Open and Accountable
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 set out legislation designed to make public organisations and governmental departments more open and accountable. It states that the following information should be made available to the general public.
- How public organisations make decisions
- The way they carry out their duties
- How they spend public money
The Freedom of Information Act came into force in January 2005.
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Freedom of Information Releases 2008
January
- Indictment and verdict in Jean Charles de Menezes case
- Sentence details in a named individual's case
- Number of payments made to an expert witness by the CPS
- Ethnicity of CPS staff in North East of England
- A breakdown of figures for the reasons why cases were dropped by the CPS where it was not in the public interest to continue proceedings
- Details of rape and other sexual offence convictions secured in the London borough of Redbridge, between the period of 1 October 2006 and 30 September 2007
- Information regarding the CPS National Legal Trainee Scheme
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February
- Information about CPS decision makers and CPS Business, Corporate and Finance plans/strategies
- Information about domestic violence statistics within Asian communities
- Information about violent crime statistics for Newham Borough
- Information about Crown Prosecution Service Expenditure on translators/interpreters during financial years 2005/2006 and 2006/2007
- Information about the number of trials conducted by Higher Court Advocates in the London area
- Information about the number of defendants identified from Nov 2007 to date as serving police officers
- CPS salaries for the grades A1 to B2, and information concerning the London Recruitment Retention Allowance
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March
- Number of staff in post at B3 and above compared to the overall staffing figure for the past 5 years for CPS West Midlands
- Number of prosecutions taken place for the offence of bigamy in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth since 1 January 2005
- Information about the Crown Prosecution Service's expenditure in the last five years on translation services concerning non-English speakers
- Information about Counsel's costs regarding Operation Sledge
- Number of cases prosecuted in the last two years, the number cases discontinued and those cases discontinued for evidential reasons
- Rape statistics for CPS Suffolk over last 4 years
- Money spent by CPS on interpreters in West Midlands and Staffordshire since 2000
- Compass Server & Infrastructure Roadmap/Technology Refreshment Plan
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April 2008
- Reference allocated in error
- Information about CPS staff working on asset recovery work, total cost of Organised Crime Division for financial year 2006/07
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May
- Information about the number of cases that have been dismissed in certain courts due to CPS delays for the years 2000 to 2007
- ICT Strategies
- General information about the Crown Prosecution Service
- Information regarding Malicious Communications Act, Harassment Act 1997 and private prosecutions
- Prosecutions data for the past 5 financial years for both Crown and magistrates' courts
- Information about the number of prosecutions dropped due to missing or inadequate police paperwork
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June
- Information about the CPS Legal Trainee Scheme application process 2008
- CPS Performance on Confiscation Orders
- Details of payments made to Searchlight by the CPS
- Statistics re Proceeds of Crime Act cases and asset recovery
- Statistics re Proceeds of Crime Act cases and asset recovery
- Details of CPS staff pay rates, unions, staff entitlements
- Information relating to Disability Hate crimes
- Cases in Hampshire dropped due to file not being received from the police
- Crimes against the elderly in Stockport and Greater Manchester
- Cases in Cornwall dropped due to file not being received from the police
- Criteria used by CPS when compiling statistics on court outcomes, pleas etc
- Numbers of lost/stolen laptops, Blackberrys, mobiles and other security matters
- Application for pupillage with CPS
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