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385373

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	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the offences and length of time served in prison are of each of the 20 longest serving female prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	4117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Of the twenty female prisoners who had served the longest amount of time in custody, as of 31 March 2015, twelve had served between 14 and 18 years and eight had served 18 years or more.</p><p> </p><p>All bar two of those female offenders were imprisoned for violent offences against the person.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2015 14:05:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Philip Davies

385556

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Membership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the UK last nominated a member of the expert committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and for what reason she has not made a nomination in relation to forthcoming vacancies.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
	uin	3995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK government has not put forward a candidate for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since signing the Convention in 1981. Whilst nominating a candidate has been considered, a variety of reasons such as the timing of the election and the resources required from across Government have meant that we have not yet done so.</p><p> </p><p><br> The UK strongly supports the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) against Women and it is committed to advancing women’s rights. We are fully committed to the CEDAW process, including submitting reports and participating in the oral examination, and are fully engaged with the UN and the Committee. UK nationals are well represented on other UN treaty monitoring bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2015 16:33:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart