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1420676

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure justice sector staff are protected from abuse and assaults at work.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	905520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 doubled the maximum penalty for those who assault emergency workers, including prison officers and custody officers, from 6 to 12 months’ imprisonment for common assault or battery, with higher maximum penalties for serious offences.</p><p>Through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, we are again doubling the maximum penalty for the assault of an emergency worker, from 12 months’ to two years’ imprisonment.</p><p>The bill will also create a new statutory aggravating factor for offences committed against those staff providing a public service, performing a public duty or providing a service to the public.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 08/02/2022 17:22:17 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1420670

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to support victims of domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
	tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
	uin	905512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are building on the landmark Domestic Abuse Act to improve victims services, to ensure that victims can secure justice in our courts and to pursue perpetrators ruthlessly.</p><p>Victim support funding is rising to £185 million by 2024/25, including increasing the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Abuse Advisors to more than 1000 and we are extending the time limit for prosecuting domestic abuse-related common assaults to help victims secure justice.</p><p>The government’s focus on this most hidden and pernicious of crimes will continue with the publication of our Domestic Abuse Strategy in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2022 17:55:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1420669

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to support victims of domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Dr James Davies
	uin	905511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are building on the landmark Domestic Abuse Act to improve victims services, to ensure that victims can secure justice in our courts and to pursue perpetrators ruthlessly.</p><p>Victim support funding is rising to £185 million by 2024/25, including increasing the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Abuse Advisors to more than 1000 and we are extending the time limit for prosecuting domestic abuse-related common assaults to help victims secure justice.</p><p>The government’s focus on this most hidden and pernicious of crimes will continue with the publication of our Domestic Abuse Strategy in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2022 17:55:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies

1420675

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on supporting offenders into employment following their release from prison.
	tabling member constituency	Loughborough
	tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
	uin	905519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are delivering on our commitments in the recent Prisons Strategy White Paper to improve employment outcomes for prison leavers:</p><ol><li>Creating a presumption in favour of enabling vetted and appropriate inmates, and offenders released on licence, to take up work opportunities;</li><li>Introducing new Resettlement Passports, bringing together all of the essentials that prison leavers need to lead crime-free lives on release into one place, such as ID that demonstrates a prisoner’s right to work and a bank account;</li><li>Putting a dedicated Employment Advisor in every resettlement prison;</li><li>Developing a digital candidate matching system to match prisoners to roles on release;</li><li>Establishing Employment Hubs, a ‘job-centre in a prison’ where prisoners can get support and find opportunities;</li><li>Establishing Employment Boards, which link prisons with local business networks to provide advice and challenge so that prisons deliver the skills that employers need.</li></ol> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2022 16:23:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1420671

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on reducing rates of reoffending.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
	uin	905513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to reducing crime and protecting the public by tackling reoffending. Over the last 10 years, there has been a broad decline in overall reoffending rates. We will invest £200 million a year by 2024-25 to further reduce reoffending and cut crime.</p><p>We will improve prison leaver’s access to accommodation by providing temporary accommodation for prison leavers through our new Community Accommodation Service.</p><p>Our Prisoner Education Service will focus on improving numeracy, literacy and the qualifications that increase prisoners’ prospects of finding work on their release. There are now 23 Employment Hubs, ‘job-centres in a prison’, that are directly supporting prisoners into jobs on release.</p><p>We will also introduce new personalised Resettlement Passports, bringing together the key information and services that an individual needs to resettle into society.</p><p>Our reforms to the Probation Service, supported by additional annual funding of £155 million, will help reduce reoffending through robust supervision, tougher community sentences, improved local partnership working and delivery of rehabilitative services.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2022 16:22:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1418059

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's average response time was to an enquiry from a hon. Member to the MP (a) hotline and (b) account management team in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	114684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence from MPs, either directly or on behalf of their constituents.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not have a MP hotline.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not have an account management team, and the Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the average response time to enquiries from MPs, as correspondence performance is monitored by the percentage of correspondence responded to within the target response time set by the Department.</p><p>Data on the timeliness of responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers for 2019 and 2020 is published on Gov.uk here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers</a>.</p><p>Data for 2021 will be published by the Cabinet Office in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 08/02/2022 13:56:39 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1419588

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of routinely publishing disaggregated justice data for Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	117858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice agrees that there is merit in disaggregating and publishing data for Wales. We already publish data that includes tools to allow users to disaggregate for Wales and other parts of the UK and we are looking at whether there are further data sets that could usefully be disaggregated.</p><p> </p><p>Material is published by the MoJ in line with the code of practice for statistics. Many of our outputs are accredited as National Statistics, which means they meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality, and value.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 08/02/2022 16:20:42 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1420672

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to support victims within the criminal justice system.
	tabling member constituency	Telford
	tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
	uin	905514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The recently completed Victims’ Bill consultation is a critical step towards introducing a Victims’ Law – part of our plan for doing better by victims, from the moment a crime is committed through to cases being heard in court.</p><p>In particular, we have consulted on requirements for prosecutors to meet with victims pre-charge and pre-trial, the use of community impact statements, improving accountability of criminal justice agencies, increasing the Victim Surcharge and wider support for victims.</p><p>Victim support services are crucial to helping victims remain engaged in the criminal justice process. The Department has provided £150.5 million to victim support services this financial year, with funding increasing to £185 million by 2024/25. Hence, this Government has trebled the amount of funding for victims compared to pre-2010 levels.</p><p>This will enable us to increase the number of Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) and Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs) we fund to over 1,000, alongside other key services including a 24/7 support service for victims of sexual violence.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/02/2022 16:49:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

1420674

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to support victims of domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	905516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>We are building on the landmark Domestic Abuse Act to improve victims services, to ensure that victims can secure justice in our courts and to pursue perpetrators ruthlessly.</p><p>Victim support funding is rising to £185 million by 2024/25, including increasing the number of Independent Sexual and Domestic Abuse Advisors to more than 1000 and we are extending the time limit for prosecuting domestic abuse-related common assaults to help victims secure justice.</p><p>The government’s focus on this most hidden and pernicious of crimes will continue with the publication of our Domestic Abuse Strategy in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/02/2022 17:56:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1418131

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Judges: Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases UK judges served on for the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; and what proportion of those cases related to (i) criminal, (ii) civil and (iii) commercial offences.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	114754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The two serving Supreme Court judges who sit in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal heard cases as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2019: Lord Reed heard two criminal cases in September.</p><p>2020: No serving UK Supreme Court judges heard any cases.</p><p>2021: Lord Reed heard two criminal cases (he sat remotely from 31 August to 3 September). Lord Hodge heard two criminal cases (he sat in Hong Kong between 23 and 26 November 2021).</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 08/02/2022 13:59:10 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion