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1643212

registered interest
date	08/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the budget for education purposes provided to each prison during the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL8362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The attached table shows the annual education budget for each public sector prison in England and Wales in 2022-23. The total includes core education provider funding, library provision, the Dynamic Purchasing System budget (which the Governor can use flexibly to fund provision to meet particular local needs), and the information advice and guidance budget. The figures do not include other sources of funding that can be separately bid for, such as the Employment Innovation Fund.</p><p>Education budget totals for the following privately-managed prisons are also included in the table: HMP Doncaster, HMP Northumberland, HMP Oakwood, and HMP Thameside. The education budgets for these establishments form part of the Authority Education Framework Contract and can therefore be disaggregated from the overall funding total. It is not possible to disaggregate education provision for the remaining privately-managed prisons.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/06/2023 15:41:34 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy attachment 1 file name 2023-06-22 PQ HL8362 Table.docx title HL8362_table
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1642791

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, in the past year, what proportion of immigration legal aid providers have (1) opened no new legal aid cases, and (2) opened no more than 30 new legal aid cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Bach
uin	HL8268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>Between April 2022 and March 2023, 7% (11) of immigration legal aid providers opened no new cases and 15% (23) opened no more than 30 new cases.</p><p>In total there are 152 legal aid providers who hold a contract to provide immigration and asylum legal aid service. The above data reflects active immigration work reported between April 2022 and March 2023, inclusive.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) delivers services for immigration legal aid by Procurement Area and Access Point geographical area. These are procured and delivered at office level. A provider could therefore have opened over 30 new cases, spread across several office locations with varied levels of active immigration casework. There are no Procurement Areas in which no new immigration legal aid cases have been opened.</p><p>The LAA frequently reviews market capacity to make sure there is adequate provision of legal aid, in all categories of law, throughout England and Wales. The LAA moves quickly, where issues arise, to secure provision and to ensure demand for legal aid services is met across the country. Legal advice on a range of civil matters including housing, debt, discrimination, and education is available, wherever people are, through the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/civil-legal-advice" target="_blank">Civil Legal Advice</a> telephone service.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/06/2023 14:27:00 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	3451 label Biography information for Lord Bach

1641673

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Women
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they will respond to the Law Commission’s report Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, published on 18 July 2022 (HC 557); and what plans they have to introduce further legislation to safeguard women who are in unregistered marriages.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL8197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2023 answer text <p>We are carefully considering the Law Commission’s recommendations on weddings reform. As part of its review, the Law Commission has considered ways of ensuring that fewer weddings conducted according to religious rites result in a marriage that the law does not recognise. We will respond to the Law Commission’s report in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 16/06/2023 11:40:52 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

1641692

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the length of time it takes to process a probate application; and how this figure compares to 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Newby
uin	HL8218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts in 2022 the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between 5 and 8 weeks, which was similar to the average length of time in 2019, which was between 6 and 8 weeks.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to December 2022.</p><p>The Probate offices closing in the past four years were:</p><p>2020: Birmingham District Probate Registry (DPR), Bristol DPR, Ipswich DPR and London DPR</p><p>2021: Manchester DPR</p><p>All Probate Sub Registries closed between December 2019 and January 2020.</p><p>These closures were completed in conjunction with the opening of new Courts and Tribunal Service Centre in Birmingham where the majority of the increased probate workforce is now based. The launch of the online system for probate applications has made the service more accessible for applicants and removed the need to travel to city centre locations to have their oath sworn as part of the process.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL8219 question first answered 19/06/2023 12:01:05 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1916 label Biography information for Lord Newby

1641693

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Closures
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many offices undertaking probate work have closed in each of the past four years.
tabling member printed	Lord Newby
uin	HL8219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts in 2022 the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between 5 and 8 weeks, which was similar to the average length of time in 2019, which was between 6 and 8 weeks.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to December 2022.</p><p>The Probate offices closing in the past four years were:</p><p>2020: Birmingham District Probate Registry (DPR), Bristol DPR, Ipswich DPR and London DPR</p><p>2021: Manchester DPR</p><p>All Probate Sub Registries closed between December 2019 and January 2020.</p><p>These closures were completed in conjunction with the opening of new Courts and Tribunal Service Centre in Birmingham where the majority of the increased probate workforce is now based. The launch of the online system for probate applications has made the service more accessible for applicants and removed the need to travel to city centre locations to have their oath sworn as part of the process.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL8218 question first answered 19/06/2023 12:01:05 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1916 label Biography information for Lord Newby

1640699

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Human Rights: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why they advised the United Nations 4th Universal Periodic Review of the UK that due to the lack of an Executive in Northern Ireland it was not possible to provide as comprehensive a response for Northern Ireland as for other parts of the UK; and why was the Northern Ireland Office not able to seek out the information required.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL8137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>The Universal Periodic Review can raise any human rights issue, in both reserved and devolved areas.</p><p>On reserved areas, the Northern Ireland Office was able to provide responses to recommendations, for example those concerning the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, based on policy positions and ongoing activity. However, for devolved areas it would be for the Northern Ireland Executive to provide a policy position, for instance in response to recommendations concerning equality legislation, employment policy for disabled people and the labour inspection regime. As no Executive was formed after the elections in 2022, and in the absence of Ministers, officials from the Northern Ireland departments were unable to provide the necessary response where Ministerial decisions or clearances are required.</p><p>The UK Government worked closely with the Devolved Governments to ensure that our Universal Periodic Review dialogue captured the range of action that had been and was being taken on a wide variety of human rights issues across the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 08/06/2023 11:12:58 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1640700

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Human Rights
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what answer, if any, they gave to the question from the government of China posed to the UK submitted in advance of the United Nations 4th Universal Periodic Review which asked, “What measures has the UK taken to eliminate the mentality and legacies of colonialism and to address the root causes of its long-lasting systemic and institutional racism and xenophobia?".
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL8138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>In his opening statement at the UK’s Interactive Dialogue under the Universal Periodic Review, my colleague, Minister Freer, provided answers to some of the questions the UK received in advance of the session. However, there was not time to respond to all the questions and the UK provided no answer specifically to the question posed by China.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 06/06/2023 14:53:53 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1640234

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current level of delay for the receipt of Probate following application to HM Courts & Tribunals Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL8123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts in 2022 the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between 5 and 8 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p> </p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to December 2022.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is conducting an investigation to explore the potential applications of AI in the Courts and Tribunals, which raises important policy, ethical, legal, and social issues to be considered.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL8124 question first answered 06/06/2023 14:53:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

1640235

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government why applications for probate which require no additional documentation cannot be processed using Artificial Intelligence and completed immediately.
tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
uin	HL8124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts in 2022 the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between 5 and 8 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p> </p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to December 2022.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is conducting an investigation to explore the potential applications of AI in the Courts and Tribunals, which raises important policy, ethical, legal, and social issues to be considered.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL8123 question first answered 06/06/2023 14:53:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

1629165

registered interest
date	19/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Justice Board
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when the last Criminal Justice Board meeting took place; and when the next one will take place.
tabling member printed	Lord Garnier
uin	HL7967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Criminal Justice Board last met on 12 July 2021. We are looking to hold the next meeting later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 05/06/2023 12:45:23 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	337 label Biography information for Lord Garnier