Attorney General's Office: Facilities Agreements

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) did not incur any facility time costs in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26. The department had no staff recorded as facility time representatives during those years and no staff spent 100% of their working time on facility time. The AGO did not provide funding for trade union activities during the periods in scope.

The Crown Prosecution Service do not have any representatives on 100% facility time and no funding has been provided for union activities in any of those years. The headcount number of facility time staff (a) 2023 – 24 was 74, (b) 2024-25 was 67 and (c) 2025-26 was 65. The total cost of facility time (a) 2023 – 24 was £347,237.00, (b) 2024-25 was £350,100.13 and (c) 2025 – 26 was £320,987.25.

For the Government Legal Department, the (a) 23-24 the headcount of reps was 31, the total cost was £114,000 and none of them were on 100% facility time, (b) 24-25 the headcount was 33, the total cost was £87,000 and none of them were on 100% facility time and for (c) no data was recorded.We have interpreted ‘funding’ for trade union activities as paid trade union facility time for activities. No funding was paid for TU activities in those years.

For the Serious Fraud Office, in (a) 2023-24 the total cost of facilities time was £5617, the headcount was 9, (b) 2024-25 the total cost of facilities time was £22,418, the headcount was 9, (c) the total cost of facilities time was £9908 and the headcount was 9. For all years no staff were on 100% facility time and no funding was provided for trade union activities in each of those years.

For HMCPSI, this question is not applicable.