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1147025

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if Her Majesty's Courts & Tribunals Service will publish (a) weekly data on the number of probate grants issued in England and Wales and (b) up to date data on the average time between application for and grant of probate.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	292207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Quarterly data on the number of probate grants issued in England and Wales are published within the Family Court Statistics Quarterly bulletin: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>. The latest publication was on 26th September, however the requested information for April-June 2019 has not yet been published while we investigate quality issues identified in the transition between two data systems.</p><p>Currently there are no plans to publish this data weekly but statisticians seek views from users as part of their regular consultation on the statistics to ensure they meet the Code of Practice for Statistics with regard to quality and value.</p><p>Statisticians are considering adding data on timeliness and will work in consultation with colleagues in Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and users of the data to confirm their plans prior to any publication.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:35:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1147026

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when waiting times for probate grants issued in England and Wales will return to below the historical average of three weeks.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	292208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has increased staffing levels and further improved the digital service to help reduce waiting times. HMCTS is committed to continuing to bring waiting times down further and aims to be back to normal waiting times for grants on new, complete, applications as soon as possible<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:36:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1147089

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Tribunals: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of the courts and tribunals, including the postcode locations, that have closed between 2010-11 and the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	292101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Details of court and tribunal buildings closed between 2010-11 to 2016-17 was published in answer to Parliamentary Question 147811.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information for 2017-18 onwards is provided below</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2017-18 financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Crown Court</p></td><td><p>HP20 1XD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley Wellington House</p></td><td><p>S70 1WA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bicester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>OX26 2NZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham AIT (Sheldon Court)</p></td><td><p>B4 6DS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham Magistrates' Youth Court</p></td><td><p>B4 6BJ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>BL1 1UA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bow County Court</p></td><td><p>E15 4EG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol Vintry House</p></td><td><p>BS1 2BP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>BL9 0HX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caernarfon Civil and Family Court</p></td><td><p>LL55 2Df</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham Rivershill House - Cheltenham Tribunal</p></td><td><p>GL50 3EX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>PO19 1YE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby Derwent Court</p></td><td><p>DE1 1SG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>CT16 1BS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Parade - Sheffield Tribunal</p></td><td><p>S1 2ET</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastbourne Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>BN21 4UN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>W6 8DN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>LL65 1HG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kendal Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>LA9 4NF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering County Court</p></td><td><p>NN16 0BE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth County Court</p></td><td><p>SE11 4DZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster County Court</p></td><td><p>LA1 1JW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llangefni Civil and Family Court</p></td><td><p>LL77 7EN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham County Court</p></td><td><p>OL1 1NL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>ST16 3DW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent Tribunal Hearing Centre (Bennett House)</p></td><td><p>ST1 2QB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland AS Hylton Park</p></td><td><p>SR5 3HD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telford County Court</p></td><td><p>TF3 4JP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torquay Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>TQ1 4BP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>WD17 1ST</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woolwich County Court</p></td><td><p>SE18 6JW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2018-2019 financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court</p></td><td><p>OX16 2AW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Combined Court</p></td><td><p>PO19 1SX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chippenham Magistrates' &amp; Civil Court</p></td><td><p>SN15 3BF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>PR7 1RZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>SL6 8PB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury Crown Court</p></td><td><p>SY2 6LU</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland County Court</p></td><td><p>SR1 1RB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed between 1 April and 30 September 2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colchester County Court</p></td><td><p>CO3 3EG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court (sitting as a Family Hearing Centre)</p></td><td><p>FY7 6HJ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>CM20 1JA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northallerton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>DL7 8QZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend County Court</p></td><td><p>SS1 2AW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and when communities have reasonable access to alternative courts.</p><p> </p><p>We are reinvesting every penny raised from selling these underused buildings into modernising the justice system to provide swifter and easier access to justice for all.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:33:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1147288

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been convicted of a serious assault on a prison officer in each of the last five years; and what additional sentence those prisoners were given as a result those assaults.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	292171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify the proportion of serious assaults on prison staff that resulted in a criminal conviction in each of the last five years. Detailed information may be held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/10/2019 14:42:27 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1147291

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Homicide: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of homicide did not receive a custodial sentence in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	292172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on the sentencing outcomes for offenders convicted of homicide offences (murder, manslaughter and infanticide) in each of the last 5 years. This information is available in the Outcomes by Offence data tool available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Filter ‘Offence’ to ‘1 Murder’, ‘4.1 Manslaughter’ and ‘4.2 Infanticide’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:41:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1146759

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Ministers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the guidance issued to Ministers on relations with the judiciary.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	291538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Section 3(1) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 requires that all Ministers of the Crown must uphold the continued independence of the judiciary. Paragraph 16 of the introduction and Chapter 6 of the Cabinet Manual make clear that the judiciary is independent of both the government of the day and Parliament. All ministers have access to legal advice in relation to their statutory duties, including advice where appropriate from Law Officers.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor has taken an Oath to respect the rule of law and defend the independence of the judiciary, which means that if required he will remind Ministerial colleagues of the importance of judicial independence and the rule of law. I am confident that my Ministerial colleagues understand their duties in this regard.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:37:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1146476

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Working Links: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support he can provide to charities and other organisations who have not been paid money owed to them as a result of Working Links going into administration.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
uin	291408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Secretary of State’s Direction of 8 May and in the response to 275187, it was concluded, on this occasion, that it was reasonable for Government to protect Permitted Subcontractors who suffered losses as they relate to the collapse of Working Links and their Community Rehabilitation Companies. These organisations are directly involved in the delivery of vital frontline probation services. We have been very clear that this is a unique response to a unique and specific set of circumstances. This should not be viewed as setting a precedent for future scenarios.</p><p>Of the ten permitted subcontractors that the Authority agreed to make payments to as per the Ministerial Direction of 8 May, nine have been paid to date. The invoice from the remaining permitted subcontractor is currently being reviewed as part of our due diligence process. <br> <br>Contractors outside of the permitted subcontractor list should continue to pursue any financial claims through the Administrator. The Authority can assist in this process if required.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/10/2019 09:55:20 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton

1146504

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reform the process for making judicial appointments, including to the Supreme Court.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	291430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to alter the process for making judicial appointments. Our judges are selected following a rigorous, independent, merit based process which is key to maintaining the quality, integrity and independence of our world class judiciary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 291431 question first answered 01/10/2019 16:51:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1146505

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judges: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's policy is on politically appointed judges.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	291431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to alter the process for making judicial appointments. Our judges are selected following a rigorous, independent, merit based process which is key to maintaining the quality, integrity and independence of our world class judiciary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 291430 question first answered 01/10/2019 16:51:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1146665

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Disasters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress has been made on implementing the commitment in the Queen's Speech 2017 to introduce an independent public advocate who will (a) act for bereaved families after a public disaster and (b) support those families at public inquests; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	291257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to doing all it can to support bereaved families after a public disaster and to ensure those families are supported during public inquests.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to consider the responses to the proposals for an Independent Public Advocate on which we consulted last year and will be publishing our plans for establishing the role in due course.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 01/10/2019 10:08:39 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle