§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Attorney-General how many civil servants in his Departments applied in each year since 1986 through the business appointments system to take up an outside appointment(a) as an independent consultant, (b) in a firm of consultants and (c) in other employment; how many were referred to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments; and how many were granted.
§ The Attorney-GeneralSince 1986 two applications have been received by the Crown Prosecution Service under the business appointments rules, one in 1990 and one in 1992. Neither related to an appointment as a consultant or with a firm of consultants. One of the applications required and obtained the approval of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments. The other application was approved by the Department. There have 411W been no such applications in the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers, the Treasury Solicitor's Department or the Serious Fraud Office.