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1341809

registered interest
date	29/06/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Email
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether any Departmental business has been conducted on private email addresses; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that full records are kept of that business.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	24300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive Administrations, it is not government policy to comment on security procedures in government buildings.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 24301 question first answered 05/07/2021 15:14:39 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1341342

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what financial payments his Department makes to its non-executive directors; how many times his departmental Board will meet in 2021-22; and what work the non-executive directors undertake.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	23153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have any non-executive directors sitting on its board. Whilst the AGO aligns its governance structures as closely as possible to Cabinet Office guidance, the appointment of non-executive directors would not be proportionate given the size of the AGO (headcount 54).</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 23154 23155 question first answered 01/07/2021 16:07:27 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1341343

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what declarations of interests have been made by his Department’s non-executive directors; and where those interests are published.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	23154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have any non-executive directors sitting on its board. Whilst the AGO aligns its governance structures as closely as possible to Cabinet Office guidance, the appointment of non-executive directors would not be proportionate given the size of the AGO (headcount 54).</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 23153 23155 question first answered 01/07/2021 16:07:27 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1341345

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, when his Department’s current non-executive directors were appointed; what oversight officials of his Department had of the Ministerial appointments of those non-executive directors; and what assessment his Department made of the applicants' experience against the requirements for breadth and depth of experience set out in the Cabinet Office guidance on Departmental Boards of November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	23155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have any non-executive directors sitting on its board. Whilst the AGO aligns its governance structures as closely as possible to Cabinet Office guidance, the appointment of non-executive directors would not be proportionate given the size of the AGO (headcount 54).</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 23153 23154 question first answered 01/07/2021 16:07:27 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1341346

registered interest
date	28/06/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what private companies are contracted to provide security services at his Department’s buildings that contain Ministerial private offices; and whether there are closed circuit television cameras in any Ministerial private offices within his Department's estate.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	23156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2021 answer text <p>As has been the case under successive Administrations, it is not government policy to comment on security procedures in government buildings.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 01/07/2021 16:06:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1330762

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps she is taking to ensure the prosecution of people whose acts towards fellow passengers on domestic flights are perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on disability or perceived disability.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	12181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2021 answer text <p>Courts in the United Kingdom have the power to deal with offences which are committed on board any aircraft whilst on the ground or in the air over the United Kingdom, and on “British-controlled aircraft” whilst “in flight” outside United Kingdom airspace. In such instances, as with any crime, the CPS will prosecute cases that are referred to it by the police and other law enforcement agencies where the test set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors is met.</p><p>The Code makes it clear that where an offence involves hostility or prejudice based upon race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, disability, gender or age, it is more likely that a prosecution will be required in the public interest. Where a crime is found by a court to involve hostility based on a disability, this will be an aggravating factor in the sentence and the court must openly state the crime involved this hostility.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 16/06/2021 10:35:08 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1327313

registered interest
date	24/05/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse and Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what meetings (a) he and (b) the Solicitor General have had with women's groups to discuss measures to prevent (a) gender-based violence and (b) domestic violence since February 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	6505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2021 answer text <p>Ministers engage regularly with stakeholders from across the justice sector and value the importance of listening to and the opportunity to understand their views in relation to relevant issues. Meetings with external organisations, including women’s groups, are published as part of the quarterly Ministerial transparency returns.</p><p> </p><p>The following table includes a list of meetings the Law Officers have had with stakeholders and women’s groups since February 2020:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Minister</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Name of organisation or role</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose of meeting</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Geoffrey Cox</p></td><td><p>2020-02-11</p></td><td><p>Victims' Commissioner, Victims' Commissioner for London, End Violence Against Women and Girls</p></td><td><p>Meeting to discuss cross-government work on rape.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Michael Ellis</p></td><td><p>2020-01-23</p></td><td><p>The Lighthouse</p></td><td><p>Visit to discuss their work supporting victims of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Michael Ellis</p></td><td><p>2020-01-23</p></td><td><p>Victim Support</p></td><td><p>Visit to discuss their work supporting victims of crime</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suella Braverman</p></td><td><p>2020-04-22</p></td><td><p>Victims' Commissioner</p></td><td><p>Introductory meeting to discuss work on Rape And Serious Sexual Offending, the Cross-Government End-to-End Rape Review and Domestic Abuse</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suella Braverman</p></td><td><p>2020-09-09</p></td><td><p>Victims' Commissioner</p></td><td><p>To discuss criminal justice issues of interest to the Victims' Commissioner.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suella Braverman</p></td><td><p>2020-11-04</p></td><td><p>Victims' Commissioner</p></td><td><p>Routine meeting to discuss issues of relevance to the Victims’ Commissioner (including rape and domestic prosecutions, the approach to disclosure, and wider victims’ work).</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lucy Frazer</p></td><td><p>2021-04-20</p></td><td><p>Domestic Abuse Commissioner</p></td><td><p>Introductory meeting to discuss issues in relation to Domestic Abuse, including the prosecution of DA cases during the pandemic.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lucy Frazer</p></td><td><p>2021-04-26</p></td><td><p>Rape Crisis</p></td><td><p>Meeting to discuss work to improve the criminal justice response to rape and serious sexual offences (‘RASSO’).</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lucy Frazer &amp; Michael Ellis</p></td><td><p>2021-05-10</p></td><td><p>Victims' Commissioner</p></td><td><p>Routine meeting to discuss progress towards publication of the cross-government rape review, and the impact of the pandemic on victims.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 02/06/2021 15:18:08 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1316594

registered interest
date	20/05/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Children's Rights: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether his Department has received representations on the incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	900292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2021 answer text <p>The Member for East Renfrewshire will be aware of my decision, alongside the Advocate General’s for Scotland, to refer the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill to the Supreme Court on legislative competence grounds. We have also referred the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate for me to comment in detail on what are live proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Ultimately, our concerns with regards to these Bills do not relate to their policy content, nor to the approach the Scottish Parliament has taken in incorporating these international agreements into Scots law. Rather they relate to specific provisions in the Bill and whether they fall outside the Scottish Parliament’s legislative powers.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/05/2021 15:25:12 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1309597

registered interest
date	15/04/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many West Yorkshire based organisations he has met in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	181367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The Attorney General has not visited any West Yorkshire based organisations in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/04/2021 16:05:07 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1304108

registered interest
date	18/03/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Slavery
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 hon. Member for Sefton Central of 18 March 2021, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on concerns in respect of modern slavery in supply chains for the procurement of personal protective equipment.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	171587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>I regularly meet ministerial colleagues to discuss important issues of common interest. However, it is a fundamental and longstanding principle of our system of Government that the fact of whether the Law Officers have advised on a particular issue is, by convention, not disclosed outside Government, without their consent. The Convention provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice in circumstances in which Ministers and Law Officers can be fully open with one another.</p><p>The Government is committed to tackling modern slavery in supply chains. On 26 March 2020, we became the first country to publish a Government Modern Slavery Statement setting out the steps we have taken to identify and prevent modern slavery in our own supply chains. From September 2021 onwards, Ministerial departments will publish their own annual statements setting out the steps they have taken in their priority risk areas.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is working with DHSC, NHS and external experts to develop tailored training and guidance for HMG buyers and suppliers on best practice approaches to preventing modern slavery in PPE supply chains.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 23/03/2021 17:02:56 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson