Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question to the Attorney General:
What recent assessment she has made of the potential effect on the CPS of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
Answered by Suella Braverman
The CPS has worked with other prosecutors, law enforcement, the courts, and the Home Office to ensure that effective international cooperation with EU Member States on extradition, gathering of evidence and asset recovery can continue after the Transition Period.
Extensive preparation has taken place to prepare for the outcome of the negotiation and there are well-prepared and well-reheased plans in place – which include producing guidance and training for prosecutors. The CPS has also engaged extensively with EU counterparts in order to safeguard existing and new cases.
Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, if the Government will review the CPS guidance given to victims of rape on seeking therapy.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
It is vital that victims are confident they will be treated with the utmost fairness by the justice system. CPS committed, as part of the cross-Government Victims Strategy, to launch new guidance on pre-trial therapy to reduce the perception amongst victims, therapists and criminal justice professionals that it will damage the prosecution case. This is due to be published this summer. Additionally, a new toolkit for prosecutors on the support that an individual suffering from a mental health condition will require was launched in August 2018.