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535563

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people were charged in 2015 under (a) section 57 and (b) section 58 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	42519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>I am answering on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice, as I am the minister that superintends the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who is responsible for bringing charges.</p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the number of people who have been charged with offences brought by way of Section 1 or Section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015; or Section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc.) Act 2004; or Sections 57 and 58 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. (Sections 57, 58 and 59 were repealed and replaced by section 59A Sexual Offences Act 2003 on 13 April 2013) This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, although it is not possible to identify the number of people charged with a particular offence, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the human trafficking offences during each of the last three calendar years. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 { 4 }</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coroners and Justice Act 2009 { 71 }</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1 }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 57 }</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 58 }</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 59 }</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 59A }</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Human Trafficking Offences Charged</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>167</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>190</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>334</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>No offences have yet been recorded under section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which came into force on 31st July 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 42497 42518 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:47:12 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

535568

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been charged under (a) section 1 and (b) section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 since those provisions came into force on 31 July 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	42518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>I am answering on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice, as I am the minister that superintends the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who is responsible for bringing charges.</p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the number of people who have been charged with offences brought by way of Section 1 or Section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015; or Section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc.) Act 2004; or Sections 57 and 58 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. (Sections 57, 58 and 59 were repealed and replaced by section 59A Sexual Offences Act 2003 on 13 April 2013) This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, although it is not possible to identify the number of people charged with a particular offence, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the human trafficking offences during each of the last three calendar years. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 { 4 }</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coroners and Justice Act 2009 { 71 }</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1 }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 57 }</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 58 }</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 59 }</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 59A }</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Human Trafficking Offences Charged</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>167</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>190</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>334</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>No offences have yet been recorded under section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which came into force on 31st July 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 42497 42519 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:47:12 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

535569

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people were charged under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	42497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>I am answering on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice, as I am the minister that superintends the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who is responsible for bringing charges.</p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the number of people who have been charged with offences brought by way of Section 1 or Section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015; or Section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc.) Act 2004; or Sections 57 and 58 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. (Sections 57, 58 and 59 were repealed and replaced by section 59A Sexual Offences Act 2003 on 13 April 2013) This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, although it is not possible to identify the number of people charged with a particular offence, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the human trafficking offences during each of the last three calendar years. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 { 4 }</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coroners and Justice Act 2009 { 71 }</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1 }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 57 }</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 58 }</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 59 }</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences Act 2003 { 59A }</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Human Trafficking Offences Charged</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>167</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>190</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>334</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>No offences have yet been recorded under section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which came into force on 31st July 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 42518 42519 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:47:12 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

532385

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much has been paid to officials of the Law Officers' Departments as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments in (a) each of the last five years and (b) 2016 to date; how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence; how many staff received such incentivised additional payments; from which budgets such payments were made; and at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	41800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>No such payments have been made by any of the Law Officers’ Departments during the period 1 April 2011 to date.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2016 12:36:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

530641

registered interest
date	30/06/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Ministerial Correction of 24 June 2016 to Question 40180, on Gurpal Virdi, (a) when the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) became aware that the Metropolitan Police had documentary evidence of the age of the complainant arrested on 7 November 1986 by PC Markwick and (b) whether the CPS asked for a statement by the arresting officer.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	41555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>(a) The prosecution case was that Gurpal Virdi was the arresting officer. When the file was received from the police in November 2013, before charge, it contained a document which stated the date of birth of the complainant.</p><p> </p><p>(b) DC Markwick is named on the extract of the court’s memorandum of conviction dated 24 June 1987 in the section “name of informant or complainant”. The CPS did not request a statement from Mr Markwick. The prosecution case was that Gurpal Virdi was the arresting officer.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2016 09:02:55 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

530642

registered interest
date	30/06/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Ministerial Correction of 24 June 2016 to Question 40180, on Gurpal Virdi, how many statements of fact by the complainant were contradicted by (a) Tom Makins and (b) police or court records; and which police or court records confirmed the age of the complainant in November 1986.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	41556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not consider it possible to answer questions (a) and (b) with a number because of the degree of interpretation required to determine what may amount to a “contradiction” and what may be described materially as a “statement of fact”.</p><p>There are no contemporaneous documents from 1986. The memorandum of conviction, which is held in the form of a certified extract created some years later, contains the date of birth. The microfiche records, which are dated after 1986, also contain the date of birth.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2016 09:04:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

527958

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, which EU (a) legislative and (b) other proposals the Law Officers' Department is leading negotiations on for the Government in the Council of the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	40899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The Law Officers’ Departments are not leading any negotiations for the Government in the Council of the EU.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 04/07/2016 16:05:47 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

527959

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what EU directives related to the Law Officers' Departments' responsibilities are awaiting transposition into UK law.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	40879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>There are no EU directives awaiting transposition into UK law for which the Law Officers’ Departments are responsible.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 04/07/2016 16:04:14 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

525522

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Mossack Fonesca
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what information he holds on whether the Serious Fraud Office plans to investigate the UK office of the law firm Mossack Fonesca.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	40661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>On 10 April, the Prime Minister set up a multi-agency taskforce to obtain and analyse the leaked “Panama Papers” and take action where possible. The taskforce comprises HMRC, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Financial Conduct Authority who are working collaboratively to investigate any evidence of wrong-doing identified within the “Panama Papers”. The taskforce will report on its progress later this year.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 27/06/2016 08:21:51 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

524189

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how and why the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) joined the Metropolitan Police in announcing that retired police sergeant Gurpal Virdi was charged with misconduct in public office and with indecent assault on a person under 16 years; what publicity the CPS recorded as resulting at the time; when the memorandum of a conviction proved 1 April 1987 for offences on 7 November 1986 of a defendant born on 5 September 1970 with informant or complainant recorded as PC Markwick came to the attention of the CPS; what steps were taken to put right the effect of the wrong statement; when those steps were taken; and what the results of those steps were.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	40180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>A press release was issued by the Metropolitan Police Service which stated that the complainant was under 16. The CPS was not a party to this release and did not issue any other release. The CPS does not retain records of publicity resulting at the time.</p><p> </p><p>When the case was reviewed in 2014 for charging, the complainant and the witness clearly stated that the complainant had been 15 when the incident took place in 1986.<del class="ministerial"> In addition Mr Virdi also said in interview that the complainant had been 15 at the time of the incident.</del> The police summary stated that the complainant was 15. However the complainant’s date of birth and the date of his arrest were known and this mistake should not have been made.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS was supplied with the memorandum of conviction referred to on 17 September 2014.<del class="ministerial">The indictment was formally amended thereafter.</del></p><p> </p><p>No steps were taken to publicise the fact that the charge was later amended in open court to remove the assertion that the complainant was under 16.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/06/2016 13:53:54 question first ministerially corrected 24/06/2016 09:44:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 3723 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley