Attorney General's Office (United Kingdom)

Attorney General's Office
Welsh: *Swyddfa'r Twrnai Cyffredinol*
Department overview


Jurisdiction	United Kingdom, mainly England and Wales
Headquarters	20 Victoria Street, London, England
Annual budget	£600 million (current) & no capital expenditure for Law Officers' Departments in 2011-12 ^[1]
Minister responsible	Jeremy Wright, Attorney General for England and Wales
Website	www.gov.uk/ago

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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 Attorney-General is The Rt Hon. Jeremy Wright, QC PC MP. The Solicitor General is Robert Buckland QC MP.

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 Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Government Legal Department. 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 Jeremy Wright QC PC MP	Attorney General Advocate General for Northern Ireland	Chief legal adviser to the Crown, superintendence of prosecuting departments, guardian of the public interest
Robert Buckland QC MP	Solicitor General	Deputising and providing support for the Attorney General

The prosecuting departments are:

the Government Legal Department;
the Crown Prosecution Service;
the Serious Fraud Office;
the Service Prosecuting Authority; and
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate

References

↑ Budget 2011 (PDF). London: HM Treasury. 2011. p. 48. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
↑ The Attorney General's One Year Review 2009
↑ "Our ministers". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

External links

Official website

Departments of Her Majesty's Government

Ministerial	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 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 UK Export Finance Wales Office

Non-ministerial	Charity Commission for England and Wales Competition and Markets Authority Crown Prosecution Service Food Standards Agency Forestry Commission Government Actuary's Department Government Legal Department Her Majesty's Land Registry Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs National Crime Agency National Savings and Investments Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills Office of Gas and Electricity Markets Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation Office of Rail and Road Ordnance Survey Serious Fraud Office Supreme Court of the United Kingdom The National Archives UK Statistics Authority UK Trade & Investment Water Services Regulation Authority

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