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1721552

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Cammell Laird: Strikes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking a review of the jailing of the Cammell Laird workers who took strike action in 1984.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham Northfield
	tabling member printed	Laurence Turner
	uin	267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>I can confirm that my department will consider and explore options for carrying out a review into these events. If the member wishes to write with more information I will provide him with a further update once this matter has been considered.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 26/07/2024 13:52:44 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
	tabling member	5234

1700281

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Funerals: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will further regulate the funeral industry.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	21178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We have accepted that some form of regulation of the funeral sector is required. My officials have therefore been working on a plan to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the self-regulation regimes introduced by the two main representative bodies, and to launch a call for evidence.</p><p>The call for evidence will be launched before summer recess and will gather views on what type of regulation is appropriate and proportionate. Following this, we will develop and consult on proposals for the regulation of the sector. There are a number of possible routes for regulation including introducing an independent regulator. It is too early at this stage to say which is most appropriate.</p><p>I have discussed the regulation of the Funeral Sector with cabinet colleagues, and am working particularly closely with Minister Hoare on the short-term response to the tragic events in Hull and East Rising.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 21226 21227 21228 21229 question first answered 22/04/2024 16:03:37 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1694126

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been subject to a special guardianship order in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	17246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures in relation to how many children are subject to a special guardianship order at any one time.</p><p>However, the following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures provides details on the number of children involved in orders from 2013 until 2022. Data for public law cases in 2022 has not been published due to data issues resulting from the reform of public law services.</p><p>The number of these orders has remained relatively stable over that period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,923</p></td><td><p>1,863</p></td><td><p>6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,852</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>6,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5,514</p></td><td><p>1,949</p></td><td><p>7,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5,668</p></td><td><p>1,812</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,758</p></td><td><p>1,581</p></td><td><p>7,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5,920</p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>7,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,835</p></td><td><p>1,544</p></td><td><p>7,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>5,268</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td><td><p>6,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>6,124</p></td><td><p>1,293</p></td><td><p>7,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>1,184</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/03/2024 17:06:49 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1690802

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Health and Safety
	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 comply with principle (d) of schedule 1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	15116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The MoJ customises its working conditions and processes to meet the needs and capabilities of all its staff. These include, but are not limited to, the physical layout and structure of the workplace, adjustable desks and chairs, providing equipment that is ergonomically designed, easy to use, and suitable for the tasks that workers need to perform, allowing flexibility in work schedules and reducing monotonous tasks, and ensuring that workers are not required to work at an excessively fast pace.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 29/02/2024 17:35:28 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1688574

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all (a) buildings and (b) workplaces staff from their Department occupy have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment under Section 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	13758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has a Health and Safety policy and Occupational Health and Safety Management System in place, which requires suitable and sufficient risk assessments to ensure all occupational health and safety hazards and risks are adequately identified, assessed, controlled and monitored.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/02/2024 16:03:56 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1684182

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Criminal Injuries Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to extend the time limit for Criminal injuries Compensation Claims for victims of sexual abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	10914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 (the Scheme) exists to compensate for serious physical or psychological injury attributable to being a direct victim of a crime of violence. As the Scheme is publicly funded, strict eligibility criteria apply.</p><p>There are already special arrangements in place for people applying for compensation for an injury sustained in childhood, and in all cases where a claim is made outside of the applicable time limit they can be considered in exceptional circumstances.</p><p>We recently held a public consultation on potential reforms to change the length of time people have to submit a claim to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. We asked for views on increasing the time limits for child victims of sexual abuse, as well as other violent crimes, and on increasing them for all applicants. We will make decisions about whether to amend the time limits as soon as possible in 2024 as part of our comprehensive review of the Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 31/01/2024 11:55:25 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1682950

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	First-tier Tribunal: Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were (a) submitted to and (b) completed by the residential property division of the First-Tier Tribunal in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ludlow
	tabling member printed	Philip Dunne
	uin	10064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>HMCTS information about the annual number of appeals received and disposed in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), Residential Property Division, is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2023" target="_blank">Tribunals statistics quarterly: July to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 25/01/2024 14:53:00 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne

1656564

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug recovery wings have been opened in prisons since 22 July 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	196381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>As part of the ambitious cross-Government Drug Strategy, we are rolling out a wide range of interventions to support prisoners off drugs and into recovery. This includes testing a new approach to help prisoners with an opiate dependency achieve abstinence, through abstinence-focused Drug Recovery Wings. Seven of these are now open across the estate. Alongside this, we are increasing the number of Incentivised Substance-Free Living units, where prisoners commit to remaining free of illicit drugs with regular drug testing and incentives. We have more than doubled the number of these from 25 last summer to 60 now, aiming to reach up to 100 by March 2025.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/09/2023 17:03:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1626659

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Holiday Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling in the 2017 case of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts & Ors for the calculation of holiday pay entitlement for staff in her Department; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	184429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry and its associated arm's length bodies have considered the impact of the judgement referred to. The calculation of holiday pay was subsequently applied to all forms of voluntary overtime and is still in payment across the department and its arm's length bodies.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/05/2023 14:43:20 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1611396

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison and Probation Service: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service is expected to meet its target of having the proportion of ethnic minority staff in senior leadership roles reflecting the working population as a whole by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	181024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The proportion of HMPPS Senior leaders (from Band 10 upwards) from an ethnic minority background has increased from 4.8% in December 2019 to 9.5% in 2022. HMPPS will continue to work towards the representation of ethnic minority senior staff to match the working age population by 2030.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/04/2023 10:31:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby