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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Badgers Act 1991 (10 October 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Attorney General, how many people were (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of offences under the Badgers Act 1991 in 2015; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of people who have been charged with, and prosecuted for, offences brought by way of the Protection of Badgers Act 1991. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.

Although it is not possible to identify the number of people charged with particular offences, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the Protection of Badgers Act 1991 during 2015. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.

2015

Protection of Badgers Act 1992

12

Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System


Answered by:
Sir Robert Buckland (Conservative)
13 October 2016

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