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60822

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Sanitary Products
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what types and brands of sanitary products are provided to female prisoners free of charge.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	199604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>All prisons across the female custodial estate provide Interlude tampons and sanitary towels to women free of charge.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 12/06/2014 08:57:01 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

60821

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Sanitary Products
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what types and brands of sanitary products female prisoners are able to purchase from the National Product List; and what the cost of each such product is.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	199603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Female prisoners can purchase the following sanitary products from the National Product List:</p><p>– Sanitary pads - Always Ultra Normal 32s – price £2.69</p><p>– Sanitary towels - Tena Lady Normal 12s – price £2.69.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 12/06/2014 14:56:53 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

60947

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Disciplinary Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Staff within the Ministry of Justice (MoJ HQ), HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), National Offender Management Service (NOMS), Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) and Legal Aid Agency (LAA) can, but are not compelled to, declare their ethnicity. Consequently, definitive figures for the proportion of white British staff who have been dismissed or subject to formal disciplinary proceedings over the last five financial years cannot be provided.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ Diversity report for 2012/2013 provides an overview of information on staff grievances, investigations, conduct and discipline. This can be found at the following link: <em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279638/moj-diversity-data-report-2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279638/moj-diversity-data-report-2012-13.pdf</a></em></p><p> </p><p>This information has not been collated or published in respect of earlier financial years.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 199912 question first answered 17/06/2014 16:41:55 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60948

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Disciplinary Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Staff within the Ministry of Justice (MoJ HQ), HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), National Offender Management Service (NOMS), Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) and Legal Aid Agency (LAA) can, but are not compelled to, declare their ethnicity. Consequently, definitive figures for the proportion of white British staff who have been dismissed or subject to formal disciplinary proceedings over the last five financial years cannot be provided.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ Diversity report for 2012/2013 provides an overview of information on staff grievances, investigations, conduct and discipline. This can be found at the following link: <em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279638/moj-diversity-data-report-2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279638/moj-diversity-data-report-2012-13.pdf</a></em></p><p> </p><p>This information has not been collated or published in respect of earlier financial years.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 199890 question first answered 17/06/2014 16:41:55 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

58497

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Surveillance: Aircraft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what role the Information Commissioner's Office has in (a) the trial of the Aeroyn Skyranger drone around Gatwick Airport and (b) any other use of other surveillance aircraft operated by Government departments, agents or public bodies in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
	uin	199439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Information Commissioner's Office has no specific role in the trial of the Aeryon Skyranger drone around Gatwick Airport. Members of the Information Commissioner's staff sit on the Cross-Government Working Group on Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems. They advise on any data protection compliance issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the ICO is currently consulting on its revised CCTV code of practice which includes a section on remotely operated vehicles, or drones:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://ico.org.uk/about_us/consultations/our_consultations" target="_blank">http://ico.org.uk/about_us/consultations/our_consultations</a></p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 10/06/2014 16:19:24 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

58222

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Buses: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions coroners have attributed motor accidents involving fatalities to the age and deterioration of tyres on coaches since 1994.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	198902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice collects data from coroners on the deaths reported to them for the annual Coroners Statistics bulletin.</p><p>The bulletin is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coroners-statistics-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coroners-statistics-2013</a></p><p>The statistical information is collected in summary form and does not include data at the level of detail requested.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/06/2014 09:42:52 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

60946

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what targets his Department has for increasing diversity; and what progress has been made on meeting those targets in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	199933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The MoJ has a longstanding commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and making sure that we are representative of the society we serve. The principle of appointment on merit is the foundation of Civil Service recruitment and enshrined in law.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ does not have any published targets but we annually review and publish the demographics of our workforce - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-report-2012-13" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-report-2012-13</a></p><p>This information is used to inform policy of action in the future and set out in the MoJ Equality Objectives-<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209087/moj-equality-objectives.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209087/moj-equality-objectives.pdf</a>#</p><p>We have made good progress in making the MoJ a more diverse place to work. For example, the MoJ's management board has an equal mix of women and men at Executive (50%) and Non-Executive level (50%) levels, and we are led by a female Permanent Secretary, Ursula Brennan.</p><p> </p><p>17% of MoJ staff members promoted last year were not white. This is an increase of 2% on the previous year. 10% more women were promoted in 2012/2013 than in 2011/2012.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 17/06/2014 16:37:28 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

49663

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to expand the boundaries of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	903862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has already legislated to extend the Freedom of Information Act and brought more than 100 additional organisations within scope. We are currently considering ways in which the Act can be extended further to enhance transparency.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

48492

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the rate of return of Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service satisfaction surveys by children between the ages of five and eight.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	196593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Cafcass does not carry out satisfaction surveys with the children it works with. They have other child-friendly ways of gaining feedback from children, which does include a feedback form. They have different versions of the form for children and young people. One encourages young people to write out their feedback to Cafcass in response to various questions, while the feedback form for younger children asks them to circle the feelings and emotions they have about Cafcass. These are therefore qualitative rather than quantitative. This feedback is collected and acted on at a local level rather than a national one. Complaints are monitored at a national level but addressed at the local level.</p><p> </p><p>Cafcass does not provide a return to the UK Statistics Authority; however they have published anonymised comments from feedback forms as part of their Annual Reports to draw out their direct work with children.</p><p> </p><p>Cafcass commissioned the Family Justice Young People's Board to review the means by which Cafcass encourages feedback from the children and young people it works with. This review resulted in four recommendations which Cafcass has taken forward including ‘feedback trees' and changes to the feedback forms.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 196588 question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

48493

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what advice he has received from the UK Statistics Authority on the required rate of return of Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service satisfaction surveys for younger children between the ages of five and eight before a reliable satisfaction figure may be arrived at.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	196588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Cafcass does not carry out satisfaction surveys with the children it works with. They have other child-friendly ways of gaining feedback from children, which does include a feedback form. They have different versions of the form for children and young people. One encourages young people to write out their feedback to Cafcass in response to various questions, while the feedback form for younger children asks them to circle the feelings and emotions they have about Cafcass. These are therefore qualitative rather than quantitative. This feedback is collected and acted on at a local level rather than a national one. Complaints are monitored at a national level but addressed at the local level.</p><p> </p><p>Cafcass does not provide a return to the UK Statistics Authority; however they have published anonymised comments from feedback forms as part of their Annual Reports to draw out their direct work with children.</p><p> </p><p>Cafcass commissioned the Family Justice Young People's Board to review the means by which Cafcass encourages feedback from the children and young people it works with. This review resulted in four recommendations which Cafcass has taken forward including ‘feedback trees' and changes to the feedback forms.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 196593 question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson