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63827

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
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 the fall in the percentage rate of convictions in rape cases between 2012-13 and 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	202401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Rape National Scrutiny Panel led by the Director of Public Prosecutions and the National Policing lead for rape, considered the investigation and prosecution of rape cases including their referral from the police to the CPS. A range of issues have been identified that may have contributed to the drop in conviction rates. The joint Crown Prosecution Service / police Rape Action Plan published on 6 June 2014 aims to address these.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 30/06/2014 13:31:30 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

64111

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Coroners and Justice Act 2009
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to charge under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, including those cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL616 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:56 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64112

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Coroners and Justice Act 2009
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the last five years where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to charge under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, including those cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL615 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:55 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64113

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in each of the past five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to proceed under sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.), including cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL618 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:25 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64114

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in each of the past five years where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to proceed under sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.), including cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness grouped question UIN HL617 question first answered 07/07/2014 11:32:24 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

64116

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Coroners and Justice Act 2009
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions have taken place under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the past five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds figures of the number of offences charged under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 that reached a first hearing in a magistrates' court and data for the past three financial years is contained in the following table. No charges are recorded before financial year 2011/2012.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coroners and Justice</p><p>Act 2009 { 71(1)(a) &amp; (3) }</p></td><td><p>Knowingly hold another person</p><p>in slavery / servitude</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coroners and Justice</p><p>Act 2009 { 71(1)(b) &amp; (3) }</p></td><td><p>Knowingly require another</p><p>person to perform forced /</p><p>compulsory labour</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>CPS offence based data is not held by defendant or outcome so it is not possible to ascertain the number of individual prosecutions that concluded.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness question first answered 07/07/2014 11:07:51 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

63460

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many directors of companies were disqualified as a result of a criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in (a) 2012-13 and (b) each of the five preceding years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	201978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of directors of companies disqualified on conviction following prosecution by the Serious Fraud Office were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2008/09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data prior to 2008 is not collated centrally and it is not possible to provide the information requested without incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 01/07/2014 11:36:24 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

63547

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Performance Appraisal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by the Law Officers' Departments received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	202048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide figures for all the Law Officers' Departments as their staff performance appraisal processes for 2013-14 have yet to be completed. Figures should be available in the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 01/07/2014 11:26:10 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

62824

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many apprentices have been hired under the Law Officers' Department's new contract for procurement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments do not hold any central records of the number of apprentices who may have been hired by its suppliers. To provide this information would involve contacting numerous companies and would therefore incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 26/06/2014 13:43:26 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62486

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Expert Evidence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of the allegations made regarding expert witnesses in the BBC Panorama programme Justice for Sale, broadcast on 9 June, they intend to review independently the evidence given by Michael Ansell in the Asil Nadir trial.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>No. Michael Ansell was instructed by the defence in the trial of Asil Nadir and if the defence have concerns about the evidence given by one of their witnesses it is a matter for them to take forward.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness question first answered 01/07/2014 11:33:24 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass