Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to commence the provisions of the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government intends to bring the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 into force in July 2019.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to mark the centenary of the first women getting the right to vote in 1918.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has set aside £5m to celebrate this milestone in British democracy.
In the Autumn budget, the Chancellor announced that £1.2million of the centenary fund would go directly to seven centenary cities and towns in England with a strong suffrage history, to strengthen the reach and legacy of regional activity to inspire a new generation with this story.
A further £1.5million will be available to organisations and communities through a grants scheme. Online applications opened in January, and further information can be found at: www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk
The Ministry of Justice is dedicated to achieving gender equality both in the workplace and in our justice system. The department’s Gender Equality Forum is organising a series of events to celebrate and commemorate the centenary of women’s suffrage as well as International Women’s Day on the 8th March.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to mark the centenary of the first women getting the right to vote in 1918.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has set aside £5m to celebrate this milestone in British democracy.
In the Autumn budget, the Chancellor announced that £1.2million of the centenary fund would go directly to seven centenary cities and towns in England with a strong suffrage history, to strengthen the reach and legacy of regional activity to inspire a new generation with this story.
A further £1.5million will be available to organisations and communities through a grants scheme. Online applications opened in January, and further information can be found at: www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk
The Ministry of Justice is dedicated to achieving gender equality both in the workplace and in our justice system. The department’s Gender Equality Forum is organising a series of events to celebrate and commemorate the centenary of women’s suffrage as well as International Women’s Day on the 8th March.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse of the review to assess the frequency and outcome of applications to introduce a complainant’s sexual history under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, published on 14 December 2017 was.
Answered by Dominic Raab
In addition to deploying policy resource, the Ministry of Justice paid the Crown Prosecution Service £11,243.00 to resource this review.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2017 to Question 117911, how many of the cases selected by the CPS to assess the frequency and outcome of applications seeking to introduce into rape proceedings evidence of the complainant's sexual history under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 involved guilty pleas.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The audit case questionnaire completed by the individual CPS areas did not capture information with regards to plea.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 9826 on rape: trials, what national and local data on applications under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 was being recorded by the Crown Prosecution Service at the time when the sample cases were selected.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The CPS does not currently routinely record data relating to Section 41 applications at a local or national level.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 9826, what the total number of rape and sexual assault trials heard in the Crown Courts was during the same time period over which the sample of case files was selected by the Crown Prosecution Service to assess the frequency and outcome of applications seeking to introduce into rape proceedings evidence of the complainant's sexual history under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The number of finalised contest outcomes (inclusive of mixed pleas) for cases flagged as ‘rape’ on the Case Management System in 2016 was 2,929.
The number of finalised contest outcomes (inclusive of mixed pleas) for cases flagged as ‘sexual offences excluding rape’ on the Case Management System in 2016 was 3,348.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 9826 on rape: trials, in which Crown Courts those applications were made; and in how many case files from each of those Crown Courts were put into the sample of case files selected by the Crown Prosecution Service to assess the frequency and outcome of applications seeking to introduce into rape proceedings evidence of the complainant's sexual history under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The cases were selected for review by CPS area not Crown Court centre. Of the 40 Section 41 applications made 7 were received by CPS North West, 7 by CPS Thames & Chiltern, 4 by CPS North East, 3 by CPS London North, 3 by CPS Eastern, 3 by CPS East Midlands, 3 by CPS Wales, 3 by CPS West Midlands, 2 by CPS South West, 2 by CPS South East, 2 by CPS Mersey-Cheshire and 1 by CPS Yorkshire & Humberside.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 9826, what method the CPS used to select the sample of case files to assess the frequency and outcome of applications seeking to introduce into rape proceedings evidence of the complainant's sexual history under s.41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The CPS randomly selected 2 case files from each calendar month in 2016 flagged as ‘rape’ on the Case Management System for every CPS area in England and Wales.
Asked by: Harriet Harman (Labour - Camberwell and Peckham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 9826, at which grades of staffing are Crown Prosecution Service staff selected to review the sample of case files to assess the frequency and outcome of applications seeking to introduce into rape proceedings evidence of the complainant's sexual history.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The cases were reviewed by Senior Crown Prosecutors (Grade 7) or above.