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1694126

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been subject to a special guardianship order in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	17246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures in relation to how many children are subject to a special guardianship order at any one time.</p><p>However, the following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures provides details on the number of children involved in orders from 2013 until 2022. Data for public law cases in 2022 has not been published due to data issues resulting from the reform of public law services.</p><p>The number of these orders has remained relatively stable over that period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,923</p></td><td><p>1,863</p></td><td><p>6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,852</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>6,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5,514</p></td><td><p>1,949</p></td><td><p>7,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5,668</p></td><td><p>1,812</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,758</p></td><td><p>1,581</p></td><td><p>7,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5,920</p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>7,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,835</p></td><td><p>1,544</p></td><td><p>7,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>5,268</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td><td><p>6,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>6,124</p></td><td><p>1,293</p></td><td><p>7,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>1,184</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/03/2024 17:06:49 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1690262

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality: Coroners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to enact section 4 of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	901597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2024 answer text <p>Work to publish the response to the 2019 consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths was paused during the pandemic, and since then the landscape of maternity investigations has changed significantly.</p><p>The findings of the consultation were complex, and it is imperative that they are carefully considered when deciding whether the coronial jurisdiction should be extended to include the investigation of stillbirths.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 20/02/2024 19:39:20 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1647885

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
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 current average processing time for probate cases; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	191000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts during January to March 2023, the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate, following receipt of the documents required, is 9 weeks.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and these resources are focussed on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness on all types of applications.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 03/07/2023 16:04:24 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1646478

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the inclusivity induction pack provided to all new employees in his Department.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	190500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>There is no single departmental inclusivity induction pack provided to all new employees.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) regularly host a corporate induction workshop which all new starters can attend, and information about induction into the MoJ is made available on the MoJ Intranet. This is supplemented with the online Civil Service Expectations training which includes specific learning outcomes relating to diversity and inclusion.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all new employees receive an induction through their individual business areas where induction products are tailored to their delivery model.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 26/06/2023 15:37:15 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1582764

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Gender
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 ensure that data collected by (a) his Department and (b) his Department’s associated arms-length bodies records biological sex as opposed to gender identity.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	137709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>To provide a response Ministry of Justice officials would need to ascertain the facts in relation to all steps taken to ensure that data is recorded as biological sex in MoJ HQ and its 34 public bodies, which could only be done at disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p> </p><p>The scope of this question covers MoJ and its 34 public bodies. All ALBs do not use the same systems to record biological sex information and it is not known what steps are taken in each ALB to ensure biological sex is recorded, as opposed to gender identity, because this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>To reach a factual conclusion each ALB would need to be investigated to identify and extract all information pertaining to all steps taken to ensure that data collected records biological sex as opposed to gender identity across all records.</p><p> </p><p>However, I can confirm that our policy concerning prisons is that transgender prisoners are allocated based on legal gender rather than self-declared gender identity. HMPPS also records the transgender status of every transgender prisoner, meaning that for each we know both their biological sex and their gender identity.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 09/02/2023 14:20:48 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1564358

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many overseas nationals are imprisoned in the UK by nationality.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	117404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>The information requested, in relation to England and Wales, can be found in Table 1.7 at the following link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113584/Population_30Sep2022.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113584/Population_30Sep2022.ods</a>.</p><p>The table provides information in relation to all prisoners in England and Wales, and to foreign nationals held in prison in England and Wales, as of 30 September 2022, the latest publication of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/01/2023 14:32:27 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1564359

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Albania
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Albanian nationals have voluntarily been transferred from UK prisons to detention in Albania in the last year.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	117405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>More than 10,000 foreign national offenders have been returned to their home countries in the last three years.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Albania. This agreement came into force in May 2022. We are working closely with our counterparts in Albania to begin transferring prisoners – with or without the offender’s consent – as soon as possible, as outlined in our new bilateral prisoner transfer agreement.</p><p>Justice is a devolved matter in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS), an agency of the Scottish Government, operates Scottish prisons. Similarly, the Northern Ireland Prison Service is responsible for the management of prisons in Northern Ireland. The MoJ therefore does not hold this information in relation to prisoners in Scottish or Northern Irish prisons.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/01/2023 15:47:35 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1564364

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Duncan Lewis Solicitors: Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public funds in the form legal aid were paid to Duncan Lewis Solicitors for immigration cases in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	117408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>The requested information can be found in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Costs, £</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>9,224,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>9,150,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>8,091,003</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>7,737,439</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>8,055,383</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Duncan Lewis is the largest Legal Aid provider in the UK currently operating across 23 offices.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency publishes data regarding civil legal aid expenditure broken down by category of law and legal aid provider as part of its <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086940/legal-aid-statistics-civil-completions-provider-area-data-to-mar-2022.zip" target="_blank">official statistics</a>.</p><p>Legal aid is only available in respect of immigration cases which are within the scope of legal aid as set out under Schedule 1, Part 1 of the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/contents/enacted" target="_blank">Legal Aid and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012</a> and subject to the application of a strict financial eligibility and merits test.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/01/2023 18:12:22 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1505379

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the previous Secretary of State’s announcement on Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) cases on 20 July 2022, when he will bring forward legislative proposals on SLAPPs.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	48194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>I refer to my answer to the Hon. Member for Croydon North on 7 September, the Government is continuing to explore options in relation to SLAPPs.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 20/09/2022 15:38:59 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1400325

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many transwomen are currently held in (a) female prisons and (b) all prisons; and how many of those offenders have previous convictions for sexual offences.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	98878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>As of our latest data collection on 31 March 2021, there were 146 transgender women (that is, prisoners who were legally male and identified as female) in all prisons across England and Wales.</p><p>Of these, fewer than five transgender prisoners were housed in the women’s estate. These figures do not include transgender prisoners with gender recognition certificates, although information on these individuals will be published early this year.</p><p> </p><p>On the offences committed by individuals, we are only able to provide figures for the offence or offences that have led to an individual’s current imprisonment. To provide offence information for previous convictions would involve a complex data matching exercise which would exceed the prohibitive cost threshold for responding to a Parliamentary Question. Previous convictions, along with other relevant information, are considered, however, as part of the risk assessment set out in the Care and Management of Individuals who are Transgender Policy 2019.</p><p> </p><p>On current offences, in the men’s estate, there were 87 transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence. In the women’s estate, the number of transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence was fewer than 5. This includes prisoners with a GRC.</p><p> </p><p>Where transgender prisoners with GRCs are deemed too high risk to be held in the general women's estate, they can be held on E Wing, part of HMP Downview. This allows them to be held separately with only supervised contact with other women.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 14/01/2022 14:51:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton