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899386

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the CPS is taking to increase the rate of prosecution for crimes against older people.
tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
uin	905219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>In 2016-17, the CPS completed just over 3,500 prosecutions for crimes against older people with a conviction rate of 80.4%.</p><p>The CPS is committed to improving the prosecution of crimes against older people and will be refreshing its legal guidance and public statement on these crimes within the next year.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/05/2018 10:56:56 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray

897216

registered interest
date	03/05/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Official Cars
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the job titles are of civil servants in his Department who have been provided with (a) an official car and (b) a driver.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	141004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>​No civil servant in the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Government Legal Department (GLD), Serious Fraud Office (SFO) or Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has been allocated an official car or a driver.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2018 10:49:39 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

896261

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to improve levels of prosecutions for domestic violence against men.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	140675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to securing justice for all victims, both male and female, and applies policies fairly and equally. In September 2016, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published its first ever public statement recognising the needs and experiences of male victims of offences including rape, domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking and child sexual abuse. In summer 2018, they will hold another forum with groups representing the interests of male victims to further explore the issues they face in relation to these offences. CPS Violence against Women and Girls policies are applied fairly and equitably to all perpetrators and victims of crime irrespective of their gender.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/05/2018 15:24:47 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

896433

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many leak enquiries his Department has undertaken in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	140579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>It has been the policy of successive Governments not to comment on security matters other than in exceptional circumstances when it is in the public interest to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The leak of any Government information or material is not acceptable and the Government takes such incidents very seriously.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 16/05/2018 10:44:19 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

891475

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what apps his Department has approved for use on mobile phones issued by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	137928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Due to national security concerns it would be inappropriate to publicly supply a list of applications approved for use on mobile phones issued by the Attorney General’s Office, as to do so facilitates attacks against official systems by hostile actors.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 02/05/2018 14:08:08 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

890333

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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, how many of his Department's invitations to tender have received no bidders in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	137435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government Legal Department (GLD), Attorney General Office (AGO) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HM CPSI) engage a centrally managed procurement service in procurements of more than £10,000. For 2016-17 and 2017-18, an examination of records held by the centrally managed procurement service indicated that there were no instances of an invitation to tender where bids were not received.</p><p>Similarly, during the financial years 2016-17 and 2017-18 no invitations to tender by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) or the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) exceeding OJEU thresholds received no bidders.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/05/2018 13:24:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 56730 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

890071

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Police: Acquittals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many police officers have been charged by the CPS and then acquitted after a trial in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	137121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of suspects and defendants identified as being persons serving with the police. This definition will include police staff, community support officers and contracted escort and detention officers in addition to serving police officers.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of charging decisions made by the CPS, where suspects were flagged as being persons serving with the police, in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>CPS Charged</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p>172</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Records are also kept showing the outcomes of prosecutions, including convictions and acquittals after trial. The table below shows the number of acquittals after trial, where defendants were flagged as being persons serving with the police, in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p><strong>Acquittals after Trial</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Trials</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures are identified by way of a monitoring flag, administered by a member of staff highlighting it as a “Police complaint” case.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 30/04/2018 15:59:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

885259

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many IT systems which his Department uses are more than (a) three, (b) five and (c) eight years old; and what steps he is taking to ensure that all his Department's IT systems are updated promptly.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	136124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is responsible for the IT systems of CPS, Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and Her Majesty’s CPS Inspectorate (HMCPSI).</p><p>Of their eight core corporate IT systems, six were launched more than eight years ago – however, the component parts thereof are replaced and upgraded regularly. Both the hardware and the software have been updated and refreshed throughout their lifetime to make them fit for continued use into the future. One of the other systems is approximately 5 years old, and the same applies; the remaining system is new.</p><p>Where these systems are supplied by external providers, a requirement for prompt updating is part of the supplier contract. Where they are managed in-house, this is part of the internal service agreement with the relevant team. Our internal Service Management team monitors adherence to these commitments in all cases.</p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) uses a number IT systems, most of which are regularly updated by applying the suppliers recommended patches and version updates, after appropriate testing.</p><p>Specifically:</p><p>(a) GLD has one system (Solcase) over three years old. It was last updated in 2014 and the next upgrade is due in May 2018.</p><p>(b) GLD has two systems (RKYV and Windows 7) that are over 8 years old. The RKYV document management system, used by only a few individuals, is currently being decommissioned. This system was last updated in 2008. The desktop operating system is Windows 7, which was released in 2009. Configuration of a new Windows 10 build is in progress, and GLD is aiming to roll this out in the next month.</p><p>The answers to the specific questions in relation to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) are a) 8; b) 2 and c) 3. This information relates only to IT Business System Applications, which enable work to be processed, and not supporting infrastructure and operating systems.</p><p>The calculated age of the SFO’s IT systems is based on the last upgrade or install date. Projects are already underway to replace or decommission a number of the systems that currently fall into the 8, 5 and 3 year old categories.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 26/04/2018 14:08:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

882724

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Travellers
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 Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General of 2 November 2016, Official Report, column 879, and pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2018 to Question 134113, on Travellers: Equality, what meetings he has had since 2016 with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on using the 2011 census classifications that differentiate Gypsies and Travellers.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	135786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Race Disparity Audit website displays data where possible using the Census 2011 ethnic categories, which includes Gypsy or Irish Traveller.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Race Disparity Unit work closely together to further progress the harmonisation of ethnicity data across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and to improve the coverage of ethnic groups including Gypsy, Roma and Travellers.</p><p> </p><p>The Race Disparity Audit Inter Ministerial Group chaired by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discusses matters pertaining to the progress of the Race Disparity Audit, including on the collection of ethnicity data.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 30/04/2018 15:58:00 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

882725

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Travellers
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 Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General of 2 November 2016, Official Report, column 879, what progress his Department has made in using the 2011 census classifications that differentiate Gypsies and Travellers.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	135787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Race Disparity Audit website displays data where possible using the Census 2011 ethnic categories, which includes Gypsy or Irish Traveller.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Race Disparity Unit work closely together to further progress the harmonisation of ethnicity data across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and to improve the coverage of ethnic groups including Gypsy, Roma and Travellers.</p><p> </p><p>The Race Disparity Audit Inter Ministerial Group chaired by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster discusses matters pertaining to the progress of the Race Disparity Audit, including on the collection of ethnicity data.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 30/04/2018 15:57:42 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green