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47877

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions have taken place under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the offence of providing unrestricted access to hardcore pornography online, as set out in the 2005 Crown Prosecution Service guidelines, disaggregated by year.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	196000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)indicate the number of offences charged, in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates' courts under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (publishing or having an obscene article for publication for gain), rather than identifying the number of people prosecuted.</p><p>Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 creates the offence of publishing or having an obscene article for publication for gain.</p><p>The table below shows, in each of the last 8 years, for which figures are available, the number of offences, charged by way of Section 2 of the OPA 1959, and which reached a first hearing at magistrates' courts, in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Obscene Publications Act 1959 { 2 }</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2005-2006</strong></p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2006-2007</strong></p></td><td><p>105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007-2008</strong></p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008-2009</strong></p></td><td><p>152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-2010</strong></p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

47116

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by the Law Officers' Departments since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	195504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments have not transferred any permanent jobs from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

47290

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many cases of domestic violence have led to prosecutions for psychological abuse in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	195668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 195663 195667 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

47291

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many domestic violence cases have led to prosecutions for non-injurious behaviours.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	195667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 195663 195668 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

47292

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether any domestic violence cases have led to prosecutions for coercive control since the inclusion of coercive control in the Government's definition of domestic violence in March 2013.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	195663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 195667 195668 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

47293

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether any cases of domestic violence have led to prosecutions for stalking when the stalking behaviours occurred before the victim and perpetrator had separated.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	195669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service do not identify the number of people prosecuted for domestic violence that have led to prosecutions for stalking where the stalking behaviour occurred before the victim and perpetrator had separated. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland