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1140090

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If he will allocate additional funding to improve roads outside the major road network and the strategic road network.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	912043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is committed to providing over £6.7 billion to local highway authorities in England, outside London, from 2015 to 2021 to help improve the condition of roads and reduce congestion. The funding includes a £296 million Pothole Action Fund and £420 million for highways maintenance and a congestion busting fund as announced in Budget 2018.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 18/07/2019 16:03:28 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1149087

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General what steps his Office is taking to prosecute alleged frauds involving multiple persons who cannot afford to bring civil cases against the alleged perpetrators.
	tabling member constituency	Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
	uin	379
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Both the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Serious Fraud Office (SFO) are responsible for prosecuting cases of fraud.</p><p> </p><p>They act in the public interest and can prosecute whether or not civil proceedings are in progress.</p><p> </p><p>The government has taken concerted action over recent years to reduce the costs of civil litigation, and that work continues.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 22/10/2019 14:30:30 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1147220

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Crispin Odey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will publish (a) the outcome of all meetings and (b) all call logs between Ministers of his Department and Mr Crispin Odey.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	292362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Details of Ministers’ meetings are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no Ministerial meetings or calls between Mr Crispin Odey and Ministers at the Attorney General’s Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 08/10/2019 16:25:10 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1254902

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2020
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Poaching: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, for what reason a record of the species involved is not collated when recording prosecutions of poaching offences.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	120068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>Offences of poaching are usually charged under one of the following:</p><ul><li>Section 1 of the Night Poaching Act 1828,</li><li>section 30 of the Game Act 1831 or</li><li>section 2 of the Poaching Prevention Act 1862.</li></ul><p> </p><p>There is no requirement to specify in an offence which type of animal the defendant was seeking to take or had taken, and in many cases it is not specified.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, the CPS is not able to keep any records of which species are involved in its prosecutions for poaching.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 01/12/2020 17:40:28 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1205287

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2020
	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, how many (a) appeals and (b) successful appeals the Government has made against sentences on the basis of undue leniency, in each of the last 20 years.
	tabling member constituency	North West Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
	uin	61628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>The statistics from 2000 are provided below. It should be noted that Attorney General’s Office does not hold accurate data prior to 2001 and we are not in possession of the data indicating the number of successful appeals for the year 2000.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Appeals the Government has made against sentences on the basis of undue leniency</p></td><td><p>Successful appeals the Government has made against sentences on the basis of undue leniency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>Data unavailable</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>136</p></td><td><p>102</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 23/06/2020 14:28:46 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1146653

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) the Serious Fraud Office has entered into in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	291353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) have been available to prosecutors since February 2014. The SFO has agreed five DPAs with UK companies since the legislation came into force, three of which were for overseas corruption offences.</p><p> </p><p>Full details of all DPAs are available on the SFO’s website at: <a href="https://www.sfo.gov.uk/publications/guidance-policy-and-protocols/deferred-prosecution-agreements/" target="_blank">https://www.sfo.gov.uk/publications/guidance-policy-and-protocols/deferred-prosecution-agreements/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 04/10/2019 11:35:18 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1226460

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	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: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of CPS staff have had to self-isolate due to covid-19 and what (a) role and (b) staffing grade of those staff is.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	76847
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>From records held on the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Oracle HR database for the period 1 April 2020 to 10 August 2020, five CPS employees (0.08% of the workforce) have been absent from work, but not ill, because of the need to quarantine or be in self isolation due to COVID-19. Three of those are employed at Executive Officer equivalent grade and held non-prosecutor roles and two at Grade 7 equivalent and held prosecutor roles.</p><p> </p><p><em>Data Source: CPS Oracle HR 10 August 2020, categorisation in accordance with Cabinet Office guidance</em></p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 01/09/2020 15:31:34 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1142175

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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 and what proportion of Crown Prosecution Service staff have worked in shared accommodation in each of the last four quarters; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	282479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the numbers of staff that have worked in shared accommodation in each of the last 3 quarters. Data for Q2 2018-19 is not available as headcount was not previously reported by location.</p><p> </p><p>Buildings occupied by the CPS and at least one other public sector body have been classified as shared.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of staff based in shared buildings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2,619</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,646 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2,651</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>% of total CPS staff</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong> 44%</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>44% </strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>44% </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 03/09/2019 15:14:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1170430

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2020
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of cases of suspected rape were given No Further Action as a result of insufficient evidence to proceed in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	2669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of suspects, flagged as rape suspects, referred to prosecutors for a pre-charge decision and the number of decisions not to prosecute suspects following the charging decision.</p><p>The table below shows the volume and percentage of legal decisions not to prosecute for evidential reasons in each year from 2016/17 to 2018/19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2016-2017</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2017-2018</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2018-2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Volume</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Volume</p></td><td><p>%</p></td><td><p>Volume</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Legal Decision: No Further Action: Evidential</p></td><td><p>2061</p></td><td><p>31.2%</p></td><td><p>1786</p></td><td><p>29.7</p></td><td><p>1816</p></td><td><p>35.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data Source: Case Management Information System</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 16/01/2020 16:33:08 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1142168

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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: Compassionate Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of paid special leave requests by Crown Prosecution Service staff were granted in each (a) area and (b) directorate in each of the last four quarters.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	282472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) granted 1,632 special leave requests in the last four quarters. These are broken down by quarter, Area, and Directorate in the below table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>NUMBER OF APPROVED PAID SPECIAL LEAVE REQUESTS FROM 01/07/2018 - 30/06/2019 BY AREA/DIRECTORATE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>01/07/2018 - 30/09/2018</p></td><td><p>01/10/2018 - 31/12/2018</p></td><td><p>01/01/2019 - 31/03/2019</p></td><td><p>01/04/2019 - 30/06/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CENTRAL CASEWORK BUS CENTRE</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>CPS DIRECT</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS PROCEEDS OF CRIME</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CYMRU WALES</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EAST MIDLANDS</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EAST OF ENGLAND</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HQ DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HQ FINANCE</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HQ HR DIRECTORATE</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HQ OPERATIONS</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HQ PRIVATE OFFICE</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE &amp; ORGANISED CRIME</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LONDON NORTH</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LONDON SOUTH</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MERSEY CHESHIRE</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NORTH EAST</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NORTH WEST</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SPECIAL CRIME AND COUNTER TERRORISM</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SOUTH EAST</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SOUTH WEST</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SPECIALIST FRAUD</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>THAMES AND CHILTERN</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WESSEX</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WEST MIDLANDS</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>383</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>442</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>440</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>367</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Data Source: Trent HR database</em></p><p> </p><p>The CPS does not keep records of Special Leave requests from staff that are declined. As gathering the information would incur disproportionate cost, data to show the proportion of approved requests is not available.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 03/09/2019 09:18:54 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts