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168702

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Buildings
	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 25 November 2014 to Question 215339, how many staff of (a) his Department and (b) external contractors are working on the detailed planning of the court reform programme.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	217622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Resourcing for the HMCTS Reform Programme is appropriate for the stage the programme is at. A full resourcing plan is being developed as one of the components of the overall planning currently being undertaken, ahead of full programme mobilising in spring 2015. Current resourcing is allocated from across a number of different areas of MoJ and varies depending on the tasks the Programme is engaged in. External support for the programme is provided via a procured contractual package.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/01/2015 17:16:19 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

169005

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Fines
	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 10 November 2014 to Question 213487, what the total value is of outstanding financial impositions in each local criminal justice board area.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	217822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years. The amount of money collected reached an all time high of £290 million at the end of 2013/14 and collections continue to rise. In 2013/14 the total outstanding balance of financial impositions reduced by £26.7m (5%) in the year.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the value of financial impositions outstanding as at the end of March 2014; the first column of figures represents the balance outstanding of the impositions made during the 2013/14 financial year and the second shows the total value outstanding regardless of imposition date. The ‘in year outstanding value’ is included within the total outstanding value figure.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘value outstanding’ figures include accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified (either because they were imposed close to the end of the year or because they had payment timescales set by the courts for beyond the end of the financial year) and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. These figures include fines, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and prosecution costs orders.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value outstanding of the impositions made in 2013/14 as at end of March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value outstanding regardless of imposition date as at the end of March 2014</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Avon and Somerset</p></td><td><p>£5,619,129</p></td><td><p>£12,553,883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>£1,993,428</p></td><td><p>£4,089,206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>£2,703,891</p></td><td><p>£7,038,014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>£3,399,702</p></td><td><p>£9,244,929</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>£2,402,047</p></td><td><p>£5,032,666</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>£2,640,263</p></td><td><p>£4,375,845</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>£2,510,078</p></td><td><p>£4,900,253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon and Cornwall</p></td><td><p>£3,156,574</p></td><td><p>£6,884,992</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>£2,310,086</p></td><td><p>£6,195,513</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>£1,694,578</p></td><td><p>£3,437,278</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>£1,655,354</p></td><td><p>£3,339,862</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>£5,109,102</p></td><td><p>£11,727,731</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>£1,090,372</p></td><td><p>£3,000,161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>£13,289,385</p></td><td><p>£36,689,144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>£2,469,746</p></td><td><p>£4,921,206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire &amp; IOW</p></td><td><p>£5,702,306</p></td><td><p>£16,166,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>£4,957,126</p></td><td><p>£11,020,506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>£3,952,318</p></td><td><p>£10,095,165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>£7,019,646</p></td><td><p>£18,527,317</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>£6,510,390</p></td><td><p>£12,622,950</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>£2,635,809</p></td><td><p>£4,459,648</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£2,845,002</p></td><td><p>£5,008,456</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Central &amp; South</p></td><td><p>£21,953,798</p></td><td><p>£51,113,995</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London North East</p></td><td><p>£11,947,473</p></td><td><p>£30,347,785</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London North West</p></td><td><p>£12,824,734</p></td><td><p>£32,678,929</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London South West</p></td><td><p>£687,694</p></td><td><p>£13,433,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>£7,663,814</p></td><td><p>£29,436,895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>£2,617,344</p></td><td><p>£6,313,368</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>£2,651,292</p></td><td><p>£5,871,714</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£1,845,893</p></td><td><p>£3,706,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>£2,402,450</p></td><td><p>£5,079,815</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>£6,458,612</p></td><td><p>£14,394,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>£4,528,741</p></td><td><p>£7,142,505</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>£7,917,616</p></td><td><p>£12,277,550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£6,124,833</p></td><td><p>£12,989,876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>£4,494,258</p></td><td><p>£10,973,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>£2,637,989</p></td><td><p>£6,411,105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>£3,171,345</p></td><td><p>£7,425,288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>£3,823,916</p></td><td><p>£12,189,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>£6,700,496</p></td><td><p>£18,575,082</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>£3,141,110</p></td><td><p>£4,877,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>£4,537,306</p></td><td><p>£9,479,843</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>£11,689,675</p></td><td><p>£30,516,365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£9,630,393</p></td><td><p>£17,079,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>£1,826,437</p></td><td><p>£5,165,096</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/01/2015 17:25:01 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

171229

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department allocated to local authorities for Universal Credit Delivery Partnership agreements in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	219161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>To ensure the right integrated local foundations are established for Universal Credit the Department has and will put in place Delivery Partnership Agreements with local authorities to make available funded support for those who need extra help. We have spent nearly £1 million in 2013/14 and we will report on expenditure for 2014/15 once it has been audited as part of the Department’s annual accounts process. Once this concludes and the accounts are published the information requested can be made available.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 13/01/2015 15:43:28 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 37084 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

170478

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce legislative proposals to prevent anyone who has entered or stayed illegally in the UK being granted British citizenship.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	218768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Applicants for naturalisation need to meet the statutory requirements in the British Nationality Act 1981 which specify that a person must not have been in breach of the Immigration Rules during the required residential qualifying period.<br />In addition, a person is required to be of good character. If a person meets these requirements, the Home Secretary may, if she thinks fit, grant a certificate of naturalisation. <br /><br />We have recently substantially strengthened our policy on both the good character and residence requirements. Our revised policy on good character makes it clear that entering the UK illegally or evading immigration control will <br />usually mean that a person is prevented from acquiring citizenship for a period of 10 years. In terms of assessing the residence requirements, new guidance has been published on how the Home Secretary will exercise her discretion. We <br />will no longer overlook lengthy periods of unlawful residence, as was the case under previous governments. Whereas previously discretion would have been exercised in cases where a person who deliberately entered or remained in the UK without permission had attempted to regularise their stay by making an application to the Home Office, we will no longer tolerate this. We will normally only exercisediscretion to overlook periods of unlawful residence if they are short and genuinely inadvertent or outside the applicant’s control.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:44:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

171177

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to increase the (a) reporting, (b) detection and (c) prosecution of child abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	219340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Child abuse is an abhorrent crime no matter when or where it occurs. The Government is clear that if child abuse takes place, it must be thoroughly and properly investigated, and those responsible are arrested and brought to <br>justice. It is vital that victims feel empowered to come forward to report abuse<br><br>All chief constables have committed to a policing action plan that aims to raise the standards in tackling child sexual exploitation so that the police are providing a consistently strong approach to protecting vulnerable young <br>people. The National Policing Lead for child protection and abuse investigation has taken action to revise the action plan to take account of the learning from the Professor Alexis Jay report in Rotherham and other recent publications. <br><br>The Home Secretary has written to all chief constables to ask them to take on board the lessons from the Jay report into the failings in Rotherham, and from the rolling HMIC inspections into how forces are protecting children.<br><br>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the College of Policing have issued guidance for police in relation to child abuse and exploitation. The guidance aims to move the focus of investigations away from testing the credibility of <br>victims onto the credibility of the allegation and ensuring victims are listened to by the police. In addition, a joint National Policing Lead and CPS review panel was established last year. The national panel re-examines <br>historical cases of sexual abuse where a decision was made that no further action would be taken and identify whether any issues require further exploration and investigation.<br><br>We must never accept a situation where police forces and other agencies fail in their fundamental duty of care towards vulnerable children.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone grouped question UIN 219336 question first answered 13/01/2015 16:34:22 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

171184

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the satisfactoriness of the police's historic record of investigating allegations of child abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	219336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Child abuse is an abhorrent crime no matter when or where it occurs. The Government is clear that if child abuse takes place, it must be thoroughly and properly investigated, and those responsible are arrested and brought to <br>justice. It is vital that victims feel empowered to come forward to report abuse<br><br>All chief constables have committed to a policing action plan that aims to raise the standards in tackling child sexual exploitation so that the police are providing a consistently strong approach to protecting vulnerable young <br>people. The National Policing Lead for child protection and abuse investigation has taken action to revise the action plan to take account of the learning from the Professor Alexis Jay report in Rotherham and other recent publications. <br><br>The Home Secretary has written to all chief constables to ask them to take on board the lessons from the Jay report into the failings in Rotherham, and from the rolling HMIC inspections into how forces are protecting children.<br><br>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the College of Policing have issued guidance for police in relation to child abuse and exploitation. The guidance aims to move the focus of investigations away from testing the credibility of <br>victims onto the credibility of the allegation and ensuring victims are listened to by the police. In addition, a joint National Policing Lead and CPS review panel was established last year. The national panel re-examines <br>historical cases of sexual abuse where a decision was made that no further action would be taken and identify whether any issues require further exploration and investigation.<br><br>We must never accept a situation where police forces and other agencies fail in their fundamental duty of care towards vulnerable children.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone grouped question UIN 219340 question first answered 13/01/2015 16:34:22 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

169554

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Emergency Travel Documents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Emergency Travel Documents wore issued to overseas applicants in each month since June 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	218108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Consular data is published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is available at: <br><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/consular-data" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/consular-data</a>. <br>This includes data on the number of emergency travel documents (ETDs) issued to British citizens on a monthly basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:40:53 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33438 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

167829

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners on Remand: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants on bail were remanded in custody by courts in North Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	216989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Figures are not available for the magistrates’ courts prior to 2013 when 139 defendants were remanded into custody subsequent to being on bail.</p><p> </p><p>Figures in the Crown Court are in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>The Crown Court</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Magistrates' courts</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>139</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/01/2015 10:08:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

157025

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Hindley Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the future of Hindley Young Offender's Institute.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	215510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Hindley’s role is to hold young adult men (aged between 18 and 21 years) and adult men (aged 21 and older). This ensures that the accommodation at Hindley is used in line with the National Offender Management Service’s Estate strategy, which is to provide the number and type of prison places required by the courts, configure the estate to give best effect to Ministry of Justice strategic policy priorities, support stakeholder objectives, and those of partner organisations and make the best use of taxpayers’ money.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 13/01/2015 14:36:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

169566

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on removing foreign nationals in each year since 1997.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	218023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Home Office spend on removing foreign nationals includes the costs incurred in transporting foreign nationals to their country of origin, and third party cost incurred as part of the Facilitated Removals and Assisted Voluntary Returns <br>(AVR) removal programmes. It includes associated flight costs, and the costs of escorts used when removing foreign nationals from the country.</p><p><br>£m Total <br>2009-10 - 68.0 <br>2010-11 - 71.8 <br>2011-12 - 54.2 <br>2012-13 - 57.3 <br>2013-14 - 55.3 <br><br>Notes: <br>1. The following costs are excluded from the figures given above: Home Office staff costs; overheads; any related EU funding; areas of expenditure where costs could only be attributed to the removals process at disproportionate <br>cost; and the cost of escorting foreign nationals within the UK to a port of departure where such costs could only be identified at disproportionate cost. <br><br>2. Due to changes in the structure of the Home Office group (the Departmental boundary), data prior to 2009-10 is not available except at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/01/2015 14:42:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 33441 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead