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1142202

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Offending Teams: EEA Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children that are EEA nationals receive services from youth offending teams.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	282337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held by MoJ or the Youth Justice Board. Although local level Youth Offending Services have the ability to collect data on children’s nationality using their case management systems, it is unknown how many actually do record this information because the Youth Justice Board do not collate data on nationality centrally. This is done to reduce the data reporting burden on frontline services.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/09/2019 16:21:53 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1142203

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: EEA Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Justice, what processes his Department has put in place to ensure that children that are EEA nationals who come into contact with the criminal justice system can be identified for the purposes of providing advice and support.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	282338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Youth Offending Services (YOS) were established in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which introduced a statutory duty for all local authorities to establish a multi-agency team, with members from police, social services, probation and education, to deliver youth justice services. YOS have a statutory duty to:</p><ul><ul><li>provide appropriate adults for children detained or being interviewed at the police station and provide support for children on bail;</li><li>help young people and their families through court proceedings;</li><li>write pre-sentence reports for the courts advising on appropriate interventions;</li><li>supervise young people serving a community sentence;</li><li>stay in touch with a young person if they’re sentenced to custody; and</li><li>assist in the child’s resettlement post-custody.</li></ul></ul><p>All children who come into contact with the YOS (including EEA nationals) will have their individual circumstances and needs assessed and will receive interventions and support accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/09/2019 16:25:18 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1170742

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the demand on the family courts by diverting private law cases from court where it is safe to do so.
	tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
	tabling member printed	Edward Timpson
	uin	3160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>It can be a difficult time when parents decide to separate but it is important that they are supported to make child-focused decisions in a way that minimise conflict and, importantly, are in the best interest of the child.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that, in cases where is it safe and appropriate, there are a range of services, such as mediation or other forms of non-court dispute resolution, that can provide parents with a constructive and less adversarial alternative to court proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to consider options to enable parents to receive the services that are right for them and raise awareness of alternatives to court.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/01/2020 14:44:25 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson

1151372

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Pleural Plaques: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to re-establish the right to compensation for people in England and Wales who developed pleural plaques as a result of exposure to asbestos.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	3639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to reopen the pleural plaques compensation scheme, which operated between 2 August 2010 and 1 August 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The scheme operated as an extra-statutory one, making £5000 payments on an ex-gratia basis to applicants who fulfilled the scheme’s criteria, namely that they were individuals who had begun, but not resolved, a legal claim for compensation for pleural plaques at the time of the House of Lords ruling in October 2007 in the case of Rothwell v Chemical &amp; Insulating Co Ltd [2007] UKHL 39. That ruling had held that the occurrence of pleural plaques is not a compensatable disease.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility for the scheme was limited to that category of people as they would have had an understandable expectation of receiving compensation when they began their claim, an expectation which would not have been shared by those diagnosed later.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 30/10/2019 17:54:39 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1170936

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) applied for and (b) were granted civil legal aid in York in (a) 2009-10 and (b) each subsequent year.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors the number of applications for public funding, as opposed to the number of discrete individuals who have received legal aid; one person may apply for legal aid on more than one occasion.</p><p>The figures below show the number of applications received and those subsequently granted for Civil Representation by providers located within the York Local Authority area. Please note that location data is based upon the solicitor’s office, rather than the address of the applicant. Individuals who reside within York may choose to access legal aid at a firm based in another location, and vice versa.</p><p>Where an application is ‘not granted’, this may be for a variety of reasons, including administrative (e.g. where information is missing or forms are not signed), or where the applicant does not meet the legal or financial tests to be eligible for public funding.</p><p>Solicitors are responsible for decisions on whether to grant funding under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme of civil legal aid, and therefore data on unsuccessful applications for this type of public funding are not available. Information on those cases opened under ‘Legal Help’ is published at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/853445/legal-aid-statistics-civil-starts-provider-location-data-to-sep-2019.csv" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/853445/legal-aid-statistics-civil-starts-provider-location-data-to-sep-2019.csv</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Granted</p></td><td><p>Not Granted</p></td><td><p>Total Applications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-2010</p></td><td><p>775</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>949</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>694</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>659</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>758</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>593</p></td><td><p>112</p></td><td><p>705</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>428</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>479</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>440</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>476</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>462</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018</p></td><td><p>535</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>569</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>616</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>637</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 23/01/2020 15:19:42 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1171308

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in (A) England and (B) York in each year since 2010; and how many and what proportion of people with cases before (a) civil and (b) criminal courts received legal aid in (i) England and (ii) York in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	4412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>Information on national cash and real term expenditure is published as part of the Legal Aid Agency’s statistical releases, the most recent of which is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019</a>. It is not possible to produce information in these terms for the areas of England and York only. Information on the value of claims paid each year to providers in these areas (on a ‘closed case’ basis) may however be viewed via the above link.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the proportion of people and cases receiving legal aid could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 23/01/2020 16:25:40 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1150843

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Representation: Coroners
	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 ensure greater equality between the amount spent on legal representation by (a) families who are publicly funded and (b) mental health trusts at inquests following the death of a relative in a mental health unit.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	2731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>Legal aid is available for advice and assistance for all inquests, subject to a means and merits test. Inquests follow an inquisitorial process and legal aid support for representation is not typically applicable. Exceptional Case Funding may be available where certain inquests require legal representation. The Government wants to ensure that the bereaved are placed at the heart of the inquisitorial process and is taking forward a number of measures announced in the recent Review of Legal Aid for Inquests to make the inquest process more sympathetic to the needs of bereaved families; the Government also has work underway looking at the prevention of deaths of people who are in the care of the state.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 24/10/2019 15:22:26 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1147945

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals for the recognition of humanist marriages.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	293698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer given to PQ 284741 on 9 September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 07/10/2019 16:05:56 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1144367

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress his Department has made in reviewing the legal aid means test.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	286365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government announced the review of the legal aid means test on 7 February 2019, as part of the Legal Support Action Plan.</p><p>The review will consider the full range of means-testing criteria including the applicable thresholds for legal aid entitlement and their interaction with wider criteria.</p><p>The review is in progress, bringing together data, evidence and expertise, and liaising with experts from across the field to explore potential improvements to the system.</p><p>This comprehensive review of the legal aid eligibility regime is expected to conclude in summer 2020 after which we will publish a full consultation paper setting out our future policy on the proposals in this area. We will seek to implement any final recommendations as soon as practicable following public consultation.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 09/09/2019 15:10:37 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1169487

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Duty Solicitors: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that adequate numbers of criminal duty solicitors are available in (a) the North West, (b) Merseyside, (c) Wirral and (d) Wallasey.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	1288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is clear that there are sufficient solicitors to undertake criminal legal aid-funded cases and will make sure this continues to be the case in (a) the North West, (b) Merseyside, (c) Wirral and (d) Wallasey. The Government commenced a review of all criminal legal aid fee schemes in December 2018, including the criminal duty solicitor fee scheme.</p><p>In June 2019 the Government took the decision to accelerate certain key areas of the Criminal Legal Aid Review that were highlighted to be of immediate concern to defence practitioners.</p><p>In addition to monitoring duty solicitor coverage on an ongoing basis where issues are identified, the Government continues to take action to ensure there is ongoing availability of criminal legal advice for the public.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 13/01/2020 13:32:00 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle