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1699015

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Cremation: Babies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) babies, (b) stillborn and (c) miscarriages were cremated in each year between 2020 and 2023.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	20634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on how many (a) babies, (b) stillborn and (c) miscarriages are cremated each year in England and Wales is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 15/04/2024 11:23:47 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1610491

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Suicide: Gambling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what circumstances a coroner will register a suicide as being related to gambling.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	180624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The information recorded by the coroner in the Record of Inquest is dependent on the circumstances of the individual case and is at the coroner’s discretion as an independent judicial office holder in the exercise of their statutory functions. The register is completed by the Registrar using the coroner’s certificate after inquest, and will record the medical cause of death and the conclusion of the inquest. A death certificate contains the same information as the register entry.</p><p>The Government recognises that quality information on the circumstances leading to self-harm and suicide, including issues relating to gambling addiction, can support better interventions. However, whilst coroners may be made aware of information about the motivation or contributory factors in a suicide, it cannot be guaranteed that consistent and comprehensive information on a deceased person’s background will be made available to the coroner in every case.</p><p>In addition, expecting coroners to routinely assess the motivation for individual suicides would take the coronial role fundamentally beyond its legal parameters, which are to determine who died, and how, when and where they died.</p><p>However, in addition to the inquest conclusion, coroners have a statutory duty to make a Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report to a person where an investigation gives rise to a concern that future deaths will occur, and the coroner considers that action should be taken to reduce that risk. PFD reports are about learning and improvements to public health, welfare and safety and could, for example, raise concerns relating to gambling addiction where the circumstances of an individual case give rise to a concern. To promote learning, all PFD reports and the responses to them must be provided to the Chief Coroner, and most are published on the judiciary website.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 180626 question first answered 24/04/2023 07:26:40 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1610493

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Suicide: Gambling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, , in what circumstances a death certificate will describe a suicide as being related to gambling.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	180626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The information recorded by the coroner in the Record of Inquest is dependent on the circumstances of the individual case and is at the coroner’s discretion as an independent judicial office holder in the exercise of their statutory functions. The register is completed by the Registrar using the coroner’s certificate after inquest, and will record the medical cause of death and the conclusion of the inquest. A death certificate contains the same information as the register entry.</p><p>The Government recognises that quality information on the circumstances leading to self-harm and suicide, including issues relating to gambling addiction, can support better interventions. However, whilst coroners may be made aware of information about the motivation or contributory factors in a suicide, it cannot be guaranteed that consistent and comprehensive information on a deceased person’s background will be made available to the coroner in every case.</p><p>In addition, expecting coroners to routinely assess the motivation for individual suicides would take the coronial role fundamentally beyond its legal parameters, which are to determine who died, and how, when and where they died.</p><p>However, in addition to the inquest conclusion, coroners have a statutory duty to make a Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report to a person where an investigation gives rise to a concern that future deaths will occur, and the coroner considers that action should be taken to reduce that risk. PFD reports are about learning and improvements to public health, welfare and safety and could, for example, raise concerns relating to gambling addiction where the circumstances of an individual case give rise to a concern. To promote learning, all PFD reports and the responses to them must be provided to the Chief Coroner, and most are published on the judiciary website.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 180624 question first answered 24/04/2023 07:26:40 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1546972

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Courts and Probation Service on ensuring that community sentences handed out since the covid-19 pandemic will be fully enforced.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	99849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>As with other public services, probation had to find alternative ways of working during the pandemic.</p><p>Where offenders fail to engage with requirements, we take robust steps to enforce sentences and return them to court for breach.</p><p>For unpaid work, one of the key community sentence requirements, we are investing an additional £90m over this and the next 2 years to increase staffing levels and delivering significantly more hours of work – a target of 8 million a year compared to 5 million before the pandemic.</p><p>We have also invested £195m to procure over 120 contracts across England and Wales with charities and private sector organisations to deliver specialist services in partnership with probation, to support rehabilitation. These services include:</p><ul><li><p>accommodation support,</p></li><li><p>education,</p></li><li><p>training and employment,</p></li><li><p>finance, debt and benefits, and</p></li><li><p>support to address drug dependency.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 06/12/2022 12:37:17 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1506665

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were sent to prison for non-payment of the TV licence in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	51658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for non-payment of the TV licence fee as the maximum penalty is a fine.</p><p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in each of the last ten years can be viewed at the following link: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-15/37589" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-15/37589</a>.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 27/09/2022 14:09:25 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

794375

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Transgender People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were transferred from a male to a female prison after reassigning their gender in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017, and how many of those prisoners in each of those years had been convicted of sex-related offences.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	115348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 28/11/2017 13:22:23 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

765338

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Package Holidays: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on plans to tackle bogus holiday sickness claims.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	105672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking action to address the issue of package holiday personal injury claims and announced a package of measures on 9 July 2017. As part of this, we published a Call for Evidence on 13 October 2017, the responses to which will inform future decisions. In addition, the Claims Management Regulator and the Solicitors Regulation Authority have taken significant steps to deal with abuses in this area. The travel industry itself also has a vital role to play and is taking steps to address the issues around package holiday claims.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 18/10/2017 14:52:39 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

760935

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts: Perjury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women were prosecuted for perjury in the family court in 2016.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	105283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>10 men and 6 women were prosecuted for perjury in the family court in England and Wales in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>This information was obtained from a manual review of court case files that centrally held data indicated may be relevant, and as such has not been through the same quality assurance processes as for routinely published data.</p><p> </p><p>These figures 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> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 09/10/2017 15:03:45 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

756689

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts: Perjury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for perjury in the family court in each year since 2007, by gender.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	7869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:52:41 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

711515

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Package Holidays: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will meet senior leaders of the travel industry to discuss the increasing incidence of gastric illness claims made by package holiday customers.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	68079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government is concerned about the apparent recent increase in holiday sickness claims and its potential implications for tour operators and the holiday industry more generally. My department is liaising with the Association of British Travel Agents and other industry representatives to understand the underlying problems and identify the most appropriate and effective response.</p><p>Tackling fraudulent claims is a key priority. The Claims Management Regulator is investigating claims management companies which are soliciting holidaymakers to make sickness claims and is actively working with industry representatives, the Solicitors Regulation Authority and other regulators to target and respond effectively to any abuses. We remain committed to ensuring that those CMCs which contact consumers to offer claims services do so legally.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 68075 question first answered 21/03/2017 12:10:37 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen