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Higher court advocates, Crown court attendances by grade
	2004-05		2005-06		2006-07		2007-08		2008-09
Grade	Number of sessions	Number of HCAs	Number of sessions	Number of HCAs	Number of sessions	Number of HCAs	Number of sessions	Number of HCAs	Number of sessions	Number of HCAs
Senior Civil Servants	2	1	6	1	11	1	3	1	2	3
Chief Crown Prosecutors	59	16	74	19	112	19	64	22	49	23
Level E	440	72	1,113	70	1-204	72	1,834	71	1,334	67
Principal Crown Advocate	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	40	6
Total	501	89	1,193	90	1,327	92	1,901	94	1,425	99

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Solicitor-General how many and what proportion of staff employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in (a) London and (b) each of its 42 regional offices are designated as frontline staff. [305450]

The Solicitor-General: The CPS currently employs a total of 8,885 staff. 8,231 of these, or 93 per cent., are designated as frontline staff, as they carry out or support the prosecution process. The following table shows the number of staff in each of the CPS areas, and the proportion of frontline staff.

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Area	Total staff	Number of frontline staff	Percentage of frontline staff
Casework	356	356	100
Headquarters	654	0	0
CPS London	1,369	1,369	100
CPS Avon and Somerset	182	182	100
CPS Bedfordshire	73	73	100
CPS Cambridgeshire	75	75	100
CPS CPSD	163	163	100
CPS Cheshire	112	112	100
CPS Cleveland	103	103	100
CPS Cumbria	83	83	100
CPS Derbyshire	120	120	100
CPS Devon and Cornwall	128	128	100
CPS Dorset	77	77	100
CPS Durham	97	97	100
CPS Dyfed Powys	61	61	100
CPS Essex	193	193	100
CPS Gloucestershire	56	56	100
CPS Greater Manchester	473	473	100
CPS Gwent	83	83	100
CPS Hampshire	247	247	100
CPS Hertfordshire	117	117	100
CPS Humberside	120	120	100
CPS Kent	181	181	100
CPS Lancashire	261	261	100
CPS Leicestershire	123	123	100
CPS Lincolnshire	71	71	100
CPS Merseyside	256	256	100
CPS Norfolk	92	92	100
CPS North Wales	83	83	100)
CPS North Yorkshire	87	87	100
CPS Northamptonshire	78	78	100
CPS Northumbria	274	274	100
CPS Nottinghamshire	180	180	100
CPS South Wales	243	243	100
CPS South Yorkshire	196	196	100
CPS Staffordshire	146	146	100
CPS Suffolk	70	70	100
CPS Surrey	85	85	100
CPS Sussex	171	171	100
CPS Thames Valley	248	248	100
CPS Warwickshire	43	43	100
CPS West Mercia	151	151	100
CPS West Midlands	512	512	100)
CPS West Yorkshire	330	330	100
CPS Wiltshire	62	62	100
Total CPS	8,885	8,231	93

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Solicitor-General how many (a) solicitors, (b) barristers and (c) non-legal staff are employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in (i) London and (ii) each of its 42 regional offices. [305451]

The Solicitor-General: The numbers of (a) solicitors, (b) barristers and (c) non-legal staff for each of the CPS areas are detailed in the following table.

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Number of solicitors, barristers and non-legal staff in the Crown Prosecution Service-9 December 2009
	Barristers	Solicitors	Associate prosecutors	Non-legal	Total
Casework	69	92	0	193	354
HQ	21	34	0	596	651
CPS Direct	39	108	0	15	162
CPS Avon and Somerset	28	51	11	93	183
CPS Bedfordshire	6	23	6	38	73
CPS Cambridgeshire	8	20	5	41	74
CPS Cheshire	7	39	8	57	111
CPS Cleveland	7	28	6	61	102
CPS Cumbria	5	25	5	47	82
CPS Derbyshire	7	35	6	72	120
CPS Devon and Cornwall	14	35	8	67	124
CPS Dorset	8	23	7	39	77
CPS Durham	1	34	6	56	97
CPS Dyfed Powys	2	20	3	38	63
CPS Essex	23	44	11	112	190
CPS Gloucestershire	6	16	3	31	56
CPS Greater Manchester	33	148	32	262	475
CPS Gwent	5	25	4	47	81
CPS Hampshire	29	68	14	134	245
CPS Hertfordshire	24	26	7	61	118
CPS Humberside	12	32	9	68	121
CPS Kent	24	42	10	105	181
CPS Lancashire	17	79	11	154	261
CPS Leicestershire	12	34	9	67	122
CPS Lincolnshire	7	20	4	40	71
CPS London	188	283	70	814	1,355
CPS Merseyside	13	79	14	150	256
CPS Norfolk	11	21	7	53	92
CPS North Wales	6	26	6	45	83
CPS North Yorkshire	6	26	7	48	87
CPS Northamptonshire	5	21	6	46	78
CPS Northumbria	9	90	13	162	274
CPS Nottinghamshire	11	52	13	105	181
CPS South Wales	18	74	14	138	244
CPS South Yorkshire	8	60	11	118	197
CPS Staffordshire	8	53	10	76	147
CPS Suffolk	7	19	6	39	71
CPS Surrey	14	25	5	42	86
CPS Sussex	21	55	11	83	170
CPS Thames Valley	26	62	15	142	245
CPS Warwickshire	4	14	3	22	43
CPS West Mercia	10	43	14	82	149
CPS West Midlands	38	158	27	283	506
CPS West Yorkshire	17	98	24	192	331
CPS Wiltshire	9	17	5	31	62
Total CPS	843	2,377	466	5,165	8,851

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