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1566027

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
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, how many people serving sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection recalled to prison in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022 after being charged with a new offence were (i) convicted, (ii) acquitted and (iii) had the charge dropped.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The data required to provide an answer about those offenders serving an IPP sentence in the community who were recalled in connection with having been charged with a further offence and who were subsequently (i) convicted, (ii) acquitted and (iii) had the charge dropped, could be provided only at disproportionate cost, as central data is not stored in a way that it can be filtered by the required fields.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/01/2023 17:52:29 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1566032

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	County Courts: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the scale of backlogs at County Courts in Wales; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce delays to hearing cases in those courts.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>A breakdown of the outstanding caseload in each region of England and Wales is not published.</p><p>We continue to work, in close partnership with the judiciary, to improve the service in the county courts. We are replacing inefficient processes with our reformed digital services, using available courtroom capacity and supporting the use of remote hearings (where a judge deems it appropriate) to maximise the number of sitting days used in the jurisdiction.</p><p>The MoJ and the judiciary have taken and are taking action to increase judicial capacity. This includes a recruitment programme of up to 1,000 judges and tribunal members in 2022/23, across all jurisdictions. HMCTS is also working to ensure we have sufficient staff resource in place to support the number of sitting days used across jurisdictions.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 16/01/2023 14:43:56 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1566034

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Wales
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 improve the physical condition of court buildings in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>During financial years 2021/2022 and 2022/23, 36 individual capital improvement projects have taken place across the court estate in Wales, with a further 11 capital improvement projects currently in progress. Together we estimate these works will represent capital investment of over £18m. This figure excludes any reactive repairs and Business As Usual maintenance that we have carried out across the estate in Wales.</p><p>The projects include the replacement of six boilers and a roof at Cardiff Crown Court, replacement windows at Merthyr Tydfil Combined Court, installation of LED lighting at Cardiff Magistrates Court, refurbishment of the staff and judicial lift at Cardiff Civil justice Centre and an upgraded building power supply system at Wrexham Magistrates Court.</p><p>This year an extra £20m is also being spent across England &amp; Wales on additional minor repairs and replacement items, including re-decoration, replacing carpets and deep-cleans as well as replacement of fire doors, ventilation duct cleaning and other health and safety works. Examples of this work in Wales include the redecoration of cell doors and benches at Mold Law Courts, replacement carpet at Swansea Magistrates Court, replacement flooring at Merthyr Combined Court, and painting the external steps at Newport Crown Court.</p><p>We will continue to work closely with local judiciary and operational colleagues in Wales to identify and address the areas of the highest maintenance priority.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/01/2023 16:20:18 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1566035

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Wales
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 has been of prison maintenance in Wales in the latest 12 month period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The cost to the public purse for maintaining the public sector prisons in Wales in 2021/22 was £15.3m.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/01/2023 17:53:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1566036

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many criminal cases were withdrawn due to (a) court delays and (b) case backlogs in Wales in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>We do not collect data on the reasons why a case is dropped by the prosecution, and it is therefore not possible to attribute dropped cases to court delays. There are a number of reasons why a case may be dropped, including if there is a lack of evidence or if the prosecution is no longer in the public interest.</p><p>A case is considered dropped when the prosecution notifies the court that they wish to discontinue proceedings before the indictment has been lodged – this does not require a court hearing and the case is closed administratively. These cases will have a formal verdict of not guilty.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 16/01/2023 17:40:31 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1184612

registered interest
date	12/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged 75 or over have been prosecuted for failure to hold a TV licence in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	28641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published the number of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for the non-payment of television license fees up to December 2018. The number of prosecutions of individuals aged 75 or over can be found in the accompanying table.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/03/2020 12:30:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ_28641table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1184424

