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61569

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many parliamentary questions tabled to the Law Officers' Departments in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
uin	200438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 16/06/2014 15:47:31 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

61435

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Nigeria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether officials of the Crown Prosecution Service have (a) met the Attorney General of Nigeria since January 2012, (b) had any conversations about the sale of the OPL 245 oil concession in Nigeria involving Shell and ENI with (i) the Attorney General of Nigeria and (ii) any other senior official of the Nigerian government and (c) received any requests for mutual legal assistance regarding the OPL 245 case.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	200209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The CPS Criminal Justice Advisor in Abuja has met with the Attorney-General of Nigeria a number of times since January 2012 to discuss criminal justice reform. The CPS are not aware of any other contact between CPS officials and the Attorney General of Nigeria.</p><p>The CPS is not aware of any of its officials having conversations with the Attorney General of Nigeria or with any other senior official of the Nigerian government about the sale of the OPL 245 oil concession in Nigeria involving Shell and ENI.</p><p>Requests for mutual legal assistance attract a duty of confidentiality to the requesting country and, therefore, the CPS can neither confirm nor deny the receipt of any such requests.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 12:36:28 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

47117

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, which 10 consultancy firms were paid the most by the Law Officers' Departments in the last financial year; and how much each of those firms was paid.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Chris Leslie
uin	195567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p>In 2013-14 Professor Shute was paid £2,286.30 and Dr Tapley was paid £1,735.70 for consultancy services to HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI). There has been no other consultancy spend within that financial year by HMCPSI, the Treasury Solicitor's Department or the Attorney General's Office.</p><p>The two companies listed below are the only organisations to have been paid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for consultancy work during the last financial year.</p><p>SCC £32,316</p><p>CIO Partnership Ltd £2,100</p><p>Inaddition, two individuals carried out consultancy work for the SFO. The total amount paid for this work was £13,812</p><p> </p><p>The table below details payments made by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consultancy firms during the last financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Evolve Business Consultancy</p></td><td><p>£74,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Saville Consulting UK Ltd Surrey</p></td><td><p>£22,008</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Triad Group Plc Surrey</p></td><td><p>£19,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte LLP Milton Keynes</p></td><td><p>£9,661</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hay Group Management Limited</p></td><td><p>£7,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LA International Computer Consultants Ltd</p></td><td><p>£6,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASE Consulting Ltd Lancashire</p></td><td><p>£4,995</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enquin Enviromental Ltd Cardiff</p></td><td><p>£4,110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HR Lounge Ltd London Total</p></td><td><p>£3,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long and Partners Commissioning Consultancy Ltd</p></td><td><p>£2,010</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This information has been produced from the CPS accounting system, analysing spend against account codes for consultancy and professional services. Expenditure may include some payments for services not covered by the Crown Commercial Service Consultancy Value Programme definition of consultancy but provided by companies categorised as a consultancy firm. Excluded are payments for professional services supplied by third parties not classified as a consultancy firm such as employment agencies, training providers, solicitors, ICT managed service suppliers and freelance consultants engaged directly by the department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie

47115

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, which five companies were used most often to provide temporary workers for the Law Officers' Departments in the last financial year; and how much in agency fees was paid to each of them.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Chris Leslie
uin	195545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p>The following table lists the top five companies used by the Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSol), to provide temporary workers in 2013-14, by expenditure. TSol financial systems do not distinguish between the costs of temporary workers and the associated agency fee. TSol data also covers any expenditure incurred by HM Crown Prosecution service inspectorate and the Attorney General's Office.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount spent (net of VAT)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita Resourcing Ltd (Staff)</p></td><td><p>£5,404,407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kelly Services (UK) Ltd</p></td><td><p>£1,711,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Experis (Elan Computing Ltd)</p></td><td><p>£634,916</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hudson</p></td><td><p>£347,834</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Methods Consulting Ltd</p></td><td><p>£168,256</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has spent the following amounts with four companies during 2013/14 in relation to the provision of temporary workers. The expenditure includes the cost of temporary staff. It is not possible to separately identify the agency element of the payments.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount spent (including VAT)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brook Street (UK) Limited</p></td><td><p>£99,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reed Employment Plc</p></td><td><p>£52,718</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Badenoch and Clark</p></td><td><p>£31,739</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hays Accountancy Personnel</p></td><td><p>£19,832</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This information has been produced from the CPS accounting system.</p><p> </p><p>The following table lists the top five companies used by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to provide temporary workers in 2013-14, by expenditure. SFO financial systems do not distinguish between the costs of temporary workers and any associated agency fee.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount spent (including VAT)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Adecco</p></td><td><p>942,075</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alvarez and Marsal</p></td><td><p>609,499</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crowe Clarke Whitehill</p></td><td><p>590,264</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mazars LLP</p></td><td><p>567,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FTI Consultancy</p></td><td><p>207,354</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie

61154

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Freezing Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 8W, on freezing orders, what value of the assets placed under those freezing orders were made subject to a confiscation order; and how much was confiscated.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	200111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p><em>Requests from overseas jurisdictions are confidential as they relate to ongoing criminal investigations and proceedings in the requesting country and it would be inappropriate to disclose any further details.</em></p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 14:16:39 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

61150

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Freezing Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 8W, on freezing orders, for each of the restraint orders granted since 2010-11, what the length of time was between receipt by the prosecution agency of the freezing request and the granting of the order.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	199979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Since 2010-11 the Serious Fraud Office has obtained two restraint orders for overseas jurisdictions. The length of time from date of receipt of the requests to the granting of the orders, are shown in the following table;</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Time</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>3 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>7 days</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The length of time between receipt of freezing requests by the Crown prosecution Service and the granting of the order is shown in the table below. There were two cases (one in 2010/11 and one in 2012/13) which took a significant amount of time to execute as detailed work needed to be done with the requesting country in order to prepare the applications for restraint orders.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of overseas restraint orders</p></td><td><p>Number of days from the receipt of the external request to the granting of the order</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>Request 1 – 22</p><p>Request 2 – 96</p><p>Request 3 – 9</p><p>Request 4 – 17</p><p>Request 5 – 17</p><p>Request 6 – 95</p><p>Request 7 – 645</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>Request 1 – 1</p><p>Request 2 – 26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>Request 1 – 27</p><p>Request 2 – 39</p><p>Request 3 – 438</p><p>Request 4 – 34</p><p>Request 5 – 28</p><p>Request 6 – 11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>Request 1 – 16</p><p>Request 2 – 1</p><p>Request 3 – 35</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 13:01:01 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

61148

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Victims: Medical Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent amendments have been made to Crown Prosecution Service guidance on (a) when to disclose the defence medical records and counselling notes of victims and (b) what action to take if victims do not consent to disclosure.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	199974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revised its Rape and Sexual Offence legal guidance in relation to disclosure of medical records and counselling notes on 12 December 2013. The revised guidance included guidance on both a) when to disclose to the defence medical records and counselling notes of victims and (b) what action to take if victims do not consent to disclosure. The revised legal guidance is published on the CPS website at: <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/rape_and_sexual_offences/disclosure_and_third_party_material/" target="_blank">http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/rape_and_sexual_offences/disclosure_and_third_party_material/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 12:41:16 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

61152

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions there were in each Crown Prosecution Service area for (i) assisting unlawful immigration to an EU member state, (ii) assisting entry to the UK in breach of a deportation or exclusion order, (iii) assisting the entry/remaining of an excluded person, (iv) possession and/or manufacture of false identity documents, (v) employment of illegal immigrants, (vi) trafficking in exploitation/for sexual exploitation, (vii) trafficking people for labour and other exploitation, (viii) conspiracy to traffic and (ix) slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour in the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	200028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not keep a central record of the number of prosecutions completed, and whether they were successful or not, for the offences listed in the question. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of all files prosecuted which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Official statistics relating to criminal court proceedings and offenders brought to justice are maintained by the Ministry of Justice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 12:30:36 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

61153

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many referrals there were from local police forces to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in each CPS business area for a charging dcision on the offences of (a) assisting unlawful immigration to an EU member state, (b) assisting entry to the UK in breach of a deportation or exclusion order, (c) assisting the entry/remaining of an excluded person, (d) possession and/or manufacture of false identity documents, (e) employment of illegal immigrants, (f) trafficking in exploitation/for sexual exploitation, (g) trafficking people for labour and other exploitation, (h) conspiracy to traffic and (i) slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	200029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not keep a central record of the number of referrals from the Police for a charging decision for the offences listed in the question. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of all files prosecuted which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Official statistics on crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 12:33:40 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

61151

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Homicide: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many homicide prosecutions the Crown Prosecution Service undertook in 2013 where there were (a) three defendants, (b) four defendants, (c) five defendants and (d) six or more defendants.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	199980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a central record of the number of defendants in its prosecutions. This information could only be obtained by examining all homicide files, which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 16/06/2014 15:50:37 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry