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1181550

registered interest
date	28/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of enquiries made by Members of Parliament to the Legal Aid Agency that receive a response within 20 working days.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>For the most recent completed financial year, 98% of enquiries made by Members of Parliament to the Legal Aid Agency received a response within 20 working days.</p><p> </p><p>Information for the remaining questions posed could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 22353 22354 22355 question first answered 04/03/2020 17:13:09 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1181551

registered interest
date	28/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of complaints made to the Legal Aid Agency that involve a statutory charge on an individuals property in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>For the most recent completed financial year, 98% of enquiries made by Members of Parliament to the Legal Aid Agency received a response within 20 working days.</p><p> </p><p>Information for the remaining questions posed could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 22352 22354 22355 question first answered 04/03/2020 17:13:09 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1181552

registered interest
date	28/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time is for the Legal Aid Agency to resolve a complaint.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>For the most recent completed financial year, 98% of enquiries made by Members of Parliament to the Legal Aid Agency received a response within 20 working days.</p><p> </p><p>Information for the remaining questions posed could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 22352 22353 22355 question first answered 04/03/2020 17:13:09 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1181553

registered interest
date	28/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints have been made to the Legal Aid Agency on not implementing a court order, in each year since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>For the most recent completed financial year, 98% of enquiries made by Members of Parliament to the Legal Aid Agency received a response within 20 working days.</p><p> </p><p>Information for the remaining questions posed could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 22352 22353 22354 question first answered 04/03/2020 17:13:09 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1181395

registered interest
date	27/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation: Death
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 27 February to Question 19769, whether the Legal Aid Means Test Review will examine whether the finances of non-married people sharing a property with an applicant of legal aid will remain relevant to means-tested application for inquests into state-related deaths.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	21897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Means Test Review was announced on 7 February 2019, as part of the Legal Support Action Plan.</p><p> </p><p>The review is already underway and is considering the full range of means-testing criteria including the applicable thresholds for legal aid entitlement and their interaction with wider criteria such as the treatment of partner and other household resources. This includes the evidence gathered as part of the Government’s Review of Legal Aid for Inquests published on 7 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This comprehensive review is due to conclude in late summer 2020, followed by a public consultation on potential policy changes.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 03/03/2020 16:03:14 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1180716

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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, how many (a) reports and (b) referrals were received by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office in respect of poor sentencing by lay magistrates in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	21242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office’s (JCIO) statutory remit is to deal with complaints of judicial misconduct.</p><p>Judicial decisions, including sentencing decisions, fall outside the scope of the judicial disciplinary system as they can be only challenged through the courts. There have therefore been no referrals to the JCIO about poor sentencing or poor decision making by lay magistrates.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 21243 question first answered 04/03/2020 15:56:00 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

1180717

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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, how many (a) reports and (b) referrals were received by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office in respect of poor decision-making by lay magistrates in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	21243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>The Judicial Conduct Investigations Office’s (JCIO) statutory remit is to deal with complaints of judicial misconduct.</p><p>Judicial decisions, including sentencing decisions, fall outside the scope of the judicial disciplinary system as they can be only challenged through the courts. There have therefore been no referrals to the JCIO about poor sentencing or poor decision making by lay magistrates.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 21242 question first answered 04/03/2020 15:56:00 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

1180784

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Homicide: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women have been killed by men who claim rough sex as a defence to murder, in each of the last five years in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	21124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The law states that a victim is unable to consent to actual bodily harm or other serious injury, including death. Defendants who claim consent to such activity remain liable to prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice collects information on defendants that are prosecuted and convicted of specific criminal offences in England and Wales (i.e. murder, manslaughter, etc) in any given year. Information is not collated on whether a prosecution or conviction relied on a defendant’s claim in their defence, that death had resulted from rough sex gone wrong. This may be a matter of court record but such information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Under the provisions of the Domestic Abuse Bill, the general functions of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner will include encouraging good practice in the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of offences involving domestic abuse. Specified public authorities, including chief officers of police and the Crown Prosecution Service, will be under a duty to cooperate with the Commissioner where it is reasonably practical to do so. The duty to cooperate could include, for example, responding to requests for information from the Commissioner. As an independent office holder, it will be for the Commissioner to determine how best to discharge her functions and exercise her powers.”</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 21125 question first answered 02/03/2020 15:39:10 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1180786

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Homicide: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to ensure that it is a requirement of the new Domestic Abuse Commissioner to record information on the number of women killed by men who claim rough sex as a defence to murder in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	21125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The law states that a victim is unable to consent to actual bodily harm or other serious injury, including death. Defendants who claim consent to such activity remain liable to prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice collects information on defendants that are prosecuted and convicted of specific criminal offences in England and Wales (i.e. murder, manslaughter, etc) in any given year. Information is not collated on whether a prosecution or conviction relied on a defendant’s claim in their defence, that death had resulted from rough sex gone wrong. This may be a matter of court record but such information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Under the provisions of the Domestic Abuse Bill, the general functions of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner will include encouraging good practice in the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of offences involving domestic abuse. Specified public authorities, including chief officers of police and the Crown Prosecution Service, will be under a duty to cooperate with the Commissioner where it is reasonably practical to do so. The duty to cooperate could include, for example, responding to requests for information from the Commissioner. As an independent office holder, it will be for the Commissioner to determine how best to discharge her functions and exercise her powers.”</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 21124 question first answered 02/03/2020 15:39:10 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1180797

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Appeal Tribunal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average wait time is between an appeal being lodged at the Employment Appeals Tribunal to that appeal being heard.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	21315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not hold published information on the average time between an appeal being lodged at the Employment Appeal Tribunal and that appeal being heard.</p><p>Internal Management Information held works to a target of 75% of appeal cases heard within 26 weeks of appeal registration. Registration differs to lodgement as when an appeal is received/lodged with the Employment Appeal Tribunal, it will be assessed by a member of the Judiciary prior to any registration.</p><p>Latest performance indicates that between April 2019 and September 2019, 77% of Employment Appeal Tribunals were heard within 26 weeks of registration. This is internal management information only and the data is provisional and subject to further change.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 12:48:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds