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707564

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prisons: Smuggling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many convictions (1) the Metropolitan Police Service, and (2) the Crown Prosecution Service, have secured for conveying prohibited items into prisons, since 1 January 2013.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL5787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>These types of offences investigated by the Metropolitan Police will be prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).</p><p>Offences of conveying items into prison can be prosecuted under various pieces of legislation. Many are offences which are not specific to prisons and those which are can apply to circumstances where items are conveyed either into or out of prison. Specific offences of conveying prohibiting items into prison cannot therefore be identified from the CPS case management system without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>The official statistics relating to criminal court proceedings, including convictions, are maintained by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 16/03/2017 15:15:19 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

705810

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prisoners: Death
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cases under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 have been actively considered by the Crown Prosecution Service since 2011 in respect of a death or deaths in custody.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL5640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on the number of cases it has considered for a charge of corporate manslaughter in respect of a death or deaths in custody. CPS information systems do not allow for cases involving deaths in custody to be dis-aggregated from the tally of cases in which corporate manslaughter was considered.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/03/2017 16:01:26 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

705811

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prisoners: Death
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions the Crown Prosecution Service has brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 in respect of a death or deaths in custody.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL5641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>There have been no cases to date in which the CPS has brought charges under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 in respect of a death or deaths in custody.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/03/2017 16:01:44 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

705812

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prisoners: Death
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cases the Crown Prosecution Service currently has under active consideration under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 in respect of a death or deaths in custody.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL5642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service is currently considering fewer than five cases in which a charge of corporate manslaughter is being considered in connection to a death or deaths in custody.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 13/03/2017 17:02:07 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

705813

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions the Metropolitan Police Service and the Crown Prosecution Service have brought in respect of drug (1) possession, (2) dealing, and (3) smuggling, in London’s prisons since 1 January 2013.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL5643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Prosecutions for drug possession, dealing and smuggling in a prison setting may be brought under a number of differing legislative provisions. Prosecutions for these sorts of offences investigated by the Metropolitan Police are conducted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).</p><p>Whilst the CPS holds data relating to prosecutions brought under the Prisons Act 1952, it is not possible to disaggregate, from those relating to other proscribed articles, the number of offences relating to drug possession, dealing or smuggling.</p><p>The CPS also holds data relating to offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 but it is not possible to disaggregate those which have taken place in custodial institutions.</p><p>Section 9 of the Psychoactive Substances Act (PSA) 2016 provides the offence of possession of a psychoactive substance in a custodial institution. Since the Act came into force no prosecutions brought under this section have been completed in the London Area.</p><p>A national joint protocol between the CPS, Police and the National Offender Management Service is in force for crimes in prisons. The CPS works very closely with police and prison colleagues to ensure that acts of criminality within prisons are properly addressed.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 13/03/2017 13:15:56 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth

692124

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Genocide
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Attorney General has advised on whether any UK court of law can make a judgment on whether the crime of genocide has taken place as defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>By longstanding convention, the fact that the Law Officers have or have not advised, and the content of their advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/03/2017 12:09:53 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

680945

registered interest
date	30/01/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of cases in which the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS's) decisions not to initiate prosecutions in cases of domestic violence have been successfully challenged, whether they will commission an inquiry into the policy and practice of the CPS in relation to that issue.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL5071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2017 answer text <p>Victims of domestic abuse can challenge a CPS decision not to prosecute their case, under the Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) scheme. In 2015-16, the CPS made 41,503 decisions in domestic abuse cases. 520 of these cases were appealed through the VRR scheme; 49 of which were upheld. Of the total number of domestic abuse decisions, the upheld rate was 0.12%. Of the number of domestic abuse VRR appeals, the upheld rate was 9.4%. An inquiry is not required because these volumes and proportions are small and the CPS is, in the majority of domestic abuse cases, accurate in its decision making.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 13/02/2017 14:24:37 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

670040

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Corruption
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many successful prosecutions for corruption overseas there have been of (1) British companies, and (2) individuals, in the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL4401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>Official data regarding prosecutions are held by the Ministry of Justice, but the department does not record it in a form which allows it to distinguish between overseas bribery and domestic bribery.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst not official data, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) record data for their own management information purposes. In the last five years, the SFO has successfully prosecuted three British companies and 10 individuals, nine of whom were British citizens, for bribery or corruption overseas (offences under the Bribery Act 2010 or the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906).</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this the SFO has secured three Deferred Prosecution Agreements with British companies in the past two years for overseas corruption offences. The first agreement included a financial penalty of $25m, plus SFO’s full costs; the second resulted in financial orders of £6.6m and the most recent one was for £497.25m plus interest, as well as a payment of the SFO’s full costs.</p><p> </p><p>CPS’s data measures the outcome of prosecutions against defendants but not on the outcome against individual offences. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 19/01/2017 11:41:49 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

652963

registered interest
date	06/12/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Duchy of Cornwall: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Attorney General or other counsel have reviewed the taxation of the income from the Duchy of Cornwall within the last 30 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL3853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs is the department with principal responsibility for reviewing individual tax affairs. They do not comment on the affairs of identifiable taxpayers.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 20/12/2016 17:48:28 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

579577

registered interest
date	09/09/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cases under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 have been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2005 to date.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
uin	HL1748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2016 answer text <p>While the Crown Prosecution Service and the police work with each other at an early stage on Female Genital Mutilation cases to ensure all avenues of enquiry can be pursued, the CPS only records data on the Case Management System following a positive decision to charge a case.</p><p>The Casework Management System records that one FGM case was charged in 2014 and resulted in an acquittal in 2015.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 27/09/2016 15:09:00 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon