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818747

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	John Worboys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many requests were received by his Department requesting the referral of the sentence in R v John Worboys to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme in 2009; and who those requests were made by.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	121511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>According to our records, in 2009 the Attorney General’s Office received requests to refer John Worboys’s sentence to the Court of Appeal from a charity that campaigned against violence against women, and from an MP who passed on a constituent’s complaint about the sentence.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 15/01/2018 16:57:07 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

816861

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much money has been spent from the public purse on training members of the CPS and its agents on the criminalisation of forced marriage and the breach of forced marriage protection orders since the coming into force of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014; what events took place relating to that training; and how many people attended those events.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	121288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>The specific offence of forced marriage and breach of a Forced Marriage Protection Order came into force in June 2014 under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. Since then, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has updated its legal guidance, developed e-learning and delivered training to its Area lead forced marriage prosecutors.</p><p>Training workshops were delivered jointly with the police on Forced Marriage, Honour Based Violence and Female Genital Mutilation across all CPS Areas between July and December 2014. The workshops included input from stakeholders at a cost of £5,000.</p><p>On 13 December 2017, a further masterclass was delivered to all CPS Areas to address the unique difficulties in prosecuting these crimes. This masterclass included input from stakeholders at a cost of £1,633.50. This training will be cascaded by the local Area forced marriage leads.</p><p>The CPS’s Prosecution College, provides award-winning courses to CPS employees, and hosts the e-learning course, “Forced Marriage and Honour Based Violence”. To date 231 of its employees who were in post on 8 January 2018 had completed all elements of the e-learning course. The course was developed in-house which enables targeted and consistent training delivered to employees in an efficient and cost-effective way.</p><p>The CPS will continue to train its staff in this critical area of work.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/01/2018 16:23:05 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

809956

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the unduly lenient sentence scheme.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	903067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The number of sentences considered by the Solicitor General and I has more than doubled since 2010 – from 342 to 837 requests in 2016. Last year we took 190 of these cases to the Court of Appeal for consideration. The Court of Appeal agreed to increase the sentences of 141 offenders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 21/12/2017 11:39:10 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

809137

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with the Serious Fraud Office on tackling economic crime.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Andrew Bowie
uin	903074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text The Serious Fraud Office does vital work in tackling some of the most serious instances of economic crime. As the superintending Minister for the SFO, I regularly meet with the Director of the SFO to discuss key issues in relation to economic crime. answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 21/12/2017 11:35:22 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie

809690

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2018 answer text <p>My department has answered six written parliamentary questions explaining that the requested information was not available on the grounds of it not being collected or held centrally. This is out of a total of 102 parliamentary questions that have been answered in the 2017/18 session to date and represents just under 6% of the total number.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 03/01/2018 10:32:45 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

808798

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Serious Fraud Office: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times and for what reasons blockbuster funding requests from the Serious Fraud Office have been denied since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	119907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>There have been eight blockbuster funding applications since 2010, all of which have been approved by the Treasury. Funding for these cases is provided from the reserve. Total reserve funding by year from 2012-13 is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>£000s</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£000s</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£000s</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£000s</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£000s</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>-</strong></p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6,735</p></td><td><p>19,000</p></td><td><p>23,237</p></td><td><p>18,000</p></td><td><p>7,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6,735</p></td><td><p>24,000</p></td><td><p>25,237</p></td><td><p>28,000</p></td><td><p>17,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All of these blockbuster funded cases are still under active investigation and it is not possible for operational reasons to provide a breakdown of how the funding is allocated in each case.</p><p>Reserve funding for years prior to 2016-17 also covers the costs of the SFO’s civil litigation cases.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/12/2017 11:02:04 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

808973

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on tackling knife crime.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	120082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>As a member of the Inter-Ministerial Group on Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation, I meet on a regular basis with colleagues with a focus on the priority to reduce violence and knife crime.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has recently undertaken a consultation on dangerous and offensive weapons, which includes proposals for new knife offences and to strengthen measures to tackle the cycle of violence and threat to safety posed by knife crime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 21/12/2017 13:54:57 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

807199

registered interest
date	15/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps his offices are taking to implement the guidance set out by the Government Commercial Function in its paper entitled Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, in respect of (a) using market engagement, (b) setting up disaggregation work, (c) risk assessment, (d) developing a programme plan through the transition, (e) identifying the skills and capabilities that will be needed in the future and (f) any other work related to that guidance.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2018 answer text <p>The CPS is fully aligned with the Government Commercial Function paper <em>&quot;Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments</em>”.</p><p>The programme to disaggregate and replace ICT services delivered through a PFI contract with CGI (formally Logica) since 2002 is well advanced and will complete in 2019. Throughout the programme the CPS has worked in partnership with the Government Digital Service and the Crown Commercial Service, securing spending control approval from Cabinet Office and HM Treasury where appropriate. The CPS’s strategy ensures that it is aligned with the government’s Technology Code of Practice including the principle of cloud-first services.</p><p>In 2015 the CPS carried out a major review of its internal capability across all aspects of ICT including technical, service management, commercial and programme management. As a result a new separate ICT Commercial Team was established and a number of new roles were established and filled in its Digital Technology Services Directorate.</p><p>The CPS operates detailed programme plans and associated risk logs to manage each phase of the disaggregation including pre-market engagement, procurement, service transition and service exit.</p><p>The CPS has used pan-government frameworks, let and managed by the Crown Commercial Service to replace network, telephony, print and applications hosting and management services. It is planning to use these frameworks to replace service desk and end user computing services in 2018. As part of each procurement process, it undertakes market engagement, the extent of which is dependent on the size and complexity of the contract to be awarded.</p><p>The CPS provides ICT services to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and HMCPSI.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) does not have any large outsourced single vendor IT contract in place.</p><p>It uses a multi-vendor approach, selecting suppliers based on their ability to support their specialised systems, and that is combined with in-house teams, which have grown in size in recent years as they reduce their reliance on external providers.</p><p>The SFO regularly reviews all its IT contracts taking into account the potential for disaggregation, benefits, costs, timing, risks, and overall value for money, in line with the guidance provided by the Government Commercial Function.</p><p>The largest contract currently in place is with Capita, and that contract is due to expire in July 2019. Ahead of that, a full review will take place, to determine whether it continues to outsource this service to Capita or another provider, or bring the service in house.</p><p>The Government Legal Department (GLD) does not hold any large single provider contracts worth over £20 million per year which fall within the guidance published in November 2017. GLD uses its own in-house IT services as well as using a multi provider approach when delivering any IT services. It is committed to following the principles contained within the guidance where applicable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 04/01/2018 16:04:42 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

806064

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	119162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2018 answer text <p>My department has answered 10 written parliamentary questions explaining that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost. This is out of a total of 102 parliamentary questions that have been answered and represents 10% of the total.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 03/01/2018 10:33:44 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

806270

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many data incidents his Department (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2018 answer text <p>Neither the AGO or HMCPSI recorded any data incidents in 2015-16 or 2016-17.</p><p>The CPS recorded 183 data incidents in 2015-16 and 242 in 2016-17. Three of the incidents in 2015-16 were referred to the ICO and seven of the incidents in 2016-17.</p><p>The SFO recorded nine data incidents in 2015-16 and 17 in 2016-17. None of these were deemed serious enough to require reporting to the ICO.</p><p>The GLD recorded 63 security incidents in 2015-16 and 45 in 2016-17. None of the incidents in 2015-16 was deemed serious enough to require reporting to the ICO; one was reported to the ICO in 2016-17. The GLD does not specifically record ‘data incidents’ as a reporting category; the figures for ‘security incidents’ include physical and personal security, as well as information security.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 03/01/2018 16:39:14 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett