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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

433844

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children in (a) Burnley and (b) Lancashire have mothers who are serving prison sentences.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not held. However, the Ministry of Justice has recently published statistics on child dependents of female offenders. These statistics can be located at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/female-offenders-and-child-dependents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/female-offenders-and-child-dependents</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/12/2015 10:40:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

433267

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the reduction in the number of legal aid cases taken on by solicitors in the private sector; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the change to legal aid provision on such solicitors take up of such cases.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>When reform began we had an unsustainably expensive legal aid system - costing more than £2 billion every year. We still have a very generous system, last year we spent £1.6bn on legal aid, around a quarter of the department’s expenditure.</p><br /><p>Statistics on legal aid in England and Wales are published every quarter, presenting the key statistics on workload and expenditure across both the criminal and civil legal aid schemes. The statistics are available via <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics</a>. The vast majority of legal aid work is carried out by solicitors working in the private sector. It is difficult to summarise workloads across the legal aid system meaningfully within a single number because there is no single definition of a case that applies to all of the diverse services being provided, so users of legal aid statistics are best advised to look at trends in workload for each area of legal aid separately.</p><br /><p>For many areas of civil law, the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) led to a reduction of workload for solicitors in areas where legal aidwas reduced.</p><br /><p>LASPO did not change eligibility or scope in relation to criminal legal aid.</p><br /> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/12/2015 17:51:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper