Number of staff in each CPS area with more than 10 days sickness absence in the respective years. 8 December 2009
April-March
Area
2008-09
2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
HQ
79
91
89
75
66
Casework
24
24
33
39
38
CPS Direct
23
11
14
16
10
CPS Avon and Somerset
29
28
26
36
39
CPS Bedfordshire
4
2
5
7
13
CPS Cambridgeshire
14
10
16
6
10
CPS Cheshire
21
18
14
21
25
CPS Cleveland
20
19
30
24
21
CPS Cumbria
11
28
31
22
18
CPS Derbyshire
31
33
33
31
40
CPS Devon and Cornwall
37
36
39
38
31
CPS Dorset
14
15
13
8
14
CPS Durham
17
17
11
14
21
CPS Dyfed/Powys
2
13
25
14
14
CPS Essex
29
34
27
42
53
CPS Gloucestershire
5
10
8
14
15
CPS Greater Manchester
81
82
94
79
81
CPS Gwent
13
17
21
10
17
CPS Hampshire
34
35
41
37
46
CPS Hertfordshire
22
17
14
20
18
CPS Humberside
15
9
12
19
21
CPS Kent
33
33
33
30
26
CPS Lancashire
45
55
56
45
43
CPS Leicestershire
23
25
26
23
21
CPS Lincolnshire
13
22
17
16
19
CPS London
244
290
286
316
283
CPS Merseyside
57
76
70
80
76
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CPS Norfolk
6
14
6
16
19
CPS North Wales
6
11
18
9
8
CPS North Yorkshire
8
12
19
13
14
CPS Northamptonshire
7
6
10
17
11
CPS Northumbria
55
48
41
59
54
CPS Nottinghamshire
32
22
27
45
47
CPS South Wales
25
47
41
51
51
CPS South Yorkshire
34
35
35
25
32
CPS Staffordshire
17
36
27
23
17
CPS Suffolk
12
10
14
10
8
CPS Surrey
9
11
25
20
6
CPS Sussex
28
22
22
20
29
CPS Thames Valley
18
33
35
34
32
CPS Warwickshire
2
1
6
5
5
CPS West Mercia
29
35
40
35
41
CPS West Midlands
104
85
109
113
91
CPS West Yorkshire
53
44
61
49
73
CPS Wiltshire
18
13
8
11
5
Grand total
1,403
1,535
1,628
1,637
1,622
Notes:
1. Total number of staff who had more than 10 working days lost to absence in the rolling year
2. Data extracted from epayfact (CPS Payroll System)
Mr. Garnier:
To ask the Solicitor-General how many senior Crown Prosecution Service staff at grades above level D are High Court advocates; and at how many court sessions such staff advocated in court in each of the last five years. [305449]
The Solicitor-General:
The Crown Prosecution Service currently employs 99 staff above level D who are higher court advocates. During the 2008-09 financial year, higher court advocates at level E or above conducted prosecutions at 1,425 sessions in the Crown court or higher courts. The following table shows the data for the last five completed years. For the years since 2007-08, these data include principal crown advocates, whose main function is the preparation and presentation of serious and complex cases at the crown court, as well as other senior lawyers in the CPS whose main function is in managing the operation of the prosecution service in London and across each of the 42 CPS areas. These staff are graded as senior civil servants, chief crown prosecutors, and level E unit heads.
