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443164

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking to improve the number of successful prosecutions for human trafficking offences.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	21543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has issued guidance to strengthen prosecutions in support of the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The CPS continues to deliver joint training with the police. The increased awareness and emphasis on working with the police to build stronger cases should lead to an improvement in the number of successful prosecutions.</p><br /><p>The Director of Public Prosecutionsis hosting a summit with the Heads of the Prosecution Services in the UK and the Lord Advocate for Scotland in February 2016 to launch joint commitments to provide a more robust UK response to human trafficking and slavery.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 13/01/2016 13:39:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

443315

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Juries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20564, how many people were charged with jury (a) intimidation and (b) tampering in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	21435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 creates two offences:</p><p>S.51(1) creates an offence directed at acts against a person who assists in an investigation of an offence or who is a witness or potential witness or juror or potential juror whilst an investigation or trial is in progress</p><p>S.51(2) creates an offence directed at acts against a person who assisted in an investigation of an offence or who was a witness or juror after an investigation or trial has been concluded.</p><p>The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) identify the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing in the magistrates’ courts, rather than the number of defendants prosecuted. A single defendant may be prosecuted for multiple offences.</p><p>The number of offences charged under s.51(1) and s.51(2) are as follows:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>2014-2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 51(1)</p></td><td><p>Intimidate a witness / juror</p></td><td><p>3,275</p></td><td><p>2,630</p></td><td><p>2,148</p></td><td><p>2,066</p></td><td><p>2,202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 51(2)</p></td><td><p>Do an act which harmed a witness / juror</p></td><td><p>102</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 51(2)</p></td><td><p>Threaten a witness / juror</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The proportion of CPS cases that result in a guilty plea has increased from 67.2% in 10/11 to 74.5% in 14/15 which means that there are fewer cases that are likely to be subject to the sorts of acts covered by s.51(1) during the course of the prosecution.</p><p>Also, s.51(1) covers intimidation of juror or potential jurors. The number of crown court trials have also been reducing over the period in question by 9.5%, again resulting in fewer cases where S.51(1) offences are likely to apply.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 13/01/2016 15:14:30 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

442499

registered interest
date	05/01/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people of each gender work in the Law Officers' Departments.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	21085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The total number of staff employed by the Law Officers’ Departments by gender is detailed in the following table:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong></strong> <strong>Department</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong></strong> <strong>Headcount (as at 31<sup>st</sup> December 2015)</strong> <strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong> <strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attorney General’s Office</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Legal Department</p></td><td><p>1227</p></td><td><p>788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p></td><td><p>3853</p></td><td><p>2069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Serious Fraud Office</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/01/2016 14:33:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

442228

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2015 to Question 19543, how many of those prosecutions for human trafficking resulted in a conviction.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Mark Field
uin	20819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>During 2014-2015 the CPS prosecuted 187 defendants for offences connected with human trafficking. 130 of these defendants were convicted at a conviction rate of 69.5%.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/01/2016 11:34:06 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1405 label Biography information for Mark Field

438072

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Courts: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse has been since December 2014 of the Government defending cases which have been appealed to the European Court of Justice following a ruling in the Royal Courts or the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	20112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>Cases are not appealed to the Court of Justice of the European Union from UK courts but they can ask for preliminary rulings on a point of European law from the Court of Justice of the European Union.</p><p>The amount of disbursements paid by the Government for Counsel’s fees and for travel and accommodation costs for hearings in requests for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union from United Kingdom Courts since December 2014 was £33,288.42.</p><p>This includes requests for preliminary rulings made by UK Tribunals, but not other legal proceedings in the CJEU in which the UK Courts and Tribunals have played no part. It does not include disbursements incurred but not yet paid, the cost of government lawyers and other staff involved in these cases within the Government, or costs incurred in relation to the domestic aspects of the proceedings, which are not centrally recorded.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/12/2015 10:35:45 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

438152

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2015 to Question 15443, for what reason the (a) Government Legal Department's expenditure on temporary agency staff and (b) Crown Prosecution Service's expenditure on (i) consultants and (ii) non-payroll staff increased between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	20018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) provides legal services to government. It engages temporary and contract staff as a way of managing short term variations in demand. Where an increase in demand for legal services is expected to continue for the medium or long term, the department will use temporary staff to resource the work until permanent staff can be recruited. The increase in temporary staff from 2010-11 to 2014-15 reflects increased demand for legal services and the growth of GLD as a result of the Shared Legal Services programme that has brought into one organisation legal teams from across government. As a result overall staff numbers have increased by 69% between 2010-11 and 2014-15.</p><p>As outlined in the previous answer the actual expenditure incurred by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on consultants and non-payroll staff between 2010-11 and 2014-15 was as follows.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultants</p></td><td><p>Non-payroll staff</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£684,314</p></td><td><p>£392,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£13,347</p></td><td><p>£23,355</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£9,793</p></td><td><p>£2,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£960</p></td><td><p>£273,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£1,350,317</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between 2010-11 and 2014-15 the CPS has actually reduced its expenditure on consultants by £684,314.</p><p>In 2014-15 the CPS set up a project to manage the transition from its existing main Information Technology service provider. The Project Manager and remaining team are non-CPS staff, and their costs of £1,350,317 were the only non-payroll staff costs incurred last year.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 04/01/2016 16:51:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

437057

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many alleged human traffickers have been prosecuted by the CPS as a result of calls made to the NSPCC human trafficking and modern slavery helpline between July 2014 and June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	19543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>In the last financial year the CPS successfully prosecuted 130 human trafficking cases. However, the CPS does not record how an allegation of human trafficking or modern slavery was brought to the attention of the investigative authorities.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 15/12/2015 13:01:57 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

435752

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Secretaries of State for Defence and International Development on ensuring that full and proper account is taken of the importance of international humanitarian law in areas of potential conflict and war.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	19036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>I meet regularlywith Ministerial colleagues to discuss important issues of common interest, including on international humanitarian law. I am not able to talk about any legal content of those discussions because, by convention, whether the Law Officers have given advice or not is not disclosed outside Government. All legal advice provided by the Law Officers is confidential and subject to legal professional privilege.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/12/2015 13:02:56 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

433716

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Evidence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what factors the Crown Prosecution Service takes into account when assessing the reliability of evidence which is more than 30 years old.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	18455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>Evidence is assessed in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors in arriving at a decision whether to prosecute a case. A prosecutor will look at whether the evidence is admissible in court, its importance in relation to the evidence as a whole, its reliability, accuracy, integrity and credibility. It is the duty of prosecutors to make sure that the right person is prosecuted for the right offence and to bring offenders to justice wherever possible. In doing so a prosecutor must be satisfied that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/12/2015 12:17:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

433717

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2015 to Question 16871, what the budget allocated to the Specialist Fraud Division was in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	18484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The budget allocated to the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years was:</p><br /><p>2009/10 - £7.3m</p><p>2010/11 - £23.4m</p><p>2011/12 - £22.1m</p><p>2012/13 - £26.8m</p><p>2013/14 - £25.6m</p><p>2014/15 - £23.6m</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/12/2015 15:35:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry