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620831

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Police: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times (a) police and (b) police community support officer defendants have been convicted since the Crown Prosecution Service's victims' right to review in June 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	50150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service’s Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) Scheme came into effect on the 5<sup>th</sup> June 2013. Between this date and the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the CPS made 354,097 qualifying decisions which were subject to review under the scheme. The CPS have subsequently reviewed 4,689 VRR appeals of which 570 (0.16% of the total qualifying decisions) were upheld.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the type of employment a suspect or defendant is engaged in. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 50151 50152 50153 50154 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:06:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

620832

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times a victim has sought a review of a Crown Prosecution Service decision to leave all charges in the proceedings to lie on file since June 2013; how many such cases have related to a police officer or a police community support officer (PCSO); how many reviews have led to a reversal; and how many cases which resulted in reversal have related to a police officer or a PCSO.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	50151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service’s Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) Scheme came into effect on the 5<sup>th</sup> June 2013. Between this date and the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the CPS made 354,097 qualifying decisions which were subject to review under the scheme. The CPS have subsequently reviewed 4,689 VRR appeals of which 570 (0.16% of the total qualifying decisions) were upheld.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the type of employment a suspect or defendant is engaged in. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 50150 50152 50153 50154 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:06:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

620833

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times a victim has sought a review of a Crown Prosecution Service decision to end all proceedings since June 2013; how many such cases related to a police officer or a police community support officer (PCSO); how many reviews have led to a reversal; and how many cases which resulted in reversal have related to a police officer or a PCSO.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	50152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service’s Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) Scheme came into effect on the 5<sup>th</sup> June 2013. Between this date and the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the CPS made 354,097 qualifying decisions which were subject to review under the scheme. The CPS have subsequently reviewed 4,689 VRR appeals of which 570 (0.16% of the total qualifying decisions) were upheld.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the type of employment a suspect or defendant is engaged in. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 50150 50151 50153 50154 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:06:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

620834

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times a victim has sought a review of a Crown Prosecution Service decision to offer no evidence in all proceedings since June 2013; how many such cases related to a police officer or a police community support officer (PCSO); how many reviews have led to a reversal; and how many cases which resulted in reversal have related to a police officer or a PCSO.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	50153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service’s Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) Scheme came into effect on the 5<sup>th</sup> June 2013. Between this date and the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the CPS made 354,097 qualifying decisions which were subject to review under the scheme. The CPS have subsequently reviewed 4,689 VRR appeals of which 570 (0.16% of the total qualifying decisions) were upheld.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the type of employment a suspect or defendant is engaged in. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 50150 50151 50152 50154 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:06:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

620835

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times since June 2013 a review has been requested of a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute; how many of those requests related to a police officer or a police community support officer (PCSO); how many of those decisions were reversed; and how many of those that were reversed related to a police officer or a PCSO.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	50154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service’s Victims’ Right to Review (VRR) Scheme came into effect on the 5<sup>th</sup> June 2013. Between this date and the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the CPS made 354,097 qualifying decisions which were subject to review under the scheme. The CPS have subsequently reviewed 4,689 VRR appeals of which 570 (0.16% of the total qualifying decisions) were upheld.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the type of employment a suspect or defendant is engaged in. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 50150 50151 50152 50153 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:06:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

620840

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Royal Prerogative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will provide guidance to Government departments on the Government's current definition of the prerogative power.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	50060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>As set out in the Cabinet Manual, departmental civil servants provide advice to ministers on the extent of their powers. There are no plans to issue guidance from the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 01/11/2016 08:55:57 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

620857

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department issues to local authorities on budget setting processes to ensure (a) value for money for residents and (b) the delivery of core frontline services.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	50063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>All local authorities are required by law to set a balanced budget each year, and to appoint an officer who has responsibility to report on the reasonableness of assumptions underpinning each budget. Local authority functions are set out in numerous Acts of Parliament and many of these functions have associated legal duties. Local authorities are democratically elected organisations, and as such are responsible for decisions on how to achieve value for money in line with local circumstances and priorities.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 01/11/2016 15:34:40 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

620886

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the procurement decisions it makes benefits from the research and development work undertaken by companies in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	50112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>Research and Development (R&amp;D) is critical to the delivery of battle-winning capability for our Armed Forces and in 2014/15 the Ministry of Defence spent over £1.7 billion on R&amp;D activity, much of that with industry. The Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 set out our commitment to dedicate 1.2% of a growing defence budget on science and technology throughout this Parliament. A large proportion of this is delivered by external partners and suppliers.</p><p>In September this year we launched the Defence Innovation Initiative which is aimed at transforming our creative culture. This includes committing £800 million to an Innovation Fund over the next 10 years. Under this initiative we will remove barriers to creativity and harness the curiosity and ingenuity of the private sector, including companies in the UK, to find solutions to our most pressing defence and security needs.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 01/11/2016 16:28:37 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

620887

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase the use of locally produced food in defence establishments.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	50137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence encourages British food producers to put themselves forward as conrtactors and gives full consideration to procuring British products.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 01/11/2016 17:08:42 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

620888

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department takes to assess the social and economic effect of closures of military bases and other defence establishments in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	50138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>Decisions to close military bases and other defence establishments are based on the interests of the defence of the whole of the United Kingdom, rather than on the basis of the impact on a specific region. We do not make defence decisions to benefit one local economy or industry over another. It is the duty of Government to make sure that the Defence budget is spent wisely, maximising the resources available on the front line and making sure that every pound counts.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 01/11/2016 17:06:19 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald