§ Ms HodgeTo ask the Attorney-General what is his Department's budget in 1996–97 for consultants to assist with information, publicity, press and media, specifying separately the Solicitor-General's staff. [39347]
§ The Attorney-GeneralNo separate budget is held for this purpose.
1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 Crown Prosecution Service Not available (7+1 part-time) £283,800 (10+1 part-time) £288,800 (11+1 part-time) £277,700 (11+1 part-time)£93.000 Serious Fraud Office £69,000 (3) £79,500 (4+2 part-time) £80,000 (4+1 part-time) £93.000 (4) Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers4 Treasury Solicitor's Department — — — £14,800 (1) Government Property Lawyers — — — — Figures before the brackets indicate the costs1 of staff engaged in providing information, publicity, press and media services. 2 Figures in brackets indicate the numbers of staff so engaged.3 1 These figures comprise salary, superannuation (estimated where precise figure is unknown), ERNIC payments and allowances. CPS costs for 1993–94 are not available. 2 It is not possible to distinguish between these categories of services since in practice they overlap and are provided by the same staff. 3 These figures do not include staff providing these services incidentally to, or inseparably from, other functions. 1 No separate costs are incurred in relation to the Solicitor-General.