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515417

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date	25/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many e-courts there are in Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	35287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>Excluding one closing court, in Lancashire all criminal courts (4 Crown courts and 6 magistrates’ courts) are equipped to work digitally through services such as in-court evidence presentation, video links, a shared file store, Wi-Fi and a new digital case management system in the Crown courts.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 03/05/2016 09:26:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

515418

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court buildings have been sold in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	35288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>Two court buildings in Lancashire have been sold since the creation of HM Court Service in 2005. Neither of these were in Burnley.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to 2005 magistrates’ courts were the responsibility of locally managed magistrates’ courts committees.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 03/05/2016 09:36:40 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

514129

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Justice Select Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times he has attended public meetings of the Justice Committee since his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	34564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Justice attended public meetings of the Justice Select Committee on two occasions since his appointment. The dates on which he attended was 15 July 2015 and 16 March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/04/2016 10:48:55 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

453343

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that proposed revisions to the sentencing guideline for guilty plea reductions do not lead to a culture of plea bargaining.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	27375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>On 11 February the independent Sentencing Council launched a consultation on a new proposed guideline for reductions in sentence for a guilty plea. This is a consultation, and no decisions have been made. Accepting a plea is a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service. All decisions by the prosecution are made in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 25/02/2016 17:35:17 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

451395

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 reduce the time taken for appeals for benefit sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	26197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals against sanctions imposed by DWP.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In order to increase the capacity of the Tribunal, and therefore speed up the appeals process, HMCTS has recruited extra judges and medical members, increased venue capacity and introduced more efficient processes. This action, coupled with a reduction in appeal receipts, has enabled HMCTS to reduce the overall average length of time to administer appeals from 28 weeks in the period July to September 2014, to 19 weeks for the same period in 2015 (the latest period for which statistics have been published). The median length of time to administer appeals (which will be the experience of the majority of appellants) has reduced from 18 weeks to 14 weeks in the same period.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the length of time taken to administer appeals generally is published by the Ministry of Justice in Tribunal Statistics Quarterly. The most recent report, for the period July to September 2015, published on 10 December 2015, can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/02/2016 11:41:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper