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To ask the Solicitor General, what preliminary conclusions she has reached on the impact of the charging initiative of basing Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors in police stations; and if she will make a statement. - Inc list.

Asked by

Graham Allen (Labour)

Answering body

Solicitor General

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 November 2004

Reference

196229; 426 c1703-4W;426 c1707-8W

House

House of Commons

Solicitor-General

To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make a statement on the Crown Prosecution Service's role in (a) collecting, (b) reviewing and (c) analysing data on which they bring prosecutions; and what measures are in place to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service fulfils this role. - It has...

Asked by

Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)

Answering body

Solicitor General

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 November 2004

Reference

426 c1705W;426 c1709W; 197444

House

House of Commons

Solicitor-General

To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the impact that the involvement of the Crown Prosecution Service in the decision on whether or not to charge a person with an offence has had on the number of charges brought; and if she will make a statement;...

Asked by

Dominic Grieve (Conservative)

Answering body

Solicitor General

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 November 2004

For answer on

18 November 2004

Answered on

18 November 2004

Mr. Dominic Grieve: To ask the Solicitor-General (1) what assessment she has made of the impact that the involvement of the Crown Prosecution Service in the decision on whether or not to charge a person with an offence has had on the number of charges brought; and if she will make a statement; [199148] (2) what assessment she has made of the impact on the number of cases listed at magistrates' courts for a first hearing resulting from Crown Prosecution Service involvement in the pre-charging process at police stations. [199149] The Solicitor-General: Crown Prosecution Service records indicate a gradual increase in the number and the proportion of decisions to charge a defendant over recent months. In April 2004, the CPS charged 1,436 defendants; 20.9 per cent. of all charging decisions made during the month. By October 2004, this had risen to 20,083 defendants or 54.7 per cent. of all charging decisions. Over the same period, the number of convictions in cases subject to a pre-charge decision has risen from 2,152 in April 2004 to 7,939 in October 2004. The efficiencies gained through CPS involvement in the decision to charge frees up the police to re-direct their efforts to the investigation and detection of more crime. Furthermore, cases in which the pre-charge decision is to take no further action are gradually replaced by cases that proceed to charge. CPS records include no indication of the number of cases listed at the magistrates' courts. However, they do show a rise in the number of guilty pleas entered at a first hearing in cases subject to a pre-charge decision, from 850 in April 2004 to 2,680 in October 2004. The charging initiative aims to increase the number of charged cases which proceed to a conviction by improving the quality of those cases, and increasing capacity by removing the number of cases which have no realistic prospect of conviction.

Date

18 November 2004

Reference

426 c1705W;426 c1709W; 199148;199149

House

House of Commons

Solicitor-General

To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make it her policy to encourage local Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors to meet local police officers informally to improve the working of the charging initiative.

Asked by

Graham Allen (Labour)

Answering body

Solicitor General

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 November 2004

Reference

196231; 426 c1513W;426 c1517W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of arrests per day was for police officers in England and Wales in the six months (a) before and (b) after the commencement of the Charging Initiative of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Asked by

Graham Allen (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 November 2004

Reference

196233; 426 c895W;426 c899W

House

House of Commons

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