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516142

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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, (a) how much funding he has allocated to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the CPS's Proceeds of Crime Unit in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	35792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) allocated the following funding to its Proceeds of Crime Unit since 2009.</p><p>2008/09 £ 2,556,535</p><p>2009/10 £ 4,339,422</p><p>2010/11 £ 7,311,688</p><p>2011/12 £ 6,096,729</p><p>2012/13 £ 5,967,226</p><p>2013/14 £ 6,125,024</p><p>2014/15 £ 8,378,651</p><p>2015/16 £10,035,821</p><p> </p><p>The following average full-time equivalent staff in post for Proceeds of Crime Unit since 2009 were:-</p><p>2008/09 41.9</p><p>2009/10 60.0</p><p>2010/11 73.1</p><p>2011/12 65.1</p><p>2012/13 77.3</p><p>2013/14 77.7</p><p>2014/15 124.4</p><p>2015/16 140.4</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/05/2016 14:59:37 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

850230

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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, if he will publish (a) the amount of money he has allocated to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by CPS Proceeds of Crime in each year since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	129798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) has allocated £9,536,522 to its central Proceeds of Crime Unit in 2016/17. This does not include work carried out in CPS Areas. An average 127.7 full time equivalent staff were in post in the Proceeds of Crime Unit during 2016/17</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 12/03/2018 16:43:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1020431

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2018 to Question 194050 on Crown Prosecution Service: Staff, how many minor motoring cases were transferred to the police in the same period.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	199279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (the 1985 Act) provides that the DPP had a duty to take over the conduct of all criminal proceedings, save for specified proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Specified proceedings are designated by Section 3(3) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 and the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) Order 1999 (the 1999 order) and include most motoring offences which are commenced by the police in accordance with Section 12 Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the following motoring offences were added to the list of specified proceedings:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>No</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Section</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Statute</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1.</p></td><td><p>s.3</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Careless and inconsiderate driving</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2.</p></td><td><p>s.35</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Failing to comply with a traffic direction</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3.</p></td><td><p>s.163</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Failing to stop a motor vehicle or bicycle when required to do so by the police</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4.</p></td><td><p>s.170</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Failing to stop, report an accident or give information or documents when required to do so</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds no record of the number of these motoring cases that were prosecuted by the police.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does however maintain a central record of the volumes of completed prosecutions, assigned the Principal Offence Category ‘Motoring Offences’, as a count of the number of defendants.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows that the number of these prosecutions has fallen between 2008 and 2018 as a likely result of the additional motoring offences having been added to the list of specified proceedings.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Year Ending September 2008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Year Ending September 2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume change</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Change</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS Motoring Offences Prosecution Caseload</p></td><td><p>379,837</p></td><td><p>99,331</p></td><td><p>-280,506</p></td><td><p>-73.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Data Source: Case Management Information System</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/12/2018 16:13:58 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name 199279 and 199280 Annex 1 - Steve McCabe.doc title Annex 1
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1020432

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2018 to Question 194050 on Crown Prosecution Service: Staff, what other types of case were transferred to the police in the same period.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	199280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (the 1985 Act) provides that the DPP had a duty to take over the conduct of all criminal proceedings, save for specified proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Specified proceedings are designated by Section 3(3) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 and the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) Order 1999 (the 1999 order) and include most motoring offences which are commenced by the police in accordance with Section 12 Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 by serving with the summons either a statement of facts about the offence or a copy of the written statements.</p><p> </p><p>The 1999 order also provides that proceedings cease to be specified when a court begins to receive evidence. At that stage the duty for a prosecutor to conduct the proceedings engages.</p><p> </p><p>Annex 1 provides the full list of offences falling within The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (specified proceedings) Order 1999) and including all amendments to date.</p><p> </p><p>During the 2008 – 2018 period the following offences were added to the list of specified proceedings as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Offences added in 2012:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>No</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Section</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Statute</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1.</p></td><td><p>s.3</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Careless and inconsiderate driving</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2.</p></td><td><p>s.35</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Failing to comply with a traffic direction</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3.</p></td><td><p>s.163</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Failing to stop a motor vehicle or bicycle when required to do so by the police</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4.</p></td><td><p>s.170</p></td><td><p>Road Traffic Act 1988</p></td><td><p>Failing to stop, report an accident or give information or documents when required to do so</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5.</p></td><td><p>s.1(1)</p></td><td><p>Criminal Damage Act 1971</p></td><td><p>Criminal damage where the value of the property involved is no more than £5,000 (not including arson)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6.</p></td><td><p>s.12</p></td><td><p>Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001</p></td><td><p>Consumption of alcohol in a designated public place</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7.</p></td><td><p>s.91</p></td><td><p>Criminal Justice Act 1967</p></td><td><p>Disorderly behaviour while drunk in a public place</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8.</p></td><td><p>s.12</p></td><td><p>Licensing Act 1872</p></td><td><p>Being drunk in a highway, other public place or licensed premises</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9.</p></td><td><p>s.63B(8)</p></td><td><p>Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984</p></td><td><p>Failing to give a sample for the purposes of testing for the presence of Class A drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10.</p></td><td><p>s.12(3) and 14(3)</p></td><td><p>Drugs Act 2005</p></td><td><p>Failing to attend an assessment following testing for the presence of Class A drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11.</p></td><td><p>s.55 and 56</p></td><td><p>British Transport Commission Act 1949</p></td><td><p>Trespassing or throwing stones on the railway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12.</p></td><td><p>s.49</p></td><td><p>Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004</p></td><td><p>Knowingly giving a false alarm of fire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13.</p></td><td><p>s.5</p></td><td><p>Public Order Act 1986</p></td><td><p>Behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14.</p></td><td><p>s.11</p></td><td><p>Fireworks Act 2003</p></td><td><p>Contravention of a prohibition or failure to comply with a requirement imposed by or under fireworks regulations or making false statements</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15.</p></td><td><p>s.80</p></td><td><p>Explosives Act 1875</p></td><td><p>Throwing fireworks in a thoroughfare</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16.</p></td><td><p>s.87(1)</p></td><td><p>Environmental Protection Act 1990</p></td><td><p>Depositing and leaving litter</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Offences added in 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>No</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Section</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Statute</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1.</p></td><td><p>s.1</p></td><td><p>Theft Act 1968 (but only if the offence constitutes low-value shoplifting within the meaning of section 22A(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980)</p></td><td><p>Theft (Shoplifting where the value of the stolen goods is worth £200 or less)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/12/2018 16:14:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name 199279 and 199280 Annex 1 - Steve McCabe.doc title Annex 1
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1059961

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 of February 2019 to Question 217439 on Crown Prosecution Service: West Midlands, for each Principle Offence type, what estimate he has made of the number of cases pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service which did not result in a trial in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands in each year since 2010; and if he will publish the reasons for each of those cases not resulting in a trial.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	220059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The number of cases which did not result in a trial can be broken down into a number of categories. Guilty pleas and Proved in Absence prosecutions result in a conviction while Dropped and Administratively Finalised prosecutions result in a non-conviction. The four tables in Annex A provide the Guilty pleas and Proved in Absence prosecutions together with the Dropped and Administratively Finalised prosecutions for both England and CPS West Midlands.</p><p> </p><p>The definition for each category of prosecution is provided in the notes in Annex A. The notes provide an explanation as to why these case types did not proceed to trial.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/02/2019 09:36:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name 220059 - Annex A.docx title Annex A
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1064422

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	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, pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 213932 on Crown Prosecution Service: West Midlands, what the change has been in the caseload for the Crown Prosecution Service for each principal offence category in each year from 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	223947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the volumes of completed prosecutions, or caseload, as a count of the number of defendants and collates the data collected in financial years. At the conclusion of each prosecution case the defendant is allocated one of 12 Principal Offence Categories that indicates the most serious offence with which the defendant is charged at the time of finalisation.</p><p> </p><p>The tables in Annex 1 show the number of finalised prosecution outcomes in the CPS nationally for each Principal Offence Category, during each year from 2010-11 to 2017-18, and the year on year change in both volume and percent.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/02/2019 11:47:39 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name PQ 223847 Annex 1.docx title Annex 1
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

349628

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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, how many full-time equivalent staff who are qualified (a) barristers and (b) solicitors were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2010 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
	uin	1930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent staff who are qualified (a) barristers and (b) solicitors who were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year from 2010 to 2015 is shown in the table below</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Barristers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Solicitors</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>740.3</p></td><td><p>2085.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>741.3</p></td><td><p>1845.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>646.8</p></td><td><p>1705.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>612.2</p></td><td><p>1617.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>627.7</p></td><td><p>1627.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes: </strong>Data extracted from the CPS HR Database iTrent as at the 31<sup>st</sup> March in each year Data may be subject to change due to retrospective changes in the HR database Data may differ from previously published data due to differing specifications</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/06/2015 09:26:44 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

349629

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the years from 2010 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
	uin	1931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent people employed on the Crown Prosecution Service’s staff in each of the years from 2010 to 2015 is shown below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FTE Staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>8,094</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>7,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>7,046</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>6,611</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>6,135</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/06/2015 09:30:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

349631

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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 proportion of the budget of the Crown Prosecution Service was spent on (a) premises, (b) administration, (c) staff, (d) external suppliers, other than external Counsel, (e) external Counsel and (f) other costs in each of the years 2010 to 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
	uin	2030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The proportion of the budget that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spent on (a) premises, (b) administration, (c) staff, (d) external suppliers other than external Counsel, (e) external Counsel and (f) other costs in each of the years 2010 to 2015 is given below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Premises</strong></p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Administration</strong></p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Staff</strong></p></td><td><p>53%</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>External suppliers</strong></p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Counsel</strong></p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other</strong></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Note: </strong>The figures for the years 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 do not sum to 100% because in each of these years the CPS reported a small underspend against its budget.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 18/06/2015 09:25:33 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

387884

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2015
	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, if he will review the position of the incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions in view of the recent decision to charge Lord Janner.
	tabling member constituency	Rochdale
	tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
	uin	5644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Decisions on whether or not to bring criminal charges are taken by prosecutors who are independent from government and independent from Parliament. I am confident of the independence and the integrity of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Alison Saunders, in making the difficult judgements the job of a prosecutor involves.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Victims’ Right to Review, which Alison Saunders helped to bring in, allows any victim of crime who is dissatisfied with a decision taken by a prosecutor not to proceed with their case to ask for the decision to be reviewed. This review has operated as it was designed to in the case of Greville Janner.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are world leaders in offering that safeguard for victims and since Alison Saunders has been DPP, the CPS has prosecuted and convicted more child sex offenders than ever before.</ins></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">In the year to 31<sup>st </sup>December 2014, the Law Officers personally considered 469 cases and referred 128 offenders to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. Leave was granted by the Court in 95% of cases which included some of the most serious violent and sexual offences, including murder, rape and sexual assault.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">The Attorney General’s Office publishes statistics for unduly lenient sentences at the end of the calendar year. This is to ensure that the figures are released in a consistent format and are accurate and quality assured. Unduly lenient sentences statistics for 2013 and 2014 are published on the Attorney General’s Office website - <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/attorney-generals-office" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/attorney-generals-office</a>. </del></p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/07/2015 12:58:22 question first ministerially corrected 09/07/2015 13:24:23 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 13176 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk