Bail

(asked on 9th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Justice on the potential implications of the proposals in the Policing and Crime Bill to put a limit of 28 days on pre-charge bail for the resources required for bail extension hearings.


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Mike Penning
This question was answered on 12th May 2016

A full Impact Assessment, setting out the cost across Criminal Justice System of the proposed bail reforms, was drawn up as part of the consultation process in late 2014 and was updated in the light of that consultation in March 2015. The Impact Assessment was updated again and published with the Policing and Crime Bill in February 2016; a copy of the latest version is available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499365/Impact_Assessment_-_Reform_Pre-Charge_Bail.pdf

The Home Office and the Ministry of Justice have worked together closely in drawing up these proposals; I am of course a Minister in both Departments, and my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Justice is one of the backers of the Policing and Crime Bill.

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