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706180

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	65977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>GLD expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: £12,252.00</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: £24,933.12</p><p> </p><p>GLD has consistently consumed 13,960 boxes (69,800 reams) of paper per annum for the last 5 years. The cost for the period 2016-17 to date was £76,241. Accurate costs for earlier periods cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>HMCPSI Expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):</p><p> </p><p>2012: nil</p><p>2013: nil</p><p>2014: nil</p><p>2015: nil</p><p>2016: nil</p><p> </p><p>Accurate costs for paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p> </p><p>CPS and AGO</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not spent any money on iPads in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS, including the Attorney General’s Office, spend on tablets over the last five years has been provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost of Tablet including VAT(£)</p><p>2012 75,412</p><p>2013 0</p><p>2014 0</p><p>2015 46,077</p><p>2016 25,885*</p><p>*costs are estimated for 2016</p><p> </p><p>(b) The CPS estimates that it has spent the following amounts on paper over the last 5 years:</p><p> </p><p>Year Cost (£)</p><p>2012* 1,120,904</p><p>2013* 926,609</p><p>2014** 983,802</p><p>2015** 847,431</p><p>2016** 445,717</p><p>* costs for 2012 and 2013 are based on historic data provided by CPS stationery suppliers</p><p>** costs for 2014, 2015 and 2016 are estimated and based on total stationery spend for the periods.</p><p>To identify all expenditure that relates solely and specifically to paper would involve the manual checking of thousands of invoices and would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Accurate costs for AGO paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">SFO </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The SFO does not separately record paper costs from overall stationery expenditure.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Stationery Year Cost (£) </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 64,094</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 69,657</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 74,750</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 52,721</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 40,916 </em></ins><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>iPads &amp; Tablets <em>Year Cost (£)</em></em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2012-13 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2013-14 10,423</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2014-15 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2015-16 0</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>2016-17* 9,475</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>*</em><strong><em>Spend as at 31/01/2017</em></strong></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/03/2017 16:25:26 question first ministerially corrected 09/03/2017 14:52:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 39303 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

824730

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many contracts his Department holds with government strategic suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	123531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD)<ins class="ministerial"> holds contracts with eight Government strategic suppliers</ins> and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) hold six contracts <del class="ministerial">each</del> with Government strategic suppliers.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) holds three contracts with Government strategic suppliers.</p><p>HMCPSI holds two contracts with Government strategic suppliers; and the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) holds <del class="ministerial">one</del> contract<ins class="ministerial">s with three suppliers</ins>.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 01/02/2018 17:39:32 question first ministerially corrected 23/03/2018 14:34:08 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 38874 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

705510

	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	Attorney General: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the procurement spend of the Law Officers' Departments was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	65676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The following figures, based on <del class="ministerial">published</del> accounts for <ins class="ministerial">the financial years from</ins> <ins class="ministerial">April</ins> 2010 to <ins class="ministerial">April</ins> 2016, show the procurement spend (all expenditure on goods, assets or services, not including expenditure relating to the remuneration of employees, non cash costs such as depreciation and local/national taxes such as rates and excluding any case settlement costs) for the Law Officers’ Departments. <ins class="ministerial">Figures for the financial year from April 2016- April 2017 are not yet available. </ins></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> Value </ins> <ins class="ministerial">(£000s)</ins></p></td><td><p>2010<ins class="ministerial">-11</ins></p></td><td><p>2011<ins class="ministerial">-12</ins></p></td><td><p>2012<ins class="ministerial">-13</ins></p></td><td><p>2013<ins class="ministerial">-14</ins></p></td><td><p>2014<ins class="ministerial">-15</ins></p></td><td><p>2015<ins class="ministerial">-16</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2016</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GLD*</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">52,300</del> <ins class="ministerial">49,533</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">49,533</del> <ins class="ministerial">52,426</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">52,426</del> <ins class="ministerial">47,070</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">47,070</del> <ins class="ministerial">60,167</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">60,167</del> <ins class="ministerial">70,649</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">70,649</del> <ins class="ministerial">68,804</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">68,804</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AGO</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,800</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,589</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,589</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,520</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,520</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,457</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,457</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,348</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,348</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,470</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,470</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,354</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,354</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMCPSI</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">821</del> <ins class="ministerial">893</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">893</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,032</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,032</del> <ins class="ministerial">417</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">417</del> <ins class="ministerial">409</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">409</del> <ins class="ministerial">388</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">388</del> <ins class="ministerial">419</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">419</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">315,581</del> <ins class="ministerial">307,168</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">274,816</del> <ins class="ministerial">270,597</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">269,612</del> <ins class="ministerial">255,429</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">244,121</del> <ins class="ministerial">252,916</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">284,482</del> <ins class="ministerial">289,727</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">347,658</del> <ins class="ministerial">258,876</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">325,560</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SFO</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21,696m</del> <ins class="ministerial">21,696</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">18,968m</del> <ins class="ministerial">18,968</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">17,884m</del> <ins class="ministerial">17,884</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">31,689m</del> <ins class="ministerial">31,689</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">26,887m</del> <ins class="ministerial">26,887</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">22,358m</del> <ins class="ministerial">22,358</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21,904m</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The Treasury Solicitor’s Department until 31 March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 06/03/2017 17:33:33 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2017 17:48:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 38730 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

386199

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Director of Public Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will make it his policy to enable a Select Committee to hold a confirmation hearings for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	4608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <blockquote><p> </p><p>The post of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is a Civil Service appointment. The process is conducted by the independent Civil Service Commission in line with statute and the Government has no plans to change this. The Commission appoints a panel to carry out the process. In recent competitions, the panel has consisted of the Cabinet Secretary, a senior Civil Service Commissioner, a non-executive director from the relevant department and an external stakeholder - which in the case of the DPP might be a Court of Appeal judge.</p><p> </p></blockquote> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/07/2015 11:00:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

772288

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Welsh Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to ensure greater collaboration between the Crown Prosecution Service and the Welsh Government.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	108331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <ol><li><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) works actively and regularly alongside the Welsh Government on a range of issues of mutual interest, notwithstanding that responsibility for criminal justice is not devolved.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Recent examples of cooperation between the CPS and the Welsh Government include the following:</p></li></ol><p> </p><ul><li><p>The CPS has contributed to the development of the Welsh Government’s National Strategy on Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence. The Welsh Government has committed to work with the CPS and other criminal justice agencies to improve the response to those who report domestic abuse and sexual violence. The CPS continues to work with the Welsh Government on the delivery of the strategy.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The CPS contributed substantially to the establishment of the Hate Crime Criminal Justice Board Cymru and its first chair was the CPS Hate Crime Coordinator. The Board draws together the Welsh Police Forces, and other non-devolved bodies such as the CPS and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>CPS Cymru-Wales is represented strongly on the Welsh Government’s Wales Anti-Slavery Leadership Group which provides strategic leadership for the delivery of tackling slavery in Wales.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The CPS is represented on the regional Welsh Government Mental Health and Criminal Justice Boards.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The CPS has met with representatives of the Counsel General for Wales and has responded to the consultation on developing a Welsh Government Code for Prosecutors.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The CPS has worked with the Welsh Government and the four Police Forces in Wales to develop a Memorandum of Understanding on Tackling Violence and Aggression Against NHS Wales Staff.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>CPS Cymru-Wales has appointed a senior manager to take lead responsibility for liaison with the Welsh Government to further strengthen relationships.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/10/2017 13:29:30 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

421290

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the (a) prosecution cost per defendant, (b) overall spend per completed case and (c) overall spend per full-time equivalent staff member in (i) the Crown Court and (ii) magistrates' courts was in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	11888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>(a) The prosecution cost per defendant since 2010-11 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£461</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£496</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>(b) The overall spend per completed case for each year since 2010-11 is as follows:-</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£477</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£550</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>(c) The overall spend per full-time equivalent staff member in (i) the Crown Court and (ii) magistrates' courts was, in 2014-15:</p><p>(i) Crown Court £96,532</p><p>(ii) Magistrates Court £58,924</p><br /><p>It is important to note that these are not staff costs but represent the full cost of prosecuting cases in the Magistrates and Crown Courts. These costs include administrative overheads.</p><br /><p>Prior to 2014-15 the CPS did not distinguish staff expenditure between Magistrates’ and Crown Court cases, so we are unable to apportion spend to full-time equivalents by these categories.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 15:58:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

603985

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many complaints to the Crown Prosecution Service were upheld at formal Stage 2 in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	48962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>1) The following table shows the number of complaints upheld at Stage 2 in the past three years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Stage 2 Complaints -Upheld</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/10/2016 15:47:34 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

800544

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many sentences broken down by offence were referred to him for being unduly lenient fell outside the Unduly Lenient Scheme in the latest year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	117165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>837 cases were referred to the AG in 2016. 256 of the 837 cases did not fall within the ULS scheme because they were not imposed in the Crown Court following conviction for an offence within the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>A case will be recorded as not falling within the ULS scheme if the offence is outside the ULS scheme, the defendant is not convicted, or they are not sentenced in the Crown Court.</p><p> </p><p>The Attorney General’s Office records the cases which do not fall within the ULS scheme primarily by “offence type”. The 256 cases were recorded in the following offence categories:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Offence type:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of cases:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arson</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>10 (8 of these sentences were for offences not in the ULS scheme and 2 defendants were acquitted of offences within the ULS scheme)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Death by careless driving</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Death by dangerous driving</p></td><td><p>2 (both these defendants were acquitted)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All other driving - total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Causing serious injury by dangerous driving</em></p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Dangerous driving</em></p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Driving with excess alcohol</em></p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Driving while disqualified</em></p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Driving without due care and attention</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Driving over the speed limit</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hate crime</p></td><td><p>3 (these defendants were sentenced in the magistrates’ court)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other - total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>67</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Offences relating to animals</em></p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Assault offences (other than under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861)</em></p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Assisting an offender</em></p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Assisting unlawful immigration</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Child abduction</em></p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Breaching a court order</em></p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Breaching of health and safety law</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Criminal damage</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Harassment and stalking</em></p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Miscellaneous</em></p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Terrorism offences</em></p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Sending a threatening communication</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Weapons offences</em></p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Witness intimidation</em></p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861</p></td><td><p>1 (this sentence was imposed after the Court of Appeal ordered a retrial)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Section 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 1956</p></td><td><p>1 (this defendant was found unfit to plead and the indictment stayed)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003</p></td><td><p>10 (4 of these sentences concerned abuse of trust offences, 2 of these sentences were imposed in the youth court, and 1 of these sentences was imposed in Scotland)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indecent images of children</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>255<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] There is 1 case for which the Attorney General’s Office has not recorded the offence category.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 14/12/2017 13:39:56 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

638048

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the staff budget of the Crown Prosecution Service was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	53463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The staff budget of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), in each year since 2010, is given below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Staff Budgets £’000s</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>737,667</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>372,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>361,278</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>347,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>313,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>291,472</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/11/2016 16:37:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

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	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Crime: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) victim impact statements and (b) compensation claims are made when cases are brought to court in (i) Northamptonshire and (ii) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	4706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong>a) Under the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (Victims’ Code), victims are entitled to make a Victim Personal Statement (VPS), (sometimes referred to as a ‘victim impact statement’). When the Code came in to force in December 2013 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issued operational guidance to support prosecutors in meeting their commitments. More recently, a national cross-agency protocol setting out the working arrangements for the reading of the VPS in criminal proceedings has been implemented (the CPS is a signatory).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>b) The CPS has issued legal guidance on the role of the prosecutor to assist the court in the sentencing process by making it aware of all relevant information. This includes drawing the court’s attention to its powers to award compensation and inviting them to make such an order where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Northamptonshire is part of the CPS East Midlands Area and the Area applies the national guidance which has been issued both in respect of the VPS and also compensation claims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 02/07/2015 10:59:22 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone