Office of the Attorney General
The Attorney General is responsible to Parliament for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Serious Fraud Office, the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department and the Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland.
The Attorney General also has certain public interest functions, for example, in taking action to appeal unduly lenient sentences, bringing proceedings under the Contempt of Court Act and protecting charities.
The Attorney General and the Solicitor General also deal with questions of law arising on Government Bills and with issues of legal policy. They are concerned with all major international and domestic litigation involving the Government and questions of European Community and International Law as they may affect Her Majesty's Government.