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1145318

registered interest
date	06/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to amend section 14 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 to give legal recognition to humanist marriages before waiting for the outcome of the Law Commission’s review.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	287918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Law Commission review that the Government announced this June is a fundamental review of the law on how and where people can legally marry in England and Wales. As part of that review, the Government invited the Law Commission to make recommendations about how marriage by humanist and other non-religious belief organisations could be incorporated into a revised or new scheme for all marriages that is simple, fair and consistent.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 03/10/2019 14:47:41 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1145319

registered interest
date	06/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the Law Commission is undertaking a review into humanist marriages.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	287919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Law Commission review that the Government announced this June is a fundamental review of the law on how and where people can legally marry in England and Wales. The law has been added to over several centuries without any systematic reform.</p><p> </p><p>As part of that review, the Government invited the Law Commission to make recommendations about how marriage by humanist and other non-religious belief organisations could be incorporated into a revised or new scheme for all marriages that is simple, fair and consistent.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission has published the terms of reference for the review at https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/weddings/.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 03/10/2019 14:47:04 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1145320

registered interest
date	06/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding has been allocated to the Law Commission review of the law on marriage.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	287920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Law Commission will review the law on how and where people can marry in England and Wales, and will provide recommendations for a simple, fair and consistent system which gives couples choice in to marry in a way that is meaningful to them. The cost of this project will be approximately £400,000.</p><p> </p><p>This cost is for the resource for two years of a project team made up of one full-time lawyer, one full-time research assistant, a proportion of the time of a team manager and some travel, publication and translation costs (totalling approximately £150,000 per year) plus the cost of engaging a specialist academic (£50,000 per year).</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 03/10/2019 14:51:15 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1137663

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the probate system.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	911811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Waiting times in the probate service have recently increased. However, following urgent action by the courts service, they are now starting to improve.</p><p> </p><p>The temporary delays were the result of more work coming into the system and the impact of the initial move to a new IT system for managing probate work.</p><p> </p><p>Now that move is complete, and the unusually high workload has been dealt with, we expect waiting times to continue to improve – and be back to normal levels in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 09/07/2019 16:19:12 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

947549

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department and HM Prison and Probation Service are taking to speed up security clearance for health and social care staff commencing employment in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	168027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The last year has seen a significant increase in the level of recruitment with a target of deploying an additional 2,500 prison officers in post by the end of 2018. This has impacted the overall volume of cases handled by our shared services provider, due to significant increases in the number of applications handled. This has resulted in backlogs in processing across all of the business.</p><p> </p><p>The right balance needs to be struck between having staff appropriately security cleared and the speed at which they can begin employment with HMPPS. Steps have been taken to review the whole recruitment end-to-end procedure to look at the points in which delays have or can take place. Action has been taken to address these and the backlog of cases has been reduced significantly from last year. This in turn, has also resulted in speedier processing times in security vetting for all staff.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 10/09/2018 16:49:41 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

947568

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of days taken was to gain security clearance for health and social care professionals seeking to commence employment in prisons in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	168033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The average number of days taken to complete security clearance for health and social care professionals seeking employment within HMPPS from 2016 has been provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide this information for cases prior to 2016, as a different operating system was used and to which the now service provider to HMPPS does not have access.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average days</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 2017</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 2018</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2018 to present</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note - that the information in the table for health and social care professionals has been collated based on the job title of the campaign and may be subject to slight variations.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 10/09/2018 16:49:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

834194

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications were made under S41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 for (a) sexual assault and (b) rape in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	125831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We asked the CPS to analyse a sample of rape cases finalised in 2016 to assess the frequency and outcome of applications to introduce evidence of a complainant’s sexual history under s 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.</p><p> </p><p>A section 41 application was made by the defence in 13% of the 309 sample cases looked at. In 8% of the 309 sample cases, an application to permit such evidence was granted by the court.</p><p> </p><p>These are not official published statistics. For further details of this study, see our report published in December: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/02/2018 14:15:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

834195

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for applications under S41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, in cases of rape.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	125832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The same criteria apply to proceedings in relation to all sexual offences. See page 5 of the report ‘Limiting the use of complainants’ sexual history in sexual offences cases’ available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 125833 question first answered 07/02/2018 14:16:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

834196

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for applications under S41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, in cases of sexual assault.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	125833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The same criteria apply to proceedings in relation to all sexual offences. See page 5 of the report ‘Limiting the use of complainants’ sexual history in sexual offences cases’ available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/limiting-the-use-of-complainants-sexual-history-in-sexual-offence-cases</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 125832 question first answered 07/02/2018 14:16:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

833688

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Post-mortems
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to collect centrally data on waiting times for coronial post mortems for (a) adults, (b) children and (c) neonatal deaths.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	125447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice collects data on the number of post mortem examinations commissioned by coroners and this is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coroners-statistics-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>We have no plans to collect data on waiting times for coroner post mortems.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 07/02/2018 14:03:09 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston