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Freedom of Information

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish his response to the consultation on extending the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. [279879]

Mr. Straw: In my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s statement on Constitutional Renewal on 10 June 2009, Official Report, columns 797-99, he emphasised the Government’s plans to look at broadening the application of the Freedom of Information Act.

The Government are considering carefully the responses to the public consultation on extending the Act through a Section 5 order. This could include within the scope of the Act bodies performing functions of a public nature and contractors providing services that are functions of public authorities. The Government will publish their response to the consultation shortly.

Hillsborough Stadium: Disclosure of Information

Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what progress his Department has made in identifying files and documents it holds relating to the Hillsborough disaster that can be released. [279537]

Mr. Wills: A number of files have been identified containing information relevant to the Hillsborough disaster. A review of the information is under way.

Intellectual Property: Crime

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for intellectual property crime there were under the (a) Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 and (b) Trademarks Act 1994 in 2007. [279248]

Mr. Straw: Information showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all court for offences under the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act and the 1994 Trademarks Act, in England and Wales in 2007 is shown in the following table.


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Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act( 1) and the 1994 Trademarks Act( 2) , England and Wales, 2007( 3,4)
Act Proceeded against Found guilty

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

514

365

Trademarks Act 1994

1,071

888

(1) Includes the following:
(a) Makes, imports or distributes illicit recordings. Makes for sale or hire, imports possesses or distributes articles which infringes copyright. (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Sec. 198 1a, b, d.iii. & Sec. 107 1a, b, d.iv and E).
(b) Triable either way offences except sections included in (1)(a).
(c) Person infringes copyright in a work by communicating the work to the public. (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 S.107 2A and 4A as added by Copyright and Related Rights Regulations Reg 26 (1))
(d) Person who infringes a performer’s making available right in the course of business/otherwise (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 S.198 2A and 5A as added by Copyright and Related Rights Regulations Reg 26 (3))
(e) Summary offences.
(2) Includes the following:
(a) Unauthorised use of Trade Mark etc in relations to goods. Falsification of register etc. (Trade Marks Act, 1994 Sec 92 & 94).
(b) Unauthorised use of royal arms etc. Unregistered persons describing themselves as registered Trade Mark Agents. Contravention of the rules prescribing the conditions for person entitled to be registered Trade Mark Agents. Falsely representing trade mark as registered. (Trade Marks Act, 1994, Sees 84, 85, 95).
(3) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
(4) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source:
Evidence and analysis unit—Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Land Registry: Complaints

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints about the way in which a decision relating to land registration had been reached were (a) received and (b) completed by the Office of the Independent Complaints Reviewer in each of the last three years. [279237]

Mr. Straw: The figures are set out in the following table. They show the number of complaints received and not investigated (there are two main reasons why a complaint may not be investigated; if the complaint has not gone through the Land Registry complaints procedure first; or the complaint is not lodged within six months of the final outcome with Land Registry), the number of complaints investigated, and the total number of separate allegations considered within the ‘complaints investigated’ figure. The 2008-09 report has not been finalised.


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 Complaints received not investigated Complaints investigated Number of allegations investigated

2005-06

n/a

16

75

2006-07

38

24

121

2007-08

30

22

98

n/a = Not available.

Members: Correspondence

Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Courts plans to reply to the email from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 28 April 2009 on the Probation Service. [281134]

Maria Eagle: I replied to the hon. Member on 17 June. I apologise for the delay.

National Offender Management Service

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the budget of each director of offender management in England and Wales is for 2009-10. [280181]

Maria Eagle: The operating budget for each Director of Offender Management region in England and Wales is:

 £

East Midlands

312,564,672

East

263,521,449

London

317,304,202

North East

161,503,899

North West

427,874,764

South East

453,671,901

South West

215,477,689

Wales

101,191,129

West Midlands

284,794,603

Yorkshire

287,324,035


Prison Service: Manpower

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the ratio of prisoners to prison officers at each category C prison in England and Wales was on 1 April in each of the last 10 years. [272735]

Maria Eagle: Information on the prisoner to officer ratio at each category C prison since 2000 is contained in the following table. Information is provided only for establishments which were category C in each particular year. Establishments are allocated to a category based on the predominant accommodation. Establishments that also hold young offenders would be expected to have lower prisoner to officer ratios.


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Prison 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Acklington

3.2

3.4

3.7

3.6

3.8

3.9

3.8

3.7

3.4

3.7

Ashwell

4.2

3.5

4.8

4.9

4.8

5.1

5.0

5.2

4.9

4.9

Blantyre House

3.2

3.2

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Blundeston

—

—

—

3.0

3.1

3.1

3.0

3.1

3.0

3.0

Brockhill

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

2.2

2.2

—

Buckley Hall

—

3.4

1.1

—

—

—

3.4

3.5

3.5

3.5

Bullwood Hall

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

2.1

2.5

2.8

Camp Hill

3.0

3.4

3.6

3.5

3.8

3.6

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.7

Canterbury

—

—

—

—

2.8

2.9

2.7

2.7

2.5

2.7

Channings Wood

3.7

3.8

3.9

3.7

3.8

3.8

3.9

3.9

4.0

3.9

Coldingley

3.1

3.8

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.3

4.2

4.1

4.1

3.7

Dartmoor

—

—

2.9

3.2

3.6

3.8

3.7

3.7

3.6

3.7

Downview

2.7

2.7

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Edmunds Hill

—

—

—

—

—

1.3

2.8

2.8

2.9

3.0

Erlestoke

3.0

3.1

3.6

3.9

3.6

3.7

3.7

3.5

3.7

3.7

Everthorpe

3.4

3.5

3.2

3.2

3.7

3.5

4.0

3.7

3.8

4.0

Featherstone

3.8

4.0

4.3

4.4

4.3

4.2

4.1

4.4

4.3

4.4

Guys Marsh(1)

—

4.0

3.8

4.1

4.0

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.1

4.2

Haslar

—

2.6

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Haverigg

2.8

3.8

4.3

4.2

4.4

4.0

4.2

4.2

4.4

4.2

Highpoint

3.2

3.4

5.9

4.0

4.4

4.3

4.1

4.2

4.1

4.3

Kennet

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

2.3

2.4

Kirklevington Grange

4.7

4.6

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Lancaster

2.0

2.1

2.7

3.0

2.8

2.8

2.7

2.6

2.6

2.8

Lindholme

3.2

3.0

4.0

3.6

3.4

3.6

3.8

4.2

4.5

4.6

Littlehey

3.8

4.0

4.2

4.6

4.5

4.4

4.3

4.4

4.4

4.4

Maidstone

—

—

—

—

3.7

3.6

3.8

3.6

3.2

2.4

Moorland(1)

2.9

2.9

2.8

2.9

2.3

2.3

2.4

2.4

2.3

2.3

Onley(1)

—

—

—

—

—

2.6

3.1

3.3

3.4

3.1

Ranby

3.6

3.6

3.4

3.4

3.1

3.5

3.6

4.1

3.8

3.9

Risley

2.6

2.8

3.0

3.7

3.7

3.8

3.6

3.8

3.7

3.8

Shepton Mallet

2.7

1.7

3.0

2.8

3.0

2.8

2.9

3.1

2.8

2.9

Stafford

3.2

3.3

3.5

3.9

3.7

4.1

4.2

4.1

3.8

4.0

Stocken

4.1

4.1

4.2

3.9

4.1

4.0

4.2

4.1

4.1

4.2

The Mount

4.2

4.6

5.3

5.2

5.1

4.8

4.6

4.7

4.3

4.4

The Verne

4.4

4.5

4.7

5.2

5.4

5.2

5.0

5.1

5.0

5.1

Usk/Prescoed

3.3

3.7

3.9

4.4

4.6

4.4

4.3

4.3

4.4

4.5

Wayland

4.0

4.3

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.6

4.6

4.7

3.5

4.0

Wealstun

4.1

4.1

4.4

3.7

3.0

3.7

3.9

4.0

2.7

2.7

Weare

2.8

3.0

3.3

3.4

3.3

3.5

—

—

—

—

Wellingborough

2.7

3.2

3.3

3.8

3.7

3.1

3.3

3.7

3.6

3.6

Whatton

3.5

3.9

3.8

3.7

3.9

3.5

2.6

3.7

3.8

3.9

Wolds

—

—

—

—

3.5

3.4

3.2

3.7

3.3

3.9

Wymott

3.7

3.7

4.0

4.0

3.5

4.1

4.1

4.1

3.7

4.0

(1) Establishment also holds, or until recently held, young offenders as well as category C prisoners. Moorland also has an “Open” section.
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