§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Solicitor-General, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Isle of Wight, 30 April 2002,Official Report, column 635W, if she will provide equivalent figures for each year between the coming into effect of the legislation and April 2001. [55080]
§ The Solicitor-GeneralThe following table shows the number of offenders whose sentences were referred by the Law Officers to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient sentences from 1989 to 1999 and the decisions of the Court of Appeal. Records maintained by the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers for this period do not distinguish between cases referred to the Law Officers by the CPS, members of public or hon. Members. Nor do the records show how many were not eligible for referral because they were received by the Law Officers out of time.
The records for 2000 onwards are more detailed. They are being reviewed and I shall, by the end of July, write to the hon. Member and place an answer in the House of Commons Library.
incomes of reducing child benefit for parents whose children truant. [57955]
§ Ms HewittThe Government are considering a number of measures to combat truancy. We are therefore looking at ways of ensuring parents meet their responsibilities in bringing up their children.