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date	09/03/2015
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, with reference to his Written Statement of 18 December 2014, Official Report, columns 134-5WS, on transforming rehabilitation, whether any of the winning bidders for the running of the 21 community rehabilitation companies were not involved when the contracts went live on 1 February 2015.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	226854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Contracts were signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice with the new owners of the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) on 18 December 2014 and on 1 February 2015, new owners assumed control of the CRCs and delivery of probation services to low and medium risk offenders. On 1 February, all providers who signed contracts on 18 December 2014 assumed ownership of the CRC for which they had successfully bid.</p><p><br><br></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 12/03/2015 16:07:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

226054

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offensive Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects Section 28 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 to come into force.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	226835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>Knives on our streets are a social scourge, and under this Government, criminals carrying knives are more likely to go to prison and to get longer sentences. Unlawful possession of a knife or offensive weapon is already a serious criminal offence (which carries a maximum 4 year custodial sentence). We have built on that in the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, to make it absolutely clear that cautions should no longer be used for these offences.</p><p> </p><p>Parliament has also decided that those caught for a second time in possession of a knife should face a minimum custodial sentence. The Ministry of Justice is currently considering how best to implement this provision, alongside the other legislative changes contained in the Act.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/03/2015 17:02:28 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

226055

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Inspectorate of Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who the members are of the appointment panel for the new Chief Inspector of Prisons.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	226832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The Selection Panel for the competition to recruit a new Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons were:</p><ul><li>Dame Anne Pringle (Chair) – A Public Appointment Assessor nominated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.</li><li>Antonia Romeo, the then Director of Criminal Justice, Ministry of Justice.</li><li>Lord Oliver Henley, former Minister of State, Home Office. He was the first independent selection panel member.</li><li>Amanda Sater, a member of the Youth Justice Board and the second independent selection panel member.</li></ul> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 12/03/2015 16:00:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

225498

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Court Orders: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many child arrangement orders issued by the courts were breached and resulted in the imposition of unpaid work in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	226452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of child arrangement orders (residence and contact), prohibited steps orders, specific issues orders, and non molestation orders are shown in table 1 below. Note that data is not available for 2010 as the FamilyMan court database did not include all courts at this time. This data covers England and Wales and give the number of children and young people involved in those orders made.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 – Number of specific Children’s Act orders; England and Wales; 2011 to 2013</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Contact and Residence Orders*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prohibited steps</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Specific issue</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NMOs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>155,528</p></td><td><p>18,757</p></td><td><p>5,957</p></td><td><p>19,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>158,112</p></td><td><p>19,788</p></td><td><p>6,515</p></td><td><p>19,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>160,738</p></td><td><p>18,400</p></td><td><p>6,407</p></td><td><p>22,279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Note: Child Arrangements Orders replaced separate Contact and Residence Orders in April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2014 will be published in Table 4 of Family Court Statistics Quarterly on 26 March at <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></p><p> </p><p>Details of how many of the orders included in Table 1 were breached or resulted in enforcement or contempt of court or a sequestration order can only be obtained by manually checking case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of enforcement proceedings in respect of contact orders and Child Arrangements Orders from 2011 to 2013 are shown in Table 2 – these comprise applications for an enforcement order for unpaid work and applications for an order requiring the payment of compensation for financial loss.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Table 2 - Numbers of applications and orders of enforcement of Child Arrangement orders - 2011 to 2013</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(a) Applications for enforcement order for unpaid work</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) All Enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(c) Applications for second enforcement order</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(d) Second enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(e) Applications for an order to pay financial compensation</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>(f) Orders made for financial compensation </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>1126</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>331</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1312</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>959</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>1750</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>1) figures for column (b) and column (f) together make up total enforcement order as recorded in Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication - table 4.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>2) second enforcement order - column (d) - includes &quot;breach of an enforcement order or order for increased hours.&quot;</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>3) figures for 2014 will only be available from 26th March 2014.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 are provided in Table 3. Data for 2014 are planned for publication in May 2015 in the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 3 - Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order <sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 <sup>(2)(3)(4)(5)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>1,933</p></td><td><p>2,257</p></td><td><p>2,339</p></td><td><p>2,467</p></td><td><p>2,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td><p>2,279</p></td><td><p>2,626</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td><td><p>2,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>2,550</p></td><td><p>2,566</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absolute discharge</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conditional discharge</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>388</p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fine</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community sentence</p></td><td><p>741</p></td><td><p>851</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suspended sentence</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>267</p></td><td><p>251</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>493</p></td><td><p>567</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Otherwise dealt with <sup>(6)</sup></p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>862</p></td><td><p>927</p></td><td><p>994</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) An offence under S42A Family Law Act 1996</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to make sure that data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(4) The number of defendants found guilty in a particular year may exceed the number proceeded against as the proceedings in the magistrates' court took place in an earlier year and the defendants were found guilty at the Crown Court in the following year; or the defendants were found guilty of a different offence to that for which they were originally proceeded against.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(5) The number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(6) The category Otherwise Dealt With (ODW) includes: one day in police cells; disqualification order; restraining order; confiscation order; travel restriction order; disqualification from driving; recommendation for deportation; and other miscellaneous disposals.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: PQ 226458</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders convicted of breaching a non-molestation order on one, two, or three or more occasions in each of the last five years for which data is available are provided in Table 4. These figures have been drawn from an extract of the Police National Computer (PNC) data held by the Department - they will differ from the figures taken from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) court proceedings database. The PNC holds details of all convictions and cautions given for recordable offences. Hence, police recorded crime and data court proceedings are not directly comparable.</p><p> </p><p>As with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing so data provided may be subject to revision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Table 4 - Number of offenders breaching non-molestation orders, England and Wales<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of non-molestation order breach offences<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12 months ending September<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3 or more</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,854</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,847</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,960</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,559</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Data Source</strong>: MoJs copy of the Police National Computer</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>1.</sup> England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas and the British Transport Police</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>2.</sup> Where the primary offence on a given occasion was a non-molestation order breach offence.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>3.</sup> The same offender may appear in multiple years.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 226451 226453 226454 226456 226458 question first answered 12/03/2015 14:17:54 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

225499

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Court Orders: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prohibited steps orders were (a) issued by the courts, (b) breached and (c) resulted in contempt proceedings or a sequestration order in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	226451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of child arrangement orders (residence and contact), prohibited steps orders, specific issues orders, and non molestation orders are shown in table 1 below. Note that data is not available for 2010 as the FamilyMan court database did not include all courts at this time. This data covers England and Wales and give the number of children and young people involved in those orders made.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 – Number of specific Children’s Act orders; England and Wales; 2011 to 2013</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Contact and Residence Orders*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prohibited steps</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Specific issue</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NMOs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>155,528</p></td><td><p>18,757</p></td><td><p>5,957</p></td><td><p>19,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>158,112</p></td><td><p>19,788</p></td><td><p>6,515</p></td><td><p>19,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>160,738</p></td><td><p>18,400</p></td><td><p>6,407</p></td><td><p>22,279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Note: Child Arrangements Orders replaced separate Contact and Residence Orders in April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2014 will be published in Table 4 of Family Court Statistics Quarterly on 26 March at <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></p><p> </p><p>Details of how many of the orders included in Table 1 were breached or resulted in enforcement or contempt of court or a sequestration order can only be obtained by manually checking case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of enforcement proceedings in respect of contact orders and Child Arrangements Orders from 2011 to 2013 are shown in Table 2 – these comprise applications for an enforcement order for unpaid work and applications for an order requiring the payment of compensation for financial loss.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Table 2 - Numbers of applications and orders of enforcement of Child Arrangement orders - 2011 to 2013</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(a) Applications for enforcement order for unpaid work</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) All Enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(c) Applications for second enforcement order</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(d) Second enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(e) Applications for an order to pay financial compensation</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>(f) Orders made for financial compensation </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>1126</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>331</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1312</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>959</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>1750</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>1) figures for column (b) and column (f) together make up total enforcement order as recorded in Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication - table 4.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>2) second enforcement order - column (d) - includes &quot;breach of an enforcement order or order for increased hours.&quot;</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>3) figures for 2014 will only be available from 26th March 2014.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 are provided in Table 3. Data for 2014 are planned for publication in May 2015 in the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 3 - Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order <sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 <sup>(2)(3)(4)(5)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>1,933</p></td><td><p>2,257</p></td><td><p>2,339</p></td><td><p>2,467</p></td><td><p>2,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td><p>2,279</p></td><td><p>2,626</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td><td><p>2,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>2,550</p></td><td><p>2,566</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absolute discharge</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conditional discharge</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>388</p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fine</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community sentence</p></td><td><p>741</p></td><td><p>851</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suspended sentence</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>267</p></td><td><p>251</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>493</p></td><td><p>567</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Otherwise dealt with <sup>(6)</sup></p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>862</p></td><td><p>927</p></td><td><p>994</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) An offence under S42A Family Law Act 1996</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to make sure that data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(4) The number of defendants found guilty in a particular year may exceed the number proceeded against as the proceedings in the magistrates' court took place in an earlier year and the defendants were found guilty at the Crown Court in the following year; or the defendants were found guilty of a different offence to that for which they were originally proceeded against.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(5) The number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(6) The category Otherwise Dealt With (ODW) includes: one day in police cells; disqualification order; restraining order; confiscation order; travel restriction order; disqualification from driving; recommendation for deportation; and other miscellaneous disposals.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: PQ 226458</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders convicted of breaching a non-molestation order on one, two, or three or more occasions in each of the last five years for which data is available are provided in Table 4. These figures have been drawn from an extract of the Police National Computer (PNC) data held by the Department - they will differ from the figures taken from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) court proceedings database. The PNC holds details of all convictions and cautions given for recordable offences. Hence, police recorded crime and data court proceedings are not directly comparable.</p><p> </p><p>As with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing so data provided may be subject to revision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Table 4 - Number of offenders breaching non-molestation orders, England and Wales<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of non-molestation order breach offences<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12 months ending September<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3 or more</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,854</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,847</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,960</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,559</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Data Source</strong>: MoJs copy of the Police National Computer</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>1.</sup> England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas and the British Transport Police</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>2.</sup> Where the primary offence on a given occasion was a non-molestation order breach offence.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>3.</sup> The same offender may appear in multiple years.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 226452 226453 226454 226456 226458 question first answered 12/03/2015 14:17:53 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

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registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Court Orders: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many child arrangement orders were (a) issued by the courts, (b) breached and (c) resulted in an enforcement order or contempt proceedings in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	226453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of child arrangement orders (residence and contact), prohibited steps orders, specific issues orders, and non molestation orders are shown in table 1 below. Note that data is not available for 2010 as the FamilyMan court database did not include all courts at this time. This data covers England and Wales and give the number of children and young people involved in those orders made.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 – Number of specific Children’s Act orders; England and Wales; 2011 to 2013</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Contact and Residence Orders*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prohibited steps</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Specific issue</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NMOs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>155,528</p></td><td><p>18,757</p></td><td><p>5,957</p></td><td><p>19,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>158,112</p></td><td><p>19,788</p></td><td><p>6,515</p></td><td><p>19,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>160,738</p></td><td><p>18,400</p></td><td><p>6,407</p></td><td><p>22,279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Note: Child Arrangements Orders replaced separate Contact and Residence Orders in April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2014 will be published in Table 4 of Family Court Statistics Quarterly on 26 March at <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></p><p> </p><p>Details of how many of the orders included in Table 1 were breached or resulted in enforcement or contempt of court or a sequestration order can only be obtained by manually checking case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of enforcement proceedings in respect of contact orders and Child Arrangements Orders from 2011 to 2013 are shown in Table 2 – these comprise applications for an enforcement order for unpaid work and applications for an order requiring the payment of compensation for financial loss.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Table 2 - Numbers of applications and orders of enforcement of Child Arrangement orders - 2011 to 2013</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(a) Applications for enforcement order for unpaid work</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) All Enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(c) Applications for second enforcement order</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(d) Second enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(e) Applications for an order to pay financial compensation</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>(f) Orders made for financial compensation </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>1126</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>331</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1312</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>959</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>1750</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>1) figures for column (b) and column (f) together make up total enforcement order as recorded in Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication - table 4.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>2) second enforcement order - column (d) - includes &quot;breach of an enforcement order or order for increased hours.&quot;</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>3) figures for 2014 will only be available from 26th March 2014.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 are provided in Table 3. Data for 2014 are planned for publication in May 2015 in the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 3 - Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order <sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 <sup>(2)(3)(4)(5)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>1,933</p></td><td><p>2,257</p></td><td><p>2,339</p></td><td><p>2,467</p></td><td><p>2,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td><p>2,279</p></td><td><p>2,626</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td><td><p>2,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>2,550</p></td><td><p>2,566</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absolute discharge</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conditional discharge</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>388</p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fine</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community sentence</p></td><td><p>741</p></td><td><p>851</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suspended sentence</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>267</p></td><td><p>251</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>493</p></td><td><p>567</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Otherwise dealt with <sup>(6)</sup></p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>862</p></td><td><p>927</p></td><td><p>994</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) An offence under S42A Family Law Act 1996</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to make sure that data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(4) The number of defendants found guilty in a particular year may exceed the number proceeded against as the proceedings in the magistrates' court took place in an earlier year and the defendants were found guilty at the Crown Court in the following year; or the defendants were found guilty of a different offence to that for which they were originally proceeded against.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(5) The number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(6) The category Otherwise Dealt With (ODW) includes: one day in police cells; disqualification order; restraining order; confiscation order; travel restriction order; disqualification from driving; recommendation for deportation; and other miscellaneous disposals.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: PQ 226458</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders convicted of breaching a non-molestation order on one, two, or three or more occasions in each of the last five years for which data is available are provided in Table 4. These figures have been drawn from an extract of the Police National Computer (PNC) data held by the Department - they will differ from the figures taken from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) court proceedings database. The PNC holds details of all convictions and cautions given for recordable offences. Hence, police recorded crime and data court proceedings are not directly comparable.</p><p> </p><p>As with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing so data provided may be subject to revision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Table 4 - Number of offenders breaching non-molestation orders, England and Wales<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of non-molestation order breach offences<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12 months ending September<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3 or more</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,854</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,847</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,960</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,559</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Data Source</strong>: MoJs copy of the Police National Computer</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>1.</sup> England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas and the British Transport Police</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>2.</sup> Where the primary offence on a given occasion was a non-molestation order breach offence.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>3.</sup> The same offender may appear in multiple years.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 226451 226452 226454 226456 226458 question first answered 12/03/2015 14:17:54 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

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registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on whistleblowers who have been dismissed from their employment and are unable to afford employment tribunal fees.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	226468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text We have received no representations about the impact of Employment Tribunal fees on whistleblowers since fees were introduced in July 2013. Fees were introduced following a consultation exercise in 2012. A summary of the representations received, including on whistleblowers, and the Government’s response, are set out in “Charging Fees in Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal” which is available on the Ministry of Justice website at: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/et-fee-charging-regime-cp22-2011/results/employment-tribunal-fees-consultation-response.pdf Fee remissions are available so that those who are unable to afford to pay the fee are not prevented from accessing the Tribunal. answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/03/2015 17:11:48 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

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date	05/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Court Orders: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many specific issues orders were (a) issued by the courts, (b) breached and (c) resulted in contempt proceedings or a sequestration order in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	226454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of child arrangement orders (residence and contact), prohibited steps orders, specific issues orders, and non molestation orders are shown in table 1 below. Note that data is not available for 2010 as the FamilyMan court database did not include all courts at this time. This data covers England and Wales and give the number of children and young people involved in those orders made.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 – Number of specific Children’s Act orders; England and Wales; 2011 to 2013</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Contact and Residence Orders*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prohibited steps</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Specific issue</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NMOs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>155,528</p></td><td><p>18,757</p></td><td><p>5,957</p></td><td><p>19,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>158,112</p></td><td><p>19,788</p></td><td><p>6,515</p></td><td><p>19,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>160,738</p></td><td><p>18,400</p></td><td><p>6,407</p></td><td><p>22,279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Note: Child Arrangements Orders replaced separate Contact and Residence Orders in April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2014 will be published in Table 4 of Family Court Statistics Quarterly on 26 March at <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></p><p> </p><p>Details of how many of the orders included in Table 1 were breached or resulted in enforcement or contempt of court or a sequestration order can only be obtained by manually checking case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of enforcement proceedings in respect of contact orders and Child Arrangements Orders from 2011 to 2013 are shown in Table 2 – these comprise applications for an enforcement order for unpaid work and applications for an order requiring the payment of compensation for financial loss.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Table 2 - Numbers of applications and orders of enforcement of Child Arrangement orders - 2011 to 2013</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(a) Applications for enforcement order for unpaid work</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) All Enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(c) Applications for second enforcement order</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(d) Second enforcement orders made</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(e) Applications for an order to pay financial compensation</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>(f) Orders made for financial compensation </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>1126</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>331</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1312</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>959</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>1750</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>1) figures for column (b) and column (f) together make up total enforcement order as recorded in Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication - table 4.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>2) second enforcement order - column (d) - includes &quot;breach of an enforcement order or order for increased hours.&quot;</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>3) figures for 2014 will only be available from 26th March 2014.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 are provided in Table 3. Data for 2014 are planned for publication in May 2015 in the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Table 3 - Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for breach of a non-molestation order <sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 <sup>(2)(3)(4)(5)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proceeded against</p></td><td><p>1,933</p></td><td><p>2,257</p></td><td><p>2,339</p></td><td><p>2,467</p></td><td><p>2,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Found guilty</p></td><td><p>2,279</p></td><td><p>2,626</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td><td><p>2,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>2,550</p></td><td><p>2,566</p></td><td><p>2,605</p></td><td><p>2,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Absolute discharge</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conditional discharge</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>362</p></td><td><p>388</p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fine</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community sentence</p></td><td><p>741</p></td><td><p>851</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suspended sentence</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>267</p></td><td><p>251</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>493</p></td><td><p>567</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Otherwise dealt with <sup>(6)</sup></p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>862</p></td><td><p>927</p></td><td><p>994</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) An offence under S42A Family Law Act 1996</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to make sure that data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(4) The number of defendants found guilty in a particular year may exceed the number proceeded against as the proceedings in the magistrates' court took place in an earlier year and the defendants were found guilty at the Crown Court in the following year; or the defendants were found guilty of a different offence to that for which they were originally proceeded against.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(5) The number of offenders sentenced can differ from those found guilty as it may be the case that a defendant found guilty in a particular year, and committed for sentence at the Crown Court, may be sentenced in the following year.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(6) The category Otherwise Dealt With (ODW) includes: one day in police cells; disqualification order; restraining order; confiscation order; travel restriction order; disqualification from driving; recommendation for deportation; and other miscellaneous disposals.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: PQ 226458</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders convicted of breaching a non-molestation order on one, two, or three or more occasions in each of the last five years for which data is available are provided in Table 4. These figures have been drawn from an extract of the Police National Computer (PNC) data held by the Department - they will differ from the figures taken from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) court proceedings database. The PNC holds details of all convictions and cautions given for recordable offences. Hence, police recorded crime and data court proceedings are not directly comparable.</p><p> </p><p>As with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing so data provided may be subject to revision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Table 4 - Number of offenders breaching non-molestation orders, England and Wales<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Number of non-molestation order breach offences<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12 months ending September<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3 or more</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,854</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,847</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,960</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,559</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Data Source</strong>: MoJs copy of the Police National Computer</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>1.</sup> England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas and the British Transport Police</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>2.</sup> Where the primary offence on a given occasion was a non-molestation order breach offence.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>3.</sup> The same offender may appear in multiple years.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 226451 226452 226453 226456 226458 question first answered 12/03/2015 14:17:54 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

225504

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
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, when he plans to review the effect of the introduction of fees for employment tribunals.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	226470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>Small businesses can be hamstrung by unfounded employment tribunal claims and taxpayers should not have to pick up the £74 million bill for running the service.</p><p>We have made sure fee waivers are available for those who cannot afford to pay, as well as diverting people away from potentially acrimonious hearings, where possible, through a new early conciliation scheme which has already been used by 37,000 people in its first six months.</p><p>The Government has committed to review Employment Tribunal fees but believes this is better determined by the new Administration following the Election.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/03/2015 17:17:32 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

225241

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) Welsh language library books and (b) other facilities there are for women in English prisons whose home postcode is in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Prison library providers make sure that the range of reading and reference material available in each library reflects the diverse needs of the prisoners held. Prison Service Instruction 02/2015, published in February 2015, has an expectation that the language needs of prisoners should be met where this is reasonably possible. The number of books available in any given language will be proportionate to the population's requirement.</p><p> </p><p>An inter-library loan request service, facilitated by the librarian or library assistant, enables prisoners to request books in the same way as library users in the community. Welsh speakers can ask for Welsh language books to be provided via this service.</p><p> </p><p>Information about what particular Welsh language library books are stocked in female prisons in England is not held centrally and will need to be collated through enquiries at these prisons. At HMP Eastwood Park, which holds the largest number of women with home postcodes in Wales, and also at HMP Styal, I have enquired about the availability of Welsh language books and seen Welsh language books in both libraries. I will write to the hon Member when we have been able to obtain any additional information about Welsh language books in other women’s prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Women prisoners whose home postcode is in Wales have the same access to facilities as all other women prisoners, to support their appropriate rehabilitation and their resettlement back to Welsh communities. This includes the provision of Welsh language services, under the Welsh Language Scheme, for prisoners whose preferred language is Welsh.</p><p> </p><p>There are strong links between HMP Eastwood Park and the National Offender Management Service in Wales. A number of initiatives provide resettlement support to Welsh women prisoners there. These include the Integrated Offender Management Cymru: Women's Pathfinder project, which is seeking to design and deliver a women-specific, integrated, whole-system approach to working with those who come into contact with the criminal justice system in Wales and which includes other relevant female prisons.</p><p> </p><p>HMP Styal, which holds women whose home is in North Wales, also has strong links with Wales. As a member of the Women’s Pathfinder Project Board along with HMP Eastwood Park, Styal is involved in the development of the project, which is due to be piloted in North Wales from April 2015 and which will link directly with the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The new arrangements for transforming rehabilitation are expected to strengthen the links between women offenders whose homes are in Wales, and all the prisons in which they serve their sentence.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:28:42 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James