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1713166

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) producing and (b) publishing disaggregated justice data for Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	23257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice produces the data required to deliver justice effectively in Wales. A significant amount of data is already published that is disaggregated for Wales.</p><p>Officials in the Ministry of Justice and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service continue to work with Welsh Government officials to consider areas in which Wales-specific data is not available and examine whether any such data might further aid the delivery of justice in Wales.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 26/04/2024 11:38:53 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1700933

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Berwyn Prison: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison (a) officers and (b) other staff have been (i) investigated, (ii) arrested and (iii) charged in relation to (A) drug smuggling and (B) corruption at HMP Berwyn in the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	21681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>There is no place for any form of corruption or unacceptable behaviour in the Prison Service. Such behaviour is contrary to our core values and will not be tolerated. The Ministry of Justice’s Counter Corruption Unit and Tackling Unacceptable Behaviour Unit are working to ensure that professional standards of behaviour are maintained.</p><p>In relation to the various items of information requested, it is necessary to consider whether providing information in relation to a small number of cases could lead to the identification of individuals, in a way that would constitute a breach of our statutory obligations under data protection legislation. As we believe that the release of this information would risk such identification, it is not possible to provide the figures requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/04/2024 11:31:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1702157

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is his policy to invest all additional revenue from court and tribunal fees into the Courts and Tribunals Service to help tackle the civil case backlog.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	22557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Additional income raised from court and tribunal fees will make a significant contribution to vital work taking place across the Department to facilitate an effective and efficient justice system. This includes our continuous efforts to improve HMCTS service performance and reduce court backlogs.</p><p>Fees generated £727 million in income for the Ministry of Justice in 2022/23 out of the total c.£2.3 billion that it cost to run HMCTS. The recent round of fee uplifts is expected to raise another £30 million – £37 million a year in additional income.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/04/2024 14:08:21 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1697327

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Third Party Financing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following the announcement on 4 March of the establishment of an inquiry into third party litigation funding, when they expect to announce the terms of reference, the members of the inquiry panel and the timing of the review.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	uin	HL3398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor has invited the Civil Justice Council, the body responsible for overseeing and co-ordinating the modernisation of the civil justice system, to undertake a review of third-party litigation funding in England and Wales. The CJC has agreed to undertake the review and will be announcing terms of reference and other information shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 03/04/2024 12:55:51 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

1698474

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Witnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 4 of Practice Direction 1A - Participation of Vulnerable Parties or Witnesses, how many civil cases involve each of the vulnerability factors listed.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	20309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 15/04/2024 11:48:10 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1700829

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for how many and what proportion of people on community sentences with a supervision element was a breach recorded in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	21678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The supervision requirement was phased out with the introduction of Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, therefore we have used the Rehabilitation Activity Requirement as the data source in this response as the best match to Supervision.</p><p> </p><p>Between 01/04/2022 and 31/03/2023, the last full year for which data is available, breaches were initiated one or more times for 39,617 individuals with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement as part of their Community Sentence.</p><p> </p><p>During this period, the typical number of persons with an active Rehabilitation Activity Requirement was 84,608. As the caseload will vary, with a vast number of sentences commencing and ending on a daily basis, it is not possible to provide a figure for the proportion of those with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, with a breach recorded.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that a breach being initiated does not necessarily mean that a breach was heard at court, or resulted in a Court hearing, they may instead have been withdrawn due to renewed compliance, at the Probation Practitioner’s professional judgement. Breaches are undertaken for a number of reasons, including non-attendance, unacceptable behaviour and commission of further offences.</p><p> </p><p>Data are as at 16/04/2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/04/2024 14:01:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1700830

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people on community sentences were assessed under the offender assessment system as lacking stable accommodation in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	21679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We are delivering our groundbreaking transitional accommodation service, known as Community Accommodation Service – Tier 3 (CAS-3), so prison-leavers who are subject to probation supervision have a guaranteed 12-weeks of basic, temporary accommodation to provide a stable base on release. By January 2023, the proportion of offenders housed on the first night of their release from custody was 7.6 percentage points higher in CAS3 regions versus non-CAS3 regions.</p><p>Data for accommodation outcomes on the first night of release from custody, broken down by sentence length, is published in the Community Performance Annual Statistics.</p><p>Data for accommodation outcomes for people on community sentences is not collected at commencement of order; however, data from the case management system in relation to accommodation 3 months after commencement is published.</p><p>Latest statistics for April 2022 to March 2023 for both are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-performance-annual-update-to-march-2023" target="_blank">Community Performance Annual, update to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Accommodation data for releases from remand could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21676 21677 question first answered 22/04/2024 16:22:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1700966

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average time from sentence to start of community payback in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	21514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Average days from sentence to start of Community Payback</p></td><td><p>Number of offenders who did not complete their first session of Community Payback</p></td><td><p>Total caseload</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>8,830</p></td><td><p>44,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>7,822</p></td><td><p>47,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>6,604</p></td><td><p>48,058</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The dataset includes all offenders starting an order with a community payback requirement between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023. The start of the community payback requirement has been defined as either the first attended session of group work, or an individual placement, or the completion of Employment, Training and Education work.</p><p>There are a variety of reason why a person hasn't completed their first community payback session. These include receiving a custodial sentence or remanded into custody, recall to prison, a warrant for their arrest, deportation, suitability of sentence and non -compliance. For issues of suitability or non-compliance requirements are returned to court for appropriate action to be taken.</p><p>People whose first community payback session took place over a year from their order start date have been excluded from the average days calculation as additional court work would need to be completed to ensure that the first session was worked within a lawful period.</p><p>People who have not completed a first work session have also been excluded from the average day calculation, along with those where a first work session has been recorded after the community payback requirement was terminated.</p><p>The 2023 figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.</p><p>Centrally collected data are only available from 2021.</p><p>Between 2021 and 2023, a total of 23,256 offenders did not complete their first session of community payback.</p><p>This figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.</p><p>Data as at 15 April 2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21515 question first answered 23/04/2024 13:55:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1700967

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have not completed their first session of community payback.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	21515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Average days from sentence to start of Community Payback</p></td><td><p>Number of offenders who did not complete their first session of Community Payback</p></td><td><p>Total caseload</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>8,830</p></td><td><p>44,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>7,822</p></td><td><p>47,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>6,604</p></td><td><p>48,058</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The dataset includes all offenders starting an order with a community payback requirement between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023. The start of the community payback requirement has been defined as either the first attended session of group work, or an individual placement, or the completion of Employment, Training and Education work.</p><p>There are a variety of reason why a person hasn't completed their first community payback session. These include receiving a custodial sentence or remanded into custody, recall to prison, a warrant for their arrest, deportation, suitability of sentence and non -compliance. For issues of suitability or non-compliance requirements are returned to court for appropriate action to be taken.</p><p>People whose first community payback session took place over a year from their order start date have been excluded from the average days calculation as additional court work would need to be completed to ensure that the first session was worked within a lawful period.</p><p>People who have not completed a first work session have also been excluded from the average day calculation, along with those where a first work session has been recorded after the community payback requirement was terminated.</p><p>The 2023 figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.</p><p>Centrally collected data are only available from 2021.</p><p>Between 2021 and 2023, a total of 23,256 offenders did not complete their first session of community payback.</p><p>This figure is subject to change as offenders sentenced in late 2023 will still have time to complete their first community payback session.</p><p>Data as at 15 April 2024. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21514 question first answered 23/04/2024 13:55:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1698378

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people completed unpaid work on the Community Payback Rapid Deployment Project pilot schemes between June and December 2023; how many hours of unpaid work were completed; and how many and what proportion of those hours were attributable to schemes run in the (a) Greater Manchester, (b) East of England, (c) Wales and (d) North East Probation Service regions.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	20229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Between 19 June and 31 December 2023, a total of 8,809 community payback hours have been completed as a part of the Community Payback Rapid Deployment Project pilot scheme by 509 different people.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Probation Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Community Payback Rapid Deployment Hours Worked</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of Rapid Deployment hours worked per region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>People completing Community Payback Rapid Deployment</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>921</p></td><td><p>10.4%</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>5,358</p></td><td><p>60.8%</p></td><td><p>193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Region</p></td><td><p>787</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>596</p></td><td><p>6.8%</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Region</p></td><td><p>906</p></td><td><p>10.3%</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>242</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The data source is nDelius, the Case Management System used by the Probation Service. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the information collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. While the figures shown have been checked as far as practicable, they should be regarded as approximate and not necessarily accurate to the last whole number shown in the tables.</p><p>To note, the figures are different to those provided in parliamentary question responses in October and December 2023, due to work undertaken to improve the accuracy of the data recorded.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 10:15:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry