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90936

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crime: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that a victim of crime who is under 18 years of age and who has no legal guardian or person with parental responsibility can gain access to the Crown Prosecution Service Victims' Right to Review Scheme; and by what means such a victim would gain such access.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>For the purposes of the scheme, the definition of a victim is that set out in the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime as “any person who has made an allegation to the police, or had an allegation made on his or her behalf, that they have been directly subjected to criminal conduct under the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS).”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Victims of crime who are under 18 may therefore directly request a review under the CPS Victims’ Right to Review Scheme without the intervention of a parent or legal guardian.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The scheme is easy to access for all victims. Information about the scheme and contact details of the office to which a referral can be made is given to victims by the police or CPS when the decision not to prosecute is communicated. This communication will be made suitable to the age and understanding of the victim.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Access to the scheme is by post, telephone or email. There is no prescribed form or format and all communication is with trained staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where a request is received directly from a victim aged under 18, enquiries are made with the child and where necessary, with the police officer in charge of the victim’s case, to establish that appropriate adult support is available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 14/10/2014 14:38:37 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90942

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
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, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 since 2004.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208608 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:44:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90943

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
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, on how many occasions the Crown Prosecution Service London region has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 where the victim was under 18 years of age in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208607 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:44:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90944

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
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, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences, or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208610 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:48:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90945

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
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, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 where the victim was under 18 years in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences, or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208609 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:48:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

64871

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Corruption: Tanzania
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what reports he has received of bribery of foreign officials in Tanzania by African Barrack Gold plc; and whether the SFO plans to investigate those reports.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	203352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>As and when matters are brought to the attention of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) they are assessed in the context of the SFO's remit to investigate fraud, bribery and corruption. If appropriate, relevant matters will be considered for criminal investigation in line with SFO internal procedures. The SFO does not comment on its assessments or their status at any one time but does publish on its website details of those cases formally adopted for criminal investigation, whenever this is possible without prejudice to the investigation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beaconsfield answering member printed Mr Dominic Grieve question first answered 07/07/2014 15:35:30 answering member 16 label Biography information for Mr Dominic Grieve
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy