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578598

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Barristers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will take steps to encourage barristers who are employed through the Service Prosecuting Authority to enter the selection competition to become Queen's Counsel.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	45661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>I would strongly encourage anyone with the appropriate skills and experience to apply to become Queen’s Counsel, including those at the employed bar and within the Service Prosecuting Authority.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 13/09/2016 11:45:05 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

577425

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Witnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what advice is given to prosecutors about the appropriateness of applying for a witness summons in a criminal case; whether there are (a) indicators and (b) factors that would make it more or less appropriate to apply for such a summons; and what evidence prosecutors are advised to pass on to the court to enable the court to decide whether a witness summons is appropriate.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	45425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will only apply for a witness summons in order to secure the attendance of a witness where it is necessary and appropriate to do so.</p><p>A witness summons application will be based on the specific facts of the case. Prosecutors will carefully consider whether a summons is in the public interest, taking proper account of any specific vulnerability, disability or mental health issues on the part of the witness. Prosecutors seek advice from the police, and any relevant specialist support services, to assist in assessing the appropriateness of such an application to ensure that the witness and any dependents will not be endangered by the decision nor caused any unnecessary distress.</p><p>A prosecutor will submit to the Court all relevant information including any medical report, risk assessment or advice from police or specialist support services.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 14/09/2016 10:06:39 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

577426

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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, how many cases involving female perpetrators of domestic violence have been prosecuted in each of the last 10 years; and what proportion of people prosecuted in those cases were found guilty.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	45427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>The volumes and proportions of female defendants prosecuted for domestic abuse in each of the last 10 years, together with the conviction rates, can be found within the table at Annex A.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 14/09/2016 10:47:19 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name Annex A.pdf title Annex A
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

577427

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Courts: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to ensure that courts receive the latest Police National Computer details for defendants when cases are being dealt with electronically.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	45430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) provides an electronic copy of the Police National Computer (PNC) details for defendants to the court and defence as part of their initial disclosure of the prosecution case. Any subsequent updated versions of the defendant’s PNC received during the course of the case are provided to the CPS by the police, either at their instigation or at the request of the CPS, for use at court.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 14/09/2016 10:13:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

577428

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Arrests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the average time from arrest to charge in each category of offence was in the latest year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	45486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold this information. Individual police forces may report on average arrest to charge statistics but this information is not held by the CPS. Furthermore, many cases are charged by the police directly or by other bodies, and never come to the CPS.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 14/09/2016 10:11:38 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

573554

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will publish a list of all secondees to the Law Officers' Departments from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what the role was of each of those secondees.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	44323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>There have been no secondees from any consulting firm to the Attorney General’s Office, Government Legal Department, Crown Prosecution Service or Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate in the last three financial years.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office had one KPMG employee with them on secondment in 2015-16 covering a Principal Investigator role as an accountant on an operational case team.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/09/2016 13:20:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

540944

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people working for the Law Officers' Departments or its executive agencies on a (a) directly employed, (b) agency or (c) outsourced basis are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation; and how many of those people are employed on zero-hours contracts.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	43500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2016 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office, the Government Legal Department, HMCPSI and the Crown Prosecution Service have no direct employees or agency workers that are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage foundation.</p><p> </p><p>The Serious Fraud Office directly employs six staff who earn less than this. The six are all either apprentices or sandwich students on placement, and are all under 20 years of age and paid at a rate equivalent to £9.04 an hour.</p><p> </p><p>None of the Law Officers’ Departments have any direct employees or agency workers who are on zero-hours contracts. No information is held in regards to pay rates or contracts with individuals employed by agencies or firms for subcontracted services.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 06/09/2016 10:36:46 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

540945

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what progress he has made on increasing the number of prosecutions for disability hate crime.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	43668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>In 2015/16, the CPS completed 941 prosecutions for disability hate crime, an increase of 41.3% on the previous year when it completed 666 prosecutions.</p><p>The number of convictions rose from 503 in 2014/15 to 707 in 2015/16, an increase of 40.6%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 05/09/2016 09:02:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

539479

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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, on how many occasions the Law Officers referred a criminal sentence to the Court for Appeal for review on the grounds that it was unduly harsh in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	43056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>Whilst the Attorney General’s Office can ask the Court of Appeal to review a sentence which is considered to be unduly lenient, the Law Officers have no power to intervene when a sentence is too harsh. Therefore there have been no referrals to the Court of Appeal on the grounds that a sentence was unduly harsh.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/07/2016 10:43:25 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

541346

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Rape: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the reasons for variations across police force areas in conviction rates for rape offences.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	906012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>There are a number of factors at various stages that are likely to have an impact on conviction rates for rape, but the Crown Prosecution Service is committed to improving the conviction rate for rape by working closely with partners in all police force areas.</p><p> </p><p>In order to provide consistency of approach, the CPS has also established networks of Violence against Women and Girls co-ordinators.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/07/2016 14:15:54 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson