Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Dominic Grieve and Simon Burns

Tuesday 11th February 2014 Commons Chamber

[The Attorney-General]

I am not allowed to say what I do or do not advise on, but in countries such as Ireland and Poland—signatories to the European convention on human rights and fellow members of the EU—it ought to be possible by bilateral dialogue to speed up the removal of prisoners from the United Kingdom, either to serve the rest of their sentence in their country of origin, or deporting them at the end of their sentence.

[Mr Simon Burns (Chelmsford) (Con)]

7. What assessment he has made of the effects of increased digital working by the Crown Prosecution Service; and what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse as a result of that increase.