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date	14/11/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions for using a mobile telephone while in control of a motor vehicle were recorded in London in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	112849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Regulation 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 creates a prohibition on the use of mobile telephones in motor vehicles. All such offences are initially prosecuted by the police. Only those cases where the offence is contested are referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) identify the number of contested offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing in magistrates’ courts, rather than the number of successful prosecutions.</p><p>During the last five years the number of these offences, prosecuted by the CPS in London, was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 { 110 }</p></td><td><p>1,629</p></td><td><p>1,373</p></td><td><p>1,436</p></td><td><p>1,403</p></td><td><p>510</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</em></p><p>There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation.</p><p>These figures do not reflect prosecutions under the Road Traffic Act for offences of dangerous and careless driving where use of a mobile phone was a factor.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2017 14:59:10 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

788981

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions for using a mobile telephone while in control of a motor vehicle were recorded in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	112850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Regulation 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 creates a prohibition on the use of mobile telephones in motor vehicles. All such offences are initially prosecuted by the police. Only those cases where the offence is contested are referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Records held by the CPS identify the number of contested offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing in magistrates’ courts, rather than the number of successful prosecutions.</p><p>During the last five years the number of these offences, prosecuted by the CPS, was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 { 110 }</p></td><td><p>5,805</p></td><td><p>3,870</p></td><td><p>2,910</p></td><td><p>2,780</p></td><td><p>1,527</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</em></p><p>There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation.</p><p>These figures do not reflect prosecutions under the Road Traffic Act for offences of dangerous and careless driving where use of a mobile phone was a factor.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2017 14:42:04 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

782453

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government under what authority the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has agreed a definition of racially and religiously aggravated crime that is wider than the legal definition under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and Criminal Justice Act 2003, as indicated in the CPS Public statement on prosecuting racist and religious hate crime published in August.
tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
uin	HL2876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>In order to charge and prosecute hate crimes, the CPS uses the legal definition provided by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and Criminal Justice Act 2003. The shared police and CPS definition of hate crime is based on the perception of the victim or any other person and allows for case flagging and monitoring as well as appropriate victim support, it does not affect the charge.</p><p>This flagging definition comes from the recommended definition in the Macpherson report which was published in 1999 as a result of the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The Macpherson Report found a lack of confidence within communities that hate crime was being treated seriously by the police and Criminal Justice System and recommended that the definition of a racist incident should be, ‘any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person’. Putting the victim’s perception at the heart of the definition gives a clear signal that, once flagged as a hate crime, an appropriate investigation will follow and evidence to support the law on hostility will be proactively sought. The definition seeks to encourage victims to report and to increase confidence in the Criminal Justice System.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/11/2017 16:44:23 question first ministerially corrected 20/11/2017 11:19:23 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton previous answer version 22806 answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie answering member 4538
tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson