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1037806

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Emergency Services: 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 prosecutions there have been in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) the UK under the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	206463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against in Greater Manchester and in England and Wales under the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006, from 2008 to 2017, can be viewed in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Court proceedings data for 2018 is planned for publication in May 2019.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 16:39:21 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Number of prosecutions under the Emergency Workers.docx title Table
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1037854

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2018 to Question 197618 on Legal Aid Scheme, when the Government plans to publish its review of the legal aid reforms brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	206296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor has confirmed that we shall conduct an evidence-based review of Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, assessing the changes to legal aid provision against their original objectives. As stated in the House on 18 December, this review is now near completion and will be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p>This process of consideration and engagement with interested parties also represents an opportunity for the Government to consider what the future of legal support should look like.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 14:24:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1037926

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Infectious Diseases: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans the Government has to ensure that people reporting crimes involving the deliberate infection of (a) HIV and (b) other diseases can access specialised support services whilst investigations are undertaken and completed.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	206381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>All victims of crime are entitled to receive appropriate support to help them, as far as possible, cope and recover. Under the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (Victims’ Code), the police must conduct a needs assessment of a victim and refer them to victim support services, unless the victim chooses not to be. This may include referral to services which specialise in supporting people diagnosed with HIV and sexual transmission of infections.</p><p> </p><p>In the Victims Strategy, published in September last year, we committed to consulting on a revised Victims’ Code to ensure that the entitlements better reflect victims’ needs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 16/01/2019 17:12:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1037935

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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, what recent assessment he has made of the average cost of administering probate for an estate valued at (a) £5,000 (b) £50,0000 and (c) £2 million; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	206229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Whilst current probate fees are determined based on an assessment of unit costing at a service level, the Ministry of Justice has not made any assessment specifically on the costs to HMCTS of administering an application for probate for estates of £5,000, £50,000 or £2 million.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 14:27:10 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1037940

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the road traffic cases affected by manipulation of toxicology tests by Randox Testing Services resulted in a custodial sentence being overturned; and how long each of those sentences were prior to the manipulation being discovered.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	206411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 206412 206414 question first answered 21/01/2019 18:22:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 94846 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1037941

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the road traffic cases affected by manipulation of toxicology tests by Randox Testing Services resulted in a custodial sentence reduced; and by how much each such sentence was reduced by.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	206412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 206411 206414 question first answered 21/01/2019 18:22:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 94850 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1037948

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Misconduct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) initial conviction and (b) sentence or penalty was in the road traffic cases overturned under Section 142 of the Magistrates Court Act 1980 as a result of manipulation of forensic testing.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	206414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 206411 206412 question first answered 21/01/2019 18:22:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 94851 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1037958

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department is spending on a public information campaign to prepare people for the potential effects of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	206214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has a duty to inform citizens and businesses about how leaving the EU might affect them, and to advise on the steps they may need to take to prepare for EU Exit.</p><p>Cabinet Office has developed a cross-departmental public information campaign to help achieve this. Over the coming weeks, departments will be using a range of channels to direct UK citizens, businesses, EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU to a dedicated area on GOV.UK at Gov.uk/euexit</p><p><br>Information on the costs associated with this campaign will be released in due course as part of normal data transparency releases</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 10:11:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1037992

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Court Orders: Compensation
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 (a) highest, (b) lowest and (c) average value of Compensation Orders issues in the last five years by offence type in the (i) Magistrates' and (ii) Crown Courts.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	206330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of compensation orders issued and the amount ordered to pay, broken down by offence type and court type over the last decade is in the public domain. The information can be found in the Criminal Justice Statistics found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant data tools are: Magistrates Court data tool; and Crown Court data tool.</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>In the relevant data tool (Magistrates’ or Crown), select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Compensation – All’ row.</p></li><li><p>For the average compensation, again select the ‘offence group’ of interest and scroll down the table to the ‘Average Compensation (£)’ row.</p></li><li><p>Similarly, you can observe the number of lowest value compensation orders (£0-£25) and highest value orders (£1000 +) in the rows below in the table.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2019 17:39:18 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1037993

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted sex offenders who did not receive a custodial sentence for their first sex offence were subsequently convicted of further sexual offences in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	206331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>Table 1: Number of offenders<sup>1</sup> convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence and did not receive an immediate custodial sentence for their first sexual offence conviction, England and Wales<sup>2</sup>, annually from year ending June 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year Ending June</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>394</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>389</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.</p><p>2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Number of offenders1 convicted of a sexual offence who already have at least one previous conviction for a sexual offence, England and Wales2, annually from year ending June 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year ending June</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>709</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>769</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>852</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>811</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>801</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) Each individual offender is counted only once for each year but may be counted in multiple years.</p><p>2) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office are responsible for management of the sex offender register, the Ministry of Justice does not hold details of offenders on the sex offender register and so can not identify details of any further convictions of these offenders.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 206332 206333 question first answered 16/01/2019 17:09:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel