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	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Legal Profession: Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how he plans to encourage practising lawyers to volunteer pro bono hours for Citizens Advice Bureaux in their local communities.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	156426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As the Government's pro bono champions, the Attorney and I chair the pro bono panel and committee to bring together key players to steer and coordinate the overall work in this area. The panel and committee feature members from across the legal community, including Citizens Advice.</p><p>Each year the Attorney and I take part in National Pro Bono week. We attend and support pro bono events across the country, to encourage the excellent work being done by the pro bono community. This year Global Pro Bono Week is taking place 29<sup>th</sup> October – 2<sup>nd</sup> November, and will involve many organisations across the legal community including members of our pro bono panel and committee like Citizens Advice.</p><p>In the past year over 1,000 lawyers provided pro bono help through local Citizens Advice offices and I will continue to encourage more lawyers to do this.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 13:52:11 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 68157 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

935256

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Newcastle upon Tyne
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the oral contribution of the Solicitor General of 21 June 2018, Official Report, column 462, when he plans to respond to the Spicer report on the sexual exploitation of girls and young women in Newcastle.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	161552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>David Spicer’s comprehensive review sheds light on abhorrent child sexual exploitation and I have not taken this matter lightly. The Home Office will be writing to you on behalf of the Government shortly.</p><p> </p><p>I would like to reassure you that the CPS, along with the wider Government, is committed to improving the national response to tackling sexual exploitation. The CPS will be considering its guidance on the involvement of the Service with the changing local safeguarding arrangements in line with the broader recommendations. Specifically, CPS North East is working closely with Newcastle Crown Court and other partners within the Criminal Justice System to improve the experience of victims and witnesses when attending court and to ensure that the commitments to witness care set out in the Victim’s Code and the Witness Charter are properly delivered.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government has already taken significant action to tackle this issue. In February 2017, the Government published its Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Progress Report and announced a £40m package of measures to protect children and young people from sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking, and to crack down on offenders. This included £7.5m for a new, ground-breaking Centre of Expertise that will identify, generate, and share high quality evidence of what works to prevent and tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation. The recommendations of the review cover a wide range of issues, which we will consider carefully in the context of this existing programme of work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 13:49:12 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 70407 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

935325

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Public Legal Education Panel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work of the Public Legal Evaluation Panel to date.
	tabling member constituency	Keighley
	tabling member printed	John Grogan
	uin	161517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As the Government’s pro bono champion, I am able to work closely with those involved in Public Legal Education, supporting initiatives to increase its profile and reach more members of the public.</p><p> </p><p>The Public Legal Education panel is formed of leading organisations who promote the importance of teaching people about the law and their basic civil and criminal rights. It features members from across the legal community, for example the Law for Life, Citizens Advice and the Bar Council.</p><p> </p><p>The Panel are currently combining their resources to map the provision and need of Public Legal Education around the county and to support and drive forward public legal education initiatives so more people can reap the benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 13:52:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 70406 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	382 label Biography information for John Grogan

943945

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Dangerous Driving: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many sentences imposed for causing death by dangerous driving his Department has considered under the unduly lenient sentence scheme in each of the last five years; on how many occasions in each of the last five years he has referred such sentences to the Court of Appeal; and how many of those sentences have been extended by the Court of Appeal as the original sentence imposed fell outside the range of sentences that could reasonably have been imposed in the circumstances of the case.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	165604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of sentences for death by dangerous driving offences that have been successfully referred to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient in the last five years are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018 to date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentences referred to the Attorney General’s Office</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentences referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General’s Office</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>3*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentences increased by the Court of Appeal</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* This figure includes the case of Robert Brown which was referred to the Court of Appeal in July 2018 and in which it has reserved judgement.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/07/2018 12:57:05 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher