Attorney-General written question – answered at on 13 February 2014.
To ask the Attorney-General how many cases of tax fraud were referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for a pre-charging decision in each of the last five years; and how many of those cases were (a) subject to a decision to take no further action, (b) disposed of out of court, (c) prosecuted, (d) prosecuted successfully and (e) prosecuted successfully where the defendant contested the charge.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of cases referred to it for a pre-charge decision (PCD). It is not possible to identify how many of these cases contained one or more charges relating to a tax fraud offence. Such information could be obtained only through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs records data on referrals to the CPS.
HMRC have made a commitment to ensure year on year increases in the number of cases they will refer to the CPS for prosecution from 2010 up to 2015. They are on target to meet that commitment.
The CPS collects data to assist in the effective management of its prosecution functions. The CPS does not collect data which constitutes official statistics as defined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
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