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Written Answers — Home Department: Criminal Justice System Reserve (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: Of the £100 million Criminal Justice System Reserve in 2001-02, £85 million has been allocated to date. Further allocations will be made during the year. Information on spend to date on approved initiatives is not currently available as it is in the process of being collected from the three Criminal Justice System Departments. Future allocations from the Criminal Justice System Reserve...

Written Answers — Home Department: Home Detention Curfew Scheme (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The Government are committed to ensuring that the implications of sentencing are explained in open court. The then Lord Chief Justice issued a practice direction in January 1998 requiring a court imposing a custodial sentence to explain the practical effect of that sentence for the benefit of the defendant, any victim and members of the public. Although the practice direction was issued...

Written Answers — Home Department: Victims Charter (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: Yes. Copies of the responses will be placed in the Library as soon as possible, except where respondents have specifically requested that their contribution should be treated confidentially.

Written Answers — Home Department: Corruption (Law Reform) (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: Full responses have been placed in the Library and will be held there for six months.

Written Answers — Home Department: Custody-plus Sentences (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: I have received John Halliday's report of a review of the sentencing framework for England and Wales, which I intend to publish shortly. Once the report is published there will be a period of consultation and I will want to consider carefully which "Halliday" proposals should be taken forward.

Written Answers — Home Department: Corporate Killing (26 Jun 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The Government remain committed to the introduction of an offence of corporate killing. We will honour our manifesto commitment to reform the law to make provisions against corporate manslaughter. We intend to publish final proposals for the reform of the law on involuntary manslaughter as soon as we have completed consideration of the responses to the consultation exercise. We are determined...

Written Answers — Home Department: Youth Crime ( 2 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: We have a wide agenda across Government concerned with tackling youth crime and disorder. We have introduced programmes which focus on the family; tackle deprivation; address truancy and school exclusion; deal with alcohol-related crime and disorder and under-age drinking; and address drug misuse among young people. We have also made improvements to the youth justice system. Tackling delays...

Written Answers — Home Department: Double Jeopardy ( 2 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The Government's manifesto included a commitment to reform the double jeopardy rule in cases involving murder, and the Government will do so when parliamentary time allows.

Written Answers — Home Department: Re-offenders ( 2 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The Government have introduced procedural reforms which were implemented in November 1999, which require that any person (with or without previous convictions) who is charged with an offence must be brought before a magistrates court without delay. As a result the average time from charge to first listing has fallen from 20 days in June 1999 to six days in March 2001. Further action is under...

Written Answers — Home Department: Sentencing ( 2 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: I will publish the report of a review of the sentencing framework for England and Wales shortly.

Written Answers — Home Department: Double Jeopardy Rule ( 3 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The Government's manifesto included a commitment to reform the double jeopardy rule in cases involving murder and we will do so when parliamentary time allows. Details of the legislation will be announced when any Bill is published.

Written Answers — Home Department: Illegal Drugs ( 4 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: Within the broad statutory limits set by Parliament, sentences in individual cases are a matter for the courts alone, taking into account all the circumstances of the offences and the offender, including all mitigating and aggravating factors. The current maximum penalties for possession of controlled drugs are seven years, five years and two years respectively for class A, B and C. The...

Written Answers — Home Department: Corporate Killing ( 4 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: As I set out in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) on 26 June 2001, Official Report, column 82W, we will publish the findings of our consultation exercise on reforming the law on involuntary manslaughter as soon as we have completed consideration of the responses received. We are determined to bring forward clear and workable legislation that will hold...

Written Answers — Home Department: Rape ( 9 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: If the individual believed that an acquittal or withdrawal was insufficient to clear his name and there were grounds for claiming that the prosecution was malicious and brought without reasonable cause, it would be open to him to bring a civil claim against the person or authority responsible. If there was evidence to suggest that a malicious complaint had been made, it would be open to the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Rape ( 9 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The number of men charged with rape is not recorded centrally. Available information held centrally showing the number of men proceeded against at all courts for rape together with the numbers acquitted or who had the proceedings against them withdrawn is given in the table. The numbers of men proceeded against for rape together with the numbers subsequently acquitted or who had the charge...

Written Answers — Home Department: Life Sentences ( 9 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: The information requested is available only at disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Home Department: Criminal Case Reviews (10 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: This kind of information is not readily available from the Criminal Cases Review Commission's current management information system, and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Home Department: Prison Sentences (Women) (10 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: 12 women were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in England and Wales in 1999, the latest year for which figures are available. In addition, three were sentenced to detention under section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and one to custody for life.

Written Answers — Home Department: Prison Sentences (Women) (10 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: Those who abuse children can be charged with a number of offences. Some of these offences, such as assault causing actual bodily harm and common assault do not identify the age of the victim and it is not possible to provide details of all crimes where children are victims from Home Office statistics. The table shows the statistics for those offences where it is possible to identify a child...

Written Answers — Home Department: Prostitution (11 Jul 2001)

Mr Keith Bradley: We received in excess of 650 responses to "Setting the Boundaries". Officials are now assessing these responses and we will be considering the best way to make a summary available to hon. Members once this analysis has been completed. We have no plans to change the law relating to prostitution at present. However, one of the 62 recommendations made to Ministers in "Setting the Boundaries" is...


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