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1167368

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is responsible for digitisation in his Department; and what mechanisms the person with responsibility for digitisation uses to champion digitisation.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	7669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for digital and technology within the department is held by the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) who acts as functional lead for Digital, Data and Technology profession. Updates on digital and technology are provided on a semi-regular basis to the department’s Executive Committee.</p><p> </p><p>The CDIO regularly attends boards and committee meetings across department agencies, and meets with Chief Executives to ensure that digital and technology needs are met.</p><p> </p><p>Due to its unique constitutional position. HM Courts and Tribunal Service has its own DDAT function.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1167379

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of adjournments is per case in all cases heard in the criminal courts in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	7674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested about the average number of adjournments per case in all cases heard in the criminal courts each year since 2010 could only be provided at disproportionate cost</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:44:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167442

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) magistrates, (b) crown and (c) family courts which are scheduled to be sold are (i) still hearing cases and (ii) shut but yet to be sold.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	7677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The number of criminal or family courts that are currently operational and are scheduled to be disposed are as follows;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Magistrates’ courts</p></td><td><p>Crown courts</p></td><td><p>Family courts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of criminal or family courts that are closed but are not yet disposed are as follows;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Magistrates’ courts</p></td><td><p>Crown courts</p></td><td><p>Family courts</p></td><td><p>Crown and county courts (combined courts)</p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ and family courts (combined Courts)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The decision to close any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and only when effective access to justice can be maintained. Courts that have closed were either underused, dilapidated or too close to one another.</p><p>Since 2015/16 HMCTS has raised approximately £129m from the sale of surplus buildings to reinvest in the wider reform programme.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:30:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167466

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the most recent estimate is of the cost of outstanding repairs at each prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>This Government is investing an additional £156million in 2020/21 to improve the conditions of existing prisons across the estate – targeting the most pressing maintenance concerns including boilers, fire safety and serveries. This underpins our commitment to a system that is decent, safe and secure.</p><p> </p><p>Currently the priority maintenance backlog totals approximately £900m. This is most up to date estimate we have of the costs associated with the maintenance backlog, inclusive of resource costs.</p><p> </p><p>A figure for each individual establishment is not available and would represent disproportionate cost to obtain.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:31:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167467

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 944 on Reoffenders, how many offenders under statutory supervision have been convicted under each category of serious offence in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>We have interpreted the request to mean the number of offenders convicted of a Serious Further Offence (SFO) broken down by conviction offence type. The information you ask for is routinely published and therefore available in the public domain, and I have provided the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences</a>. We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 next year.</p><p> </p><p>Not all charges for an SFO will result in a conviction. In any year, in about 50% of cases either the charges are dropped before trial, or the offender is acquitted following trial or the offender is convicted of a less serious offence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 15:45:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167471

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of unpaid work have been handed down by the courts as part of community orders in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and would require a manual search of court records which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p>The number of community sentences issued can be found in our outcomes by offence tool:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:37:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167472

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full-time equivalent National Compliance and Enforcement Service staff have been employed in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The number of full time equivalent staff (FTE) working in the National Compliance and Enforcement Service at the end of March for each year since 2012 is as follows:</p><p>2012 1,706</p><p>2013 1,770</p><p>2014 1,640</p><p>2015 1,516</p><p>2016 1,470</p><p>2017 1,497</p><p>2018 1,573</p><p>2019 1,425</p><p> </p><p>FTE figure include both agency and permanent staff. We do not hold any figures prior to March 2012 as headcount was historically included within Court FTE figures.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:55:36 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167473

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hearings and trials across the HM Courts and Tribunal Service estate used a video link or similar technology in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:26:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167511

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Contracts
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 third-party contractors in (a) 2010, (b) 2014, (c) 2018 and (d) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	7684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the below table. The spend provided is for the requested calendar years, not financial years. The spend for 2019 covers January to September.</p><p><br> The question has been interpreted to refer to the Ministry of Justice’s spend with suppliers we have contracted goods or services for the requester period.</p><p> </p><p>Private providers play an important role in the Ministry of Justice. We continue to closely monitor the performance of all providers and we will not hesitate to take action where standards fall short.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Spend for Year</strong></p></td><td><p>£2,679,422,903.60</p></td><td><p>£3,113,267,154.29</p></td><td><p>£3,994,928,310.79</p></td><td><p>£2,972,954,526.18</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Spend figures do not include MoJ Spend with the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) for council and solicitor spend as these are not considered contracted services.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:32:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167024

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: International Men's Day
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	7103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>No one should suffer unfair treatment because of their gender. Every year International Men’s Day offers an opportunity to highlight how outcomes for men and boys can be improved and to talk about some of the important work going on every day across Government to do this.</p><p> </p><p>We have a range of activity planned to mark International Men’s Day, either on the day itself or in advance, including:</p><ul><li>a men’s health and wellbeing event in Leeds being run by our departmental Mental Health Allies;</li><li>working with our Corporate Communications and Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing teams and our network of Health and Wellbeing Champions to raise awareness amongst our male employees of the range of departmental support and wellbeing programmes available;</li><li>activity being led by our departmental Gender Equality Network includes an International Men’s Day quiz, a shared event with the Government Legal Department, and a breakfast session for dads and dads-to-be; and</li><li>a dedicated International Men’s Day blog from a male member of staff to feature on our employee intranet.</li></ul> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies