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The Law Officers and representatives of the Attorney General\u2019s Office have regular meetings with the Director of the Serious Fraud Office and also meet officials in other Government departments on occasion to discuss a variety of issues. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government\u2019s policy to provide details of all such meetings.<\/p>

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The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) indicate the number of offences charged, in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates\u2019 court under Section 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (racially or religiously aggravated harassment), rather than identifying the number of defendants prosecuted. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence against the same victim.<\/p>

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The table below shows, in each of the last seven years, the number of offences, charged by way of Section 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (racially or religiously aggravated harassment), and which reached a first hearing at magistrates\u2019 courts, in England and Wales.<\/p>

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Crime and Disorder Act 1998 { 32 }<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2007-2008<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

556<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2008-2009<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

527<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2009-2010<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

494<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2010-2011<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

536<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2011-2012<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

379<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2012-2013<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

317<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2013-2014<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

335<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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Data Source: CPS Management Information System<\/p>

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There is no indication of the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the prosecution proceeding or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation.<\/p>

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The last five years have seen a year on year reduction in the overall number of cases referred to the CPS from the police, however the CPS do not hold data related to the number of police referrals of cases in which charges of racially or religiously aggravated harassment would be appropriate.<\/p>

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The Crown Prosecution Service applied for costs totalling £1.1m against all those convicted of phone hacking, save for Dan Evans who had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity. The trial judge ordered costs against James Weatherup in the sum of £5000 and the costs application against Andrew Coulson has been adjourned to await further information relating to his means.<\/p>

Responsibility for enforcing Crown Court costs orders falls to HM Courts and Tribunal Service and the costs go to central funds. The Crown Prosecution Service does not monitor whether these are recovered.<\/p>

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The Law Officers and representatives of the Attorney General\u2019s Office have regular meetings with the Director of the Serious Fraud Office and also meet officials in other Government departments on occasion to discuss a variety of issues. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government\u2019s policy to provide details of all such meetings.<\/p>

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The Government is committed to fighting human trafficking. Over £5.5 million has been recovered from those convicted of human trafficking offences in the last five years. Full available details are shown in the following table.

A human trafficker may, as an alternative, be charged and prosecuted for a different offence, such as prostitution or money laundering, which could incur a confiscation order. But this would not be recorded as a trafficking offence.<\/p>

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The Law Officers and representatives of the Attorney General\u2019s Office have regular meetings with the Director of the Serious Fraud Office and also meet officials in other Government departments on occasion to discuss a variety of issues. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government\u2019s policy to provide details of all such meetings.<\/p>

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The CPS holds records of the number of asset freezing orders which it has obtained, but not the number of orders which it applied for during the last 8 years. On 30 June 2014, as part of work to tackle organised crime, the Director of Public Prosecutions launched a new service within the CPS which will work exclusively on recovering assets from criminals convicted in England and Wales. CPS Proceeds of Crime (CPSPOC) is responsible for all CPS restraint activity. CPSPOC will compile information as to how many asset freezing orders are applied for and how many are granted. This information will be available in future financial years.<\/p>

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<\/p>

The table below sets out the total number of asset freezing orders obtained by the CPS in each of the last eight financial years. There has been a drop in the number of asset freezing orders obtained by the CPS since 2010-11. This is partly due to a fall in the type of investigations that lead to restraint orders being required and partly due to the decision in Windsor v CPS [2011] EWCA Crim 143, which tightened the evidential requirements needed with ex parte applications for restraint orders at the investigation stage.<\/p>

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Financial Year<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

Number of asset freezing orders obtained <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>

2006-07<\/p><\/td>

855<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2007-08<\/p><\/td>

1352<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2008-09<\/p><\/td>

1567<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2009-10<\/p><\/td>

1471<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2010-11<\/p><\/td>

1730<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2011-12<\/p><\/td>

1401<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2012-13<\/p><\/td>

1296<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2013-14<\/p><\/td>

1246<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

April 2014-Sep 2014<\/p><\/td>

553<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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Implementation of the measures in the national protocol is secured through agreement of local arrangements. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central records of the number of local authorities that have adopted the national 2013 Protocol. However, in a recent survey of Chief Crown Prosecutors, the CPS found that, following the publication of the national multi-agency 2013 protocol, 82 of the 174 Local Authorities responsible for children\u2019s services have so far signed local disclosure protocols.<\/p>

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is aware that City of London Police, the national police lead in substantial fraud investigations, is currently considering the widely-reported case involving Wonga. To date the CPS have not been asked by the police as to whether the practice of issuing letters from fake solicitors constitutes a criminal offence.<\/p>

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Any referral to the CPS will be made to the CPS Specialist Fraud Division, who would provide wider advice about whether such practices constitute a criminal offence if that was requested by the police.<\/p>

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains records of the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted, where the rape monitoring flag has been applied to the case.<\/p>

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A rape flag is applied at the onset of a case, and remains in place even if the charges are subsequently amended or dropped. It follows that there may be cases where a person was proceeded against for rape but convicted of another offence.<\/p>

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The CPS also records prosecution outcomes according to Principal Offence Categories.<\/p>

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The CPS does not record outcome by individual charge and is therefore unable to provide data in respect of (a) as this would require the review of individual case files and incur disproportionate cost. Likewise, it is not possible to distinguish between convictions for rape and for other sexual offences and therefore it is not possible to provide data in respect of (b).<\/p>

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(c) The way in which the CPS recording system operates means only one principal offence category is assigned to each case, and these are assigned in hierarchical order.<\/p>

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We can provide data on those cases flagged as rape and finalised in the \u2018offences against the person\u2019 principal offence category, however it is important to note that in such cases, a conviction for the rape charge may have also been secured.<\/p>

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During each of the last five years the number and proportion of defendants convicted, for cases flagged as rape and where the Principal Offence Category was identified as \u2018Offences against the Person\u2019 is as follows:<\/p>

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Offences Against The Person Flagged as Rape<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2009-2010<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

217<\/p><\/td>

9.7%<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2010-2011<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

189<\/p><\/td>

7.8%<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2011-2012<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

168<\/p><\/td>

7.0%<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2012-2013<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

197<\/p><\/td>

8.6%<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2013-2014<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

175<\/p><\/td>

7.6%<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

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Data Source: CPS Management Information System<\/p>

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(d) Each Principal Offence Category includes a broad range of offences; some involving violence and some non-violent. In order to establish the number of rape flagged defendants convicted of a non-violent offence would require the review of individual case files which would incur disproportionate cost.<\/p>

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