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944934

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Corruption
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether closed courts are being used for settlements and penalties relating to financial corruption where a trial has not taken place; and if so, why.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rooker
	uin	HL9717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2018 answer text <p>Where a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) is reached for an economic crime, it must include a declaration in open court that the DPA is in the interests of justice and its terms are fair, reasonable and proportionate. The SFO has entered into 4 DPA’s to date: in each case the final hearing was held in public.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/07/2018 11:56:43 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	302 label Biography information for Lord Rooker

944701

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Debt Collection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's announcement entitled Crackdown on rogue bailiffs, published on 2 April 2018 what the timeline is for the call for evidence to be launched.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
	uin	166250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government intends to launch its call for evidence to evaluate the enforcement agent reforms introduced by the Tribunals, Court and Enforcement Act 2007 shortly after the summer recess.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/07/2018 08:49:54 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

944774

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of the non-executive appointments made by his Department between April 2018 and March 2019 including (a) the name of the person appointed and the role to which they have been appointed, (b) the date and term of their appointment, (c) their compensation, (d) whether they have declared any conflicts of interest or political activity, (e) who was responsible for managing the process of appointment, (f) what the expected time commitment of the role is and (g) whether the appointment was made in line with the processes laid down by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	166228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Announcements of Ministry of Justice public appointments are made on Gov.uk and include the name of the appointee, the position they are being appointed to, and any declared significant political activity. An announcement is not made if, for security reasons, this would not be appropriate, such as appointees to the Independent Monitoring Boards, who have access to prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Details of the term of appointment, remuneration, who is responsible for making the appointment, time commitment, and if the role is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments, are included in the advertisement on the Centre for Public Appointments' website.</p><p> </p><p>Details of an appointee’s conflicts of interest are not made public unless they appear before the Justice Select Committee as part of the pre-appointment hearing process.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 24/07/2018 10:22:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

944771

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Glen Parva Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the lifetime cost of the building of HMP Glen Parva.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	166227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the 2016 Prison Safety &amp; Reform White Paper and 2017 manifesto, we remain committed to building up to 10,000 modern and decent prison places to replace old, expensive and unsuitable accommodation. We intend to build the first prison at Wellingborough through public capital, with construction work expected to begin late 2018 / early 2019 with completion projected for early 2021. We intend to build the second prison at Glen Parva using private finance.</p><p> </p><p>We will explore funding routes, including private finance, for the delivery of the remaining prison places. The financing models, timetable and costs for these will be dependent on the relevant value for money and affordability tests, planning permissions and commercial negotiations. The government remains committed to the delivery of these places, which will enable governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitative outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 166223 166224 166225 166226 question first answered 24/07/2018 15:02:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

944770

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Glen Parva Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what model of private finance his Department plans to use in the contract to build HMP Glen Parva.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	166226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the 2016 Prison Safety &amp; Reform White Paper and 2017 manifesto, we remain committed to building up to 10,000 modern and decent prison places to replace old, expensive and unsuitable accommodation. We intend to build the first prison at Wellingborough through public capital, with construction work expected to begin late 2018 / early 2019 with completion projected for early 2021. We intend to build the second prison at Glen Parva using private finance.</p><p> </p><p>We will explore funding routes, including private finance, for the delivery of the remaining prison places. The financing models, timetable and costs for these will be dependent on the relevant value for money and affordability tests, planning permissions and commercial negotiations. The government remains committed to the delivery of these places, which will enable governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitative outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 166223 166224 166225 166227 question first answered 24/07/2018 15:02:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

944769

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Glen Parva Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the date is by which the contract to build HMP Glen Parva will be put out to tender; and what will the timeline for that tender process is planned to be.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	166225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the 2016 Prison Safety &amp; Reform White Paper and 2017 manifesto, we remain committed to building up to 10,000 modern and decent prison places to replace old, expensive and unsuitable accommodation. We intend to build the first prison at Wellingborough through public capital, with construction work expected to begin late 2018 / early 2019 with completion projected for early 2021. We intend to build the second prison at Glen Parva using private finance.</p><p> </p><p>We will explore funding routes, including private finance, for the delivery of the remaining prison places. The financing models, timetable and costs for these will be dependent on the relevant value for money and affordability tests, planning permissions and commercial negotiations. The government remains committed to the delivery of these places, which will enable governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitative outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 166223 166224 166226 166227 question first answered 24/07/2018 15:02:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

944768

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Glen Parva Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by what date his Department plans the construction of HMP Glen Parva to have been concluded.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	166224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the 2016 Prison Safety &amp; Reform White Paper and 2017 manifesto, we remain committed to building up to 10,000 modern and decent prison places to replace old, expensive and unsuitable accommodation. We intend to build the first prison at Wellingborough through public capital, with construction work expected to begin late 2018 / early 2019 with completion projected for early 2021. We intend to build the second prison at Glen Parva using private finance.</p><p> </p><p>We will explore funding routes, including private finance, for the delivery of the remaining prison places. The financing models, timetable and costs for these will be dependent on the relevant value for money and affordability tests, planning permissions and commercial negotiations. The government remains committed to the delivery of these places, which will enable governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitative outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 166223 166225 166226 166227 question first answered 24/07/2018 15:02:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

944703

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's announcement, Major new prison reform programme unveiled, published on 9 November 2015, what the timeframe is for each prison to open; and the number of prisons for which (a) work has begun (b) contracts been signed and (c) a decision on the finance mechanism has been made.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	166223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the 2016 Prison Safety &amp; Reform White Paper and 2017 manifesto, we remain committed to building up to 10,000 modern and decent prison places to replace old, expensive and unsuitable accommodation. We intend to build the first prison at Wellingborough through public capital, with construction work expected to begin late 2018 / early 2019 with completion projected for early 2021. We intend to build the second prison at Glen Parva using private finance.</p><p> </p><p>We will explore funding routes, including private finance, for the delivery of the remaining prison places. The financing models, timetable and costs for these will be dependent on the relevant value for money and affordability tests, planning permissions and commercial negotiations. The government remains committed to the delivery of these places, which will enable governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitative outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 166224 166225 166226 166227 question first answered 24/07/2018 15:02:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

944728

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July 2018 to Question 159025 on Child Support and Social Security Benefits, how many First-tier tribunal cases relating social security claims were for (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment support allowance in the Inverclyde constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	166221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>FYTD<em><sup>2</sup></em></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Greenock</strong><em><sup>1</sup></em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) <em><sup>3.</sup></em></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)<sup>.4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Cleared<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>Number cleared at hearing</p></td><td><p>Number cleared without a hearing</p></td><td><p>Total Cleared</p></td><td><p>Number cleared at hearing</p></td><td><p>Number cleared without a hearing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p><em>~</em></p></td><td><p><em>~ </em></p></td><td><p><em>~</em></p></td><td><p>1186</p></td><td><p>1075</p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>239</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>247</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>359</p></td><td><p>333</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>340</p></td><td><p>289</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>242</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018<em><sup>6</sup></em></p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>476</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>401</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li><em> Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) data are normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue. Inverclyde appeals are attributed to the Greenock venue, except Child Support (attributed to Glasgow).</em></li></ol><p><em> </em></p><ol start="2"><li><em> By Financial Year - from April to March. </em></li></ol><p><em> </em></p><ol start="3"><li><em> PIP replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013. As such, volumes received by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in 2013-2014 are low. Data include PIP Reassessment.</em></li></ol><p><em> </em></p><ol start="4"><li><em> Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments) </em></li></ol><p><em> </em></p><ol start="5"><li><em> The total number of Appeals disposed of, inclusive of both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need of a tribunal hearing. </em></li></ol><p><em> </em></p><ol start="6"><li><em> Data April 17 to March 18 are provisional data and subject to change. </em></li></ol><p><em> </em></p><p><em>~ HMCTS has chosen not to provide an exact figure in cases where the true number falls between one and five. However, it should not be assumed that the actual figure represented falls at any particular point within this scale; 'five or fewer' is used as a replacement value from which it would be difficult to isolate or extract any individual data.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date. </em></p><p> </p><p>Latest figures indicate that since PIP was introduced, more than 3.1 million decisions have been made, and of these under 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned. For ESA, 8% of decisions made were appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/07/2018 11:29:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

944704

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Dangerous Driving
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to review the legal definitions for the offences of (a) careless and (b) dangerous driving.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	166208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 the government consulted on changes to driving offences and penalties relating to causing death or serious injury. In the response to the consultation, published in 2017, the government made clear that it does not propose to make any changes to the legal definitions of careless and dangerous driving. But it does propose to increase the maximum penalties for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs from 14 years’ imprisonment to life, and to create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 24/07/2018 15:01:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens