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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.

Freedom of Information Releases 2008


    January

  1. Indictment and verdict in Jean Charles de Menezes case
  2. Sentence details in a named individual's case
  3. Number of payments made to an expert witness by the CPS
  4. Ethnicity of CPS staff in North East of England
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Information regarding the CPS National Legal Trainee Scheme
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    February

  9. Information about CPS decision makers and CPS Business, Corporate and Finance plans/strategies
  10. Information about domestic violence statistics within Asian communities
  11. Information about violent crime statistics for Newham Borough
  12. Information about Crown Prosecution Service Expenditure on translators/interpreters during financial years 2005/2006 and 2006/2007
  13. Information about the number of trials conducted by Higher Court Advocates in the London area
  14. Information about the number of defendants identified from Nov 2007 to date as serving police officers
  15. CPS salaries for the grades A1 to B2, and information concerning the London Recruitment Retention Allowance
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    March

  17. Number of staff in post at B3 and above compared to the overall staffing figure for the past 5 years for CPS West Midlands
  18. Number of prosecutions taken place for the offence of bigamy in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth since 1 January 2005
  19. Information about the Crown Prosecution Service's expenditure in the last five years on translation services concerning non-English speakers
  20. Information about Counsel's costs regarding Operation Sledge
  21. Number of cases prosecuted in the last two years, the number cases discontinued and those cases discontinued for evidential reasons
  22. Rape statistics for CPS Suffolk over last 4 years
  23. Money spent by CPS on interpreters in West Midlands and Staffordshire since 2000
  24. Compass Server & Infrastructure Roadmap/Technology Refreshment Plan
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    April 2008

  26. Reference allocated in error
  27. 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

  29. Information about the number of cases that have been dismissed in certain courts due to CPS delays for the years 2000 to 2007
  30. ICT Strategies
  31. General information about the Crown Prosecution Service
  32. Information regarding Malicious Communications Act, Harassment Act 1997 and private prosecutions
  33. Prosecutions data for the past 5 financial years for both Crown and magistrates' courts
  34. Information about the number of prosecutions dropped due to missing or inadequate police paperwork
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    June

  36. Information about the CPS Legal Trainee Scheme application process 2008
  37. CPS Performance on Confiscation Orders
  38. Details of payments made to Searchlight by the CPS
  39. Statistics re Proceeds of Crime Act cases and asset recovery
  40. Statistics re Proceeds of Crime Act cases and asset recovery
  41. Details of CPS staff pay rates, unions, staff entitlements
  42. Information relating to Disability Hate crimes
  43. Cases in Hampshire dropped due to file not being received from the police
  44. Crimes against the elderly in Stockport and Greater Manchester
  45. Cases in Cornwall dropped due to file not being received from the police
  46. Criteria used by CPS when compiling statistics on court outcomes, pleas etc
  47. Numbers of lost/stolen laptops, Blackberrys, mobiles and other security matters
  48. Application for pupillage with CPS
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