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421288

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse from early guilty pleas in the Crown Court in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The Early Guilty Plea Scheme aims to reduce delays and unnecessary paper work and increases productivity for all Criminal Justice System partners.</p><br /><p>No data is collected on the total savings to the public purse by a defendant entering an early guilty plea.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 15:57:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

421289

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the Crown Prosecution Service's success rate was in cases which have gone to trial in (a) Magistrates' Courts and (b) Crown Courts in each year between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the outcomes of prosecutions, on a defendant basis, at magistrates’ courts and at the Crown Court. Cases adjourned for trial, or contested proceedings, comprise convictions after trial and acquittals or dismissals after trial.</p><p>The table below shows the proportion of contested proceedings resulting in a conviction after trial, at magistrates’ courts and at the Crown Court for each of the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Conviction after Contest Rate</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(a) Magistrates' Court </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) Crown Court </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-2011</strong></p></td><td><p>65.0%</p></td><td><p>56.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p>66.3%</p></td><td><p>59.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p>64.4%</p></td><td><p>60.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p>62.8%</p></td><td><p>60.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p>61.0%</p></td><td><p>56.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The figures in the table above are inclusive of cases where a defendant has entered mixed guilty and not guilty pleas. These pleas are not acceptable to the Crown and the case proceeds to trial.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 16:01:38 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

421290

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the (a) prosecution cost per defendant, (b) overall spend per completed case and (c) overall spend per full-time equivalent staff member in (i) the Crown Court and (ii) magistrates' courts was in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>(a) The prosecution cost per defendant since 2010-11 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£461</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£496</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>(b) The overall spend per completed case for each year since 2010-11 is as follows:-</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£477</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£550</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>(c) The overall spend per full-time equivalent staff member in (i) the Crown Court and (ii) magistrates' courts was, in 2014-15:</p><p>(i) Crown Court £96,532</p><p>(ii) Magistrates Court £58,924</p><br /><p>It is important to note that these are not staff costs but represent the full cost of prosecuting cases in the Magistrates and Crown Courts. These costs include administrative overheads.</p><br /><p>Prior to 2014-15 the CPS did not distinguish staff expenditure between Magistrates’ and Crown Court cases, so we are unable to apportion spend to full-time equivalents by these categories.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 15:58:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

421294

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many wasted cost orders were made (a) in favour and (b) against the Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 2010-11; and for what reasons such wasted cost orders were made against the Crown Prosecution Service.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Servicedoes not maintain a central record of the number of wasted cost orders made in favour of, or against, the prosecution. To obtain this information would require a manual file examination incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 15:56:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

421295

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many early guilty pleas there were in the Crown Court in each year from 2010-11; and what proportion of total pleas they represented in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central electronic record of the numbers of defendants and the outcome of prosecution proceedings at the Crown Court on its Case Management System. An automated facility to collate data showing the number of early guilty pleas was developed and implemented across the Service during 2013. Complete records are therefore only available from April 2014.</p><br /><p>The table below represents the number of finalised defendants entering early guilty pleas and shows these as a proportion of all guilty pleas at the Crown Court during 2014-15.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Early Guilty Plea</p></td><td><p>23,589</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% EGP of all Guilty Pleas</p></td><td><p>32.5%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Guilty Pleas</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>72,527</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><br /><p>The total guilty plea volumes in the table above are inclusive of cases where a defendant has entered mixed guilty and not guilty pleas.</p><br /><p>The second table shows the number of early guilty pleas as a proportion of all finalised prosecution outcomes at the Crown Court during the same period.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Early Guilty Plea</p></td><td><p>23,589</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% EGP of all Prosecutions</p></td><td><p>23.4%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Prosecutions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>100,865</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/10/2015 16:09:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

421296

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) prosecutors, (b) associate prosecutors, (c) caseworkers and (d) administrators were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion of each such category were engaged in frontline services.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>The number of (a) prosecutors, (b) associate prosecutors, (c) caseworkers and (d) administrators that were employed by the Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 2010-11, can be found in the table below along with the proportion of each that were engaged in frontline services.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Prosecutors</p></td><td><p>Associate</p></td><td><p>Caseworkers</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><p>Prosecutors</p></td><td><p>&amp; Administrators</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>2668</p></td><td><p>411</p></td><td><p>4089</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% FrontLine</p></td><td><p>98.7%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>91.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>2583</p></td><td><p>405</p></td><td><p>4143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% FrontLine</p></td><td><p>99.0%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>91.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>2351</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>4130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% FrontLine</p></td><td><p>97.6%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>91.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>2226</p></td><td><p>302</p></td><td><p>3710</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% FrontLine</p></td><td><p>97.3%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>90.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>2232</p></td><td><p>252</p></td><td><p>3333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% FrontLine</p></td><td><p>97.5%</p></td><td><p>100.0%</p></td><td><p>90.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes: Data may differ from other published data due to differing specifications</p><br /> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/10/2015 15:49:53 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

421297

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
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: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many exit packages the Crown Prosecution Service has agreed with a value of more than £100,000 since 2010-11; and what the total cost of such packages was to the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is contained in the following table.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Exit Packages in Excess of £100,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of Exit Packages Per</strong> <strong>Year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2010 – 2011</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>£4,463,413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 – 2012</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>£4,466,510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 – 2013</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>£3.494,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 – 2014</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>£4,492,789</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 2015</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>£2,991,809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 2016</p></td><td><p>none</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>153</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> £19,908,787</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><p><strong><em>Note:</em></strong></p><p><em>Data source is the CPS Annual Report for years 2010/11 to 2014/15. Data source for 2015/16 was taken from the CPS VER and finance database and is</em> <em>accurate as at 16/10/15.</em></p><br /> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/10/2015 16:13:29 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

420581

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
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 Deferred Prosecution Agreements the Serious Fraud Office is currently negotiating; and what recent progress has been made in each of those negotiations.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon.Member to the answer given by the Solicitor General to question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-12/2337/" target="_blank">2337</a> on 17 June 2015.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 15/10/2015 15:34:50 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

420582

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the total value was of the proceeds of crime retained by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) under the ARIS incentive scheme in each financial year since 2012-13; and what proportion of the annual SFO budget this formed in each case.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was part of the Home Office Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme from 2006-07 until 2012-13.</p><p>The SFO retained £2,027,171 in the year 2012-13, this represented 5% of the gross Departmental Expenditure Limit for the SFO for that year.</p><p>Since then, all monies due to the SFO under ARIS (£7,775 for 2013-14, and £3,051,434 for 2014-15) are paid to HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 15/10/2015 09:45:09 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

420583

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Serious Fraud Office: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many requests for blockbuster funding were made by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15 and (f) 2015-16 to date; how much funding was requested on each such occasion for which investigations; what proportion of the SFO's annual budget such blockbuster funding represented in each of those years; and on how many occasions such funding requests were not approved in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	11456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has a core budget to investigate and, where appropriate, prosecute the most serious and complex cases of fraud, bribery and corruption, and some exceptionally large cases will arise that require additional resources.</p><p>Where this is the case, the additional funding which is commonly referred to as ‘blockbuster funding’ is allocated as part of the Main and Supplementary Estimates processes. Therefore, the additional funding has been approved as part of this process each year.</p><p>The table below shows the SFO’s total net Departmental Expenditure Limit for each year since 2010-11, and the amount of this which was blockbuster funding in each year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total budget</p></td><td><p>£36.9m</p></td><td><p>£33.2m</p></td><td><p>£40.8m</p></td><td><p>£53.6m</p></td><td><p>£57.7m</p></td><td><p>£43.8m*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>‘Blockbuster’ funding</p></td><td><p>£2.8m</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£6.7m</p></td><td><p>£24m</p></td><td><p>£25.2m</p></td><td><p>£10m to date</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* This is the figure from the Main Estimate for 2015-16 and so may be revised as part of the Supplementary Estimates process.</p><p>The figures in the table do not include capital expenditure or Annually Managed Expenditure, or any income from costs awards or other recoveries. The blockbuster funding during this period also includes support for civil litigation costs relating to the investigation into Kaupthing.</p><p>As has been explained in response to previous questions from Members, it is not appropriate to provide a breakdown of the funding allocated to each SFO investigation.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 15/10/2015 09:42:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell