Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, what recent steps she has taken to help ensure the effective prosecution of wildlife crime in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) other rural areas.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This Government is committed to working with the police and other partners to address the blight of wildlife crime in Lincolnshire and across the country.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has fourteen Areas (regional teams) across England and Wales – the CPS East Midlands Area serves the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire including the cities of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, and the county of Rutland.
More broadly, we have announced that the CPS will receive an additional £49m to support victims of crime and transform the services they provide to the public.
We are introducing tougher measures to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, stronger neighbourhood policing, and robust laws to prevent farm theft and fly-tippers.
We are recruiting 13,000 more neighbourhood police and police community support officers across England and Wales.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council Wildlife and Rural Crime Strategy 2022-2025 provides a framework through which policing, and its partners, can work together to tackle the most prevalent threats and emerging issues which predominantly affect rural communities.
CPS prosecutors also work closely with local police officers and officers from the National Wildlife Crime Unit to tackle all types of rural crime.
The CPS also provides legal guidance on wildlife, rural, and heritage crime, which is available to all its prosecutors to assist them in dealing with these cases. It also provides specialist training to ensure that its prosecutors have the expert knowledge needed to prosecute these crimes.
Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Prosecution Service on how useful they felt the powers in the Bill would be in their everyday operational - Speech Link
2: Becky Gittins (Lab - Clwyd East) Member feel that the Crown Prosecution Service gave that assurance at our evidence session last week? - Speech Link
3: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) I found the testimony of the Crown Prosecution Service very convincing. - Speech Link
4: None Various colleagues have referred to the Crown Prosecution Service’s evidence on the relevant guidance - Speech Link
5: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) I draw attention to what Sarah Dineley, the head of international at the Crown Prosecution Service, said - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Currently, the High Court can make a serious crime prevention order only upon application from the Crown - Speech Link
2: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) Clause 50 allows the Crown court the power to impose a serious crime prevention order on acquittal or - Speech Link
Nov. 12 2008
Source Page: Table showing empty property, what the (a) address, (b) occupying organisation and (c) floor area of each part of the Government civil estate that is currently occupied. 186 p.Found: - CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE27ST LEONARDS ROADEASTBOURNE509.0Crown Prosecution ServiceCPS - CROWN PROSECUTION
Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) , providing that the Crown cannot be criminalised by the Bill, but the Bill does bind the Crown, which - Speech Link
2: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) However, the other meaning of the Crown is, essentially, the Crown as it sits with entities: the buildings - Speech Link
3: Tristan Osborne (Lab - Chatham and Aylesford) The Crown Proceedings Act 1947 specifically talks about Crown liability in this regard. - Speech Link
4: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) in clause 47(2) and how that sits alongside the reference to“persons in the service of the Crown”in - Speech Link
Jan. 08 2008
Source Page: Table showing Government department property, (a) total floor area and (b) vacant space recorded on the electronic property information mapping service database for each Government department and agency. 11 p.Found: GovernmentCLG - ENGLISH PARTNERSHIPS113491.82699999996Communities and Local GovernmentCLG - FIRE SERVICE
Mentions:
1: None Prosecution Service and the national CPS lead on organised immigration crime.Jim Pearce: Good afternoon - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) We work very hard on building those relationships to collaborate.To that end, the Crown Prosecution Service - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Q I want to look at clauses 13 to 17 and what the Crown Prosecution Service thinks of them, so this - Speech Link
Jan. 28 2009
Source Page: Table showing property on the e-PIMS database, broken down by address, and by whether the floor-space is used or vacant, together with a description of the vacant space. 753 p.Found: District (B)ST18 0ZE946.6900024414062Crown Prosecution ServiceCPS - CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICETY COCH
Mentions:
1: None Mr Kakaei denied any financial motive, a fact accepted by the prosecution. - Speech Link
2: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Indeed, the Home Office has already said publicly that the Crown Prosecution Service always considers - Speech Link
3: Becky Gittins (Lab - Clwyd East) Gentleman’s proposal to exclude asylum seekers from prosecution opens up a situation in which someone - Speech Link
4: None We heard from the Crown Prosecution Service that guidance will be given about the evidential test and - Speech Link
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