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944445

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any British Overseas Territory has made representations to them regarding new UK legislation; if so, which Territory; and on what subject.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL9678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Those</del> <ins class="ministerial">Some </ins>Overseas Territories with financial centres, namely Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands<del class="ministerial">, Gibraltar</del> and Montserrat have expressed concern about new legislation on sanctions and anti-money laundering (the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act), which became law on 23 May 2018; in particular the requirement to establish a publicly accessible register of the beneficial ownership of companies registered in each government's jurisdiction.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">Seperately, the aforementioned Territories and Gibraltar have made representations over the potential use of an Order in Council as specified in the Act, believing this to be constitutional overreach by the UK.</ins></p><p>The Prime Minister held a conference call with leaders of affected Territories on 24 May to discuss the issue and a further discussion was held at the Joint Ministerial Council in June. Shortly after the passage of this legislation I visited Anguilla, the Cayman Islands and Montserrat, where I held discussions on this topic. Similarly, in late July I visited the British Virgin Islands and met with representatives of the financial services industry and government of BVI. The Government understands the strength of feeling on this issue and is committed to working collaboratively with affected Territories on implementation.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 02/08/2018 15:19:38 question first ministerially corrected 08/08/2018 10:23:04 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon previous answer version 72725 answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

943858

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of trends in staffing levels in prisons over the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	165528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>Information on prison staffing levels can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of March 2018, 21,041 FTE prison officers were in post; representing increases of 2,638 (14.3%) compared to 31 March 2017 and 1,116 (5.6%) since 31 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>This is the highest number of officers in post since 31 May 2013. Over the previous year, 5,244 Band 3 officers were appointed; representing an increase of 125.8% compared to the 12 months to 31 March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Our recruitment drive continues and will continue until we reach required levels across the prison estate, which is vital to ensuring prisons are safe, secure and decent.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/07/2018 11:48:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

944010

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has commissioned research on the effect of court closures on (a) non-attendances of defendants and (a) staff morale.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	165529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service holds data showing failure-to appear rates of defendants mapped against the number of courts and tribunals that have closed in each year. There was no significant increase in failure to attend warrants being issued as a proportion of hearings following the large closure programme of 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service acknowledges the impact that court closure may have on staff and when implementing a court closure support is offered to staff members in discussing relocation options with them. More broadly, staff morale is monitored annually through the HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service People Survey.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:27:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

944011

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that geographic accessibility to courts does not become a barrier to access to justice as a result of the courts closure programme.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	165530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>In January 2018, HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service published its <em>Fit for the future: transforming the Court and Tribunal estate </em>consultation, outlining proposals for its future strategy and approach to the court and tribunal estate in the context of the over £1 billion programme of modernisation currently underway across HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service.</p><p> </p><p>Access to justice, of which proximity to courts and tribunals is one factor, was referred to in the consultation, which closed on 29 March 2018. We are currently considering responses to the consultation and will publish our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:40:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

944012

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates
	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 magistrates courts are adequately staffed with magistrates.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	165531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p><em>The number of magistrates required by magistrates’ courts and the Family Court are assessed annually through an established protocol agreed with the Judiciary. This can be found at </em><a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/protocol-support-jud-deployment-in-mags-cts/" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/protocol-support-jud-deployment-in-mags-cts/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:22:28 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943930

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Emigration: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for Leave to Remove were in each year since 2004; and how many of those applications were made by parents intending to return to a country in the EEA.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	165657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Statistics are only published for numbers of children affected by leave to remove applications and orders under section 13 of the Children Act 1989. Specific issue applications and child arrangements applications relating to leave to remove applications are not identified separately in the statistics collected. Information could only be obtained from individual case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the intended destination of the proposed removal is not collected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:24:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

943931

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Emigration: Children
	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 number of children (a) removed from and (b) allowed to remain in the jurisdiction of England and Wales under Leave to Remove applications in each year since 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	165658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Leave to remove orders can be made under section 13 of the Children Act 1989 where there is a child arrangements order for the child to live with a named person.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is no such child arrangements order, the court can determine an application for leave to remove under section 8 of the 1989 Act by way of a specific issue order or by making a child arrangements order.</p><p> </p><p>Information on what parents decide to do after a leave to remove order has been made is not collected.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:28:32 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

943932

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Emigration: Children
	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 number of CAFCASS reports that were requested for Leave to Remove applications in each year since 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	165659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The written consent of all persons with parental responsibility must be obtained in order to remove a child from the United Kingdom. Where a child arrangements order requires a child to live with a named person, and consent for removal is not given, the court can be asked for permission under section 13 of the Children Act 1989. Where there is no such child arrangements order in force, the court can be asked to decide about the child’s removal through a specific issue order made under section 8 of the 1989 Act.</p><p> </p><p>In either situation, the court may ask Cafcass to prepare a Section 7 welfare report about the child’s welfare needs and family circumstances. Cafcass does not record data on the number of Section 7 reports requested by the court by reference to the type of application made. This information could only be obtained from analysis of individual case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:29:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

943933

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
	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 number of Hague Convention on Child Abduction cases in England and Wales in each year since 2004; how many children were ordered to remain in England and Wales as a result of those cases; and how many children were allowed to leave the country as a result of those cases.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	165660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The statistics currently available on the number of cases under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction for the years 2014 to 2016 are at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643446/rcj-tables-2016.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643446/rcj-tables-2016.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>at tabs 4.2 and 4.3. There are no currently verified statistics for the years 2004-2013 or after 2016. A case can involve more than one child. The known decisions of the court in these cases on return or non-return are as shown in the table. Information on how many children were the subject of return orders or non-return orders could only be obtained by analysis of individual case files at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:39:18 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

943988

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Bahrain: Technical Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the delivery of technical assistance to Bahrain is conditional on that country upholding human rights.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	165677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is funding programmes to support building effective and accountable public and judicial institutions in Bahrain.</p><p>Any training provided by, or on behalf of, the British Government fully complies with our domestic and international human rights obligations. Only by working with partners can we bring about the changes we would like to see.</p><p>The Government monitors events in Bahrain closely if we have concerns on specific issues, we will raise these with the Bahraini authorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/07/2018 16:49:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse