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	registered interest
	date	05/11/2020
	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	What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the extension to the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	908175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The unduly lenient sentence scheme was extended to incorporate further serious offences, in November of last year.</p><p> </p><p>The horrendous crime of stalking involving serious alarm or distress was one of the offences which was added.</p><p> </p><p>I am pleased to tell the House that this extension meant I was able to refer a case recently to the Court of Appeal, one in which the sentence of the offender was more than doubled.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 908176 question first answered 05/11/2020 14:24:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

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	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) men and (b) women were (i) prosecuted and (ii) convicted for domestic abuse in (A) 2020-21 and (B) 2021/22.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	150447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds data showing the number of defendants flagged with a domestic abuse monitoring flag. These records can be separated to show the outcome of the prosecution and by the sex of the defendant. The table below shows the number of defendants, by sex, prosecuted and convicted in the two years ending March 2022. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2020-2021</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2021-2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prosecuted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Convicted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Convicted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prosecuted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Convicted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Convicted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Women</p></td><td><p>4,354</p></td><td><p>3,223</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>4,445</p></td><td><p>3,246</p></td><td><p>73.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men</p></td><td><p>50,090</p></td><td><p>39,302</p></td><td><p>78.5%</p></td><td><p>48,663</p></td><td><p>37,325</p></td><td><p>76.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table>The data above is classed as management information as defendants are flagged when allegations of domestic abuse are made.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 02/03/2023 15:47:24 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith