Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) We have transformed how we support victims of sexual violence offences through the criminal justice system - Speech Link
2: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) The Minister mentions sexual offences, but it frustrates me beyond belief that my constituents have to - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) Gentleman is absolutely right to raise the issue of victims of serious sexual offences. - Speech Link
4: Nadhim Zahawi (Con - Stratford-on-Avon) There remain 800 Post Office convictions based on bad data. - Speech Link
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: convictions/ disposals described above do not apply to juvenile offences.
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Mark BlackieFound: On the 31 January 2022, Mr Blackie was convicted at York Crown Court of 10 counts of sexual offences
Jan. 18 2024
Source Page: Clampdown on child abuse as a gap in the law closedFound: gratification, ensuring that convictions will no longer be missed.
Asked by: Lord Blunkett (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask His Majesty's Government, excluding sexual or violent offences, under what circumstances can someone subject to an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence who has completed their license period have earlier, minor offences dropped from their record.
Answered by Lord Bellamy - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (the ROA) sets out when an offender is considered to be ‘rehabilitated’ for the purposes of the Act and the relevant rehabilitation periods for cautions and convictions (also referred to as when a caution or a conviction become ‘spent’). This does not mean that an offence is dropped from their record, rather that the offender only needs to disclose the spent caution or conviction in some circumstances.
The ROA also provides that where a person commits another offence before the first has become spent, then the rehabilitation periods for all sentences are extended to the longest period. This is set out in section 6 of the ROA and referred to as ‘the drag on effect’. The ROA sets out that Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) and Detention for Public Protection (DPP) sentences are excluded from rehabilitation and therefore can never become spent, regardless of whether the licence is terminated or not.
A conviction imposed on an offender before a sentence of IPP will not be spent if, at the time the IPP or DPP was imposed, the sentence for that conviction was still in its rehabilitation period. However, any sentence which is not excluded from rehabilitation, and is received after an IPP or DPP sentence is imposed, will become spent in respect of the usual rehabilitation periods set out in section 5 and 6 of the ROA.
The ROA is kept under review but there are no plans to make further changes at this time.
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: convictions/disposals described above do not apply to juvenile offences.
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: convictions/disposals described above do not apply to juvenile offences.
Mar. 19 2024
Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2023Found: Data behind interactive tools: Outcomes by Offence - prosecutions and convictions - 2010-2019 (csv)
Written Evidence Mar. 05 2024
Inquiry: The use of pre-recorded cross-examination under Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999Found: offences (88.4% according to Table 6 at 2.2).
Nov. 27 2008
Source Page: Criminal statistics: England and Wales 2007: statistics bulletin, November 2008. 210 p.Found: This measure covers notifiable offences; its components are cautions, convictions and offences taken