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	registered interest
	date	17/12/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been charged with disability hate crimes in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	219111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of defendants charged and prosecuted in cases where the offences involved disability hate crime.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CPS defines disability hate crime as any incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person because of their disability or perceived disability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CPS began identifying and monitoring disability hate crime cases from 1<sup>st</sup> April 2007 following the publication of the Hate Crime Public Policy and Prosecution Guidance in February 2007.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>During each of the last seven years the numbers of defendants charged and prosecuted, in cases flagged as disability hate crime, is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><br></td><td><p><strong>Total Prosecuted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007 - 08</strong></p></td><td><p>183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008 - 09</strong></p></td><td><p>393</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009 - 10</strong></p></td><td><p>638</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010 - 11</strong></p></td><td><p>726</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011 - 12</strong></p></td><td><p>621</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012 - 13</strong></p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013 - 14</strong></p></td><td><p>574</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 05/01/2015 17:41:43 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

174646

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of the Law Officers Departments' executive board were educated at (a) private and (b) state school.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	221403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 27/01/2015 14:24:52 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

174645

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Shoplifting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2014 to Question 218070, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in shoplifting between 2010 and 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	221402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service has not made any formal assessment of these figures. However the figures provided in the response to Question 218070 showing an increase in charges are consistent with Home Office statistics for the number of shoplifting offences recorded by the police. These were given in a written answer (218106) provided to the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth on the 15<sup>th</sup> December 2014, which is published at;</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=218106" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=218106</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 28/01/2015 13:26:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

731430

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions for the sale of illegal tobacco have taken place in each police authority area in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of people who have been charged with, and prosecuted for, selling illegal tobacco. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 relates to the excise duty on tobacco products. Section 8G(4) and 8H(6) of the act was inserted by the Finance Act 2000 and creates the offences of (a) possess, transport or display unmarked tobacco products otherwise than as described and (b) selling, offering to sell or otherwise deals in unmarked tobacco products; or suffers premises to be used for the sale of unmarked tobacco products. In these sections unmarked products mean tobacco products that are subject to fiscal marking but do not carry compliant duty-paid fiscal mark.</p><p>Although it is not possible to identify the number of people charged with particular offences, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the Magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence. Data are only available since 2011-12. Prior to this date, prosecutions under this legislation were carried out by the Revenue and Customers Prosecution Office (RCPO).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>2016-2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 { 8G(4)(a) and (6) }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 { 8G(4)(b) and (6) }</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 relates to the collection and management of the revenues of custom and excise. Prosecutions under section 170(1)(b) for being knowingly concerned in ‘carrying, removing, depositing, harbouring, keeping or concealing or in any manner dealing’ with excise goods and the offence of fraudulent evasion of duty under s170(2) can include offences involving tobacco products but also other products.</p><p>CPS data does not dis-aggregate the overall number of these offences in which a prosecution commenced in the Magistrates’ courts. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Some offences in relation to the unlawful sale of tobacco products are prosecuted by trading standards departments and would not be recorded in CPS data.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 03/07/2017 15:45:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

830081

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, who the the lead non-executive director and other non-executive director board members are in the Law Officers' Departments.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	124778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The non-executive Board members for:</p><ul><li><p>the CPS are: Jeremy Newman, Monica Burch, Alison Porter, Mark Hammond</p></li><li><p>the SFO are: Simon Duckworth OBE DL, Tony Osbladiston and Ruth Evans</p></li><li><p>GLD are: Jeremy Newman, Oonagh Harpur and Jenny Rowe, who is an Independent External member of GLD’s Audit &amp; Risk Committee and does not sit on the Board.</p></li></ul><p>There is no lead member in any of these instances.</p><p>The AGO and HMCPSI have no non-executive directors.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 29/01/2018 17:39:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane