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date	12/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ivory: Smuggling
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 10 March 2021 to Question 161718, on Ivory: Smuggling, under which category of offence in his Department's Court Proceedings Database have offences related to ivory smuggling been recorded in the last five years; how many people have been prosecuted for this category of offence in each of the last five years; how many of those prosecutions have resulted in (a) convictions, (b) custodial sentences, and (c) non-custodial sentences; and what the average fine was for people receiving a non-custodial sentence for this category of offence in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	167839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify prosecutions and outcomes for the specific offence of ivory smuggling as it is not separately identified in legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Offences involving but not limited to ivory smuggling may be found within the following offences:</p><ul><li>099/17 - Triable either way offences under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations 2018, paragraph 1</li><li>099/18 - Triable either way offences under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulations 2018, paragraph 2</li><li>099/96 - Triable either way offences under Animal &amp; Animal Products (Import &amp; Export) (No.2) Regulations 2004</li><li>099/99 - Other triable either way (non-motoring) offences</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice holds published information on prosecutions, convictions and sentences under the above offences, in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code’ data tool, available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/938554/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/938554/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>In order to determine whether ivory was smuggled in any offences within the categories identified would require a manual search of court records which would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/03/2021 17:45:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

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date	24/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on the productivity of the hospitality sector of the reduction in EU net migration to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	167839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the effect of a reduction in EU net migration on the productivity of the hospitality sector. The Government remains committed to improving productivity, as set out in its Industrial Strategy.</p><p>The Government has been clear that after the UK leaves the EU, free movement will end but migration between the UK and the EU will continue. The UK will remain an open and tolerant country; one that recognises the valuable contribution migrants make to our society.</p><p>We recognise that international migrants make a significant contribution to the hospitality sector, which continues to grow and is supported by the record numbers of inbound visitors to the UK (39.2 million in 2017, 4% more than in 2016). We have encouraged the sector to feed views into the Migration Advisory Committee's call for evidence, including a granular understanding of the roles in tourism with domestic skills gaps</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 10/09/2018 16:26:30 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake