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837792

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects to which that funding has been assigned.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	126823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Given the role of the Attorney General’s Department, it does not lead on specific projects related to the UK leaving the EU and therefore has not incurred any additional expenditure. None of the Law Officers’ Departments has received direct funding therefore for work relating to the UK leaving the EU. Members of staff across the Law Officers’ Departments provide advice and analysis on different issues as required, and different Government departments bid for funding from HMT to pay for their resource needs, including the services of the Government Legal Department (GLD).</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/02/2018 07:46:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 42260 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

843564

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2018 to Question 123531 on Attorney General: procurement, if he will list those contracts including the supplier name and value of those contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	127905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has the following contracts with the government’s strategic suppliers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Estimated Value*</strong> <strong> £</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT Plc</p></td><td><p>Multiple landline phones, alarms and broadband service agreements</p></td><td><p><em>143,500</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>Contingent Labour ONE Call-Off</p></td><td><p>136,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CGI</p></td><td><p>Payroll Call-Off</p></td><td><p>1,300,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Finance and Resource Management System Call-Off</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Managed ICT Services contract; and</p></td><td><p>300,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Applications Support and Data Hosting Call-Off</p></td><td><p>19,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Microsoft</p></td><td><p>Multiple licencing agreements.</p></td><td><p><em>172,000</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oracle</p></td><td><p>Multiple licencing agreements</p></td><td><p><em>470,000</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>Videoconferencing service Call-Off</p></td><td><p>700,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>* The Estimated Value is given as the value for the contract Term where the department has signed a Call-Off Contract and the annual spend to 31 January 2018 where the department has renewable licensing arrangements.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the contracts are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT plc</p></td><td><p>£15,897</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>£704,697</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>£75,905</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To identify overall contract values for the Government Legal Department (GLD), Attorney General Office (AGO) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) would require the identification and examination of all awards made to the Strategic Suppliers (as defined by the Crown Commercial Services) and this cannot be achieved without incurring disproportionate cost. However, our payments to Strategic Suppliers, for 2016-17 is set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Strategic Supplier </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong> <strong>2016-17</strong> <strong>GLD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong> <strong>2016-17</strong> <strong>AGO</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure</strong> <strong>2016-17</strong> <strong>HMCPSI</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amey</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£335,965</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BT Plc</p></td><td><p>£1,699</p></td><td><p>£2,159</p></td><td><p>£1,308</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capgemini</p></td><td><p>£88,914</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">£424,655</del> <ins class="ministerial">£6,369,832 </ins></p></td><td><p>£847*</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fujitsu</p></td><td><p>£561,131</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Microsoft</p></td><td><p>£62,178</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mitie</p></td><td><p>£186,854</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oracle</p></td><td><p>£34,126</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vodafone</p></td><td><p>£226,794</p></td><td><p>£43,763</p></td><td><p>£8,779</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* The payment for this amount piggy backed on the contract that SFO had with Capita.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland previous answer version 45402 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland 49436 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland question first answered 23/03/2018 14:32:59 question first ministerially corrected 02/05/2018 16:36:59 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

850728

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Newcastle upon Tyne
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether his Department plans to implement any of the recommendations of the report, Joint Serious Case Review Concerning Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adults with Needs for Care and Support in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, published by the Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board and Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	129969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>On 23 February 2018, Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board and Newcastle Safeguarding Adults Board published their joint serious case review (SCR) for Operation Sanctuary.</p><p> </p><p>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>Child sexual exploitation is abhorrent and the crimes perpetrated in Newcastle have had a devastating impact on the lives of the victims. The Government acknowledges the seriousness of the issues raised in this serious case review and is committed to improving the national response to tackling sexual exploitation.</p><p> </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><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/03/2018 16:49:33 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 44759 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

837924

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Court Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Crown Prosecution Service logged concerns about alleged breaches of (a) Anti-Social Behaviour Orders on Conviction, (b) other Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and (c) Criminal Behaviour Orders on its case management system in each year from 2004-05; how many of those cases led to a (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction; and how many of those convictions resulted in a maximum tariff custodial sentence for the respective order.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	126954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of concerns logged on its Case Management System (CMS) about alleged breaches of Anti-Social Behaviour or Criminal Behaviour Orders.</p><p> </p><p>While no central record is collated showing the number of concerns logged about compliance with court orders, a central record of the number of breaches of Criminal Behaviour Orders and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders prosecuted at magistrates’ courts is held.</p><p> </p><p>A breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order is prosecuted by way of Section 30 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, while breaches of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order or interim Anti-Social Behaviour Order were prosecuted by way of Section 1(10)/Section 1D and 1(10) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the volumes of these breach offences, in which a prosecution commenced, in each year since 2004-05.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p><strong>Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 { 30(1) and (2) } (Breach of a CBO)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crime and Disorder Act 1998 { 1(10) } (Breach of an ASBO)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crime and Disorder Act 1998 { 1D and 1(10) } (Breach of an interim ASBO)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2004-2005</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8,508</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2005-2006</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13,536</p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2006-2007</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13,659</p></td><td><p>374</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007-2008</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>12,998</p></td><td><p>487</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008-2009</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>11,413</p></td><td><p>455</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-2010</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>10,558</p></td><td><p>411</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>9,739</p></td><td><p>501</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8,439</p></td><td><p>287</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7,575</p></td><td><p>212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7,201</p></td><td><p>278</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>6,913</p></td><td><p>193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p>2,144</p></td><td><p>4,480</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p>4,323</p></td><td><p>1,925</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation. It is often the case that defendants will be prosecuted for more than one offence in the same set of proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>The official statistics relating to sentencing on conviction, including whether a term of imprisonment was imposed, are maintained by the Ministry of Justice</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/02/2018 08:12:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

837925

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many cases of alleged breaches of Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance have been logged on the Crown Prosecution Service’s case management system in each year since 2014-15; how many of those cases have been heard in court; how many of those litigants have been found to be in contempt of court; and how many of those litigants have been given the maximum possible prison sentence for that offence.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	126955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not hold the information requested. Section 1 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 gives a court power to grant a civil injunction for anti-social behaviour. A breach of a civil injunction is not a criminal offence.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/02/2018 08:12:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

837926

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Criminal Behaviour Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many requests to apply for Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) received in each year from 2014-15; and on how many of those occasions the CPS subsequently decided (a) to and (b) not to apply for the CBO through the courts.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	126956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of requests to apply for Criminal Behaviour Orders received or any subsequent applications to courts for orders to be made. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/02/2018 08:12:49 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

837960

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Unexplained Wealth Orders
	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 the Crown Prosecution Service has the resources necessary to implement the new unexplained wealth orders.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	126990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has adequate resources to undertake work relating to unexplained wealth orders.</p><p>The Home Office will provide funding to the value of £70,500 in 2017-18 in order to support CPS POC and the ROCU/RART network to develop the knowledge and skills required in order to investigate cases appropriately and to conduct High Court civil litigation.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 19/02/2018 09:36:32 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

838300

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to increase international cooperation in the prosecution of human traffickers.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	127195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK is taking an ambitious approach to tackling modern slavery internationally, working to deepen cooperation with countries from where we receive high numbers of victims and with countries of high prevalence in order to support their efforts.</p><p>Later this month the Crown Prosecution Service will host an international summit for Prosecutors General from 21 countries around the world. It is an ambitious summit which aims to increase activity, identify ways to better support victims and witnesses, and establishing a strong, active international network to tackle the crime of Modern Slavery.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, there are already 30 specialist prosecutors based overseas, building capability in local criminal justice systems to tackle serious and organised crime, including that of Modern Slavery.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/02/2018 08:13:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

838441

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many women have been charged with assault by penetration since 2012 up to the most recent year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	127263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The total number of section 2 Sexual Offences Act 2003 (assault by penetration) offences charged against male and female defendants which reached a first hearing at the magistrates’ courts in England and Wales across the previous five financial years was as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</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><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Section 2 SOA</strong> <strong>2003 offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,107</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,266</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,446</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,571</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,004</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Whilst defendant gender data is not recorded by the CPS in relation to the specific offence of assault by penetration, it does hold data in relation to the broader offence category of ‘sexual offences excluding rape’, which includes those offences.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 13,490 defendants prosecuted for sexual offences excluding rape in 2016-17, 13,022 defendants were male, 432 were female and the gender was not recorded for 36 defendants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 05/03/2018 08:31:15 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

838920

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Crown Prosecution Service is taking as a result of the BBC Panorama documentary, Undercover: Britain’s immigration secrets, broadcast on 4 September 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	127482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Sussex Police have sought early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), South East Area, in respect of possible criminal offences. The CPS has received some documentation and had a meeting with the officer in charge of the investigation in February 2018.</p><p>The police investigation is still ongoing and CPS will only be in a position to provide advice regarding charging or otherwise once all the papers are received.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 28/02/2018 17:07:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan