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758270

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been brought before employment tribunals in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	9290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>In line with the Employment Tribunals data retention policy cases from the live databases are archived 12 months after they are concluded and as such personalised data (constituency) is no longer available. In view of this we can only give numbers for claims accepted from October 2016 to March 2017 in line with the published stats.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of accepted claims against businesses in each of these areas from October 2016 to March 2017.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Singles</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Multiples</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jarrow Consituency<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South Tyneside<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1 </sup>Jarrow Constituency taken as accepted claims submitted within the postcode area NE31 &amp; NE32.</p><p><sup>2</sup> South Tyneside taken as accepted claims submitted within the postcode area NE31, NE34, NE10, NE33, NE32, NE36, NE37 &amp; SR6</p><p>Employment Tribunal claims are distributed according to the respondent’s address.</p><p><em>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.</em></p><p>The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as this data was run on a different date.</p><p> </p><p>The data for the North East and UK receipts can be obtained from the published statics using the link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017.</p><p> </p><p>Due to changes in the type of data published, the regional information was not published previously, as a result data covering 2010 and 2011 have not been provided.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 12/09/2017 11:29:07 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

758271

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Children: Secure Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court orders for children to be held securely have been made in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	9267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>There are two groups of children who may be held securely, in two jurisdictions. <br>In the family court, a care and supervision order may be made, data in table 4 at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017</p><p>In the youth justice estate, the relevant figures are “Total immediate custody” from Table 5.3 of the annual statistics 2015 to 2016: supplementary tables and the “Total custodial remands” from Table 6.1 of the same supplementary tables at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-justice-statistics-2015-to-2016</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:25:06 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

758272

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
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 cost to the public purse of reimbursing people who have paid employment tribunal fees.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	9269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Fees in Employment Tribunals raised around £32m after their introduction in 2013. We are now putting in place arrangements to refund those who have paid the fees, which we will be announcing shortly.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:48:30 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

758273

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) staff and (b) vacancies there were in each community rehabilitation company in each quarter since those companies were established.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	9270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Ownership of Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) transferred to new providers in 2015. Contracts with CRCs require each CRC to ensure that it employs a sufficient level of staff, and that its workforce is competent and adequately trained. We no longer routinely collect and publish CRC workforce numbers.</p><p>We closely monitor and robustly manage providers to make sure they fulfil their contractual commitments to reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 16:26:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

758274

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the prison incarceration rates per capita are for (a) England and Wales and (b) other EU countries; and what the average cost of jailing a person per year is in (i) England and Wales and (ii) other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	9073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The SPACE I report (last published in April 2017) covers incarceration rates for each member country of the Council of Europe: <a href="http://wp.unil.ch/space/files/2017/04/SPACE_I_2015_FinalReport_161215_REV170425.pdf" target="_blank">http://wp.unil.ch/space/files/2017/04/SPACE_I_2015_FinalReport_161215_REV170425.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), routinely publishes average costs per prisoner and prison place, and overall prison unit costs of individual prisons for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales. The information can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each relevant financial year here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/563326/costs-per-place-cost-per-prisoner-2015-16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/563326/costs-per-place-cost-per-prisoner-2015-16.pdf</a>. Prison unit costs can be found within the Excel document <em>Costs per prison place and cost per prisoner by individual prison establishment</em> in the ‘Cost by Establishment’ tab. The most recently published figures are for financial year 2015-16 and we expect to publish the 2016-17 data on 26 October 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/09/2017 15:38:38 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

758275

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Perjury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases brought before the family courts have been found to be based on false allegations in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Hugo Swire
uin	9051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:23:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire

758276

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Sign Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department takes to provide (a) information on its services in British Sign Language (BSL) and (b) correspondence in BSL to people whose principal language is BSL.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	9010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>The Ministry has several statutory obligations to provide interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings. This includes a contract for the provision of British Sign Language, which is made available wherever required across the Ministry, its executive agencies and arm length bodies, and other organisations in the justice sector who use the contracts.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 15/09/2017 13:11:13 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

758277

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	G4S: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place the documents relating to the contract signed in 2017 between the Government and G4S for the electronic tagging of offenders in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	9216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>A redacted version of the new contract between the Ministry of Justice and G4S for electronic monitoring hardware equipment will be published on Contracts Finder in line with current transparency regulations. We are currently planning to sign the contract by the end of October 2017. I will write to the Honourable gentleman when the contract has been published.</p><p>The field monitoring services including fitting and removal of tags and the monitoring provision is provided by Capita Business Services Limited.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 16:09:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

758278

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court: Legal Representation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have chosen to represent themselves in Crown Court since the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	9217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Maintaining access to justice remains absolutely vital and continues to be at the heart of our reforms. Our legal aid reforms are reducing costs to taxpayers whilst still providing legal help to those who need it most.</p><p> </p><p>Details of the number of defendants with no advocate or unknown representation can be found in table AC11 of the annual Criminal Courts Statistics Quarterly publication (main tables) at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:44:56 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

758279

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) foreign and (b) British national defendants of each (i) sex and (ii) ethnic group were sentenced to immediate custody for each offence type in the last year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>Reliable information on the proportion of foreign and British national defendants of each sex and ethnic group who were refused bail or sentenced to immediate custody could only be provided at disproportionate cost because court proceedings data does not include information on nationality.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 9136 question first answered 14/09/2017 15:20:11 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies