Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what the annual budget was for the Government Legal Department and the former Treasury Solicitor's Department in each year since 2010.

The annual budget for the Government Legal Department and the former Treasury Solicitor’s Department can be found in the published Parliamentary Supply Estimates for HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, which also contains provision for the Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, which can be found on www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-main-estimates.

The budget for the Government Legal Department (GLD), formerly the Treasury Solicitor’s Department (TSD), can be found in each Estimate in Part II: Subhead detail Row A. There are separate budgets for Resources and Capital.

The resource budget is to cover the Government Legal Department’s costs which are not recovered from clients, specifically the costs of public interest casework (time and disbursements) on behalf of the Attorney General’s Office and the Government Legal Service (GLS) Secretariat (up to and including 2015-16).

Supplementary Estimates for HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor were taken in 2013-14, 2012-13 and 2010-11. Supplementary Estimates are used to seek additional resources, capital and/or cash or to reallocate existing resources and capital to new activities. These can be found on www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-supplementary-estimates