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1472632

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date	22/06/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2022 to Question 5345 on Criminal Liability, for what reason the CPS does not maintain a central record of any defence employed by defendants in criminal proceedings.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	23225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2022 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) collects data to assist in the effective management of its prosecution functions. This data is derived from structured data fields completed on individual case records held in the Case Management Information System (CMS) and reported in the Management Information System (MIS).</p><p> </p><p>Any information recorded in the CMS about the defence(s) employed by defendants would be added as ‘freetext’ which cannot be centrally collated in the MIS and would only be obtainable by manually reviewing CPS case records. Defences employed are by their nature specific to the circumstances of each individual case, so collecting related data would provide little benefit as CPS operational management information.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 01/07/2022 07:54:42 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1472637

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Law Commission’s discussion paper, entitled Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism, published on 23 July 2013, if his Department will conduct a review into the use of automatism as a legal defence.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	23229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The government is grateful to the Law Commission for their discussion paper on “Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism” published in 2013. The government has noted their proposals and has no immediate plans to conduct a further review as the defence of automatism is used so rarely, however, we have not ruled out the possibility of reform in the future. We keep the law in this area under appraisal alongside related law on insanity and unfitness to plead.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23230 question first answered 30/06/2022 13:23:28 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1472638

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 20 June 2022 to Question 17873 on Criminal Liability, for what reasons his Department has no plans to bring forward reform to the use of automatism as a legal defence.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	23230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The government is grateful to the Law Commission for their discussion paper on “Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism” published in 2013. The government has noted their proposals and has no immediate plans to conduct a further review as the defence of automatism is used so rarely, however, we have not ruled out the possibility of reform in the future. We keep the law in this area under appraisal alongside related law on insanity and unfitness to plead.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 23229 question first answered 30/06/2022 13:23:28 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464548

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people the CPS has acquitted on the defence of automatism in England and Wales as of 19th May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of any defence employed by defendants in criminal proceedings. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 23/05/2022 09:17:48 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464552

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to reform the use of automatism as a legal defence.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals in relation to this defence but it will be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/05/2022 13:16:11 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1327329

registered interest
date	24/05/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of criminal cases have been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service where automatism has been used as a defence in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	6191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of any defence employed by defendants in criminal proceedings. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 27/05/2021 16:42:48 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1287390

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he made of the implications for his policies of the 2013 Law Commission report entitled, Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	154757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government has considered the proposals in the Law Commission’s 2013 discussion paper.</p><p>Whilst we note the Law Commission’s proposals on the potential to update the law in this area, we have no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals in relation to this rarely-used defence. However, we continue to keep this, and the wider and related law on unfitness to plead, under review.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 01/03/2021 15:50:27 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman