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76880

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the new electronic tagging system was not subject to a pilot before the decision to implement it was taken.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The contracts have not yet been awarded. An announcement was made on 15<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p>Yes we comply with the OJEU / EU procurement rules as well as cabinet office processes.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The new electronic monitoring service has not been subject to a pilot as in the first instance we need to ensure continuity of service. However, there will be a significant period of testing and validation for the new system before introduction. There is also a robust programme of testing for the new tags themselves, and we will have to be satisfied that they meet our standards before they are introduced on the new platform. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Electronic monitoring using GPS was piloted in three probation areas in 2004 to 2005 and the evaluation found qualitative evidence to show that it:</p><p>o acted as a deterrent because offenders thought they would be caught if they were to reoffend;</p><p>o was a constant reminder which prompted offenders to ‘think twice' when a criminal opportunity presented itself and gave them the spur they needed to walk away;</p><p>o provided offenders with renewed determination to get their lives back together after a period of incarceration; and</p><p>o was perceived by offenders to help stop wrongful identification for crimes they hadn't done.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 204814 204815 204816 204992 question first answered 17/07/2014 13:21:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76882

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the purpose is of the new electronic tagging system; and what evidence his Department analysed or collected on the potential effect of that system on crime and reconviction rates.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The contracts have not yet been awarded. An announcement was made on 15<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p>Yes we comply with the OJEU / EU procurement rules as well as cabinet office processes.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The new electronic monitoring service has not been subject to a pilot as in the first instance we need to ensure continuity of service. However, there will be a significant period of testing and validation for the new system before introduction. There is also a robust programme of testing for the new tags themselves, and we will have to be satisfied that they meet our standards before they are introduced on the new platform. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Electronic monitoring using GPS was piloted in three probation areas in 2004 to 2005 and the evaluation found qualitative evidence to show that it:</p><p>o acted as a deterrent because offenders thought they would be caught if they were to reoffend;</p><p>o was a constant reminder which prompted offenders to ‘think twice' when a criminal opportunity presented itself and gave them the spur they needed to walk away;</p><p>o provided offenders with renewed determination to get their lives back together after a period of incarceration; and</p><p>o was perceived by offenders to help stop wrongful identification for crimes they hadn't done.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 204814 204815 204816 204991 question first answered 17/07/2014 13:21:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76895

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the procurement process for the electronic tagging contract complied with Cabinet Office procedures on openness and transparency.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The contracts have not yet been awarded. An announcement was made on 15<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p>Yes we comply with the OJEU / EU procurement rules as well as cabinet office processes.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The new electronic monitoring service has not been subject to a pilot as in the first instance we need to ensure continuity of service. However, there will be a significant period of testing and validation for the new system before introduction. There is also a robust programme of testing for the new tags themselves, and we will have to be satisfied that they meet our standards before they are introduced on the new platform. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Electronic monitoring using GPS was piloted in three probation areas in 2004 to 2005 and the evaluation found qualitative evidence to show that it:</p><p>o acted as a deterrent because offenders thought they would be caught if they were to reoffend;</p><p>o was a constant reminder which prompted offenders to ‘think twice' when a criminal opportunity presented itself and gave them the spur they needed to walk away;</p><p>o provided offenders with renewed determination to get their lives back together after a period of incarceration; and</p><p>o was perceived by offenders to help stop wrongful identification for crimes they hadn't done.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 204814 204815 204991 204992 question first answered 17/07/2014 13:21:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76896

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value of the new electronic tagging contract is for each of the next nine financial years.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The contracts have not yet been awarded. An announcement was made on 15<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p>Yes we comply with the OJEU / EU procurement rules as well as cabinet office processes.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The new electronic monitoring service has not been subject to a pilot as in the first instance we need to ensure continuity of service. However, there will be a significant period of testing and validation for the new system before introduction. There is also a robust programme of testing for the new tags themselves, and we will have to be satisfied that they meet our standards before they are introduced on the new platform. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Electronic monitoring using GPS was piloted in three probation areas in 2004 to 2005 and the evaluation found qualitative evidence to show that it:</p><p>o acted as a deterrent because offenders thought they would be caught if they were to reoffend;</p><p>o was a constant reminder which prompted offenders to ‘think twice' when a criminal opportunity presented itself and gave them the spur they needed to walk away;</p><p>o provided offenders with renewed determination to get their lives back together after a period of incarceration; and</p><p>o was perceived by offenders to help stop wrongful identification for crimes they hadn't done.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 204814 204816 204991 204992 question first answered 17/07/2014 13:21:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76897

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies have been awarded contracts for electronic tagging in respect of the next nine years; how much each such company will be paid; what services each such company will provide; and for how long each such company will provide services.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The contracts have not yet been awarded. An announcement was made on 15<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p>Yes we comply with the OJEU / EU procurement rules as well as cabinet office processes.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>The new electronic monitoring service has not been subject to a pilot as in the first instance we need to ensure continuity of service. However, there will be a significant period of testing and validation for the new system before introduction. There is also a robust programme of testing for the new tags themselves, and we will have to be satisfied that they meet our standards before they are introduced on the new platform. </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Electronic monitoring using GPS was piloted in three probation areas in 2004 to 2005 and the evaluation found qualitative evidence to show that it:</p><p>o acted as a deterrent because offenders thought they would be caught if they were to reoffend;</p><p>o was a constant reminder which prompted offenders to ‘think twice' when a criminal opportunity presented itself and gave them the spur they needed to walk away;</p><p>o provided offenders with renewed determination to get their lives back together after a period of incarceration; and</p><p>o was perceived by offenders to help stop wrongful identification for crimes they hadn't done.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 204815 204816 204991 204992 question first answered 17/07/2014 13:21:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76466

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Care Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there have been significant delays in care proceedings involving children in family courts in England and Wales since the implementation of the legal aid reforms in 2013; and if he will publish statistics of the length of such proceedings.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The average time for the disposal of a care or supervision application fell from 42.3 weeks (January to March 2013) to 32.0 weeks (January to March 2014). In the last quarter for which figures are available.Care proceedings timeliness is published and monitored in the Court Statistics Quarterly: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014</a>.</p><p>Legal aid remains available in public family law matters such as care proceedings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 204624 question first answered 14/07/2014 14:19:30 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76467

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Care Proceedings
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 effect on the length of care proceedings involving children in England and Wales of the reforms to legal aid since April 2013.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The average time for the disposal of a care or supervision application fell from 42.3 weeks (January to March 2013) to 32.0 weeks (January to March 2014). In the last quarter for which figures are available.Care proceedings timeliness is published and monitored in the Court Statistics Quarterly: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014</a>.</p><p>Legal aid remains available in public family law matters such as care proceedings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 204623 question first answered 14/07/2014 14:19:30 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76468

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Care Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applicants did not receive legal aid to pursue residency and contact cases that they would have received before the reforms to legal aid since April 2013.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not record whether an application for legal aid made following the implementation of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) in April 2013 would have been granted prior to the reforms introduced by LASPO.</p><p> </p><p>LASPO changed the scope of legal aid, however in many cases there are multiple reasons for a case being refused, not just that the case is out of the scope of LASPO. Usually these reasons relate to eligibility which means the applicant may not have been able to get legal aid prior to LASPO regardless of whether their case is in scope or not.</p><p> </p><p>LASPO also changed some eligibility requirements, therefore the LAA would not be able to identify whether the client was refused because they no longer met eligibility requirements (i.e. a non-scope reason) where they previously would have done, as the LAA does not record this information.</p><p> </p><p>An Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) application for civil legal services can be made where a case falls outside the scope of legal aid but the client or conducting solicitor believes there is evidence to support there being a requirement to provide funding because failure to do so would be a breach of, or having regard to any risk that failure to do so would be such a breach of, their Convention rights (within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998), or any rights of the individual to the provision of legal services that are enforceable EU rights.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/07/2014 16:41:04 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76469

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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, how many applications for legal aid for family matters have been refused since April 2013; and how many of these were subsequently granted under the Exceptional Funding Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>An Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) application for civil legal services is made where a case falls outside the scope of legal aid but the client or conducting solicitor believes there is evidence to support there being a requirement to provide funding because failure to do so would be a breach of, or having regard to any risk that failure to do so would be such a breach of, their Convention rights (within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998), or any rights of the individual to the provision of legal services that are enforceable EU rights.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency does not record whether an ECF application (under Clause 10 of LASPO) has previously been refused as being outside the scope of Schedule 1 of LASPO.</p><p> </p><p>From 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014, 6,552 Licensed Work applications for legal aid for family matters were refused. On 852 of these refused applications, one of the reasons for refusal involved the application being outside the scope of Schedule 1 of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that 9 applications for legal aid for family matters were granted under the Exceptional Case Funding scheme between 1st April 2013 and 31st March 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/07/2014 16:37:55 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

76470

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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 litigants in person have appeared before courts in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
uin	204627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Details of self-representation in criminal and civil courts can only be obtained by manually checking every case file at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers for family cases showing self-representing applicants and respondents are published quarterly. Self-representation is determined by the field ‘legal representation' in the Ministry of Justice administrative database being left blank. Therefore, this is only a proxy measure and parties without a recorded representative are not necessarily self-representing litigants in person.</p><p> </p><p>Information for parties' representation is available for family courts at a national level from 2011. The data are in table 2.4 of Court Statistics Quarterly, available at this link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><p>Litigants in person are not a new phenomenon in our courts. Judges are used to helping persons with no legal representation, including explaining procedures and what is expected of them. We have taken steps to help people who either want or have to represent themselves in court, including publishing a revised guide for separating parents and increased training for judges. The link to the guide is:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/HMCTS/GetLeaflet.do?court_leaflets_id=2756" target="_blank">http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/HMCTS/GetLeaflet.do?court_leaflets_id=2756</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/07/2014 16:31:06 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd