About TSol

The Treasury Solicitor's Department is an Executive Agency acting under the remit of the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP.

The Solicitor General Edward Garnier QC MP supports the Attorney across the range of his responsibilities.

The formal title given to our Chief Executive, Paul Jenkins QC, is Her Majesty's Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.

He is Head of the Government Legal Service, comprising a total of 1900 Government Lawyers and also holds the office of the Queen's Proctor, responsible for collecting Bona Vacantia (ownerless property) on behalf of the Crown.

The Treasury Solicitor

Paul joined the GLS from the self-employed Bar in 1979 and spent much of his early career as a litigator in the Treasury Solicitor's Department. He then moved to the Treasury Advisory team before spending two years at the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. In 1992 he returned to TSol to be the first Legal Adviser to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

From 1998 to 2004 Paul was the Legal Adviser to the Lord Chancellor's Department and then the Director General of the Legal and International Group in the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

Immediately before taking up his appointment as Treasury Solicitor, Paul was the Director General of the Law, Governance and Special Policy Group in the Department for Work and Pensions as well as the Solicitor to both DWP and the Department of Health.

Deputy Treasury Solicitor

Jonathan Jones, Deputy Treasury Solicitor joined TSol in August 2009. Before that he was head of the Attorney General’s Office for nearly five years where his work covered the Afghan and Iraq conflicts and alleged corruption cases such as BAE in Saudi Arabia and cash for peerages.

Jonathan is a barrister by training and most of his previous career has been in the Government Legal Service: at the Office of Fair Trading, the Department of Transport, the Department for Education and Skills and at the Treasury. Jonathan says he has a particular interest in public law and in the relationship between law and politics.

The Treasury Solicitor is appointed by the Head of the Home Civil Service to be the Head of the Government Legal Service (GLS). His role is to supervise its well-being and to provide it with a degree of central management/coordination. He is supported in this by the GLS Secretariat.

For more information on the GLS and employment opportunities we invite you to visit the Government Legal Service Recruitment Website.