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date	21/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of section 22A of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	18480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Section 176 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014 inserted Section 22A into the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980. Under this provision, shoplifting of goods worth £200 or less is treated as a summary only offence, unless the defendant elects to be tried in the Crown Court. These cases can now be handled as police-led prosecutions.</p><p>Police-led prosecutions were introduced to provide a simpler and more proportionate response to high-volume, low-level offences where the case is uncontested, increasing police discretion to tackle crime in their area, freeing up CPS resource to focus on more complex cases, and generating efficiencies in the criminal justice system. The Ministry of Justice does not maintain statistics on police-led prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 13:02:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

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registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Emergency Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 on the demand for custodial resources; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	18481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>Attacks against our brave emergency workers who protect us are appalling and cowardly. That is why we doubled the maximum penalty for assaulting an emergency worker and gave judges the powers to aggravate the sentences for crimes committed against them.</p><p> </p><p>In the year ending September 2019, 1,205 people had been sentenced to immediate custody for the new offence of assault on an emergency worker, with custodial sentences averaging around 2-3 months over the period.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866997/emergency-workers-table-sept-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866997/emergency-workers-table-sept-2019.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 28/02/2020 14:56:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas