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64819

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Police Cautions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cautions have been issued for offences of (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) sexual assault, (d) robbery and (e) burglary in (i) each year between 2010 and 2013 and (ii) each month since January 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of offenders (including young people) cautioned, for offences of rape, sexual assault, robbery and burglary, by months in England and Wales from 2010 to 2013 (latest available) can be viewed in the table. There were no cautions administered for murder.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Simple cautions (previously police cautions) are a non-statutory disposal available to the police to dispose of any offence committed by an adult and designed for dealing with low level, mainly first time offending. The Government does not believe that cautions are appropriate for serious offences. We issued new guidelines on 14 November 2014 following a detailed review of how cautions were being used by police forces, and are strengthening the law to prevent cautions being used for serious offences.</del></p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police and the CPS when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. This guidance states that the use of a simple caution for indictable only offences, such as rape, should only be given following authorisation by the CPS. These will be cases where there were exceptional circumstances which would mean that it was not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The overall number of simple cautions issued has halved since 2007. The cautioning rate, that is, the number of offenders cautioned as a percentage of offenders who were either cautioned or convicted, in 2013 was 20 per cent; this has declined from a peak of 31 per cent in 2007.</p><p>The Government is clear that serious offences should always be brought to court and to ensure that there is increased public confidence in the justice system last year announced limits on the use of simple cautions. These changes restrict the use of cautions for indictable only offences and certain serious either way offences unless there are exceptional circumstances and a senior police officer, as well as the CPS for certain cases, has agreed that a caution should be administered.</p><p>The MOJ guidance on Adult Simple Cautions was amended in November last year to reflect these changes, and we are currently legislating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to place statutory restrictions around their use.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 07/07/2014 15:20:18 question first ministerially corrected 28/08/2014 11:45:56 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13 previous answer version 9230 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

76471

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Sussex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the remedies available to people who are the subjects of erroneous or malicious reports to Sussex Police in respect of the Operation Crackdown online mechanism.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	204603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Sussex Safer Roads <br>Partnership receives no direct funding, or contributions from the Government. <br>Operation Crackdown is a local police initiative and the Government has no <br>involvement in measuring its effectiveness.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/07/2014 15:28:03 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9749 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

76478

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Sussex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason people who have received letters from Sussex Police about alleged incidents within the remit of Operation Crackdown are advised that subject access requests under section 7 of the Data Protection Act are redundant.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	204605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Sussex Safer Roads <br>Partnership receives no direct funding, or contributions from the Government. <br>Operation Crackdown is a local police initiative and the Government has no <br>involvement in measuring its effectiveness.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/07/2014 15:28:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9750 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

76479

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sussex Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been employed in web development and related roles in each year since the establishment of Operation Crackdown by Sussex Police; and what key performance indicators apply to them.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	204607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Sussex Safer Roads <br>Partnership receives no direct funding, or contributions from the Government. <br>Operation Crackdown is a local police initiative and the Government has no <br>involvement in measuring its effectiveness.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/07/2014 15:29:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9752 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

76481

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Sussex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of online reports made to Sussex Police in respect of the Operation Crackdown online mechanism which are (a) malicious and (b) erroneous.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	204606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Sussex Safer Roads <br>Partnership receives no direct funding, or contributions from the Government. <br>Operation Crackdown is a local police initiative and the Government has no <br>involvement in measuring its effectiveness.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/07/2014 15:29:27 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9751 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

45310

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will redraft the code governing detention of teenagers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to ensure that 17 year olds in custody are treated as teenagers by the police.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	193901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Following the High Court ruling in the judicial review HC vs (1) Secretary of <br>State for the Home Department and (2) Commissioner of Police for the <br>Metropolis, the Government made changes to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act <br>1984 Codes of Practice C &amp; H, which govern the treatment of detained persons in <br>police custody. The changes, which came into effect on 21st October 2013, have <br>the effect of requiring the police to treat 17 year olds in police custody as <br>children by providing, as a matter of course, Appropriate Adults and to inform <br>a person responsible for the welfare of the 17 year old of their detention. <br>These changes are mandatory. <br><br>I refer the Hon. Member to a statement made by my Rt. Hon. Friend (Damian Green) on 21st October 2013, Official Report, columns 4-6WS explaining these changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green previous answer version 3793 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

63080

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Civil Disorder: Birmingham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of lessons to be learned from the police offer of immunity to witnesses in the case involving the deaths of Haroon Jahan, Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir in Birmingham during the civil disturbances in that city in 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	201665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>On 7 May 2014 the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced <br>its findings in regard to Operation Pointer, an independent investigation into the <br>conduct of two West Midlands Police Officers relating to the triple murder trial <br>arising from rioting in Birmingham in August 2011. The IPCC's conclusions are <br>deeply troubling - it is clear that the professional standards expected of all <br>police officers were not met in this individual case. We expect West Midlands <br>Police to act upon the report and improve its systems and procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 30/06/2014 12:09:38 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green previous answer version 5124 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

46302

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of speed awareness courses; and what information her Department collects on speeding and driving offences committed by drivers who have undertaken such a course.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	194627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The number of drivers that opted for a National Driver Offender Retraining <br>Scheme (NDORS) speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points on <br>their driving licence in 2010 is 447,833, in 2011 is 772,180, 2012 is 926,155 and in<br>2013 is 953,464. These reflect the latest updated figures. <br>The offer of a speed awareness course is at the discretion of the police. To be <br>deemed eligible there must be no excessive speed or other offences committed at <br>the same time. Information on previous motoring convictions is not taken into <br>account. <br>The Department for Transport and the police are in advanced stages of <br>commissioning a long term study to assess the effectiveness of speed awareness <br>courses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 4837 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

46307

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2014, Official Report, column 372W, on driving: licensing, how many drivers who received driving convictions within their two year probation period undertook speed awareness courses in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	194744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The number of drivers that opted for a National Driver Offender Retraining <br>Scheme (NDORS) speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points on <br>their driving licence in 2010 is 447,833, in 2011 is 772,180, 2012 is 926,155 and in<br>2013 is 953,464. These reflect the latest updated figures. <br>The offer of a speed awareness course is at the discretion of the police. To be <br>deemed eligible there must be no excessive speed or other offences committed at <br>the same time. Information on previous motoring convictions is not taken into <br>account. <br>The Department for Transport and the police are in advanced stages of <br>commissioning a long term study to assess the effectiveness of speed awareness <br>courses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 4843 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

47184

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the communiqué of the internet safety summit at Downing Street, published on 18 November 2013, what progress has been made by internet companies on ensuring that child abuse images are not returned following search engine requests.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	195676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Child abuse is a horrific crime and the Government is determined to tackle <br>it. We have made real progress through our work with the internet industry. <br>Following this work, internet search engines have made changes to <br>their search mechanisms, and these new measures have been effective in making <br>it harder to access child abuse images. For example, Google has implemented <br>changes that prevent child abuse results against 100,000 unique searches <br>worldwide. National Crime Agency testing of these new measures shows that they <br>have been effective in making it harder to access child abuse images, videos or <br>pathways. This is now a constantly evolving approach that tracks the latest <br>terms being used by paedophiles and cuts off access to child abuse material.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 5672 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman