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Written question asked by Jon Trickett (Labour) on Monday, 27 February 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 1 March 2017. It was answered by Robert Buckland (Conservative) on Monday, 6 March 2017 on behalf of the Attorney General.

Attorney General: Procurement

Question

To ask the Attorney General, what the procurement spend of the Law Officers' Departments was in each year since 2010.

Original answer

The following figures, based on published accounts for 2010 to 2016, show the procurement spend (all expenditure on goods, assets or services, not including expenditure relating to the remuneration of employees, non cash costs such as depreciation and local/national taxes such as rates and excluding any case settlement costs) for the Law Officers’ Departments.

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

GLD*

52,300

49,533

52,426

47,070

60,167

70,649

68,804

AGO

1,800

1,589

1,520

1,457

1,348

1,470

1,354

HMCPSI

821

893

1,032

417

409

388

419

CPS

315,581

274,816

269,612

244,121

284,482

347,658

325,560

SFO

21,696m

18,968m

17,884m

31,689m

26,887m

22,358m

21,904m

*The Treasury Solicitor’s Department until 31 March 2015.

The answer was corrected by Robert Buckland (Conservative)

on Tuesday, 7 March 2017 on behalf of the Attorney General.

Corrected answer

The following figures, based on published accounts for the financial years from April 2010 to April 2016, show the procurement spend (all expenditure on goods, assets or services, not including expenditure relating to the remuneration of employees, non cash costs such as depreciation and local/national taxes such as rates and excluding any case settlement costs) for the Law Officers’ Departments. Figures for the financial year from April 2016- April 2017 are not yet available.

Value (£000s)

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016

GLD*

52,300 49,533

49,533 52,426

52,426 47,070

47,070 60,167

60,167 70,649

70,649 68,804

68,804

AGO

1,800 1,589

1,589 1,520

1,520 1,457

1,457 1,348

1,348 1,470

1,470 1,354

1,354

HMCPSI

821 893

893 1,032

1,032 417

417 409

409 388

388 419

419

CPS

315,581 307,168

274,816 270,597

269,612 255,429

244,121 252,916

284,482 289,727

347,658 258,876

325,560

SFO

21,696m 21,696

18,968m 18,968

17,884m 17,884

31,689m 31,689

26,887m 26,887

22,358m 22,358

21,904m

*The Treasury Solicitor’s Department until 31 March 2015.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
65676
Session
2016-17
Related items
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Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Attorney General Procurement
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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