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1485135

registered interest
date	30/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	28399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>The information requested for 2020 and 2021 is available on page 100 here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1041825/moj-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-21-accessible-version.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1041825/moj-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-21-accessible-version.pdf</a>.</p><p>The wage ratio for 2021/22 is not yet available, but is expected to be published in Q4 2022.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/07/2022 15:31:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1484722

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish his Department’s expenditure over £500 using electronic purchasing cards for the financial year 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	27564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s last published monthly transparency data for Government Procurement Card spending over £500 was for the months of October to December 2020, published on 20 September 2021.</p><p>Further data is currently going through the Department’s formal clearance process. The Department plans to publish data for January to March 2021 within the next month. Further data will be published in quarterly data sets throughout 2022.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 04/07/2022 15:32:24 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1484723

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people held electronic purchasing cards that allowed them to make purchases against his Department's budget as of 31 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	27565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>As of 31 March 2022, there were 1,204 live Government Procurement Card accounts that could be used to make purchases against the MoJ Budget.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 04/07/2022 15:35:23 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1484735

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government is taking steps to increase funding for the legal aid sector.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	27686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>Last year, the Government spent around £1.7bn on legal aid. We are also injecting more than £10 million of increased funding a year into housing legal aid through our reforms to the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme. We keep the impact of the extension of fixed recoverable costs on legal aid under close review and have temporarily paused the extension to legally aided housing possession cases, to allow time for improvements to provision to be implemented.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 27688 question first answered 07/07/2022 15:30:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1484738

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rented Housing: Legal Advice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to provide tenants in the (a) private rented and (b) social rented sector with free legal advice on issues with their accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	27687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>We are expanding the scope of legal aid to ensure that free early legal advice for those at risk of losing their home is available on a wider range of issues than is currently the case. We are also launching an early legal advice pilot this summer to test the impact of early social welfare advice on resolving problems quicker, including problems with accommodation that could escalate into more serious issues such as repossession.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 06/07/2022 08:34:18 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1484746

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
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 impact of extending fixed recoverable costs on the legal aid sector.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	27688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>Last year, the Government spent around £1.7bn on legal aid. We are also injecting more than £10 million of increased funding a year into housing legal aid through our reforms to the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme. We keep the impact of the extension of fixed recoverable costs on legal aid under close review and have temporarily paused the extension to legally aided housing possession cases, to allow time for improvements to provision to be implemented.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 27686 question first answered 07/07/2022 15:30:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1484763

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	27532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>The cost breakdown of hospitality spend for MoJ is set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hospitality</strong></p></td><td><p>£48,865.22</p></td><td><p>£3,126.91</p></td><td><p>£20,648.07</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Catering for both internal and external meetings is subject to MoJ spending controls and requires approval at Deputy Director level or above. Spend of this nature will only be approved where there is a clear value for money case.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 06/07/2022 13:37:16 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1484789

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	27704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answers given to PQ 11689 on 8th June 2022 and PQ 18922 on 20th June 2022.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 06/07/2022 08:35:29 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1484796

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Opinion: Conflict of Interests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will investigate the risk of a legal and best advice conflict of interest arising in cases where one party to a transaction both (a) chooses and (b) funds the legal advice of the counter-party; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
uin	27552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>Conflict of interest in the provision of legal advice is guided by professional ethics. The legal profession in England and Wales is independent of government, as is the legal regulatory structure, for which the Legal Services Board has oversight responsibility.</p><p>The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is the approved regulator of solicitors in England and Wales. The SRA has a detailed Code of Conduct for solicitors including conflict of interest provisions which cover situations where a conflict of interest, or a serious risk of such a conflict arises, for example when a solicitor is acting for two or more clients. The Ministry of Justice therefore has no plans to investigate this issue.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 04/07/2022 15:30:43 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1484209

registered interest
date	28/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Ipswich
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's plan to open a new regional office in Ipswich, announced on 1 February 2022, when he expects that new office to open, and what estimate he has made of the number of jobs which that new office will create in Ipswich.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	26861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>We are currently planning to open a Justice Collaboration Centre in Ipswich in late summer this year. The MoJ will be moving roles away from London through a national talent location strategy which relies on roles becoming vacant to then be advertised nationally to one of our 7 hubs. This allows MoJ to attract the best talent regardless of their location.</p><p> </p><p>Due to this strategy, it is difficult for MoJ to estimate the number of jobs that may be created in Ipswich; however, this does mean the opening of the regional office will create new opportunities for the people of Ipswich, and its locality, to access good quality civil service jobs in the MoJ.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 04/07/2022 09:50:00 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt