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 & no capital expenditure for Law Officers' Departments in 2017/18^[1]
Ministers responsible	Geoffrey Cox, Attorney General for England and Wales Robert Buckland MP, Solicitor General
Website	www.gov.uk/government/organisations/attorney-generals-office

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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 (the Law Officers). It is sometimes referred to as the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers.

The current Attorney-General is The Rt Hon. Geoffrey Cox QC PC MP, and the current Solicitor General is Robert Buckland QC MP.

Organisation

The 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 advice and support to the Law Officers who themselves provide legal advice to the government, and works with the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office to develop criminal justice policy.^[2]

Ministers

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

Minister	Rank	Portfolio
The Rt Hon. Geoffrey Cox QC MP	Attorney General Advocate General for Northern Ireland	Chief legal adviser to the Crown, overseer of the Legal Officers' departments, refers unduly lenient sentences to the Court of Appeal
Robert Buckland QC MP	Solicitor General	Deputises and provides support for the Attorney General

References

↑ Autumn Budget 2017 (PDF). London: HM Treasury. 22 November 2017. pp. 25–26. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
↑ "Attorney General's Office - About us". Gov.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
↑ "Our ministers". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

External links

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