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91762

registered interest
date	12/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for which written questions tabled by the hon. Member for Shipley in 2014 which were answered with a promise to place information in the Library that information has (a) been and (b) not been placed in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	209236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>My Department has conducted a check, and information for all the relevant written questions tabled by the hon. Member for Shipley in 2014 has now been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant written questions are as follows:</p><p>- 191214 – 191216</p><p>- 191309 – 191215</p><p>- 194407</p><p>- 194406 - 194408</p><p>- 204641 – 204642 – 204652 - 204653</p><p>- 205007</p><p>- 194430</p><p>- 203440</p><p>- 204505-204455</p><p>- 204660</p><p>- 202790-202791</p><p> </p><p>The Department has put in place a robust system to keep track of commitments to place information in the Library and ensure that this is done promptly in future.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 09:22:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91647

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Repatriation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights by other states on the deportation of people from the UK to prisons in (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	209123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made. However, information on states party to the European Convention on Human Rights whose prisons have caused them to be found to be in violation of the Convention by the European Court of Human Rights can be found on the Court’s searchable database at:</p><p><a href="http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]}" target="_blank">http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]}</a></p><p>(208572)</p><p>We remain alert to the fact that legal challenges in relation to poor prison conditions may create obstacles to prisoner transfers. We are aware of one ongoing case within the European Union where prison conditions have been raised as a reason to prevent transfer proceedings but this is still subject to ongoing appeal.</p><p> </p><p>We are at an early stage of testing compulsory prisoner transfers to non-European Union countries and have not received any challenges of this nature to date.</p><p>(209123)</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 208572 question first answered 13/10/2014 11:05:23 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91193

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on projects solely for the benefit of (a) males and (b) females in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The particular information requested is not collected centrally and is not available without incurring disproportionate costs. The UK Government is committed to increasing focus on girls and women across all our investments to ‘stop poverty before it starts’ by creating environments that unlock their voices, choices and control, and that empowers them economically.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since May 2014, under the International Development (Gender Equality) Act 2014, DFID is required to give regard to the contribution its assistance is likely to make to reducing gender inequality, or to gender-related differences in needs, before assistance is provided.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 13/10/2014 15:03:33 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91194

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders convicted of a single offence of possession of class C drugs received (a) a discharge, (b) a fine, (c) a community order, (d) a suspended prison sentence and (e) an immediate prison sentence in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Drug offending is serious in itself and drug abuse also underlies a huge volume of acquisitive and violent crime which can blight communities. The independent Sentencing Council issued a sentencing guideline on drug offences, effective from February 2012, which brought sentencing guidance together for the first time to help to ensure consistent and proportionate sentencing for all drug offences that come before courts.</p><p> </p><p>Simple cautions are a non-statutory disposal available to the police to dispose of any offence committed by an adult and designed for dealing with low level, mainly first time offending.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. The latest guidance, issued in November 2013 following the Simple Cautions Review, states that the use of a simple caution for possession of class A drugs should only be given in exceptional cases following authorisation by a senior police officer. These will be cases where there were exceptional circumstances which would mean that it was not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is legislating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to place statutory restrictions on the use of cautions for certain serious offences.</p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of offenders that were sentenced at all courts of a single offence of possession for class A, B and C drugs by sentence outcome in 2013, England and Wales can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people cautioned for possession of class A, class B and class C drugs, in England and Wales, from 2009 to 2013 (latest data available) is accessible through the Ministry of Justice website and can be viewed through the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311319/8-outcomes-by-offence.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311319/8-outcomes-by-offence.xls</a>. Under the heading “Drug Offences” there are links to tables containing information relation to possession of class A, class B and class C drugs, including the number of cautions, from 2009-2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 208577 208710 208720 question first answered 14/10/2014 13:44:22 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name 208577, 208720, 208715, 208710 table.xls title Number of offenders sentenced
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91195

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fines: Surcharges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much in victim surcharge has been (a) imposed and (b) collected in cases involving Crown Court sentences of imprisonment since 1 October 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify the amounts of victim surcharge imposed and collected which just relates to impositions made in the Crown Court or in relation to custodial sentences. This information could only be provided a disproportionate cost by carrying out a manual check of all financial impositions.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 208705 question first answered 13/10/2014 15:05:24 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91196

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) sentenced and (b) remand prisoners were held in HMP Belmarsh for the offence of criminal damage from 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Data are held centrally on the characteristics of the prison population on the last day of each month, so figures are not available for 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014. Additionally, monthly and quarterly trends are typically compared using end of month and quarterly figures respectively.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 208707 question first answered 25/09/2014 12:19:59 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91197

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what grounds offenders who received the maximum prison sentences for the possession of (a) class A and (b) class B drugs received those sentences in 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Drug offending is serious in itself and drug abuse also underlies a huge volume of acquisitive and violent crime which can blight communities. Parliament sets the maximum penalty for an offence to deal with the worst possible case. Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts, which must follow sentencing guidelines issued by the independent Sentencing Council. The guidelines provide a non-exhaustive list of factors to be taken into consideration and the court may depart from the guidelines in a particular case where it considers that it is in the interest of justice to do so.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/10/2014 09:33:45 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91198

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders convicted of a single offence of possession of class B drugs received (a) a discharge, (b) a fine, (c) a community order, (d) a suspended prison sentence and (e) an immediate prison sentence in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Drug offending is serious in itself and drug abuse also underlies a huge volume of acquisitive and violent crime which can blight communities. The independent Sentencing Council issued a sentencing guideline on drug offences, effective from February 2012, which brought sentencing guidance together for the first time to help to ensure consistent and proportionate sentencing for all drug offences that come before courts.</p><p> </p><p>Simple cautions are a non-statutory disposal available to the police to dispose of any offence committed by an adult and designed for dealing with low level, mainly first time offending.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. The latest guidance, issued in November 2013 following the Simple Cautions Review, states that the use of a simple caution for possession of class A drugs should only be given in exceptional cases following authorisation by a senior police officer. These will be cases where there were exceptional circumstances which would mean that it was not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is legislating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to place statutory restrictions on the use of cautions for certain serious offences.</p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of offenders that were sentenced at all courts of a single offence of possession for class A, B and C drugs by sentence outcome in 2013, England and Wales can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people cautioned for possession of class A, class B and class C drugs, in England and Wales, from 2009 to 2013 (latest data available) is accessible through the Ministry of Justice website and can be viewed through the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311319/8-outcomes-by-offence.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311319/8-outcomes-by-offence.xls</a>. Under the heading “Drug Offences” there are links to tables containing information relation to possession of class A, class B and class C drugs, including the number of cautions, from 2009-2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 208577 208710 208715 question first answered 14/10/2014 13:44:22 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name 208577, 208720, 208715, 208710 table.xls title Number of offenders sentenced
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91201

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) age and (b) offence type of prisoners held in HMP Belmarsh who were under the age of 21 from 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014 is.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Data are held centrally on the characteristics of the prison population on the last day of each month, so figures are not available for 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014. Additionally, monthly and quarterly trends are typically compared using end of month and quarterly figures respectively.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 208717 question first answered 25/09/2014 12:19:57 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91202

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held in HMP Belmarsh for what offences were first time offenders from 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Data are held centrally on the characteristics of the prison population on the last day of each month, so figures are not available for 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014. Additionally, monthly and quarterly trends are typically compared using end of month and quarterly figures respectively.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/10/2014 13:16:43 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies