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1673290

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hare Coursing: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Answers of 25 October 2023 to Question 203472 on Hare Coursing: Convictions and Prosecutions and 28 February 2018 to Question 129098 on Hare Coursing: Prosecutions, when the Crown Prosecution Service ceased maintaining a central record of the number of prosecutions for offences of hare coursing; and for what reason.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	3762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has never maintained a central record of the number of prosecutions specifically for offences of hare coursing and only holds data on the number of offences prosecuted under the Game Act 1831, the Night Poaching Act 1828 and the Hunting Act 2004, which all encompass hare coursing.</p><p>The CPS does not collect data that constitutes official statistics as defined in the Statistics and Registration Act 2007.</p><p>While the CPS does not centrally collate data showing the number of prosecutions involving hare coursing, management information data is available which shows the number of offences charged by way of the Game Act 1831, the Night Poaching Act 1928 and the Hunting Act 2004, in which a prosecution commenced. The table below shows the number of these offences recorded during each of the last three years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Financial Year 2020-2021</p></td><td><p>Financial Year 2021-2022</p></td><td><p>Financial Year 2022-2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Game Act 1831</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hunting Act 2004</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Night Poaching Act 1828</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Data Source: CPS Case Management System</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the figures relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual defendants. It may be the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence. No data are held on the final outcome or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at finalisation.</p><p>The official statistics relating to crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office and the official statistics relating to sentencing, criminal court proceedings, offenders brought to justice, the courts and the judiciary are maintained by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 05/12/2023 15:37:01 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1671819

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
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, what is the annual cost to the public purse of her Department's expenditure on (a) IT infrastructure, (b) IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 and (c) legacy IT infrastructure for each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	2989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is responsible for the provision and management of up-to-date IT infrastructure, applications and processes for the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).</p><p>It is not possible to derive costs specific to the AGO as the IT infrastructure provided is not accounted for separately. The CPS do not hold a centralised record of AGO IT infrastructure costs. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 30/11/2023 14:43:05 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1671820

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
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, with reference to the Central Digital & Data Office's guidance entitled, Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by her Department as of 21 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	2990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>As of 21 November 2023, the Attorney General's Office, as a Ministerial Department, has no red-rated legacy IT systems as defined in the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 29/11/2023 15:16:34 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1671388

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Good Law Project: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what was the total sum (a) paid to and (b) received from the Good Law Project by HM Government in respect of legal costs in each financial year since 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	2472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">There were 52 cases against His Majesty’s Government in which the Good Law Project were involved as a party which concluded in the period since the start of the 2017-18 financial year. HM Government won 14 and lost 2 of those cases, 15 cases were settled, and 31 cases withdrawn by the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In total, the Good Law Project has paid £539,766.19 in legal costs to HM Government, while HM Government has paid £63,738.71 in legal costs to the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2017-2018, no payments were made or received.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2018-2019, £40,000.00 was paid to, and £4,753.00 was received from, the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2019-2020, £0 was paid to, and £59,013.19 was received from, the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2020-2021, £0 was paid to, and £10,000.00 was received from, the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2021-2022, £0 was paid to, and £270,000.00 was received from, the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2022-2023, £23,738.71 was paid to, and £196,000.00 was received from, the Good Law Project.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In financial year 2023-2024 to date, no payments have been made or received.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">There were 42 case files opened in respect of actual court proceedings between His Majesty’s Government and the Good Law Project during the period since the start of the 2017-18 financial year. HM Government won 19 and lost 6, 7 cases were settled, and 9 cases were withdrawn by the Good Law Project. One has yet to deliver an outcome.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In total, in regard to these 42 cases:</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Good Law Project has paid £984,098.45 in legal costs to HM Government, while HM Government has paid £160,925.71 in legal costs to the Good Law Project.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2017-2018, no payments were made or received.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2018-2019, £40,000 was paid to, and £4,753 was received from, the Good Law Project.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2019-2020, £0 was paid to, and £59,013.19 was received from, the Good Law Project.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2020-2021, £85,000 was paid to, and £10,000 was received from, the Good Law Project.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2021-2022, £0 was paid to, and £286,000 was received from, the Good Law Project.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2022-2023, £35,925.71 was paid to, and £544,000 was received from, the Good Law Project.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In financial year 2023-2024, £0 has been paid to, and £80,332.26 has been received from, the Good Law Project.</ins></p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 27/11/2023 17:25:30 question first ministerially corrected 04/12/2023 15:24:45 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson previous answer version 3541 answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1669076

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what data their Department holds on the (a) number and (b) total cost of replacing (i) laptops, (ii) mobile phones, (iii) memory sticks and (iv) external hard drives that have been (A) lost and (B) stolen in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	1221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office has not had any laptops, mobile phones, memory sticks or external hard drives lost or stolen in the last year.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 17/11/2023 09:45:42 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1668382

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Stonewall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Crown Prosecution Service met Stonewall in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 to 8 November.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold a central record of local meetings with stakeholders across all 14 CPS Areas and Central Casework Divisions.</p><p>At a national headquarters level, the CPS met with Stonewall three times in 2023 in the context of national forums on hate crime, where a broad range of other external stakeholders were also in attendance. There were no meetings with Stonewall at a national level in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 17/11/2023 09:49:06 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1667479

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Facebook: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people were prosecuted for offences relating to posts made on Facebook in each year for which records exist.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	29
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on the number of people prosecuted for offences relating to social media posts. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 14/11/2023 11:32:06 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1667480

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	TikTok: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people were prosecuted for offences relating to posts made on TikTok for in each year for which records exist.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	30
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on the number of people prosecuted for offences relating to social media posts. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 14/11/2023 11:32:37 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1667481

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Twitter: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people were prosecuted for offences relating to posts made on X in each year for which records exist.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	31
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on the number of people prosecuted for offences relating to social media posts. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 14/11/2023 11:33:23 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1667900

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, which organisations the Crown Prosecution Service (a) met and (b) consulted as part of developing its consultation on proposed revisions to its legal guidance on sexual offences involving deception as to gender.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
uin	603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service is unable to supply details of organisations they consulted as part of the proposed revision of their legal guidance on 'Deception as to Gender' as the information requested is the subject of a Freedom Of Information request which is subject to ongoing legal proceedings.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 15/11/2023 16:59:17 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher