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155540

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of cases in courts marked as domestic violence incidents related to (a) male perpetrators against female partners and (b) all other forms of domestic violence in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	214191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>This government is committed to tackling domestic violence and abuse and to delivering a better response for the victims of these appalling crimes.</p><p> </p><p>We have ring-fenced £40 million for victims’ services; piloted and rolled out Clare’s Law and domestic violence protection orders; extended the definition of domestic abuse to cover controlling behaviour and teenage relationships; run two successful campaigns to challenge perceptions of abuse; placed Domestic Homicide Reviews on a statutory footing to make sure lessons are learnt from individual tragedies; criminalised forced marriage and consulted on the creation of a single criminal offence of domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceeding Database holds information on offences provided by the statute under which proceedings are brought but not all the specific circumstances of each case. Data on those proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for offences involving domestic violence, such as threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between adults are not separately identified in the data reported centrally to the Ministry of Justice. Furthermore, it is not possible to separately identify the relationship between defendant and victim, and their gender. This detailed information is not reported to Justice Statistical Analytical Services due to their size and complexity and as such, it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/11/2014 14:41:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

229199

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to respond to the written Questions tabled by the hon. Member for Shipley where a letter was promised but has not yet been sent.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	228797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>I can confirm that the department has responded to all outstanding written Questions where a letter was promised and copies of the letters have been placed in the House library.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/03/2015 14:02:59 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

78780

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who had committed 15 or more previous offences were not sent to prison on conviction for (a) burglary and (b) violence against the person in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	206593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice gave him, by letter, on 10 July.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 206592 question first answered 02/09/2014 11:09:05 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

78782

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Burglary: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of previous offences of burglary was for an individual convicted of a further offence of burglary without being sent to prison in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	206592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice gave him, by letter, on 10 July.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 206593 question first answered 02/09/2014 11:09:05 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

174043

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of those convicted of a knife crime offence were sentenced to prison for (a) up to six months, (b) up to and (c) over 12 months in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	220997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Knives on our streets are a social scourge. Unlawful possession of a knife or offensive weapon is already a serious criminal offence (which carries a maximum 4 year custodial sentence). We are building on that to send a clear and unequivocal message that those who use a knife or offensive weapon to threaten another person are behaving in a wholly unacceptable manner and can expect an automatic custodial sentence.</p><p> </p><p>This Government introduced the offences of threatening with a knife or offensive weapon in public or in a school. And last year, the Government made changes to the Simple Cautions Guidance issued to police to restrict the use of cautions for certain offences, including knife possession, in all but exceptional circumstances. The Ministry of Justice is also legislating on these changes within the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, to make it absolutely clear that cautions should no longer be used for serious offences such as those involving a knife or offensive weapon.</p><p> </p><p>Within the sentencing framework, it is for judges and magistrates to decide the appropriate sentence in individual cases taking account of the harm the offence caused and the culpability of the offender. Under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, there is an obligation on courts, when sentencing for offences, to follow the guidelines issued by the Sentencing Council, unless it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold information disaggregating crimes committed using a knife, as opposed to violent offences committed via other means. However, detailed figures relating to knife and offensive weapon possession are published on a quarterly basis, the latest version of which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly-brief-july-to-september-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly-brief-july-to-september-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 22/01/2015 16:19:11 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

