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747476

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Alzheimer's Disease: Powers of Attorney
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of safeguards for people living with Alzheimer's from those appointed with lasting power of attorney who act against their best interests.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	2359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>When someone makes a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) a ‘certificate provider’ is required to be impartial and sign the application to certify that the donor is making the LPA by choice, has not been put under any pressure and understands its implications.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 the holder (‘donee’) of a LPA must act in the donor’s best interests, whatever the cause of loss of capacity. The Court of Protection (CoP) has the power to revoke a power of attorney if the donee acts in a way that is not in the donor’s best interests. There may also be a criminal investigation.</p><p> </p><p>Any concerns about the use of a power of attorney should notify the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) which registers LPAs and has the power to investigate. The OPG acts on such ‘safeguarding referrals’ from relatives, local authorities, care homes and financial institutions. OPG works with organisations such as the CoP, local authorities and the police to protect donors.</p><p>OPG received a total of 2,681 safeguarding referrals during 2015/16 and investigated 876 cases, of which 151 cases resulted in an application to the CoP.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 2367 question first answered 11/07/2017 15:28:51 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

747478

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Vulnerable Adults: Powers of Attorney
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether an assessment is made of an individual's capacity in the appointment of an attorney with lasting power of attorney.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	2367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>When someone makes a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) a ‘certificate provider’ is required to be impartial and sign the application to certify that the donor is making the LPA by choice, has not been put under any pressure and understands its implications.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 the holder (‘donee’) of a LPA must act in the donor’s best interests, whatever the cause of loss of capacity. The Court of Protection (CoP) has the power to revoke a power of attorney if the donee acts in a way that is not in the donor’s best interests. There may also be a criminal investigation.</p><p> </p><p>Any concerns about the use of a power of attorney should notify the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) which registers LPAs and has the power to investigate. The OPG acts on such ‘safeguarding referrals’ from relatives, local authorities, care homes and financial institutions. OPG works with organisations such as the CoP, local authorities and the police to protect donors.</p><p>OPG received a total of 2,681 safeguarding referrals during 2015/16 and investigated 876 cases, of which 151 cases resulted in an application to the CoP.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 2359 question first answered 11/07/2017 15:28:51 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

747496

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to include (a) sports coaches and (b) youth leaders within the Positions of Trust provisions of section 21 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	2525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government has no current plan to legislate in this way. However, the protection of children remains a priority for this Government and we keep this important area of the law under review.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/07/2017 15:46:00 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

747608

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment appeals there have been in the Stroud District in each year since 2010; and how many such appeals were successful.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	2628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The table below contains the requested information.</p><p><strong>Appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) in Stroud<sup>1</sup> for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)<sup>2</sup> and Personal Independence Payment (PIP)<sup>3</sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Benefit Type</p></td><td><p>Receipts</p></td><td><p>Clearances at Hearing Found in Favour of Appellant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>1,110</em></p></td><td><p><em>184</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>1,811</em></p></td><td><p><em>602</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>1,618</em></p></td><td><p><em>625</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>2,474</em></p></td><td><p><em>963</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>2,288</em></p></td><td><p><em>1,356</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p><em>~</em><sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p><em>0</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>286</em></p></td><td><p><em>165</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p><em>132</em></p></td><td><p><em>42</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>342</em></p></td><td><p><em>203</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p><em>430</em></p></td><td><p><em>246</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>ESA</p></td><td><p><em>638</em></p></td><td><p><em>272</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>PIP</p></td><td><p><em>846</em></p></td><td><p><em>410</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li><em> SSCS data are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The data above represent appellants with home addresses in the Stroud district who had appeals heard at the Tribunal’s Gloucester, Swindon and previously Cheltenham venues. Appeals were last listed to the Cheltenham venue in May 2017.</em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li><em> Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments).</em></li></ol><p> </p><p><em><sup>3. </sup></em><em>PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 and rolled out from 8 April 2013. It was trialled in areas of the North of England and gradually rolled out across other regions. As such there were no appeals cleared in the Stroud district in 2013-2014.</em></p><p> </p><ol start="4"><li><em> By financial year - from 1 April to 31 March. </em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="5"><li><em>Denotes appeal types where fewer than five cases were involved and therefore data are statistically unreliable.</em></li></ol><p> </p><p><em>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available. The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.</em></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/07/2017 15:46:07 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

747699

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ICT
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 amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The government continues to encourage more people to go online, so they can access the guidance and services they need – as well as reducing the cost of public services. Through our Digital transformation programme within HMCTS, and MoJ’s Transformation programme which introduces more mobile IT devices we have reduced our reliance on paper. The use of the Crown Court Digital Case System has saved us from printing over 40 million pages of information, reducing the amount of classified waste produced.</p><p> </p><p>Details of the department’s performance in reducing its paper consumption were published in the Greening Government Commitments Annual Report – April 2015 to March 2016 on 20 April 2017:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/greening-government-commitments-2015-to-2016-annual-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/greening-government-commitments-2015-to-2016-annual-report</a></p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 11/07/2017 15:27:56 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

747728

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the White Paper on Prison safety and reform published in November 2016, when he plans to publish a strategy to improve the treatment of female offenders in custody and in the community.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	2500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the in the White Paper on Prison Safety and Reform in November 2016, we plan to set out a strategy for female offenders later this year. This will aim to improve outcomes for women in custody, and in the community.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 11/07/2017 15:29:20 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

747729

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
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 reasons for the increase in the number of female prisoners in June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	2499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The latest snapshot of the prison population as at 30 June, 2017, shows that there were 4,007 female prisoners, which is an increase of 36 from 2 June, 2017. From an analytical perspective, these increases are small, of less than 1%. It is too early to say what, if anything, is causing this increase.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 11/07/2017 15:29:44 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

747730

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of women in prison.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	2501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the November 2016 White Paper on Prison Safety and Reform, we plan to publish a strategy for female offenders later this year, and this will address how we can improve outcomes for women across the criminal justice system. The strategy will build on the existing work we are already funding in local areas to introduce a Whole Systems Approach, aimed at prevention and early intervention, and on our work to roll out Liaison and Diversion (L&amp;D) services across England. L&amp;D services, based at police stations and courts, help identify people with mental health issues, substance misuse problems and other vulnerabilities as soon as they come into contact with the criminal justice system, with a view to diverting them into treatment and support where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 11/07/2017 15:30:10 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

747122

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to applications granted under subsection 41(3)c(i) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 to use rape complainants' previous sexual history as evidence, how many of those applications resulted in the defendant being (a) acquitted and (b) convicted in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	2351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>This information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 2353 question first answered 05/07/2017 15:56:17 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

747123

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to amend subsection 41(3)c(i) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 which allows rape complainant's previous sexual history to be used as evidence in court.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	2352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Attorney General and the previous Justice Secretary committed to looking at how s41 is operating in practice. MoJ keep all areas of criminal justice procedure under ongoing review.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/07/2017 17:12:39 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman