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225501

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on whistleblowers who have been dismissed from their employment and are unable to afford employment tribunal fees.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	226468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text We have received no representations about the impact of Employment Tribunal fees on whistleblowers since fees were introduced in July 2013. Fees were introduced following a consultation exercise in 2012. A summary of the representations received, including on whistleblowers, and the Government’s response, are set out in “Charging Fees in Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal” which is available on the Ministry of Justice website at: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/et-fee-charging-regime-cp22-2011/results/employment-tribunal-fees-consultation-response.pdf Fee remissions are available so that those who are unable to afford to pay the fee are not prevented from accessing the Tribunal. answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/03/2015 17:11:48 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

225222

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit companies selling an individual's personal information to third parties.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
uin	226259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has no plans to ban companies from selling personal data to third parties. The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) does not prohibit disclosures of personal data to third parties, but it regulates the circumstances in which this can be done. As a minimum, companies should tell individuals what they are going to do with their personal data and with whom this will be shared.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where organisations do not comply with the DPA the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has a range of powers to take action, including the power to serve a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of up to £500,000. In the most serious cases, section 55 of the DPA makes it an offence for a person to knowingly or recklessly obtain, disclose or procure the disclosure of personal data without the consent of the data controller. The offence is punishable by an unlimited fine for cases heard in the Crown Court and a fine of a maximum of £5,000 for cases heard in the magistrates’ courts.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/03/2015 15:50:52 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

225243

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff of English prisons are Welsh speakers.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many staff of the National Offender Management Service speak Welsh is not held centrally and to collate this information to answer this question would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/03/2015 14:32:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225244

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of Welsh female prisoners held in English prisons in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not separate annual costs of imprisoning Welsh women prisoners held in England prisons. NOMS does not analyse cost by prisoner nationality and costs recorded on the NOMS central accounting system do not allow identification of costs attributable to individual prisoners.</p><p>However, the Department routinely publishes average costs for each prisoner and prison place based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison.. This includes the women’s custodial estate and is available in summary form for the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales, on an annual basis after the end of each financial year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The most recently published figures for financial year 2013-14 is published alongside the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts and available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p><p>You may wish to note detailed costs of custody for women prisoners can be found at the above link within the file named: costs per place and cost for each prisoner 2013-14 - supplementary information. A copy of this is also placed in the House library.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department is committed to delivering prison capacity changes designed to modernise the prison estate and, where possible, reduce prison costs, whilst maintaining a high quality service.</p><p>From the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14 there was a real terms reduction of 17% in the overall average cost for each prisoner, with a reduction of 5% achieved during the last financial year 2013-14.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/03/2015 16:28:18 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225245

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Antisocial Behaviour Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what costs have been incurred in (a) legal aid and (b) other court costs arising from the issuing of anti-social behaviour orders in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	226325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency made payments totalling £1,309,000 in relation to stand alone anti-social behaviour order proceedings in magistrates’ courts in England and Wales between October 2013 and September 2014. HM Courts and Tribunals Service does not separately record court costs in relation to anti-social behaviour orders.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/03/2015 15:34:42 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

225247

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to reduce mental health stigma and discrimination as a result of signing up to the Time to Change Pledge.
tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
tabling member printed	Paul Burstow
uin	226339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The MoJ was the second government department to sign the Time to Change pledge in April 2013 and since then has been working to take steps to eliminate discrimination and stigma surrounding mental health through a variety of measures including:</p><p> </p><p>· Training with Mind for senior managers in 2013 and more recently encouraging all staff to access Mental Health Awareness online learning on the Civil Service Learning portal;</p><p>· Provision of extensive information and guidance to staff and managers of all grades, including introducing Mental Wellbeing intranet pages, guides on mental health in the workplace, links to external support (such as Mind, Rethink, Business Disability Forum and Time to Change) and internal information and support such as the MoJ Employee Assistance Programme and the Reasonable Adjustment Support Service;</p><p>· Awareness raising activity and staff events to increase understanding of mental health issues and challenge stereotypes, including events for the International Day of Disabled People and 'Time to Talk' days, as well as including staff with mental ill-health in an internal 'Positive Images of Disability' communications campaign.</p><p> </p><p>Time to Change and issues surrounding mental health in the workplace remain high on MoJ's employee wellbeing and diversity and inclusion agendas.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/03/2015 16:18:58 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	204 label Biography information for Paul Burstow

224768

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Buildings
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 3 March 2015 to Question 225118, what the stages of the court reform programme are; and when his Department plans to finalise the resource allocation for each such stage.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	226123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The stages of the Reform Programme will be subject to ongoing refinement through to summer 2015. The resource allocation for each stage will be developed as this planning progresses.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/03/2015 15:40:04 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

224769

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
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 2 March 2015 to Question 214860, what the individual offences committed were in the violence against the person category referred to in the tables.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	226031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Absconds and escapes have reached record lows under this Government and temporary release (ROTL) failures have dropped over the past 12 months during which we have taken significant steps to strengthen the ROTL regime. Between July and September 2014 (the latest period for which data are available), there were a total of 61 recorded temporary release failures, 33% lower than the same quarter in 2013. In April-June 2014, there were 40% fewer failures compared to the previous year.</p><p>The table attached shows the number of prisoners with a principal offence of violence against the person who were in open prisons on 30 May 2014 and who had previously absconded, escaped or breached temporary release conditions, broken down by offence. The data in the table is derived from a one-off exercise to look in detail at those prisoners who were in open conditions on 30 May, which was conducted as part of the review of temporary release. It should be noted that the definition of “open prison” for the purposes of this exercise included some prisons operating both open and closed conditions on the same site to ensure that all prisoners with a previous abscond, escape or serious ROTL failure were identified and assessed. It is therefore possible that a number of prisoners included in the total were actually in closed conditions at the relevant time.</p><p>Temporary release and open conditions can be valuable tools in the resettlement of prisoners in the community but never at the expense of public safety. We conducted a fundamental review of the policy and practice of release on temporary licence (ROTL) after serious failures in 2013. We have already made significant changes, including the introduction in May 2014 of a ban on transfer to open prison or ROTL for any prisoner who escapes, abscond, fails to return from ROTL or commits an offence whilst on ROTL during their current sentence.</p><p>This change in policy for eligibility for open conditions was not applied retrospectively. However, any prisoners who were assessed to present an unacceptable risk in such conditions in light of their previous non-compliance were returned to closed prisons.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/03/2015 14:38:30 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous attachment 1 file name 226031 - Prisoners in open prisons.xls title Prisoners in open prisons on temporary licence
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

224770

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for remissions relating to fees for employment tribunal proceedings have been (a) made and (b) awarded in each month since July 2013.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	225985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>My answer given on 15 October 2014, which can be viewed at</p><p>http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-07-15/206019, records the number of fee remission awards in each month from July 2013 to June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics are due to be published on 12 March 2015 which will include the number of remission applications made and awarded for the employment tribunals on a quarterly basis from July 2013 to September 2014.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/03/2015 16:05:25 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

224885

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of suppliers to his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid subcontractors within 30 days in the last period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	226189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>To answer this question would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/03/2015 15:53:45 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna