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1490548

registered interest
date	19/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	War Crimes: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department is providing support to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in prosecuting war crimes.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	39789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government is appalled by the atrocities being committed in Ukraine by Russian forces, including the targeting of civilians, mass graves, and rape and sexual violence being used as weapons of war. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukraine, at the forefront of international efforts to ensure there is no impunity. The Attorney General personally had a long and very fruitful dialogue with the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, having signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with her to underline UK support for her Office’s work investigating and prosecuting crimes committed in the course of the conflict. The Attorney General visited the former Prosecutor General in Ukraine and hosted her for a two-day visit in London at the end of May. We look forward to continuing working closely with the Prosecutor General’s Office. Importantly, the Attorney General appointed Sir Howard Morrison QC, one of the UK’s leading war crimes lawyers, to support the Prosecutor General directly on Ukraine’s domestic investigations. The Attorney General also convened a meeting of the Quintet of Attorneys General from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with Prosecutor General Venediktova. Following this meeting, we published a joint statement which makes clear our countries’ support for Ukraine’s domestics war crimes investigations and prosecutions, and our commitment to work together with the Prosecutor General and Office of the Prosecutor General to ensure every perpetrator faces justice. The preservation and collection of evidence is vital. The UK, together with the United States and EU, has launched the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group (ACA) to directly support the War Crimes Units of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in its investigation and prosecution of conflict-related crimes. The ACA seeks to streamline coordination and communication efforts to ensure best practices, avoid duplication of efforts, and encourage the expeditious deployment of financial resources and skilled personnel to respond to the needs of the Office of the Prosecutor General as the legally constituted authority in Ukraine responsible for dealing with the prosecution of war crimes on its own territory. This shows the Government’s clear commitment to supporting Ukraine in its investigations. We will continue to work with Ukraine, partners and international mechanisms in their investigations and to collect and preserve evidence of war crimes in Ukraine. Those responsible will be held to account.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 26/07/2022 12:01:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1489950

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether her Department’s legal position in respect of challenges to the UK-Rwanda Migration Partnership in the courts is that the partnership agreement is compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p><p> </p><p>As you are aware, litigation is ongoing. It is the Government’s position that the Migration and Economic Development Partnership is fully compatible with all of our domestic and international legal obligations including ECHR rights.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2022 08:16:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490240

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	VAT: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the review of EU retained law, what discussions she has had with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and her officials on the legal risk of (a) applying sunset clauses to and (b) attempting to codify the existing applications of VAT rules in the UK derived from EU case law concerning the (i) definition of business and (ii) abuse principle.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38563 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:20:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490241

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	VAT: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Government's review of EU retained law, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the legal risk of (a) applying sunset clauses to and (b) attempting to codify the existing applications of VAT rules in the UK derived from EU case law concerning the (i) definition of business and (ii) abuse principle.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38562 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:20:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490271

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Belfast Agreement: European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if she make assessment of the potential effect of the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights on the operation of the Good Friday Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38568 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:43:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1490272

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Belfast Agreement: European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the compatibility of the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights with the continued operation of the Good Friday Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	38568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38567 question first answered 26/07/2022 11:43:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1489540

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Stalking: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions were brought for stalking offences against people previously convicted of stalking in each of the last 30 years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	37497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 created the offence of harassment and latterly, as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, stalking. The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 came into effect on 25 November 2012 and introduced two new offences of stalking, by way of Section 2A and Section 4A, into the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any data which shows the number of defendants charged with and prosecuted for offences of stalking or the number of these who were previously convicted of similar offences.</p><p> </p><p>However, management information is held showing the number of offences of stalking in which a prosecution commenced from each year from 2013. The table below shows the number of these offences to the latest available year, 2021.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Protection from Harassment Act 1997 { 2A(1) and (4) }</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Protection from Harassment Act 1997 { 4A(1)(a)(b)(i) and (5) }</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Protection from Harassment Act 1997 { 4A(1)(a)(b)(ii) and (5) }</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>416</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>637</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>519</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>336</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>782</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>1,208</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>1,260</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>1,281</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>1,618</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>967</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual defendants. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence against the same complainant. No data are held showing the final outcome or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at finalisation.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/07/2022 08:18:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1489544

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether she was consulted by (a) Ministers or (b) officials in the Home Department prior to the Secretary of State for Justice's comments in the media on 16 June 2022 on the compatibility of the UK-Rwanda Migration Partnership with the UK's membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	37462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/07/2022 08:13:04 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1489552

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Covid-19 Inquiry: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether (a) she, (b) the Solicitor General or (b) his predecessor have had discussions with the First Treasury Counsel on (i) the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, (ii) disclosures to that inquiry and (iii) potential restrictions on the release of sensitive covid-19 related information.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	37463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 37464 question first answered 26/07/2022 10:52:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1489553

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Covid-19 Inquiry: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether (a) she, (b) the Solicitor General or (c) his predecessor have had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on (i) the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, (ii) disclosures to that inquiry and (iii) potential restrictions on the release of sensitive covid-19 related information.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	37464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>By convention, whether the Law Officers have been asked to provide advice, and the contents of any such advice, is not disclosed outside Government.</p><p> </p><p>This convention protects the Law Officers’ ability as chief legal advisers to the Government to give full and frank legal advice and provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Eddisbury answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 37463 question first answered 26/07/2022 10:52:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry