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Criminal Justice Act
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the implementation dates for each measure contained in the Criminal Justice Act 2003. [181585]
Paul Goggins: The dates on which various provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 have been commenced are set out as follows:
General provisions in Part 14.
Enforcement of regulations implementing.
Community legislation on endangered species.
Effect of life sentence.
Stop and search for criminal damage offences.
Use of civilians to search and enter.
Street bail.
Increased use of telephones to review police detention.
Increased limits on period of detention without charge.
Reduced burden on recording property of a person in police detention.
New arrangements for amending PACE Codes.
Access to Parole Board for offenders transferred to mental hospital.
Increased limit on detention without charge of terrorist suspects.
Outraging public decency made triable either way.
Limiting civil proceedings for trespass to the person brought by an offender.
Minimum sentence for firearms offences.
Intermittent custody.
Making possession of cannabis and identity fraud offences arrestable.
Charging or release of persons in police detention.
Removal of requirement to substantiate information on oath.
Increased penalties in trafficking in Class C drugs.
Increase in penalty for fraudulently obtaining a driving licence.
Sentencing Guidelines Council.
Increased penalties for driving offences resulting in death.
Parenting orders and referral orders.
Taking of fingerprints and DMA from those arrested but not charged.
Grant and conditional of bail.
Extending time for bringing case under S6 of the Bail Act.
Change in jurisdiction of Court of Appeal to hear appeals against bail conditions.
Abolishing High Court jurisdiction to hear bail cases.
Restriction on bail for drug users.
Use of documents to refresh witnesses memory.
Jury service.
Extending MAPPA arrangements.
Disqualification from working with children.
Individual support orders.
Early release and removal of foreign national prisoners.
Conditional cautions.
Extension of investigations by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
Power to substitute conviction of an alternative offence on appeal.
No final decision has been taken regarding the dates of commencement of the remaining provisions of the Act.
Criminal Justice Pilot Projects
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the criminal justice pilot projects being undertaken, broken down by (a) Probation Area and (b) statutory basis. [181584]
Paul Goggins: The tables A and B provide the following information.
Pilot projects for which the National Probation Service (NPS) has the lead, or shared lead, currently in operation, and their distribution among the 42 NPS Areas in England and Wales. The Intermittent Custody
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sentence and the Presumption Against Bail Pilot are contained within the Criminal Justice Act 2003; no other NPS led pilot project has a statutory reference.
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A schedule of current Central Initiatives Pilots, covering arrest to disposal, maintained by the Criminal Justice System (CJS) Reform Programme Office
| Name of pilot project | Pilot projects—area coverage | Statutory reference |
|---|---|---|
| Prospects—resettlement pilot for persistent drug users | Lancashire, Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset, Merseyside | |
| Circles of Support and Accountability | Hampshire—Hampton Trust Thames Valley—Quakers Potential resettlement in all 42 areas—Lucy Faithfull Foundation (for former members of Wolvercote Clinic) | |
| Leisurewatch (the Derwent Initiative) | Northumbria, Surrey, Greater Manchester, Essex | |
| Stop it Now! (Lead charity—Lucy Faithfull Foundation) | Surrey, Derbyshire, Thames Valley, London | |
| Wolvercote Outreach (Lucy Faithfull Foundation) | Potential catchment area of offenders from all 42 areas, and source of advice to all 42 areas | |
| Young Sex Offenders (Lucy Faithfull Foundation) | Advice to all 42 NPS areas working with young people | |
| Incest and Sexual Abuse Survivors | Nottinghamshire | |
| Staffordshire Accommodation Project—Intensive Floating Support Scheme for Dangerous Offenders | Staffordshire | |
| Community Domestic Violence Programme | Merseyside, Cheshire, Thames Valley | |
| Employment Pathfinder Phase 2 | London, North Wales, Leicestershire and Rutland, Norfolk, West Yorkshire, Devon and Cornwall, Lincolnshire | |
| Approved Premises Pathfinder | Bedfordshire, West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester | |
| Intensive Control and Change Programme | London, Humberside, Northumbria, Nottinghamshire, West Yorkshire, South Wales, Hampshire, Lancashire, West Mercia, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire | |
| Intensive Supervision and Monitoring Schemes | London, South Wales, Northumbria, Staffordshire, Avon and Somerset, Leicestershire, Humberside, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, West Midlands, Nottinghamshire, Merseyside | |
| Intermittent Custody Pilots | Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Humberside, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, West Midlands, West Yorkshire | Criminal Justice Act 2003 Part 12—Sentencing—Chapter 3—Section 183—Intermittent Custody |
| The Use of Polygraph Examinations in Risk Management of Sex Offenders | Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Devon and Cornwall, Lancashire, Leicestershire, London, Greater Manchester, Northamptonshire, Northumbria, Thames Valley, West Midlands | |
| Benefit Sanctions Pilots | Teeside, Derbyshire, West Midlands, Hertfordshire | |
| Presumption against bail pilot (DSD-CJIP) | Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester | Criminal Justice Act 2003—Part 2—Section 19 |
| Miscarriages of Justice Project (funded by NPD) | London—Royal Courts of Justice Citizens Advice Bureau | |
| Workload Measurement Tool (an internal NPS/NPD management pilot project, that is not offender based) | Greater Manchester, Wiltshire, Gwent, North Yorkshire, Hertfordshire |
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