Asked by: Baroness Doocey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 in each of the past five years.
Answered by Lord Wallace of Tankerness
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to proceed under sections 4(1), 4(2), and 4(3) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.), including cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Baroness Doocey (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions have taken place under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the past five years.
Answered by Lord Wallace of Tankerness
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds figures of the number of offences charged under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 that reached a first hearing in a magistrates' court and data for the past three financial years is contained in the following table. No charges are recorded before financial year 2011/2012.
2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | ||
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 { 71(1)(a) & (3) } | Knowingly hold another person in slavery / servitude | 10 | 20 | 3 |
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 { 71(1)(b) & (3) } | Knowingly require another person to perform forced / compulsory labour | 5 | 0 | 15 |
CPS offence based data is not held by defendant or outcome so it is not possible to ascertain the number of individual prosecutions that concluded.