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Website
  
www.gov.uk/ago

Attorney General's Office (United Kingdom)

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

Minister responsible
  
Jeremy Wright, Attorney General for England and Wales

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is a United Kingdom government department that supports the Attorney General and his deputy the Solicitor General.

Contents

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.

Ministers

The Law Officers in England and Wales are as follows:

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

    Attorney General's Office (United Kingdom) Wikipedia