19-20 Business Plan

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Dear Attorney General for Northern Ireland,

The Business Plan for 19-20, published on your website, refers to the 18-19 Budget. There is however no 18-19 Business Plan produced. Can you publish the budget for 19-20? Or advise whether an error has been made or not.

You have also not produced an annual report for some years. I would be grateful if you could publish the documentation pertaining to the decision not to publish your annual reports, for each year not published (from 2016), or to publish your annual reports.

Yours faithfully,

Brian O'Nolan

Dowling, Maurice, Attorney General for Northern Ireland

Dear Mr O’Nolan

 

I can confirm the 2019/20 Business Plan has now been corrected and
includes both the budget figure for 2019/20 and that for 2018/19 (in
brackets). Please refer to the attached link
[1]https://www.attorneygeneralni.gov.uk/sit...

 

A 2018/19 Business Plan was not published.

 

An Annual Report has been produced for each of the intervening years
however they have not been published. There is a statutory requirement for
the First Minister and deputy First Minister, acting jointly, to lay the
annual report before the Assembly however there has not been a First
Minister and deputy First Minister nor an Assembly since 2017 to do so.
The Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 S26 states:

 

(2)        The Attorney General for Northern Ireland must send a copy of
each annual report of his to the Office of the First Minister and deputy
First Minister.

(3)        The First Minister and deputy First Minister, acting jointly,
must lay before the Assembly a copy of each annual report received by
their Office under subsection (2).

(4)        After a copy of an annual report has been laid in accordance
with subsection (3), the First Minister and deputy First Minister, acting
jointly, must arrange for the annual report to be published

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Maurice

Maurice Dowling
Head of Corporate Services
Office of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland
PO Box 1272 | Belfast | BT1 9LU
Tel: 028 90725305 |  Ext 74305

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