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757523

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Law: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to improve public legal education.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	8850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text In July, I launched a Public Legal Education panel to support and drive forward legal education initiatives. Bringing together key organisations will mean a more joined up approach to Public Legal Education and will ensure that more people can reap the benefits of the good work being done. answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/09/2017 13:45:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

755524

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crime of aggression
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the ratification of crimes of aggression as defined by the International Criminal Court into domestic law.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	7380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>I regularly meet ministerial colleagues to discuss important issues of common interest, including on matters of international criminal law. By longstanding convention, the fact that the Law Officers have or have not given advice to Cabinet on a particular issue, and the content of their advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/09/2017 14:14:51 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

757012

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Legal Profession: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to his oral contribution of 27 October 2016, Official Report, column 410, whether he plans to look at guidance given by the Crown Prosecution Service to the lawyers who appear before the courts and regularly deal with applications of sexual offences.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	8314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>Specially trained rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) prosecutors are committed to robustly opposing applications pursuant to Section 41 Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 where it is appropriate to do so and are assisted in this process by online legal guidance and by face-to-face training which is compulsory for all RASSO prosecutors. With a view to ensuring that performance is maintained in this important area the CPS is currently developing a new training course on the Section 41 provisions which is designed to assist both RASSO prosecutors and members of the independent Bar. The CPS is also in the process of updating legal guidance for prosecutors on rape and sexual offences which will feature a detailed section on the operation of the Section 41 provisions. The new training course and guidance will be launched later this year. As part of a wider evaluation of the operation of the Section 41 provisions I intend to look at both of these new CPS training products when they have been completed.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/09/2017 16:09:24 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

754849

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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, if he will provide funding to advertise and raise public awareness of the process to refer unduly lenient sentences.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme allows anyone to ask me to review certain sentences passed in the Crown Court and, where appropriate, to invite the Court of Appeal to consider increasing them.</p><p> </p><p>My office already does much to publicise the scheme. We publish ULS referrals on the website and work with local and national print and broadcast media to publicise them. Details of how to refer a case appear on the web site <a href="https://www.gov.uk/ask-crown-court-sentence-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/ask-crown-court-sentence-review</a>. My Office also promotes sentence increases on social media and distributes infographics online to increase public awareness.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016, more victims and their families got justice than ever before, after 141 criminals had their sentences increased under the ULS scheme.</p><p> </p><p>That year, we received 837 referrals, a 17% increase from the previous year, and the Solicitor General or I asked the Court of Appeal to look at 190, compared to 135 in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/09/2017 07:59:53 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

753450

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions there have been for the illegal trade in ivory in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	5800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>A number of offences controlling the international trade in endangered species are created by the COTES Regulations 1997.</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Regulation 3: offences concerning false statements or notifications.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 4: offences of altering or wrongfully using a permit, certificate or import notification.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 6: contravening conditions or requirements of permits or certificates.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 8: offences of purchasing, acquiring, selling any specimen of a species for commercial purposes.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Although it is not possible to identify the number of prosecutions of particular offences, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the COTES Regulations 1997 and Section 170(2) CEMA 1979 during each of the last five years. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></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></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 3 }</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 4 }</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 6 }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 8 }</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 { 170(2) }</p></td><td><p>755</p></td><td><p>699</p></td><td><p>826</p></td><td><p>856</p></td><td><p>749</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is not possible to separately identify offences which concern the illegal trade in ivory or ivory products from other unlawful international trade in endangered species.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/09/2017 09:25:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

752505

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many staff in the Law Officers' department have responsibilities relating to the UK's exit from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	5143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments use their resource flexibly and a number of staff from across the organisations have been involved in work that supports the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Legal Department has a team that specifically provides legal services to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). Currently, there are 41.5 full-time-equivalent staff in this team and GLD would expect to charge DExEU £3.731m for the services of this team in the 2017/18 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining Law Officers' Departments (Attorney General’s Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) do not keep a separate record of expenditure for work relating to the UK’s exit from the EU. It would not be proportionate to quantify the number of staff involved and calculate costings, – particularly as the numbers of staff involved and the time requirements from each vary over time.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 5370 question first answered 27/07/2017 13:52:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752506

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what amount of the Law Officers' Departments' annual expenditure is allocated to work relating to the UK's exit from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	5370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments use their resource flexibly and a number of staff from across the organisations have been involved in work that supports the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Legal Department has a team that specifically provides legal services to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU). Currently, there are 41.5 full-time-equivalent staff in this team and GLD would expect to charge DExEU £3.731m for the services of this team in the 2017/18 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining Law Officers' Departments (Attorney General’s Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate) do not keep a separate record of expenditure for work relating to the UK’s exit from the EU. It would not be proportionate to quantify the number of staff involved and calculate costings, – particularly as the numbers of staff involved and the time requirements from each vary over time.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 5143 question first answered 27/07/2017 13:52:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752507

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent progress has been made in increasing the prosecution rate for hate crimes.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its prosecution of all strands of hate crime.</p><p>The CPS is prosecuting and convicting more defendants of hate crime than ever before. In 2015/16, the CPS completed 15,442 hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 704 on the previous year. The conviction rate also improved to 83.2% in 2015/16 an increase from 82.9% the previous year.</p><p>The CPS Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17 shows that the proportion of cases where the CPS was successful in achieving uplifted sentences for hate crime perpetrators has increased dramatically. The proportion rose from 33.8% in 2015/16, to 52.2% in 2016/17 – reaching 58.2% in the final quarter.</p><p>The CPS has delivered mandatory face to face disability hate crime training and racially and religiously aggravated hate crime training and is in the process of developing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime training to support prosecutors to more effectively deal with hate crime cases.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/07/2017 14:45:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

751193

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Banks: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposals to move the functions of the Serious Fraud Office to the National Crime Agency on criminality in the banking sector.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
tabling member printed	Mhairi Black
uin	4613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to strengthening the UK's response to bribery, corruption, money laundering, fraud and other forms of economic crime.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is continuing to review options to improve the effectiveness of the UK's response to economic crime, and any measures resulting from this work will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 17/07/2017 16:27:18 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4421 label Biography information for Mhairi Black

750648

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many lawyers in the Government Legal Department provide services to the Department of Exiting the European Union; how many of those lawyers have been seconded from outside the Civil Service; and from which firms those lawyers have been seconded.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	4198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>At present the Government Legal Department (GLD) has 39 lawyers in its Division advising the Department for Exiting the European Union. None have been seconded from outside the civil service. This figure does not include lawyers in GLD who provide litigation, employment or commercial services to DExEU from time to time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 17/07/2017 16:25:18 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett