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837454

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

895383

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.</p>
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1027467

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>Providing effective access to justice is at the heart of all decisions the Government makes regarding our justice system. We are committed to making sure that our court and tribunal services can be accessed by those that need to do so.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS staffing levels are appropriate to make sure that effective access to justice is maintained.</p><p> </p><p>All court closures are subject to public consultation and the responses received are considered carefully before final decisions are made. Impact Assessments are published alongside the consultations.</p>
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

917247

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

1019521

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1061104

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are focused on ensuring that we continue to deliver justice in a modernised criminal justice system, and are delivering this through investment and effective management of the system.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £1billion to provide a court system that is accessible to all, works better for everyone, and will ensure our courts are fit for the future. We also spent £1.6bn on legal aid last year alone, more than half of which was on criminal legal aid, and are now making changes to ensure it is available into the future and continues to play an important role in supporting access to justice. We are also working closely with the Attorney General’s Office and Home Office to ensure that all the agencies involved in the criminal justice system have a shared overview of the challenges, opportunities and reforms facing it and an effective forum for tackling these through the Criminal Justice Board.</p>
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

964830

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

884875

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

907075

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1005722

	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	house id	1
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer 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>
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling