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79431

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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, for what types of indictable-only offence a caution was issued in each year since 2009; and how many cautions were issued for each type of offence in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	206955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial"></ins><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This Government has taken action to end the cautions culture and to make sure serious offenders do not receive penalties seen as soft options. The use of cautions is at its lowest point for thirty years.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are changing the law to ban simple cautions for all of the indictable only offences - the most serious criminal offences which must be tried in the Crown Court, including rape, manslaughter and robbery. We are also banning simple cautions for possession of a knife or offensive weapon, supplying Class A drugs and a range of sexual offences against children. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Further, we announced proposals in November 2014 for a new out of court disposal framework that would see an end to cautions and warnings and would require offenders to take actions to comply with their disposals. Elements of this new framework are being piloted in Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and Leicestershire before a decision is taken on whether to implement the new framework across England and Wales. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. The latest guidance, issued in November 2013 following the Simple Cautions Review, states that the use of a simple caution for indictable-only offences, such as rape, should only be given following authorisation by a senior police officer of at least the rank of Superintendent and the Crown Prosecution Service. These will be cases where there are exceptional circumstances which would mean that it is not in the public interest to prosecute.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> Latest information on cautions issued by offence type is publicly available online at the Ministry of Justice’s statistics portal. This data is contained in Q2.3 of the Out of Court Disposals table: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-september-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-september-2014</a></ins></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Simple 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 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 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.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Since 2007 the overall number of simple cautions issued has halved. 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; which has declined from a peak of 31 per cent in 2007.</del></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/09/2014 15:19:10 question first ministerially corrected 24/03/2015 11:55:13 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name 206955 - table.xls title number of indictable only cautions issued 2009-13 previous answer version 18652 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

90359

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police Custody: Children
	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 children detained in police custody under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each year since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	207906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Home Office does not hold this information centrally. <br><br>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) published data for 2012/13 showing that 263 children and young people aged under 18 were detained in police custody under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, out of a total of 7,761 people detained in police cells under Section 136 that year. This was the first time this data was collected from police forces and the HSCIC have indicated that this data is incomplete as not all police forces responded and some police force returns were based on estimates.<br><br>The Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, published by the Government in February this year, includes an action for the Home Office and the National Police Lead for Mental Health to develop a data toolkit to enable the police to quantify the demand for responses to people in mental health crisis, including whether a person is detained in police custody. The toolkit is currently being tested by the Metropolitan Police Service, British Transport Police and Thames Valley Police with a view to subsequent roll-out across forces in England and Wales. <br><br>The Home Office is working with the Department of Health on a review of the operation of Sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. This is with a view to ensuring that young people with mental health problems are not unnecessarily detained in police custody. We aim to publish a joint report later this year.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/09/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 18305 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

78528

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the people identified to date by the National Crime Agency investigation into online child abuse had previously worked in regulated activity.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	206233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>As operation NOTARISE is an ongoing operation it is not possible to provide <br>this information.<br><br>As a result of this NCA-led operation, individuals who have committed serious <br>offences or are considered to pose a risk to children will be placed on the <br>barred list which will prevent them from working in regulated activity with <br>children.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/07/2014 14:20:54 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 11258 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77185

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Young Offenders
	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 Answer of 21 October 2013, Official Report, column 65W, on young offenders, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to redefine juveniles to include those older than 16.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	205267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is working with policing and criminal justice partners to review those remaining circumstances where current legislation treats 17 year olds as adults while in police custody.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/07/2014 14:15:45 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10297 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

77187

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police Custody: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 17 year olds were held in police custody in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	205269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/07/2014 14:21:19 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10306 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

77186

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hughes Chang
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken fully to comply with the High Court judgment in the Hughes Chang case.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
	uin	205268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office has taken steps to ensure that it complies fully with the Hughes-Chang court judgement. Mandatory changes have been made to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Codes of Practice C and H, which came into effect in October 2013, which require the police to provide 17 year olds with an appropriate adult and to inform their parents of their detention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/07/2014 14:19:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10300 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

78524

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many discretionary referrals have been made from the National Crime Agency Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit to the Disclosure and Barring Service in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	206296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/08/2014 answer text <p>Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit (CEOP) Command works with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check the details of individualsagainst CEOP records when requested to do so, however they do not makediscretionary referrals. Like its predecessor (the Criminal Records Bureau), the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has access to Police National Computer (PNC) records which includes details of those who have been charged or convicted in connection with CEOP Command investigations. This allows the DBS to undertake checks when criminal records certificates are applied for or referrals are receivedfrom employers or others.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 19/08/2014 07:33:30 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 11259 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

78531

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Euthanasia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received on the time taken for the Metropolitan Police to act in the case of a foreign national conducting a seminar which is alleged to have encouraged assistance with suicide in London, June 2013; and what steps she is taking to ensure that the case is now properly investigated.
	tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
	tabling member printed	Jim Dobbin
	uin	206115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>No such reports have been received. The investigation of criminal offences is an operational matter for the police. It would therefore not be appropriate for <br>the Government to interfere in police investigations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 29/07/2014 13:19:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 11213 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	446 label Biography information for Jim Dobbin