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Ms Hodge
To 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-General
No 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. | ||||