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1172997

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving IPP sentences have been the subject of recall appeals which are still awaiting determination; and what is the longest period for which any appellant has been waiting.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	7110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>There is no formal appeal mechanism for any offender following recall from licensed supervision in the community. Consequently, no recalled IPP prisoner is awaiting the outcome of an appeal against recall and the concept of a recalled prisoner awaiting the outcome of an appeal does not apply.</p><p> </p><p>However, whilst there is no appeal mechanism, every recalled Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) prisoners has a right to a review of his/her fresh period of detention on recall, and it falls to the independent Parole Board to undertake that review – that is, to assess when it is safe to re-release the recalled IPP prisoner into the community on licence. The Board is required to conduct post-recall reviews without undue delay, but there is no set maximum period within which a review must be completed.</p><p> </p><p>Officials on behalf of the Secretary of State refer the cases of recalled offenders to the Parole Board within 28 days of their return to custody; it is for the independent Parole Board to determine how and when reviews will be conducted. The timing of a review will depend on the nature and circumstances of each case, having particular regard to what information is necessary to conduct the full risk assessment required to determine whether the offender is safe to be re-released. Recalled offenders have the right to submit representations to the Parole Board, against the decision to recall them, as part of the review process.</p><p> </p><p>Public safety is the priority and the Parole Board may only direct release once it is satisfied that detaining the offender is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 7111 question first answered 28/01/2020 15:33:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1172999

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
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 set a maximum period within which an oral hearing for an appeal against recall on an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence must be heard; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	7111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>There is no formal appeal mechanism for any offender following recall from licensed supervision in the community. Consequently, no recalled IPP prisoner is awaiting the outcome of an appeal against recall and the concept of a recalled prisoner awaiting the outcome of an appeal does not apply.</p><p> </p><p>However, whilst there is no appeal mechanism, every recalled Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) prisoners has a right to a review of his/her fresh period of detention on recall, and it falls to the independent Parole Board to undertake that review – that is, to assess when it is safe to re-release the recalled IPP prisoner into the community on licence. The Board is required to conduct post-recall reviews without undue delay, but there is no set maximum period within which a review must be completed.</p><p> </p><p>Officials on behalf of the Secretary of State refer the cases of recalled offenders to the Parole Board within 28 days of their return to custody; it is for the independent Parole Board to determine how and when reviews will be conducted. The timing of a review will depend on the nature and circumstances of each case, having particular regard to what information is necessary to conduct the full risk assessment required to determine whether the offender is safe to be re-released. Recalled offenders have the right to submit representations to the Parole Board, against the decision to recall them, as part of the review process.</p><p> </p><p>Public safety is the priority and the Parole Board may only direct release once it is satisfied that detaining the offender is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 7110 question first answered 28/01/2020 15:33:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1173002

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
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, what steps he is taking to prevent such prisoners being released with a drug dependency being subject to immediate recall as a result of that drug dependency.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	7112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The decision to recall an offender from the community, whether that be from an indeterminate or a determinate licence, is based on a thorough assessment of risk in the round, and a relapse into substance misuse is not necessarily a justification for recalling the offender immediately. The Probation Service will take into account the individual circumstances of each case and will consider alternatives to recalling offenders from the community where appropriate, based on the level of risk the offender poses.</p><p> </p><p>Those with drug dependency problems often have complex needs, particularly health needs that benefit best from cross-organisation co-operation. Health and justice partners are working closely to improve support and continuity of care when an offender leaves prison, and this is one of the three overarching objectives of the National Partnership Agreement between HM Prison and Probation Service, Ministry of Justice, Public Health England, NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care.</p><p> </p><p>Protection of the public is our priority, and offenders will be recalled to prison if that is assessed as necessary to protect the public from further serious offending.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/01/2020 17:52:10 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1172528

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for a Child Maintenance Service appeal to be heard under Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunal Service in each court area in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	6622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>General information about waiting times for appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) are published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>The table below contains the average waiting time for Child Maintenance appeals between July and September 2019 (the latest period for which data are available) at HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) hearing venues in Wales<sup>1</sup>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Average time (in weeks) taken to administer Child Maintenance appeals between July – September 2019 (the latest period for which figures are available)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberystwyth</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haverfordwest</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Langstone, Newport</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llanelli</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Port Talbot</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wrexham</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Wales SSCS Region</p><p>~ denotes five or fewer cases. If the number of disposals are five or fewer, the average disposal time is redacted.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available. Data include appeals cleared with and without a Tribunal hearing.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMCTS recognises it is important for appeals to be heard as quickly as possible, and is in the process of recruiting more judicial office holders to the SSCS jurisdiction in order to increase capacity and help to reduce waiting times for appellants. In 2018, 118 specialist members were appointed and trained to the jurisdiction, and an extra 129 fee-paid judges were appointed in 2019. The jurisdiction will also benefit from 114 salaried judges and 170 fee-paid judges being recruited across tribunals more widely.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/01/2020 17:50:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1172533

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 20 January to Questions 3722 and 3721, whether a timetable has been set by when the correct statistics will be made available for (a) judge and (b) recorder sitting hours; and whether he expects those sitting hours to be less in total than in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	6632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The official statistics for judge sitting days (tables 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 of the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly, January to March 2019) were withdrawn on 5 September 2019, due to data discrepancies that were discovered after publication on 6 June 2019 and deemed potentially misleading to users. These discrepancies remain under investigation and, in line with the Code of Practice on Statistics, the Chief Statistician and Head of Profession decided to withdraw these tables until the investigations were complete.</p><p> </p><p>The corrected figures will be published in the March 2020 publication if our investigation shows that the corrected figures meet the expected quality standards before then; if the appropriate quality standards cannot be met by then, the correct figures will be published in June 2020. This is the date when 2019 sitting days figures are due to be published as part of the normal publication cycle.</p><p> </p><p>Until these investigations and corrections have been concluded, it is not possible to make a comparison against 2018 data.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/01/2020 17:52:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1172535

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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 cases were listed in each court in England in each month in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	6634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The number of cases listed in each court in England in each month in 2019 is provided in the attached tables at annex A.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>The attached data are broken down by court type.</p><p>The data contained within these tables are Management Information extracted from live case management systems. They can, therefore, change over time, and are not subject to the same level of checks as those applied to official statistics.</p><p>The data contained within these tables count each hearing. Some cases will, therefore, appear in these figures more than once.</p><p>Each dataset includes its own set of caveats and exclusions.</p><p>The timeframe of these data is in line with published MI data (January-19 to Sept-19)</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/01/2020 17:52:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 6634 Annex A Data Tablev2 - Listing All Jurisdictions.xlsx title Annex A
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1172671

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings have taken place between Ministers in his Department and the Law Commission on the review of hate crime legislation.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	6674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>There have been no meetings between current Ministers in the Ministry of Justice and the Law Commission on the review of hate crime legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission were invited to independently review the law relating to hate crime and to make recommendations to the Government for its reform. That review began in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission are considering the current range of offences and aggravating factors in sentencing, and will make recommendations to the Government on the most appropriate models to ensure that the criminal law provides consistent and effective protection from conduct motivated by hatred towards protected groups or characteristics. The review will also take account of the existing range of protected characteristics, identifying any gaps in the scope of protection currently offered under the law and making recommendations to promote a consistent approach.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission plan to issue a consultation on this matter in early 2020. Further information on the review can be found on the Law Commission webpage at: <a href="https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/hate-crime/" target="_blank">https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/hate-crime/</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/01/2020 17:53:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1172208

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Abortion: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929, how many people have been convicted in each category of offence of child destruction for performing abortions on other people in each of the last 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	6068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on the number of convictions for child destruction. This is available for each year since 2008 up to 2018, in the Outcomes by Offence data tool available at: <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><p> </p><ul><li>Select ‘4.3 Child Destruction’ in the Offence filter; convictions can be found in row 25.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The number of convictions for child destruction in the years between 1992 (the earliest available in the court proceedings database) and 2007, can be found in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 28/01/2020 18:00:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 6068 table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1171867

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Disability and Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure that facilities in prisons in (a) Wales and (b) England are accessible to (i) elderly people, (ii) elderly disabled people and (iii) disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	5485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>We recognise that prisoner mobility is a challenge and all prisons have individual needs based on its circumstances and population. Governors are required to identify improvements that may be needed in their sites to enable improved access to facilities for elderly or disabled prisoners. Where building work is required as part of this work, it is carried out through facilities maintenance contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, every prison in England and Wales must adhere to the Equality Act 2010, including the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled persons. Support is also provided for all prisoners with a disability in accordance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, the ‘Model for Operational Delivery for Older Prisoners’ was published to support the development of all policies, approaches and plans focussed on older people in prisons. This is currently being reviewed by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/01/2020 11:58:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1171868

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Disability and Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure that (a) elderly people and (b) elderly disabled people have access to high-quality social care in prisons in (i) Wales and (ii) England.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	5486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 and the equivalent Welsh legislation, the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, clarified that local authorities in England and Wales are responsible for undertaking assessments and making arrangements to meet eligible needs for social care for those people residing in prisons, approved premises and bail accommodation within their geographical boundary. Under the legislation, the threshold for eligibility for care and support services in prisons in both England and Wales is the same as for people who are living in the community, and this applies whether or not they are disabled. Local authorities need to have processes in place to respond to referrals, undertake assessments and deliver care for those in prison settings. Prison custodial services, healthcare services and individuals with needs can all make a referral for assessment.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2018, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and the Care Quality Commission carried out a joint thematic report on Social Care in Prisons in England and Wales. The review identified several examples of good practice but also wide variations in the provision of social care to prisoners across the prison estate. In response, HMPPS published an action plan in December 2018, setting out its response to the recommendations in the joint thematic report. A programme of work is underway to deliver this response. For example, memoranda of understanding have been put in place between many prisons and local authorities. Work is progressing towards establishing a national partnership social care board for prisons, which is expected to sit later this year.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/01/2020 13:55:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts