO currently does not have any apprentices it does remain committed to offering apprenticeships as a means of bringing through talent and has been employing apprentices since 2011/12. There are currently no apprentices in either the Attorney General’s Office or Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.