SaishutsuUK public spending, followed

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Law Officers' Departments

The Attorney General's Office, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Government Legal Department and the Serious Fraud Office. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £1.0bn on services. £962m of it (92.9%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 93.9% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.

Reached an identified organisation: £39m (3.8%)Reached a recipient the publisher did not name: £5m (0.5%)Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total: £917m (88.6%)Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body): £10m (1.0%)Not followed: £63m (6.1%)
  • Reached an identified organisation
  • Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
  • Reached people, counted by benefit
  • Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
  • Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
  • Not followed
£1.0bn
spent on services, 2025-26 (PESA 2026, table 5.1)
92.9%
followed (92.9% counting outturn only)
£63m
not followed at all, not even to a named payee
£17m
passed on to other public bodies: counted where they spend it

How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be

  • Office of the Advocate General for Scotland: 5 of 12 months publishedmeasured

    Payment records for 2025-26 cover 5 months: 2025-06, 2025-08, 2025-10, 2025-11, 2026-02.

  • Below the publication threshold

    Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.

  • Pay: followed to staff as one total£917mmeasured

    Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 3 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.

Where the records come from

Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.

PublisherMonthsRecordsIdentified Named onlyWithheldPassed on
Government Legal Department12 886£39m£10m £5m£17m
Office of the Advocate General for Scotland5 6£0£35k £0£413k

What PESA says this section spends on

Function2025-26Share
Public order and safety£1.0bn100%