Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for publication of the independent evaluation of the NHS England special schools eye care service.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The NHS Long Term Plan made a commitment to ensure that children and young people with a learning disability and/or autism in special residential schools have access to sight checks in school. To fulfil that commitment, NHS England commenced a proof-of-concept programme in 2021, piloting sight testing and the dispensing of glasses in special schools.
This programme is currently subject to independent evaluation, which includes engagement with a wide range of parents, special schools and other stakeholders with an interest. We expect the evaluation to have concluded by May 2023. The evaluation of and learning from this work will inform decisions about how the eye care needs of people with learning disabilities should be commissioned.
The Department will also be hosting a roundtable currently scheduled for 28 March 2023, to discuss eye care services for people with learning disabilities.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for criminal damage to memorials since that offence was introduced; and what sentences were issued to people prosecuted for that act.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
For criminal damage offences, the specific target of the criminal damage is not recorded in the Court Proceedings Database and so it is not possible to distinguish criminal damage to memorials from wider criminal damage. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) charges and (b) prosecutions have been made under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 (offence code 11606) between 2013 and 2021 across the following data tools:
The number of prosecutions for offences under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 between 2010 and 2012 has been provided in Table 1.
The Home Office collects information on charges for the number of offences under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. Data is available from April 2015 to September 2022 and has been provided in table 2. Charges are low as police recorded crime collection is largely restricted to indictable and triable either way offences and excludes those prosecuted by other authorities.
This is a subset of data (Wildlife crime) released in the quarterly Crime and Outcomes open data tables, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Heritage crime is not specifically defined in legislation as a criminal offence and therefore is not centrally recorded in the Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice. To obtain information on whether an offence was related to heritage assets would involve a manual interrogation of court records which would result in disproportionate cost to the department. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of charges for this offence.
Offences that may be of interest include:
09408 - Executing or causing the demolition or alteration or an extension which affects the character of a listed building
09409 - Failure to comply with a Listed Building enforcement notice
09406 - Contravening tree preservation order
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) charged and (b) prosecuted for heritage crimes in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 (offence code 11606) between 2013 and 2021 across the following data tools:
The number of prosecutions for offences under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 between 2010 and 2012 has been provided in Table 1.
The Home Office collects information on charges for the number of offences under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. Data is available from April 2015 to September 2022 and has been provided in table 2. Charges are low as police recorded crime collection is largely restricted to indictable and triable either way offences and excludes those prosecuted by other authorities.
This is a subset of data (Wildlife crime) released in the quarterly Crime and Outcomes open data tables, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Heritage crime is not specifically defined in legislation as a criminal offence and therefore is not centrally recorded in the Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice. To obtain information on whether an offence was related to heritage assets would involve a manual interrogation of court records which would result in disproportionate cost to the department. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of charges for this offence.
Offences that may be of interest include:
09408 - Executing or causing the demolition or alteration or an extension which affects the character of a listed building
09409 - Failure to comply with a Listed Building enforcement notice
09406 - Contravening tree preservation order
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of rural crime in 2022.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
This Government is committed to driving down rural crime. Our manifesto committed us to use police resources to tackle rural crime, and as at 31 December 2022, 16,753 additional uplift officers have been recruited in England and Wales through the Police Uplift Programme. We are on target to recruit 20,000 additional officers by March 2023, taking us for the first time to over 148,000 officers across England and Wales. This is unprecedented and reflects the biggest recruitment drive in decades, and will help ensure the public is better protected, including in rural communities.
We are also taking steps to address issues that we know affect rural communities. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act empowers and equips the police and courts with the powers they need to combat hare coursing, and the Government is supporting the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill, which aims to prevent the theft of quad bikes and All-Terrain Vehicles. The Government is also providing funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) estimates that in 2021 rural theft cost the UK £40.5m, based on their insurance claim statistics.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support local authorities' delivery of the Transport decarbonisation plan.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department is supporting local authorities to decarbonise with funding and tools, helping them to build their capacity and capability. Key programmes include the £5.7 billion City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements and the £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund, which supports local delivery of transport decarbonisation alongside other government objectives.
The Government has also established Active Travel England to help local authorities deliver high quality walking and cycling schemes and last month announced an additional £56 million of public and industry funding to support the rollout of local electric vehicle chargepoints across the country.
The Government will shortly be consulting on new Local Transport Plan (LTP) guidance that will support better and more integrated strategic planning and provide new guidance to authorities in quantifying the carbon impact of their plans. This is in addition to work underway to update its Local Authority Transport Decarbonisation Toolkit on a range of interventions.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) charges and (b) prosecutions have been made under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
For prosecutions under the Hunting Act 2004, please see response to PQ 105521.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under Section 30 of the Game Act 1831 between 2010 and 2021 across the following data tools:
2010-2016: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2020.
2017-2021: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021.
Please note, ‘119 Day Poaching’ includes offences under both section 30 and section 31 of the Game Act 1831. However, no prosecutions were made under section 31 offences during this time period.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under the Deer Act 1991 and under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 between 2013 and 2021 across the following data tools:
2013-2016: Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool.
2017-2021: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021.
The number of prosecutions for offences under the Deer Act 1991 between 2010 and 2012 has been provided in Table 1 and 2. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of charges for this offence.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) charges and (b) prosecutions have been made under the Deer Act 1991 in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
For prosecutions under the Hunting Act 2004, please see response to PQ 105521.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under Section 30 of the Game Act 1831 between 2010 and 2021 across the following data tools:
2010-2016: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2020.
2017-2021: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021.
Please note, ‘119 Day Poaching’ includes offences under both section 30 and section 31 of the Game Act 1831. However, no prosecutions were made under section 31 offences during this time period.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under the Deer Act 1991 and under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 between 2013 and 2021 across the following data tools:
2013-2016: Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool.
2017-2021: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021.
The number of prosecutions for offences under the Deer Act 1991 between 2010 and 2012 has been provided in Table 1 and 2. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of charges for this offence.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions have been made under Section 30 of the Game Act 1831 in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
For prosecutions under the Hunting Act 2004, please see response to PQ 105521.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under Section 30 of the Game Act 1831 between 2010 and 2021 across the following data tools:
2010-2016: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2020.
2017-2021: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021.
Please note, ‘119 Day Poaching’ includes offences under both section 30 and section 31 of the Game Act 1831. However, no prosecutions were made under section 31 offences during this time period.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under the Deer Act 1991 and under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 between 2013 and 2021 across the following data tools:
2013-2016: Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool.
2017-2021: Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2021.
The number of prosecutions for offences under the Deer Act 1991 between 2010 and 2012 has been provided in Table 1 and 2. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of charges for this offence.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions have been made under the Night Poaching Act 1828 in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any data which shows the number of defendants charged with and prosecuted for offences created by the Night Poaching Act 1828. However, management information is held showing the number of offences of charged by way of the Night Poaching Act 1828 in which a prosecution commenced from each year from 2010/11. The table below shows the number of these offences to the latest available year, 2021/22.
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