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46162

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the (a) positive and (b) negative effects of serving a witness summons on a complainant in a court case involving alleged domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>I have made no formal appraisal, but Crown prosecution Service (CPS) guidance to prosecutors sets out the circumstances in which witness summonses can best be used in such cases. This guidance is published on the CPS website at: <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/domestic_violence_aide-memoire/#a25" target="_blank">http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/domestic_violence_aide-memoire/#a25</a></p><p>Witness summonses can be effective in ensuring complainants attend court when they would not otherwise do so. They can also support victims who are concerned about how a voluntary decision to attend court might be perceived by ‘removing' the pressure of making that decision for them. Where a victim attends as a result of a witness summons, there is often a guilty plea.</p><p>However, it is also possible that a witness will still not attend, or may come to court but refuse to give evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

49746

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) men and (b) women have been (i) investigated, (ii) given an administrative penalty, (iii) given a caution and (iv) convicted in court for benefit fraud since the prosecution of such cases was transferred to the Law Officers' Department.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	197836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>Allegations of benefit fraud are investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Administrative penalties are financial penalties, which can be offered as an alternative to prosecution, where there has been no previous fraud penalty of any form. These are issued by the DWP and Local Authorities. Cautions are issued by the Police.</p><p>The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) identify the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced and, reached a first hearing in magistrates' courts, rather than the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted or their gender.</p><p>No central records of the prosecution outcomes of offences are held by the CPS. To obtain details of the number of people prosecuted for and convicted of offences of benefit fraud, which can be charged under various sections of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, Section 35 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 or the Fraud Act 2006, including their gender, would require a manual exercise of reviewing individual case files to be undertaken at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Furthermore, cases of benefit fraud are also prosecuted by Local Authorities so any data the CPS can glean from a manual exercise would not provide a complete record.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

48452

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people (a) under 18 and (b) under 16 years of age have been given social housing in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	196482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The numbers of lead tenants being given social housing aged under 18 in England in the past five years for which data are available (1<sup>st</sup> April 2008 – 31<sup>st</sup> March 2013) is in the table below. Lead tenants are defined as the most economically active in the household. Numbers shown include lettings from both local authorities and private registered providers.</p><p>The numbers per year and per tenure type are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Tenant age</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008/09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12<sup>i,ii</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13<sup>i,ii</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>General Needs</p></td><td><p>Under 18</p></td><td><p>2,758</p></td><td><p>2,232</p></td><td><p>2,108</p></td><td><p>1,875</p></td><td><p>1,535</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which under 16</em></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total lettings</p></td><td><p>264,790</p></td><td><p>260,235</p></td><td><p>269,187</p></td><td><p>270,678</p></td><td><p>260,530</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>Supported Housing<sup>iii</sup></p></td><td><p>Under 18</p></td><td><p>9,579</p></td><td><p>8,520</p></td><td><p>9,384</p></td><td><p>9,021</p></td><td><p>7,989</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which under 16</em></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total lettings</p></td><td><p>114,400</p></td><td><p>107,520</p></td><td><p>124,438</p></td><td><p>123,806</p></td><td><p>118,213</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>Under 18</p></td><td><p>12,336</p></td><td><p>10,752</p></td><td><p>11,492</p></td><td><p>10,897</p></td><td><p>9,524</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which under 16</em></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total lettings</p></td><td><p>379,190</p></td><td><p>367,756</p></td><td><p>393,625</p></td><td><p>394,484</p></td><td><p>378,743</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>i. Includes both social and Affordable Rent lettings.</p><p>ii. For 2011/12 and 2012/13, age is imputed where missing.</p><p>iii. Supported housing is defined as housing with special design facilities features, or designated for a particular client group.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: values in columns may not sum to totals due to rounding. Source: Continuous Recording of Lettings system (CORE).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42277

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 3 March 2014, Official Report, column 641W, on reoffenders, what (a) offence type and (b) sentence length each offender with more than one fixed term recall is serving.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42290

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of eligible (a) male and (b) female offenders were recalled on a fixed term recall instead of a standard recall (i) in 2008, (ii) in 2009, (iii) in 2010, (iv) in 2011, (v) in 2012 and (vi) since 3 December 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42553

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 (a) men and (b) women convicted of benefit fraud in each of the last five years received a prison sentence; and what the average prison sentence was for those of each gender so convicted.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions operates a tough series of specific penalties for benefit fraud that run alongside the criminal justice system. The Welfare Reform Act 2012 toughened penalties for those who commit, or attempt to commit benefit fraud. We have introduced a financial administrative penalty as an alternative to prosecution which, for the first time, can be applied to attempted fraud.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also introduced a tougher loss of benefit penalty to restrict benefits to people convicted of benefit fraud or who have accepted an administrative penalty. Benefits can be reduced for periods of 13 weeks, 26 weeks or 3 years, dependent on the number of benefit fraud offences committed within a specified period, where the latest offence results in a conviction.</p><p>Judges make their decisions independently of Government based on the facts of each case. The maximum penalty for fraud is 10 years in prison.</p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences relating to benefit fraud, with sentencing outcomes and the average custodial sentence length by gender, in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012 (latest data available) can be viewed in the table.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that court proceedings statistics for the year 2013 are planned to be published by the Ministry of Justice in May 2014.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191466 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 191466.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42554

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women convicted of benefit fraud in each of the last five years received (i) a conditional discharge, (ii) a fine, (iii) a community order and (iv) a suspended prison sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions operates a tough series of specific penalties for benefit fraud that run alongside the criminal justice system. The Welfare Reform Act 2012 toughened penalties for those who commit, or attempt to commit benefit fraud. We have introduced a financial administrative penalty as an alternative to prosecution which, for the first time, can be applied to attempted fraud.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also introduced a tougher loss of benefit penalty to restrict benefits to people convicted of benefit fraud or who have accepted an administrative penalty. Benefits can be reduced for periods of 13 weeks, 26 weeks or 3 years, dependent on the number of benefit fraud offences committed within a specified period, where the latest offence results in a conviction.</p><p>Judges make their decisions independently of Government based on the facts of each case. The maximum penalty for fraud is 10 years in prison.</p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences relating to benefit fraud, with sentencing outcomes and the average custodial sentence length by gender, in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012 (latest data available) can be viewed in the table.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that court proceedings statistics for the year 2013 are planned to be published by the Ministry of Justice in May 2014.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191465 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 191466.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45923

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women were refused bail and remanded in custody where the allegation related to (i) an offence against the person, (ii) a public order offence and (iii) a harassment offence in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of men and women remanded in custody at magistrates' courts and the Crown Courts for offences of violence against the person, public order offences and harassment offences, for 2012 (latest available) can be viewed in the tables. The proportion remanded in custody has remained broadly constant in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. This database holds information on offences provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought, but not all the specific circumstances of each case. This centrally-held information does not allow us to separately identify which offences proceeded against were related to domestic violence. This information is not reported to Justice Statistics Analytical Services in MoJ owing to its size and complexity, and it could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="12"><p><strong>Table 1: Defendants<sup>(1)</sup> proceeded against at magistrates' courts, by remand status, offence group and sex, England &amp; Wales, 2012<sup>(2) </sup>(e)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Offence Group</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Remand Status</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Male</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p>Female</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Violence Against the Person<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>6,867</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>401</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Public Order Offences<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1,508</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>112</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Harassment Offences<sup>(5)</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2,060</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>78</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(e) Magistrates' courts data for 2012 are estimated.</p></td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Defendants<sup>(1)</sup> appearing at the Crown Court, by remand status, offence group and sex, England &amp; Wales, 2012<sup>(2)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Offence Group</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Remand Status</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Male</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Female</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Violence Against the Person<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>6,975</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>476</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Public Order Offences<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1,628</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>74</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Harassment Offences<sup>(5)</sup></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>534</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(1) Defendants in Table 1 may also be counted in Table 2 if they were committed for trial or committed for sentence at the Crown Court. Defendants in Table 2 may also be counted in Table 1.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(3) Based on new Office for National Statistics (ONS) crime classifications. For further detail see: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/crime-statistics-methodology/presentational-changes-on-police-recorded-crime-in-england-and-wales.pdf</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(4) Includes those remanded in custody at any stage of proceedings at the relevant court who may also have been given bail at some stage of those proceedings.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(5) Includes offences under S.2, S.2A(1), S.3, S.4, S.4A(1)(a)(b)(i), S.4A(1)(a)(b)(ii), S.5, SS.5A(2) &amp; 5(5) &amp; (6) of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and S.31(1)(b) &amp; (4), S.31(1)(c) &amp; (4) of the Crime &amp; Disorder Act 1998, and S.42A of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: 194404</p></td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 194414 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45924

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each prison establishment are not being held in relation to criminal proceedings; and what the reason is for their being so held in each case.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>As of the 31 December 2013, 1,230 people were being held in prisons in England and Wales not in relation to criminal proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Of these, 1,214 were being held as immigration detainees and 16 were being held for civil offences (for example non-payment of a debt, contempt of court, or breach of an injunction).</p><p> </p><p>The agreement to hold time served foreign national offenders (Immigration Detainees) in prisons is set out in a Service Level Agreement between NOMS and the Home Office and is designed to support the Home Office in achieving its objectives for removal.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing the FNO population is a top priority for this Government. We are working hard to reduce the flow of FNOs into our prison system and increase the number of FNOs removed from the UK through Prisoner Transfer Agreements (PTAs); the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) and Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS).</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 (attached) provides a breakdown of the population who are not held in relation to criminal proceedings by prison establishment.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 194405 Table 1 v2.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45925

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	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 convictions for burglary for an individual convicted of an offence of burglary without being sent to prison was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies