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HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her warm welcome to me and to the Attorney General. She is right to raise the issue. I would gently point out that stalking was created an…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI thank my hon. Friend for his question and for championing his local area, and he is right. One thing that we can do is to support victims, and we are doing that, not least…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who brings considerable experience to the Chamber and to the Justice Committee. As he will have heard, charge rates are one of the key metrics.…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue. Timeliness is clearly important in ensuring that victims stay with and continue to support prosecutions—she is absolutely…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI am grateful to the hon. Lady for mentioning the new hotline. It is right that, overall, prosecutions are up 49% and convictions for rape are up 41%, but she is right in what she…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question, and she is right that we need to see an increase in prosecution rates. The rape review action plan is looking at three key…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesThe Government are committed to tackling violence against women and girls, and we have enacted a multitude of new offences designed to target predatory behaviour and to ensure…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI pay tribute to the right hon. Lady for the tone that she is striking. She is absolutely right to highlight this issue. The Attorney General and I will look at it incredibly…07 Dec 2022HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls: Prosecution RatesI know that my right hon. Friend the Attorney General will be very grateful for the hon. Lady’s welcome. The Attorney General works incredibly closely with the Home Office on the…07 Dec 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice Backlog: CPS EffectivenessI recently met frontline prosecutors in Bristol, Devon and London to see at first hand the work being undertaken to tackle the backlog. The CPS has created a national surge team…07 Dec 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice Backlog: CPS EffectivenessI have had several meetings with both the CPS and the police. It is important for them to work together. When it comes to, for example, prosecutions for rape and serious sexual…07 Dec 2022HANSARD Unduly Lenient Sentence SchemeMy role and that of the Attorney General is to act as guardians of the public interest. In exercising our functions, we act quasi-judicially in the public interest and…23 Nov 2022HANSARD Unduly Lenient Sentence SchemeThank you for the warning, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis) for securing this very important debate. I…23 Nov 2022HANSARDProsecution Rates for Rape and Sexual Assault: South-west EnglandNot least because I am a south-west MP, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the issue. Work is already under way: I mentioned Operation Soteria in the south-west.…20 Oct 2022HANSARDProsecution Rates for Rape and Sexual Assault: South-west EnglandI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that important issue. She is right that the workload on our police and the CPS is high. Close working between the police and the CPS is…20 Oct 2022HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Performance in North-west EnglandI am grateful to my hon. Friend for highlighting the importance of this issue, and more broadly for her support for victims not only in her area, but across the north-west and the…20 Oct 2022HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Performance in North-west EnglandMy hon. Friend will be pleased to hear that the Crown Prosecution Service north-west has consistently achieved a conviction rate that is higher than the national average. The area…20 Oct 2022HANSARDProsecution Rates for Rape and Sexual Assault: South-west EnglandHis Majesty’s Government are committed to improving rape prosecutions and are investing across the justice system. Through Operation Soteria, prosecutors across the south-west…20 Oct 2022HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Performance in WalesThe CPS inspectorate recently inspected CPS Wales and commended the area for its strong performance—for example, in disclosure and its good handling of victims and witness care.…20 Oct 2022HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Performance in WalesI heard about my hon. Friend’s very productive meeting with the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Wales, and he rightly raises the excellent work that is being done by CPS Wales to…20 Oct 2022