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1651766

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Treatment of, and Outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Individuals in the Criminal Justice System Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 188259 on Treatment of, and Outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Individuals in the Criminal Justice System Independent Review, what the average sentence was for people convicted of grievous bodily harm with intent by (a) Crown Court and (b) the defendant’s (i) gender, (ii) ethnicity, and (iii) age in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	193167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information from 2010 to 2022 on the number of defendants <del class="ministerial">prosecuted </del><ins class="ministerial">prosecuted, convicted and sentenced</ins> for offences under Section 18 of Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (offence code 00501), in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool.</p><p>The attached tables provide a breakdown of <ins class="ministerial">average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for defendants sentenced</ins> <del class="ministerial">convictions</del> for the offence contrary to Section 18 of the Offences Against Person Act 1861 (causing grievous bodily harm with intent) within the last three years, where it has been treated as a principal offence by Crown Court (table 1), and in all courts by information on gender (table 2), ethnicity (table 3), and age (table 4).</p><p>Detailed offence data at Crown Court are only available in the Court Proceedings Database from 2020 onwards. Therefore, figures for all tables have been limited to 2020 onwards in order to give a complete view of each year presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/07/2023 11:24:42 question first ministerially corrected 04/09/2023 14:26:34 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name PQ_193167_final_revision.xlsx title Table (revised) previous answer version 87381 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-07-13 PQ 193167 Table.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1651541

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Legal Opinion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the Government offering free and independent legal advocacy to complainants of sexual violence and abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	193109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>We have commissioned the Law Commission to undertake a thorough examination of the law, guidance and practice relating to the use of evidence in prosecutions of sexual offences, including an exploration of the merits of independent legal advice and representation. This is due to complete in Autumn 2024; we will await the Law Commission’s findings before taking any decisions relating to this issue, including any estimations of potential cost.</p><p>In the interim, we have already taken several steps to introduce additional safeguards regarding requests for victims’ personal information. Through the Victims and Prisoners Bill, we are introducing duties on policing to only request third party material that is necessary and proportionate, and to provide full information to victims about why this material is being requested. This complements guidance updated by the CPS in May 2022 to ensure that prosecutors' requests for access to victims’ therapy notes is pursuant to a reasonable line of enquiry, as well as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act stopping unnecessary and intrusive requests for access to victims’ and witnesses’ phones or digital devices.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/07/2023 11:19:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1651629

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Catalytic Converters: Theft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions have been bought under the Theft Act 1968 for the theft of catalytic converters in England over the last 5 years; and if he will list the number of prosecutions made in each year.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	193128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of prosecutions for theft from a motor vehicle in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1158217/overview-tables-december-2022.ods" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2022</a>, under HO offence code 04510.</p><p>However, whether this was specifically theft of a catalytic converter is not held centrally in the Court Proceedings Database. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/07/2023 11:20:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1651704

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Witnesses: Video Recordings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the total number of recordings under Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 that can be stored at any one time.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	193146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>HM Courts and Tribunal Service has the capacity to store all Pre-Recorded Cross Examinations made under Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (1999).</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/07/2023 11:21:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1651722

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Witnesses: Video Recordings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of recordings under s.28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	193155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>Data provided to HM Courts and Tribunal Service show the number of recordings for Pre-Recorded Cross Examinations under section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (1999) in each year from 2020 onwards, as below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Recordings</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>424</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1,901</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023 (to May 23)</p></td><td><p>1,102</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Caveat - This data refers to those recordings made at Crown Court in the previous three years.</p><ol start="1"><li><p>Data has been sourced from the technology supplier.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>This data may include test recordings.</p></li></ol><ol start="3"><li><p>Witnesses may have more than one recording.</p></li></ol><ol start="4"><li><p>Recording data prior to 2020 was manually kept and is unreliable, automated reporting was introduced in 2020 for efficiency and quality control.</p></li></ol> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/07/2023 11:23:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed