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Ministerial Corrections
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Attorney-General
Offences Against Children
Diana Johnson: To ask the Attorney-General how many referrals have been made to the Crown Prosecution Service by the police regarding child sexual offences in each of the last five years. [173475]
[Official Report, 1 November 2013, Vol. 569, c. 609-10W.]
Letter of correction from Oliver Heald:
An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) on 1 November 2013.
The full answer given was as follows:
The Solicitor-General: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of referrals made to the CPS by the police for allegations of child sexual offences. The CPS does identify, by way of a monitoring flag, the number of pre-charge decisions made against suspects alleged to have been involved in the sexual abuse of children. The following table sets out the number of such decisions in each of the last five years:
| Pre-Charge Decisions | |
The CPS definition of child abuse covers any case where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offence and allegations or crimes perpetrated by both adults and offenders aged under 18.
The correct answer should have been:
The Solicitor-General: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of referrals made to the CPS by the police for allegations of child sexual offences. The CPS does identify, by way of a monitoring flag, the number of pre-charge decisions made against suspects alleged to have been involved in the abuse of children. The following table sets out the number of such decisions in each of the last five years:
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| Pre-Charge Decisions | |
The CPS definition of child abuse covers any case where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offence and allegations or crimes perpetrated by both adults and offenders aged under 18.
Justice
Topical Questions
The following is the answer given by the Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims, the right hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green), to the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) during Justice Question Time on 12 November 2013.
T3. [901020] Bob Blackman (Harrow East) (Con): The modern scourge of human trafficking is still with us. What action is my right hon. Friend taking to bring perpetrators to justice and to compensate the victims?
The Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Damian Green): My hon. Friend will know that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing a modern slavery Bill that will deal with many of the issues that he rightly raises. Since July 2011, every trafficking victim has received Government funding, via the Salvation Army. The figures last year were about £3 million, with about 928 victims having received this vital support over the past year.
[Official Report, 12 November 2013, Vol. 570, c. 798.]
Letter of correction from Damian Green:
An error has been identified in the answer given to the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman).
The correct answer should have been:
The Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Damian Green): My hon. Friend will know that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing a modern slavery Bill that will deal with many of the issues that he rightly raises. Since July 2011, every trafficking victim has received Government funding, via the Salvation Army. The figures last year were about £3 million, with about 928 victims having received this vital support since the start of the contract in July 2011 by June 2013.