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date	17/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Slavery: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of victims of modern slavery in prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	278558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government introduced a statutory defence for victims of modern slavery (both under and over the age of 18), to protect those very vulnerable people who were previously being unfairly prosecuted for crimes they were forced to commit by their exploiters – notably cannabis cultivation. We are aware of concerns from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police that the defence is open to abuse from opportunistic criminals who are not victims, to escape justice for their crimes. That is why my rt hon Friend the Home Secretary asked the independent review of the Modern Slavery Act to examine how the statutory defence was working in practice.</p><p> </p><p>The report of the review was published in May. It found that the defence strikes the correct balance between protecting genuine victims and preventing misuse from opportunistic criminals. My rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is considering the review’s findings, and the Home Office will work closely with the CPS and law enforcement agencies to take the report’s recommendations forward. A copy of the final report of the Independent Modern Slavery Act Review can be found via the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report</a></p><p> </p><p>To determine how many people who at some point in their lives have been victims of modern slavery are currently in custody would require a search of individual records and could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 278559 question first answered 29/07/2019 15:46:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1139935

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Slavery: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of child victims of modern slavery in custody.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	278559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government introduced a statutory defence for victims of modern slavery (both under and over the age of 18), to protect those very vulnerable people who were previously being unfairly prosecuted for crimes they were forced to commit by their exploiters – notably cannabis cultivation. We are aware of concerns from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police that the defence is open to abuse from opportunistic criminals who are not victims, to escape justice for their crimes. That is why my rt hon Friend the Home Secretary asked the independent review of the Modern Slavery Act to examine how the statutory defence was working in practice.</p><p> </p><p>The report of the review was published in May. It found that the defence strikes the correct balance between protecting genuine victims and preventing misuse from opportunistic criminals. My rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is considering the review’s findings, and the Home Office will work closely with the CPS and law enforcement agencies to take the report’s recommendations forward. A copy of the final report of the Independent Modern Slavery Act Review can be found via the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report</a></p><p> </p><p>To determine how many people who at some point in their lives have been victims of modern slavery are currently in custody would require a search of individual records and could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 278558 question first answered 29/07/2019 15:46:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1139937

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Shoplifting: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women sentenced to prison for theft from shops received sentences of (a) less than one month, (b) less than three months, (c) less than six months, (d) less than 12 months and (e) 12 months or more.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	278561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on the number of women sentenced to immediate custody for theft from shops offences, and the length of these sentences in the Outcomes by Offence data tool available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Select ’46 Theft from Shops’ in the Offence filter</p><p>Select ’02: Female’ in the Sex filter</p><p> </p><p>The total women sentenced to immediate custody can be found in row 36 and custodial sentence lengths can be found in row 56 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not have a specific classification for (i) non-violent and non-sexual offences and (ii) violent and sexual offences, as offences are classified by indictable or summary offence groupings and prosecutions are counted for principal offences. Broad indictable groups for ’01: Violence against the person’ and ’02: Sexual offences’ can be displayed using the Offence group filter in the above data tool for violent and sexual offences; all other offence groups would broadly cover non-violent and non-sexual offences. However, note that some offences that would be classified as violence (such as common assault and battery) are counted in the summary offences category.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the figures given in the pivot table relate to defendants for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 278553 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:05:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon