Attorney General written question – answered at on 19 November 2015.
To ask the Attorney General, what estimate he has made of expenditure in (a) 2014-15 prices and (b) as a proportion of total Departmental spending on (i) temporary agency staff, (ii) consultants, (iii) non-payroll staff, (iv) administration and (v) marketing and advertising in each year since 2010-11.
The following tables contain details of the expenditure incurred by the Law Officers’ Departments in the categories requested during the last five financial years. Expenditure has not been restated in 2014-15 prices, as to do so would incur a disproportionate cost.
Expenditure – Government Legal Department 1 | |||||
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
Temporary Agency staff 2 | £2,921k | £3,589k | £5,248k | £9,097k | £11,935k |
% of Outturn | 2.7% | 3.1% | 4.5% | 6.5% | 6.6% |
Consultants | £9k | £43k | £11k | £4k | £24k |
% of Outturn | * | * | * | * | * |
Recruitment advertising 3 | £12k | £25k | £11k | £45k | £88k |
% of Outturn | * | * | * | * | * |
Revenue expenditure 4 | £109,102K | £116,648k | £116,128k | £139,163k | £179,816k |
% of outturn | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
1 GLD figures also cover the Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate. The information is taken from the published accounts for HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. All GLD revenue expenditure is classified in the accounts as administration
2 GLD do not have non-payroll staff other than agency and contracted staff.
3 GLD do not routinely incur expenditure on marketing or advertising our services and do not separately capture these costs except those in relation to advertising for new staff. The amounts relating to these adverts are shown above.
4 All GLD revenue expenditure is classified in the accounts as administration.
* Proportion of spending less than 0.1% of outturn.
Expenditure – Serious Fraud Office 1 | |||||
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
Temporary Agency staff | £3,693k | £2,296k | £2,672k | £3,926k | £4,610k |
% of Outturn | 9% | 6% | 7% | 8% | 8% |
Consultants | £1,557k | £856k | £31k | £48k | £7k |
% of Outturn | 4% | 2% | * | * | * |
Marketing and advertising | £9k | £73k | £6k | £21k | £30k |
% of Outturn | * | * | * | * | * |
Administration | Nil2 | £7,546k | £7,019k | £7,281k | £6,237k |
% of outturn | N/A | 20% | 17% | 14% | 11% |
1 SFO do not have non-payroll staff other than agency and contracted staff.
2 From 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2011 all operating costs for the SFO were classified as programme costs. The Comprehensive Spending Review 2010, which covered the financial years 2011/12 to 2014/15, reinstated the requirement for reporting expenditure split between programme & Administration.
* Proportion of spending less than 1% of outturn.
Expenditure – Crown Prosecution Service 1 | |||||
2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
Temporary Agency staff | £1,616,284 | £257,057 | £66,866 | £189,624 | £491,303 |
% of Outturn | 0.23% | 0.04% | 0.01% | 0.03% | 0.09% |
Consultants | £684,314 | £13,347 | £9,793 | £960 | Nil |
% of Outturn | 0.1% | * | * | * | Nil |
Non payroll staff | £392,968 | £23,355 | £2,861 | £273,935 | £1,350,317 |
% of Outturn | * | * | * | * | 0.24% |
Administration | £21,704,994 | £9,637,983 | £13,627,407 | £12,426,376 | £11,826,562 |
% of outturn | 3.11% | 1.48% | 2.18% | 2.03% | 2.07% |
1 No money was spent by the CPS on marketing and advertising in the relevant period other than when recruiting for vacant posts.
* Proportion of spending less than 0.1% of outturn.
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