Attorney General's Office (United Kingdom)

Attorney General's Office

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Jurisdiction	United Kingdom, mainly England and Wales
Headquarters	London, England
Annual budget	£600 million (current) & no capital expenditure for Law Officers' Departments in 2011-12 ^[1]
Minister responsible	Dominic Grieve, Attorney General for England and Wales
Website
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

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The Attorney General's Office (AGO)is a United Kingdom government department that supports the Attorney General and his deputy the Solicitor General.

It continues to be known informally as the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers.

The current Attorney-General is The Rt Hon. Dominic Grieve, QC MP and his deputy, the Solicitor General is Edward Garnier, QC MP.

1 Organisation
2 Ministers
3 References
4 External links

Organisation

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is one of the smallest UK government departments, with around 40 staff. It is one of "the Law Officers’ Departments" along with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO), the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSD). The Treasury Solicitor acts as Accounting Officer for the AGO.

The AGO provides legal and strategic policy advice and support to the Law Officers; it co-ordinates across the Law Officers’ Departments; and it leads work on cross-cutting aspects of the UK criminal justice system along with the CPS, the RCPO and the SFO.^[2]

Ministers

The Law Officers in England and Wales are as follows: ^[3]

Minister		Rank	Portfolio
	The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP	Attorney General Advocate General for Northern Ireland	Chief legal adviser to the Crown, superintendence of prosecuting departments, guardian of the public interest
	Edward Garnier QC MP	Solicitor General	Deputising and providing support for the Attorney General

Key		Conservative
Key		Liberal Democrat

The prosecuting departments are:

the Treasury Solicitor's Department;
the Crown Prosecution Service;
the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office;
the Serious Fraud Office;
the Service Prosecuting Authority; and
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate

References

^ Budget 2011. London: HM Treasury. 2011. p. 48. http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/2011budget_complete.pdf. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
^ The Attorney General's One Year Review 2009
^ Cabinet Office List of Government Departments and Ministers: Attorney General's Office

External links

Attorney General's Office official website

Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom

Ministerial departments	Attorney General's Office · Cabinet Office · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills · Department for Communities and Local Government · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Department for Education · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Department for International Development · Department for Transport · Department for Work and Pensions · Department of Energy and Climate Change · Department of Health · Foreign and Commonwealth Office · Government Equalities Office · Her Majesty's Treasury · Home Office · Ministry of Defence · Ministry of Justice · Northern Ireland Office · Office of the Advocate General for Scotland · Office of the Leader of the House of Commons · Office of the Leader of the House of Lords · Scotland Office · Wales Office

Non-ministerial departments	Central Office of Information · Charity Commission for England and Wales · Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt · Crown Estate · Crown Prosecution Service · Food Standards Agency · Forestry Commission · Government Actuary's Department · Her Majesty's Land Registry · Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs · National School of Government · Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills · Office of Fair Trading · Office of Gas and Electricity Markets · Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation · Office of Rail Regulation · Office of the Parliamentary Counsel · Ordnance Survey · Public Works Loan Board · Serious Fraud Office · The National Archives · Treasury Solicitor's Department · UK Statistics Authority · UK Trade & Investment · Water Services Regulation Authority

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Attorney General's Office (United Kingdom)

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Organisation

Ministers

References

External links