147633

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a sentence has been altered under section 155 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 in the last five years; and what the (a) offence, (b) sentencing variation and (c) reason for the sentence being altered was in each case.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	213938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Section 155 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Courts Act 2000 provides for the Crown Court to vary or rescind a sentence imposed, or other order made, by the Crown Court within 56 days of the original sentence being made. The power to vary is primarily to rectify small technical errors and not to allow for a fundamental change of mind.</p><p>The number of sentences which were varied in Crown Court trials the last five years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Number of Crown Court sentences recorded as replaced on CREST, by offence group</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Offence Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>09/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal damage</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug offences</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>436</p></td><td><p>495</p></td><td><p>472</p></td><td><p>407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud and forgery</p></td><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>333</p></td><td><p>312</p></td><td><p>349</p></td><td><p>228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indictable motoring offences</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other indictable offences</p></td><td><p>344</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>604</p></td><td><p>359</p></td><td><p>294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual offences</p></td><td><p>313</p></td><td><p>243</p></td><td><p>236</p></td><td><p>284</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary Motoring Offences</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary Non-motoring Offences</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft and handling stolen goods</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>282</p></td><td><p>303</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>256</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>282</p></td><td><p>387</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>302</p></td><td><p>268</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,073</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,812</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,921</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,496</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,044</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>1. The above figures only relate to cases committed or sent for trial.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>2. The above figures relate to actual sentences replaced; they do not relate to the number of defendants involved.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>3. The data were extracted from CREST, the Crown Court case management system specifically to answer this question.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>4. The data are management information and not subject to the same level of checks as Official Statistics.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The fact a sentence has been replaced is recorded on the Crown Court case management system, CREST. Whilst the new sentence will also be recorded it is not possible to link the two for every offence to calculate the variation. The reason for the sentence being varied is not recorded on CREST and can only be found by manually checking case files at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/01/2015 16:09:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

147621

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure that victims are made aware in a timely manner of court hearings relating to their case.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	213925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government’s new Victims’ Code sets out the support and information victims of crime can expect to receive from agencies at every stage of the criminal justice process. Priority victims – victims of the most serious crime, vulnerable or intimidated and persistently targeted victims – are entitled to receive enhanced support and services.</p><p> </p><p>The Victims’ Code outlines that victims are entitled to be informed of the date, time and location of the first court hearing by the police within 5 working days from when they receive this information and 1 working day for priority victims. If the case progresses to trial, the Witness Care Unit should notify victims of court hearings within 1 working day of receiving the information from the court.</p><p> </p><p>Criminal justice agencies have updated their guidance for operational staff, which outlines their duties under the new Victims’ Code. The Government has made a commitment to monitor criminal justice agencies’ compliance with the Victims’ Code and in “Our Commitment to Victims,” launched on 15 September 2014, we announced that criminal justice agencies will publish information on how they have improved services for victims from April 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 20/11/2014 17:11:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

155539

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Sentences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of concurrent prison sentences served by one offender at any one time was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	214185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The court has discretion as to how sentences should be served. The independent Sentencing Council issued a guideline, <em>Offences Taken Into Consideration and Totality</em>, which all courts must follow so that there is a consistency of approach. The court has discretion as to whether or not to take offences into consideration (TICs), but where it does so the court should pass a total sentence which reflects all offending behaviour. The sentence must be just and proportionate and must not exceed the statutory maximum for the convicted offence. The guideline also says that there is no inflexible rule governing whether sentences should be structured as concurrent or consecutive components but, again, the overriding principle is that the overall sentence must be just and proportionate.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceeding Database holds information on offences provided by the statute under which proceedings are brought but not all the specific circumstances of each case. Data on offences taken into consideration are not available from the information provided centrally to the Ministry of Justice. This detailed information is not reported to Justice Statistical Analytical Services due to their size and complexity and as such, it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice’s extract of the Police National Computer (PNC) from which MoJ uses to publish official statistics on offenders’ criminal histories, while it holds information on those offenders who were cautioned or convicted for recordable offences in England and Wales, it does not in all (most) cases record data on’ disposal qualifiers’ the variable which allows us to identify concurrent prison sentences served.</p><p> </p><p>Data on concurrent prison sentences served is therefore incomplete and unreliable. To provide the information requested, we would be required to contact all the courts in England and Wales and asking them to search individual case files in order to establish whether they hold information on concurrent prison sentences. To collate the information you require, would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 214184 question first answered 21/11/2014 14:26:59 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417732

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the total number of offenders convicted of cruelty to children were (a) men and (b) women in the last year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested can be found at :</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls</a>. (Open the `Pivot Table’ tab, select `Offence’, then `11 Cruelty and neglect of children’, then select `Sex’, (male, female, unstated)).</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/09/2015 13:43:46 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417736

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals heard in Crown Courts against (a) trial outcomes and (b) sentencing decisions in magistrates' courts were successful in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested can be found here, in table C15:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/437723/ccsq-january-march-2015-tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/437723/ccsq-january-march-2015-tables.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/09/2015 13:19:43 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies