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1125668

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Lone Parents
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 ensure that single mothers receive adequate support and advice in the family courts division.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	252555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Access to justice is a fundamental right. We spent £1.6bn last year on legal aid for the most vulnerable – of which £545m was in family law.</p><p>Legal aid is also part of a bigger picture and so we are now making changes to enhance the breadth of legal support available for everyone in society.</p><p>The Legal Support Action Plan, published on 7 February, announced that we would be changing the legal aid eligibility criteria to provide non-means tested legal aid for parents, or those with parental responsibility, who wish to oppose applications for placement orders or adoption orders in public family law. In addition, we announced that we will doubling the department’s funding to the Litigants in Person Support Strategy to £3m for the next two years.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/05/2019 17:04:39 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard previous answer version 118006 answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1125670

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Recruitment
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 encourage more young people to become magistrates.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	252556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>We are taking a number of steps to encourage younger people to join the magistracy, including through the use of social media to advertise recruitment campaigns and collaborative work with Universities and employers, providing talks and information to raise the profile of the role amongst a younger audience.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/05/2019 15:02:26 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1125355

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: 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 increase the number of women members of the judiciary.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	251972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The proportion of female court judges has increased by 5 percentage points since 2014, to 29% as at 1 April 2018, and for tribunal judges it has increased by 3 percentage points to 46%, over the same period.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that more progress is required and the Ministry of Justice has jointly developed and is funding the pre-application judicial education programme (PAJE), which launched on 24 April 2019. This will support and encourage lawyers interested in a judicial career and targets underrepresented groups including women, to help them prepare for a judicial career.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ continues to work closely with the Lord Chief Justice, Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission and other members of the Judicial Diversity Forum, including the three legal professions, to implement its multi stranded plan to increase judicial diversity.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2019 15:57:33 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1125357

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of the judicial bench in the family division are women.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	251974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>As of 1 April 2018, 58 judges appointed to the family division were women. This amounts to 48% of the total number of judges in the family division.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2019 16:39:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ251974 Data table 1.xlsx title Table
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1110836

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has plans to ensure the Legal Aid Agency provides individuals with annual statements of the amount they owe to the Agency.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	242778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>Annual statements are produced for all individuals who owe a debt to the Legal Aid Agency which is secured by way of the statutory charge.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2019 15:54:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1110837

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Debts
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 potential merits of reducing the daily rate of interest charged by the Legal Aid Agency to individuals who owe that Agency money.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	242779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>Where legally aided clients successfully gain or retain an asset as a result of the publicly funded legal assistance they receive, they should repay the cost of their legal aid.</p><p> </p><p>The rate in the statutory charge is currently set at 8%, the same as the Judgment Debt Interest Rate. It was reviewed in 2008/09.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2019 16:07:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

988657

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	CAFCASS: Complaints
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 merits of establishing an independent external organisation to review individual complaints about the (a) performance and (b) service provided by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	180143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>Cafcass is inspected by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted), and was last inspected in March 2018. It was rated outstanding. We consider that there is no need to establish an independent external organisation.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/10/2018 16:28:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 79861 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

987952

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	CAFCASS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his department has any plans for the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service to be regulated by an independent governing body.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	179170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has no plans for the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) to be regulated by an independent governing body. Cafcass is already subject to independent inspection by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted).</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/10/2018 10:55:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

810063

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Mediation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will establish a legal process by which a preliminary judgment is reached on the evidence presented at pre-trial mediation and reflected in the mediation settlement.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	120529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Any agreement reached through mediation is privileged, and any information exchanged between the mediating parties remains a private matter, unless a court orders otherwise. The Government is committed to encouraging parties to reach a resolution out of court as far as possible and it may undermine the mediation process to introduce changes to its confidential nature. Where parties apply to court with a consent order which follows on from a mediation agreement, the court already has the necessary scrutiny powers at its disposal.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:02:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

809643

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to reform the legal system to ensure that one side does not bear the financial risk associated with taking a case to trial and the other side cannot escape exposure to such risk through Damages Based Agreements and Conditional Fee Agreements.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	120263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Substantial reforms have been made over recent years to control the costs of civil litigation, and to deter fraudulent and unmeritorious claims. In particular, the operation of ‘no win no fee’ conditional fee agreements (CFAs) has been improved by Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012. The Part 2 reforms, which came into effect in April 2013, also allowed Damages-Based Agreements (DBAs) to be used in civil litigation for the first time.</p><p> </p><p>CFAs and DBAs facilitate access to justice by enabling claims to be brought by those of modest means. The Government recognises that access to justice has to be meaningful for defendants too: the Part 2 and other reforms help to ensure that claims are resolved at more proportionate cost, with the risk of litigation now being borne by claimants rather than defendants, who no longer having to pay inflated legal costs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to carrying out a post-implementation review of Part 2 of the LASPO Act, to be completed by summer recess 2018.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 120264 question first answered 08/01/2018 15:03:42 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps