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1254902

registered interest
date	24/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Poaching: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, for what reason a record of the species involved is not collated when recording prosecutions of poaching offences.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	120068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>Offences of poaching are usually charged under one of the following:</p><ul><li>Section 1 of the Night Poaching Act 1828,</li><li>section 30 of the Game Act 1831 or</li><li>section 2 of the Poaching Prevention Act 1862.</li></ul><p> </p><p>There is no requirement to specify in an offence which type of animal the defendant was seeking to take or had taken, and in many cases it is not specified.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, the CPS is not able to keep any records of which species are involved in its prosecutions for poaching.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 01/12/2020 17:40:28 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1251455

registered interest
date	12/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Unduly Lenient Sentencing Scheme has been used in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	114899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2020 answer text <p>The Law Officers referred a sentence imposed on an offender to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme on 136 occasions in 2015, 190 in 2016, 173 in 2017, 140 in 2018 and 93 in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/11/2020 09:20:13 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1251456

registered interest
date	12/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Unduly Lenient Sentencing scheme has been used as regards people convicted of offences related to the online sexual exploitation of children in each of the last five years; and on how many occasions that scheme has led to a longer sentence being imposed.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	114900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2020 answer text <p>Online child sexual exploitation may involve the commission of different criminal offences: it is not reflected in a single offence or set of offences but instead is reflected in the facts of an offence. The facts of the offences of those cases referred by the Law Officers to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme suggest that in 2015, 6 cases were referred in which 5 sentences were increased; in 2016, 9 referred and 7 increased; in 2017, 15 referred and 11 increased; in 2018, 4 referred but none increased; in 2019, 3 referred and 1 increased.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/11/2020 09:21:09 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1251457

registered interest
date	12/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Philippines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps her Department is taking to secure victim impact statements for children in the Philippines who have suffered online sexual exploitation by UK-based offenders; and whether such statements been used in the (a) prosecution and (b) sentencing of UK-based offenders.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	114901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2020 answer text <p>The CPS works closely with the relevant investigatory agencies to secure evidence, which may include victim statements, if the victims are known or identifiable.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not centrally record or hold the data on whether victim impact statements from children in the Philippines who have suffered online sexual exploitation by UK-based offenders have been used in the (a) prosecution and (b) sentencing of UK-based offenders. The information could only be obtained by completing manual case file reviews, which would be at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/11/2020 09:22:03 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1251572

registered interest
date	12/11/2020
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: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutors from the Crown Prosecution Service were furloughed between April 2020 and October 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	114843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2020 answer text <p>There were no CPS staff placed on furlough during the period April – Oct 2020.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 17/11/2020 14:57:46 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1249060

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the extension to the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	908175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The unduly lenient sentence scheme was extended to incorporate further serious offences, in November of last year.</p><p> </p><p>The horrendous crime of stalking involving serious alarm or distress was one of the offences which was added.</p><p> </p><p>I am pleased to tell the House that this extension meant I was able to refer a case recently to the Court of Appeal, one in which the sentence of the offender was more than doubled.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 908176 question first answered 05/11/2020 14:24:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1249061

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the extension to the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
uin	908176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The unduly lenient sentence scheme was extended to incorporate further serious offences, in November of last year.</p><p> </p><p>The horrendous crime of stalking involving serious alarm or distress was one of the offences which was added.</p><p> </p><p>I am pleased to tell the House that this extension meant I was able to refer a case recently to the Court of Appeal, one in which the sentence of the offender was more than doubled.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 908175 question first answered 05/11/2020 14:24:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1249064

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
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: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of the digital capability of the CPS during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	David Johnston
uin	908180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The CPS successfully enabled almost its entire workforce to move to remote working at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, without business interruption. Working with partners, the CPS has helped the criminal justice system to continue to function throughout the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS Inspectorate published a report on the performance of the CPS at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. It commended the organisation’s digital capability and strategic planning and its foresight in upgrading its digital capabilities.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 05/11/2020 14:30:50 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4761 label Biography information for David Johnston

1249065

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
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: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of cases in the CPS.
tabling member constituency	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
tabling member printed	Gerald Jones
uin	908181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The CPS is working closely with partner agencies across the criminal justice system to reduce the current backlog of cases created by the Covid-19 outbreak. This includes both internal measures to deal with larger live caseloads in CPS Areas and working closely with partners to ensure maximum throughput of cases at court.</p><p> </p><p>Considerable progress is being made. In the honourable member’s constituency, Merthyr Magistrates’ Court has now reduced its backlog to pre-COVID levels.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 05/11/2020 14:34:17 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4501 label Biography information for Gerald Jones

1249953

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps she is taking improve the CPS handling of sexual assault cases.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	112144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2020 answer text <p>We, and the CPS, are working tirelessly with criminal justice partners to improve the handling of these sensitive cases. Over the last four quarters, we have seen the charging rates in rape cases continue to increase. This year, the CPS has also published its own five-year rape strategy, updated rape legal guidance and training, and continued work to drive forward a joint action plan with the police to improve the handling of these sensitive cases.</p><p>The AGO and the CPS are closely and actively engaged in the cross-Government end-to-end rape review, which will be published later this year. The CPS will address any issues identified in this review openly and honestly.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/11/2020 12:17:31 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome