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1079548

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date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Probation: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the probation and courts IT systems failure that occurred in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The financial impact(s) on operations following the IT outage are still being assessed, therefore at this stage the Ministry of Justice cannot provide an estimate of the cost to the public purse.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 06/03/2019 17:50:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079551

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Civil Service People Survey 2018, published in December 2018, what steps his Department is taking to address staff concerns on the HMCTS reform programme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>HMCTS leaders ensure a regular flow of information to staff to provide them with opportunities to help shape the reform programme, and support them through it.</p><p>Any concerns raised by HMCTS staff are highlighted and discussed through a variety of communication and engagement tools to ensure managers understand what reform means for staff.</p><p>This includes analysing results from the People Survey to help create local action plans addressing key issues that require action and intervention. These are reviewed throughout the year and help ensure any concerns and issues raised by HMCTS staff are addressed effectively.</p><p>A HMCTS ‘One Conversation’ cross-departmental engagement tool has also been created to enable staff to participate regularly in conversations regarding the reform programme.</p><p>One Conversation is led by local leadership teams and uses interactive techniques and exercises to enable staff to discuss the impact of reform. Content is identified from several sources including the People Survey results and feedback from previous One Conversation sessions, and is validated by a cross departmental review group, made up of HMCTS staff at all grades. This review group provides feedback and challenge to ensure the content and design of the sessions reflect concerns of colleagues across the organisation.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 06/03/2019 17:46:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079552

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Closures
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 effect of court closures on the time taken for hearings to be listed.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service closely monitors the operational performance of courts in England and Wales, including listing timeliness. Court statistics, including listing timeliness, are routinely published on GOV.UK;</p><p> </p><p>Criminal - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Family - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Civil - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly#2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly#2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Court performance is influenced by many factors which include, but are not limited to, available judicial resource, changes in the offence and case mix and the overall performance of other justice sector agencies.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to close a court has not been taken lightly. In the case of court closure, we undertook a public consultation exercise and considered the responses we received very carefully. The Lord Chancellor only agreed to close the court when satisfied that there was sufficient capacity in the remaining estate, and that effective access to justice would be maintained when the court closed.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 18:43:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 106176 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079557

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts have closed since 1 January 2009; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of each of those sales.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The sale of surplus buildings provides important funding for the programme of reform which is transforming our courts and tribunals. We make sure that the sale of former court buildings maximises the amount we can reinvest in modernisation.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 06/03/2019 17:51:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079558

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2019 to Question 223965 on Home Office: staff, how long each of the three contingent workers that have been employed in his Department for more than 24 months have worked to date to the nearest month.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	227369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>Of the three contingent workers who have worked in the Department for more than 24 months, all three have worked for 26 months, to the nearest month to date.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/03/2019 17:54:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1079559

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Employment Agencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of February 28 to Question 223969 on Home Office: Employment Agencies223969, what the (a) start and (b) end dates are for each of the contracts listed in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	227370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>Of the 7 resources classed as contingent labour and the agencies they are contracted through the start and end dates of each of the individual contracts is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Agency</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Original Start Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Current Contract End Date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Badenoch &amp; Clark</p></td><td><p>20/01/2017</p></td><td><p>16/02/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alexander Mann Solutions</p></td><td><p>05/11/2018</p></td><td><p>07/05/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hays Specialist Recruitment</p></td><td><p>09/01/2017</p></td><td><p>30/03/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Artful Recruiter</p></td><td><p>02/01/2018</p></td><td><p>18/01/2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reed Specialist Recruitment</p></td><td><p>09/01/2017</p></td><td><p>29/06/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reed Specialist Recruitment</p></td><td><p>06/10/2017</p></td><td><p>25/10/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Badenoch &amp; Clark</p></td><td><p>24/05/2017</p></td><td><p>06/07/2019</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/03/2019 17:56:28 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1079560

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2019 to Question 223971 on Home Office: Staff, what the daily rate of pay was for each of the roles listed in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	227371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation and in law generally to protect personal data.</p><p><br>The contractual terms and conditions for an employee are personal data between the employer and the employee as set out in the contract of employment.</p><p><br>We cannot therefore comment on contracted daily rate of pay for individual staff.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/04/2019 16:49:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1064576

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Taxation
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 number of senior NHS medical staff who have received tax demands for exceeding their Annual Allowance in tax years (1) 2015–16, (2) 2016–17 and (3) 2017–18; and what estimate they have made of the number of such staff who may receive such demands in the 2018–19 tax year.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL13895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the number of senior medical staff who have received an annual allowance charge. For this reason, no estimate has been made of charges for members in 2018-19. The annual allowance takes into account all of an individual’s pension savings, excluding the State Pension, and NHS Pension Scheme members may have pension savings independent of the NHS Pension Scheme.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 06/03/2019 16:02:58 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1064577

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Religious Freedom
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what response they have received from representations they have made on behalf of (1) Pastor John Cao, (2) Mussie Ezaz, (3) Imran Ghafur Masih, (4) Mussie Eyob, (5) Mohammed Roghangir Mohammad, (6) Le Dinh Luong, (7) Nguyễn Văn Hoá, (8) Nguyễn Trung Tôn, (9) Bakhrom Kholmatov, (10) Hadi Asgari, (11) Amin Afshar Naderi, (12) Ebrahim Firouzi, (13) Qaisar and Amoon Ayub, (14) Abraham Ben Moses, (15) Shagufta Kausar, (16) Shafqat Emmanuel, (17) Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, (18) Saheb Fadaie, and (19) Yasser Mohammad Reza Omidi, all of whom are prisoners of conscience who have reportedly been subject to torture.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL13896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The British Government regards Freedom of Religion or Belief as a universal human right which should be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. We raise a range of cases, but cannot routinely discuss publicly the details of individual cases for the protection of those involved.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office encourages all States to uphold their international human rights obligations. Any allegations of human rights violations are concerning and must be thoroughly, promptly and transparently investigated.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 06/03/2019 16:01:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1064578

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Hong Kong: Extradition
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the amendment by the authorities in Hong Kong to its extradition law to allow criminals to be extradited from Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China; and whether this amendment is compliant with the rights protected in the Sino-British Joint Declaration ratified in 1985.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL13897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>We are aware of the Hong Kong Government's proposals to change extradition legislation and are following the matter closely. A public consultation on the proposals will end next month. It would not be appropriate to comment as the proposal goes through the legislative process.</p><p>It remains the British Government's view that, for Hong Kong's future success, it is essential that Hong Kong enjoys, and is seen to enjoy, the full measure of its high degree of autonomy and rule of law as set out in the Joint Declaration and enshrined in the Basic Law, in keeping with the commitment to &quot;One Country, Two Systems&quot;.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 05/03/2019 16:39:58 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool