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837454

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England and Wales have been convicted of offences under ss58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 in respect of abortions in each year since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	126573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The number of offenders found guilty of an offence under Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, in England and Wales, can be found in the Criminal Justice System Statistics Quarterly at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2016</a>). In 2016, there was only one conviction and that was made under Section 59 of the Act.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2017 is not yet available. This will be published in May 2018.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/02/2018 17:14:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

895383

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Abortion: Clinics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for public order offences involving pro-life vigil participants outside abortion clinics in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	uin	139950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 16:25:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

917247

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to improve access to justice.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
	uin	905595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government has a responsibility to make sure that those in the greatest hardship and at the times of greatest need, can secure access to justice. This is a responsibility that we take very seriously.</p><p><br>Last year, we spent £1.6 billion on legal aid – over a fifth of the Ministry of Justice’s budget.</p><p><br>As we all know, legal aid is just one part of the access to justice landscape. Our £1bn court modernisation programme has already started transforming how people experience the justice system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 05/06/2018 16:55:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

1019521

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that access to justice is maintained after the implementation period of the Withdrawal Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	198178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The ability of individuals to resolve their legal problems is vital to the rule of law and the government will continue its commitment to maintain access to justice.</p><p> </p><p>The Political Declaration establishes the parameters of an ambitious, broad and flexible future partnership between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). This includes a commitment to explore options for a new agreement on family judicial cooperation. It also sets out the ambition for a future security partnership, which will provide for comprehensive, close, balanced and reciprocal law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.</p><p> </p><p>We have also reached agreement with the EU on how existing civil and criminal judicial cooperation cases will be brought to their conclusion in the event that we are unable to reach an agreement on a satisfactory future relationship at the end of the implementation period.</p><ul><li>On civil, we have broadly agreed with the EU that if proceedings are started ahead of the end of the implementation period, they will be concluded under the existing EU rules and that subsequent judgments in those proceedings will also be enforced.</li></ul><ul><li>On criminal, any request for judicial cooperation before the end of the Implementation Period, under the EU measures that remain in force during the IP, will proceed until it is concluded under the applicable EU rules. This applies both to requests accepted by the UK and those requests made by the UK to remaining member states.</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/12/2018 12:28:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

964830

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Mental Illness
	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 number of people requiring a psychiatric assessment before a court case can proceed; and what information he holds on the cost of such assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	169395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Information on the numbers and cost of psychiatric assessments is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/09/2018 13:10:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

884875

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has received representations on the level of availability of interpreters willing to travel for judicial proceedings in Northern Ireland; and if he will take steps to ensure the provision of interpreters from England and Wales for such proceedings in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	135863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The provision of services required to support the administration of justice to the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (NICTS), is a matter for the Northern Ireland Department of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has robust language service arrangements in place to support Northern Ireland sittings of the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration &amp; Asylum Chamber) and the Upper Tribunal tribunals, which covers the whole of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>Where requested to do so, my officials will share the Ministry of Justice register of available interpreters with their NICTS counterparts, to support the wider administration of the Northern Ireland justice system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/04/2018 16:37:21 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

907075

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Offences against Children
	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 proposals to reduce the potential risk of the judicial system being used to delay investigations by regulatory bodies where there is an ongoing risk to children.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	145577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>We are determined to maintain our resolute focus on protecting children and vulnerable victims and tackling crimes committed against them. We keep the criminal justice system under review and remain open to evidence that further change and improvement is needed. It is right however, that where criminal investigations are actively progressing that regulatory bodies take that into account.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/05/2018 16:26:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1005722

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking help older people maintain access to services in a modernising court system.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	190522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Ensuring access to justice is a fundamental principle of the Government and judiciary’s £1bn reform programme to transform our courts and tribunals system. The reform programme aims to expand the ways users can resolve their justice needs, while maintaining and improving traditional methods for those who need them. We are designing the reformed services to be accessible for all, including older users, and to provide users with options on how they can interact with our services as well as access appropriate support, should they need to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Many users will be able to benefit from new digital services and, if needed, will be able to seek telephone or face to face support to help them to use these. This ‘assisted digital’ support is currently in place for the ‘Application’ stage for our reformed services for Divorce, Civil Money Claims, Social Security &amp; Child Support Tribunal, Probate and the Single Justice Service. Where assisted digital support is not appropriate or sufficient, users will continue to be able to use traditional methods, such as paper forms, which are also being improved and made more accessible.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/11/2018 15:38:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

833107

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Aiding and Abetting
	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 review the use of joint enterprise and bring forward legislative proposals to clarify the law on joint enterprise as a result of the Resolution agreed by the House on Joint Enterprise on 25 January 2018, Official Report, columns 444-477.
	tabling member constituency	Sutton Coldfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Mitchell
	uin	125423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Joint Enterprise is a common law doctrine. The Supreme Court judgment in <em>R v Jogee</em> amended the law in this area, and did not call for Parliament to legislate.</p><p> </p><p>It is for our independent courts to interpret the law, as laid down by the Supreme Court. The Crown Prosecution Service has amended its guidance on secondary liability for prosecutors in line with the <em>Jogee</em> judgment, and has consulted on that guidance which aims to provide a clear direction for prosecutors in this area of law.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not believe that any changes to the law on joint enterprise are currently needed, but will keep the matter under review.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/02/2018 17:13:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell

838336

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Aiding and Abetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the implementation of recommendations on joint enterprise from the (a) Law Commission report entitled Participating In Crime, published in 2006, (b) Eleventh Report of the Justice Committee of Session 2010-12, Joint Enterprise, HC1597, and (c) Lammy Review of 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	127221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>This Government does not believe that any changes to the law on joint enterprise are currently needed, but will keep the matter under review. It is for the courts to interpret and apply the common law in this area, and in particular, the change to the law on parasitic accessory liability made by the Supreme Court in <em>R v Jogee</em>. This Government, like the previous one, is satisfied that the Supreme Court has made the necessary correction to the law and believes this goes a long way in responding to concerns expressed earlier by members of the Justice Committee.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Crown Prosecution Service has consulted on revised guidance for use by prosecutors on secondary liability and aims to publish the final version in the early part of this year. This guidance will take account of the Lammy Recommendation that the CPS, while reworking its guidance on joint enterprise, should consider its approach to gang prosecutions in general. The CPS has already revised its internal resources on gangs in light of the recommendations resulting from the Lammy Review.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 20/02/2018 16:45:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq