Viscount Astor: AGO: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

RSPCA

Thursday 18th December 2014

Asked by: Viscount Astor (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many times in 2012, 2013 and 2014 the Crown Prosecution Service has either taken over or forced discontinuation of a private prosecution brought by the RSCPA.

Answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain an authoritative central record of the number of private prosecutions taken over. To identify the exact number of times the CPS took over or forced the discontinuation of a private prosecution brought by the RSPCA would require a manual exercise to review individual files which would incur a disproportionate cost.