Asked by: Apsana Begum (Independent - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been charged with offenses relating to protests against Elbit Systems UK's arms sales to Israel since (a) 8 October 2023, (b) 26 January 2024 and (c) 2 September 2024.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
From 1 October 2023 to 30 June 2024 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised charges in respect of 104,696 suspects for all criminal offences. Of these charges, the CPS is unable to identify which offences involved defendants who were taking part in a protest without a manual review of each case which would incur disproportionate cost.
The CPS publishes quarterly bulletins of data tables and summaries of main trends as part of its ongoing commitment to transparency on prosecution performance. This information can be found here: CPS quarterly data summaries | The Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: Apsana Begum (Independent - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been charged with alleged offenses relating to protests on arms sales to Israel since (a) 8 October 2023, (b) 26 January 2024 and (c) 2 September 2024.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
From 1 October 2023 to 30 June 2024 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised charges in respect of 104,696 suspects for all criminal offences. Of these charges, the CPS is unable to identify which offences involved defendants who were taking part in a protest without a manual review of each case which would incur disproportionate cost.
The CPS publishes quarterly bulletins of data tables and summaries of main trends as part of its ongoing commitment to transparency on prosecution performance. This information can be found here: CPS quarterly data summaries | The Crown Prosecution Service.
Asked by: Apsana Begum (Independent - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been charged with offences relating to protests on climate change in the last year.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
From 1 October 2023 to 30 June 2024 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised charges in respect of 104,696 suspects for all criminal offences. Of these charges, the CPS is unable to identify which offences involved defendants who were taking part in a protest without a manual review of each case which would incur disproportionate cost.
The CPS publishes quarterly bulletins of data tables and summaries of main trends as part of its ongoing commitment to transparency on prosecution performance. This information can be found here: CPS quarterly data summaries | The Crown Prosecution Service.