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Childbirth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women gave birth (a) inside each prison and (b) on the way from prison to hospital in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	28076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>Every effort is made to transfer pregnant women to hospital to give birth. On the rare occasions that births take place in prisons, it is owing to the unpredictability of labour.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not currently collected centrally as a matter of routine. Information on births in prisons is recorded by the prison, and on births in transit from prison to hospital by either the prison or the NHS Trust, depending on the mode of transport used. It would not be possible to collect and collate this information without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>I am able to state, however, on the basis of specific data collection exercises we have conducted, that there were fewer than five births in prison in 2018. We are unable to publish a more specific number because this would risk identifying individuals and therefore confidentiality, which contravenes the Data Protection Act.</p><p> </p><p>We are conducting a review of our policy on Mother and Baby Units, which includes looking at how we can improve the data available in relation to pregnancy and births. This is a complex area and there are sensitive issues relating to use of confidential medical information. The review is due to be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/03/2020 17:02:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1184428

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Childbirth
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 pregnant women placed in solitary confinement in each prison in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019; and what the average length of time was for each woman to be placed in solitary confinement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	28080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>HMPPS does not hold people in solitary confinement but there are occasions where, for their own safety or that of others and in line with PSO 1700, prisoners are segregated from the main population of the prison.</p><p> </p><p>Our policy is clear that pregnant women should only be held in segregation exceptionally. Healthcare visits and assessments by a doctor and healthcare staff take place regularly on segregation units to ensure that prisoners can be removed from segregation if there are any physical or mental health grounds to do so. An initial healthcare screen is completed by a doctor or registered nurse within two hours of a prisoner being placed in segregation.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold central data on the number of pregnant women that have been placed in segregation units, although governors of individual prisons will be aware of numbers of pregnant women in segregation in their establishment.</p><p> </p><p>We are conducting a review of our policy on Mother and Baby Units, which includes looking at what information related to pregnancy and birth can be collected centrally and published. The review is due to be published in the Summer.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/03/2020 15:30:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1176778

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for child sexual abuse committed in the (a) 1970s and (b) 1980s since the police service began the national operation coordinating claims of non-recent child sexual abuse in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	13502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The question seeks statistics on convictions arising from Operation Hydrant, the <strong>National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) co-ordination hub established in June 2014, to deliver the national policing response, oversight, and coordination of historic child sexual abuse cases. The hub covers investigations concerning persons of public prominence, or in relation to those offences which took place within institutional settings. Statistics produced by Operation Hydrant are not comparable with </strong>national crime statistics as some suspects could be charged with more than one offence.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database holds information on people who have been proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for specific criminal offences in England and Wales. However, this system only captures information on the principal offence for which a person was convicted and does not specifically refer to cases that are part of Operation Hydrant.</p><p> </p><p>A further breakdown of data held on the court proceedings database shows that there have been 3,318 convictions in total for historic child abuse offences (where the abuse occurred in the period 1 January 1970 to 31 December 1989). Specifically, this includes 1409 cases in the 1970s and 1909 in the 1980s. These cases cover convictions where:</p><ul><li>there was at least one count of child sexual abuse on the indictment;</li><li>the offence fell within the Home Office sexual offences group;</li><li>we know that the victim was under the age of 16 at the time of the offence; and</li><li>the defendant pleaded guilty or was found guilty of at least one count of child sexual abuse on 1 July 2014 or later</li></ul><p> </p><p>Where a defendant has committed an offence in both the 1970s and the 1980s, these are accounted for separately. The data provided covers the period up to 30 September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/02/2020 17:15:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1176451

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hague Convention On the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have applied for the return of their child to the UK from another country under the 1980 Hague Convention in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	13011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of cases where the return application under the 1980 Hague Convention was made through the Central Authority in England and Wales for the years 2014 - 2018 is set out in the table. This information is published by the Royal Courts of Justice at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/829393/2018_RCJ_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/829393/2018_RCJ_tables.xlsx</a>. The England and Wales figures for 2019 are expected to be published in July 2020. The numbers of cases reported from Scotland and Northern Ireland in the table have not been published separately.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Applications for 1980 Hague Convention returns</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calendar year</p></td><td><p>England and Wales</p></td><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/02/2020 17:38:43 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens