PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prosecutions (10 June 2014)

To ask the Attorney General, how many referrals there were from local police forces to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in each CPS business area for a charging dcision on the offences of (a) assisting unlawful immigration to an EU member state, (b) assisting entry to the UK in breach of a deportation or exclusion order, (c) assisting the entry/remaining of an excluded person, (d) possession and/or manufacture of false identity documents, (e) employment of illegal immigrants, (f) trafficking in exploitation/for sexual exploitation, (g) trafficking people for labour and other exploitation, (h) conspiracy to traffic and (i) slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Emily Thornberry (Labour)

The Crown Prosecution Service does not keep a central record of the number of referrals from the Police for a charging decision for the offences listed in the question. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of all files prosecuted which would incur disproportionate cost.

Official statistics on crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office.

Answered by:
Sir Oliver Heald (Conservative)
17 June 2014