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date	08/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Divorce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) applied for and (b) were granted divorce in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Details of the number of applications for divorce and the number of decrees issued by the courts are published in Table 7 of the Family Court Statistics Quarterly and the December 2015 report is at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/02/2016 13:48:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451355

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on access to justice for people on low incomes of the Government's proposals to (a) increase the small claims court threshold and (b) remove the right to general damages for soft tissue injuries.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	26221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government will consult on the detail of the new reforms in due course, including any necessary safeguards. The consultation will be accompanied by an impact assessment.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/02/2016 13:12:09 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

451361

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have represented themselves as litigants in person in (a) civil, (b) criminal and (c) family courts in 2015-16 to date.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	26312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect information centrally on Litigants in Person in civil related court cases, criminal court cases or family court cases.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/02/2016 11:44:13 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

451395

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken for appeals for benefit sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	26197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals against sanctions imposed by DWP.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In order to increase the capacity of the Tribunal, and therefore speed up the appeals process, HMCTS has recruited extra judges and medical members, increased venue capacity and introduced more efficient processes. This action, coupled with a reduction in appeal receipts, has enabled HMCTS to reduce the overall average length of time to administer appeals from 28 weeks in the period July to September 2014, to 19 weeks for the same period in 2015 (the latest period for which statistics have been published). The median length of time to administer appeals (which will be the experience of the majority of appellants) has reduced from 18 weeks to 14 weeks in the same period.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the length of time taken to administer appeals generally is published by the Ministry of Justice in Tribunal Statistics Quarterly. The most recent report, for the period July to September 2015, published on 10 December 2015, can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/02/2016 11:41:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

448113

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the annual cost of the Probate Registry and the yield from fee income.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL5503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The cost of the Probate Registry in 2014/15 was £42.5m and the yield from fee income (after remission) was £41.5m.</p><p> </p><p>The costs relate to probate for “non-contentious” cases, that is where the Will is not in dispute.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 22/02/2016 12:27:21 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham