The Office of the Advocate General recently reviewed its purpose and priorities. Click here to download our leaflet that outlines our purpose and priorities and to view our organisational structure.
The OAG Management Team works with the Advocate General to set the direction of our organisation and to ensure the delivery of our purpose. It also has responsibility for effective management of staff, finance and risk. Its members are the Director of OAG, the Deputy Solicitor, the Legal Secretary and the heads of the three divisions.
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From 1 April 2011, OAG, together with the Scotland Office, became a full Department in its own right, separate from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and aligned with, but not part of, the Cabinet Office. The MoJ will continue to provide OAG and the Scotland Office with a range of corporate services, such as payroll, on the basis of formal service level agreements: but it will have no formal accountability in terms of the use of resources by OAG or the Scotland Office. Instead, OAG and the Scotland Office will be directly answerable for the way they spend the funds voted by Parliament. As part of that change, Alisdair McIntosh, Director of the Scotland Office, became Principal Accounting Officer.
The offices have a Joint Management Board that oversees both organisations; the Director of the Scotland Office chairs that Board. This Board meets regularly and considers a wide range of issues, from the overall complement of the Offices to the budgeting allocations within the Offices.
Read the joint OAG/Scotland Office 2010-2011 Annual Report.