Written Question
Monday 9th July 2018
Asked by:
Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question
to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, if he will commission research into the extent to which charging decisions made by the Crown Prosecution Service differ from the expectation of (a) Police and (b) victims of crime.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
HMCPSI provide reports to the Law Officers and the public on the work of the CPS and that includes analysis of charging decisions made by the CPS with reference to the Code for Crown Prosecutors. HMCPSI reports and CPS performance information do not provide data on the expectations of the police or victims as to charging decisions and any difference between those expectations and the charging decision made by the CPS.
If the police wish to query or challenge a CPS charging decision, that can be done through a formal escalation procedure. If a victim wishes to query or challenge a CPS charging decision that can be done through the Victim’s Right to Review Scheme, the Victim Communication and Liaison Scheme and the CPS Feedback and Complaints Scheme.
Written Question
Monday 9th July 2018
Asked by:
Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question
to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what estimate he has made of the number of occasions the Crown Prosecution Service has charged suspects with offences that are deemed less serious than the offences which the police investigated in the last 12 months.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of those occasions where the Crown Prosecution Service charges suspects with offences considered less serious than the offences which the police investigated. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.
Written Question
Thursday 7th December 2017
Asked by:
Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question
to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Crown Prosecution Service on applications to the Courts for compensation orders to support victims of crime.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
I have regular meetings with the Director of Public Prosecutions at which a variety of issues are discussed. The Attorney General’s guidance on the prosecutor's role in the sentencing exercise is supplemented by Crown Prosecution Service legal guidance which specifically requires prosecutors to draw the court’s attention to its powers to award compensation and to seek compensation orders where appropriate.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Nov 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
"I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in this debate, and particularly to clauses 2 and 3. Of course, my speech follows an intensive course over the past week on how to stage an exit, which was the focus of a degree of international attention. For anyone who …..."Priti Patel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Nov 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
"I respectfully suggest that scrutiny is the purpose of these debates in Committee. We should have a great deal of pride in our role in that scrutiny. We must work with the Government and Ministers. Yes, part of that work is the tabling of amendments, because that is the nature …..."Priti Patel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Nov 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
"My hon. Friend makes an important point.
One great former leader, Margaret Thatcher, once said:
“What is the point of trying to get elected to Parliament only to hand over…the powers of this House to Europe?”—[Official Report, 30 October 1990; Vol. 178, c. 873.]
We now have …..."Priti Patel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Nov 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
"The right hon. Gentleman knows that secondary legislation is scrutinised. We all have an effective role—I am sure he has experienced this many times while he has been a Member—in scrutinising secondary legislation.
We will have the opportunity to make and amend laws, and also to look at what will …..."Priti Patel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Nov 2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
"I am sure that the hon. Gentleman, like me and all Members, believes in Britain’s future prospects outside the European Union, and in how we will work together—across all political parties; across the devolved Administrations; across the country—not only to get the best deal for Britain, but to safeguard and …..."Priti Patel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Government set out their assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20 July. Every Government policy change is carefully considered, in line with the legal obligations...."Priti Patel - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"I come back to my opening comment: we fully assessed the impact of the Bill’s equality measures, and we are meeting our wider obligations. As the hon. Gentleman will recognise, universal credit supports people in employment, and that applies equally to women. That is alongside all the additional measures that …..."Priti Patel - View Speech
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