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date	26/11/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Police: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many police officers have been charged with (a) grievous bodily harm or (b) actual bodily harm by the Crown Prosecution Service 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	195659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The offences of grievous and actual bodily harm are created by the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of defendants charged with, or prosecuted for these offences. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>While the CPS does not hold a central record of defendants prosecuted by specific offences, records are held reporting the number of defendants, identified as being persons serving with the police, who are assigned the Principal Offence Category ‘Offences against the Person’ at finalisation. Persons serving with the police are defined as, and include, police staff, community support officers and contracted escort and detention officers in addition to serving police officers. These figures are identified by way of a monitoring flag, administered by a member of staff highlighting it as a “Police complaint” case.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of prosecuted defendants, flagged as being persons serving with the police and whose Principal Offence Category was identified as ‘Offences against the Person’, in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Defendants Prosecuted</strong></p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Trials </strong></p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Convicted after Trial </strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Acquitted after Trial </strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>% Acquitted </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>44%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>44%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>58%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>62%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>54%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 03/12/2018 12:35:18 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

984850

registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have visited the Irish border in the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long they spent at the border in each of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	177799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Details of Ministers’ overseas travel are published quarterly and are available on GOV.UK.</p><p>No Officials from the Attorney General’s Office have visited the Irish Border in the past 12 months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 16/10/2018 11:57:38 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

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