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907115

	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	Reoffenders: Alternatives to Prison
	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 17 May 2018 to Questions 142391, 142392 and 142807 to 142816, on Reoffenders: Alternatives to Prison, what the sentence listed as other was in each case.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	145563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>'Other' sentences include anything other than immediate custody, a suspended sentence, a community sentence, an absolute or conditional discharge, or a fine.</p><p> </p><p>Pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2018 to Questions 142391, 142392 and 142807 to 142816, the nature of the most recent offence listed as ‘other’ in each such case, broken down by offence, can be viewed in the table.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/05/2018 16:25:21 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ145563 Response Table.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1093498

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2019
	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, what estimate his Department has made of the average length of time between an person appealing a decision on (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payments to that person receiving an outcome in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	235810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>(1) Information about waiting times for appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), including (a) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and (b) Personal Independence Payment (PIP), is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.</p><p> </p><p>(2) HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service administers appeals from appellants living in England, Scotland, and Wales (Great Britain) and not the United Kingdom. The Northern Ireland Courts &amp; Tribunals Service administers appeals from appellants living in Northern Ireland. The data requested at 2(a) and (b) for appellants in Great Britain are not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Latest figures (between April 2014 – September 2018) indicate that 3.9m ESA (post WCA) decisions have been made. Of these, 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned. For PIP, the latest figures (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at tribunals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 235811 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:45:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1093499

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2019
	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, what information his Department holds on the number of people that have waited 12 months or more from the time they appealed a decision on (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payments to receiving an outcome in country of the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	235811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>(1) Information about waiting times for appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), including (a) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and (b) Personal Independence Payment (PIP), is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.</p><p> </p><p>(2) HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service administers appeals from appellants living in England, Scotland, and Wales (Great Britain) and not the United Kingdom. The Northern Ireland Courts &amp; Tribunals Service administers appeals from appellants living in Northern Ireland. The data requested at 2(a) and (b) for appellants in Great Britain are not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Latest figures (between April 2014 – September 2018) indicate that 3.9m ESA (post WCA) decisions have been made. Of these, 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned. For PIP, the latest figures (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at tribunals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 235810 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:45:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1002587

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Leeds
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment support allowance assessment appeals were successful in Leeds in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	188727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>(a) Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) including (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not record data based on constituencies. SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published Tribunals Statistics CSV files provide information about the outcomes of PIP appeals for individual hearing venues including Leeds, where appeals from constituents living in the Leeds area would be heard.</p><p>(b) This information is not held centrally. The Tribunal hears appeals generally against decisions on entitlement to benefit, or its rate of payment. Some Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) decisions may feature an element of assessment against work capability criteria, while other ESA decisions may not. HMCTS does not, therefore, hold the information requested.</p><p>Latest figures indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.5 million decisions have been made up to June 2018, and of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at Tribunals. For ESA, 3.5m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made between April 2014 and March 2018 and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/11/2018 17:44:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

992840

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Greater London
	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 of the (a) level of outstanding adult offender caseload and (b) utilisation rate at (i) Camberwell Green Magistrates Court and (ii) Croydon Magistrates Court.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	182300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>(a) The number of outstanding adult offender cases as at 30 June 2018 at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court is 1,995 and 1,186 cases at Croydon Magistrates’ Court.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The utilisation rate for the period July 2017 to June 2018 at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ and Youth Court is 77.3% and at Croydon Magistrates’ Court is 68.4%. A review of individual court room usage, supported by building improvement works, is enabling Croydon Magistrates’ Court to accommodate transferred work from Camberwell.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2018 15:52:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

988866

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prosecutions: Greater London
	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 (a) number of young offender cases that remain unresolved and (b) utilisation rates at (i) Camberwell Green Magistrate Court and (ii) at Bromley Magistrates Court.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	180267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>(a) While HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not report under a heading of “unresolved cases” data on outstanding cases for youths are available. The count of outstanding cases can include new cases which have yet to reach their first hearing. The number of outstanding youth cases as at 30 June 2018 at Bromley Magistrates’ Court is 136 and 266 cases at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The utilisation rate for the period July 2017 to June 2018 at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court is 77.3% and at Bromley Magistrates’ Court 99.7%. A review of listing is enabling Bromley Magistrates’ Court to accommodate transferred work from Camberwell.</p><p> </p><p>(c) HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service is undertaking enabling works to accommodate the caseload of Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court at Bromley and Croydon Magistrates’ Courts. This includes providing additional courtroom capacity at Croydon and additional capacity for youth work at Bromley by creating an additional court room and improved youth case facilities.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/10/2018 14:08:49 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 79859 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

874750

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment support allowance appeal hearings have been adjourned in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	135051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>(i) The table below contains the information requested up to December 2017, the latest period for which figures are available.</p><p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of ESA Adjourned <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Adjournments as a proportion of disposals<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>9,553</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>11,591</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2017 – 31 December 2017 <sup>P</sup></p></td><td><p>10,001</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>The number of ESA appeals adjourned at a hearing.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Total number of hearing clearances. Cases cleared at tribunal hearing both oral and paper</p><p><sup>P </sup>Provisional data, as they will be reconciled when the annual statistics are published and therefore subject to change. Latest data available in line with published data.</p><p> </p><p>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 available.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) The decision to adjourn a hearing is a judicial function. There is no prescribed set of criteria in determining whether to adjourn hearings for ESA (or other types of) appeals. Hearings can be adjourned for a variety of reasons including to obtain further medical evidence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 135053 question first answered 19/04/2018 14:53:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

874752

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for adjourning employment support allowance hearings.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	135053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>(i) The table below contains the information requested up to December 2017, the latest period for which figures are available.</p><p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of ESA Adjourned <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Adjournments as a proportion of disposals<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>9,553</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>11,591</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2017 – 31 December 2017 <sup>P</sup></p></td><td><p>10,001</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>The number of ESA appeals adjourned at a hearing.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Total number of hearing clearances. Cases cleared at tribunal hearing both oral and paper</p><p><sup>P </sup>Provisional data, as they will be reconciled when the annual statistics are published and therefore subject to change. Latest data available in line with published data.</p><p> </p><p>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 available.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) The decision to adjourn a hearing is a judicial function. There is no prescribed set of criteria in determining whether to adjourn hearings for ESA (or other types of) appeals. Hearings can be adjourned for a variety of reasons including to obtain further medical evidence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 135051 question first answered 19/04/2018 14:53:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

994606

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women, (b) men and (c) people of BAME background were in receipt of (i) civil and (ii) criminal legal aid in each (A) year and (B) quarter since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	183907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>183907: This information is published annually by the Ministry of Justice and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720185/legal-aid-statistics-client-diversity-data-to-mar-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720185/legal-aid-statistics-client-diversity-data-to-mar-2018.ods</a>.</p><p>183909: See attached ‘Annex B’</p><p>183910: Figures on volumes and closed case costs for inquests are published quarterly by the Ministry of Justice and available at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743382/legal-aid-statistics-civil-detail-data-apr-jun-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743382/legal-aid-statistics-civil-detail-data-apr-jun-2018.ods</a>.</p><p>183911: This information is published by the Ministry of Justice quarterly and is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-april-to-june-2018. Table 7.2 of the Legal aid statistics England and Wales tables April to June 2018 file contains starts and outcomes for legally aided family mediation both annually and quarterly for the period enquired about.</p><p>183912:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Legal Aid Agency Regional Office</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume of law centres offering legal aid<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brighton</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reading</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1 As of June 2018</p><p>Legal aid contracts are held across a broad base of providers, including Law Centres. Under the 2018 Standard Civil Contract, only 2% of the contracts issued are with Law Centres. A complete list of firms (including both Law Centres and those in private practice) which hold a legal aid contract is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directory-of-legal-aid-providers, listing the number of providers broken down by area. This shows which other firms may provide legal aid services in those regions where a law centre does not operate.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 183909 183910 183911 183912 question first answered 02/11/2018 14:54:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

994609

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) civil legal help and (b) civil representation provider offices there were in each legal aid area in each quarter for which data is available since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	183909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>183907: This information is published annually by the Ministry of Justice and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720185/legal-aid-statistics-client-diversity-data-to-mar-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720185/legal-aid-statistics-client-diversity-data-to-mar-2018.ods</a>.</p><p>183909: See attached ‘Annex B’</p><p>183910: Figures on volumes and closed case costs for inquests are published quarterly by the Ministry of Justice and available at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743382/legal-aid-statistics-civil-detail-data-apr-jun-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743382/legal-aid-statistics-civil-detail-data-apr-jun-2018.ods</a>.</p><p>183911: This information is published by the Ministry of Justice quarterly and is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-april-to-june-2018. Table 7.2 of the Legal aid statistics England and Wales tables April to June 2018 file contains starts and outcomes for legally aided family mediation both annually and quarterly for the period enquired about.</p><p>183912:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Legal Aid Agency Regional Office</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume of law centres offering legal aid<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brighton</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridge</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reading</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1 As of June 2018</p><p>Legal aid contracts are held across a broad base of providers, including Law Centres. Under the 2018 Standard Civil Contract, only 2% of the contracts issued are with Law Centres. A complete list of firms (including both Law Centres and those in private practice) which hold a legal aid contract is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directory-of-legal-aid-providers, listing the number of providers broken down by area. This shows which other firms may provide legal aid services in those regions where a law centre does not operate.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 183907 183910 183911 183912 question first answered 02/11/2018 14:54:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero