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595959

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to increase capacity at the Asylum and Immigration Chamber.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	47206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). HMCTS have provided an additional 4,500 tribunal sitting days for this financial year compared to 2015/16. HMCTS keeps performance and resource levels under close review. answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 12:46:22 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

595963

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on how many times provisions under Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 have been used to convict people in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	46895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold statistics on the number of offenders found guilty under Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015, as the offence has yet to be commenced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 13:01:56 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

595966

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Victims and Witnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what safeguards are in place to protect the privacy of victims and witnesses in historic sex abuse cases.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	47059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Victims of specific sexual offences, including historical sex abuse cases, are automatically provided with lifetime anonymity, by way of reporting restrictions, from the point of complaint. Anonymity is granted in recognition of the nature of the offence against them and to encourage other victims to come forward.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 17/10/2016 15:53:59 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

595962

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what proportion of child contact cases presided over by the family judiciary in each year since 2010, where there was an allegation of domestic abuse, either party were litigants in person.
	tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
	tabling member printed	Angela Smith
	uin	47052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 17/10/2016 16:33:10 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

595845

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what obligations the Government places on police and crime commissioners to commission local victims' services to meet the specific and ongoing needs of British (a) nationals and (b) residents who have been direct victims or witnesses of a terrorist attack in the UK or abroad.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	47094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>This Government is committed to ensuring that victims of terrorism can access effective and timely support to help them cope, and as far as possible, recover from the trauma they have experienced.</p><p> </p><p>This year we have given Police and Crime Commissioners grant funding of nearly £68m to provide emotional and practical support services for all victims of crime, including victims of terrorism, who reside within their area.</p><p> </p><p>Witnesses in the criminal justice system, including witnesses of terrorist attacks, are also entitled to support as set out under the Witness Charter for England and Wales. These entitlements are currently being met through the nationally commissioned court based witness service.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 17/10/2016 16:41:46 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

595987

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts: Domestic Abuse
	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 5 September 2016 to Question 43488, what the reason is for the discrepancy between the figure provided in that answer and data in recent research published by Women's Aid on 13 September 2016 on the proportion of survivors of domestic abuse that had access to a separate waiting room in the family court.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	47301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>These two pieces of data are not comparable. Question 43488 refers to the Crown and Magistrates’ courts specifically, and family courts were not included. We are clear that security in the family courts is taken extremely seriously and we have robust arrangements in place to protect court users.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 17/10/2016 16:15:06 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

595969

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Sentences: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many male offenders aged under 21 were sentenced to immediate custody in courts in each police force area in Wales in each year from 2010 to 2016; and what the custody rate for indictable offences was during that period.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	47075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of male offenders aged over 10 and under 21 sentenced to immediate custody, and the custody rate for indictable offences, at all courts in Wales, by police service area, from 2010 to 2015, is provided in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Male offenders aged under 21 sentenced at all courts to immediate custody for all offences, and custody rate for indictable offences, by police area, Wales, 2010 to 2015 <sup>(1)(2) </sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Police Area</p></td><td><p>Immediate custody</p></td><td><p>Custody rate for Indictable offences <sup>(3)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>251</p></td><td><p>65%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>567</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>77%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>83%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>169</p></td><td><p>73%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>343</p></td><td><p>68%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>83%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>312</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>89%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>77%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>315</p></td><td><p>66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td rowspan="6"><p>Total Wales</p></td><td><p>1,061</p></td><td><p>68%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>886</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>724</p></td><td><p>73%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>69%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>609</p></td><td><p>65%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>538</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(1) The sentence shown is the most severe sentence given for the principal offence (i.e. the principal sentence), secondary sentences given for the principal offence and sentences for non-principal offences are not counted in the tables.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(3) The proportion of offenders sentenced for indictable offences who are sentenced to immediate custody.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Statistics for 2016 are not currently available, but will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 17/10/2016 16:42:43 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

600747

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
	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 12 September 2016 to Question 44395, where in the Tribunals and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly if the number of special educational needs and disability tribunals for each year is published.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	48437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of cases lodged with the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) is published by the Ministry of Justice in the ‘Tribunals and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly’ on gov.uk, in ‘Main tables (April to June 2016)’.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 15:45:53 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595967

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many arrest warrants were issued for defendants who failed to attend court in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	47082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of arrest warrants issued for defendants who failed to attend court in England and Wales for the period 2010 to 2014, the latest data available, can be viewed in the table below.</p><p><strong>Number of Failure to Appear (FTA) Warrants received<sup> (1)</sup> in England and Wales, 2010- 2014.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total warrants issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>93,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>88,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012<sup> (2)</sup></p></td><td><p>72,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70,225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014<sup> (3)</sup></p></td><td><p>70,016</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from live systems used by police forces principally for operational reasons. As such, they are subject to change over time. For these reasons, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) West Midlands constabulary are unable to supply any FTA warrant data from 1 April 2012.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3) Lincolnshire Police were unable to supply any data for Q4 of 2014 because of technical issues related to the introduction of a new warrant management system. Data presented are for the first three quarters of 2014 only.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong><ul><li>These data are reported to the Ministry of Justice by police forces. As such, they are not directly comparable with other data presented in the Criminal Statistics bulletin, which are returned directly from administrative data systems used by magistrates' courts and the Crown Court.</li></ul></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 15:38:47 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

592952

	registered interest
	date	03/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Tribunals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the consultation on transforming the tribunal system <i>Transforming our Justice System</i> is not cross-referenced to the Department for Work and Pensions consultations website, given its relevance to the appeals process for Personal Independence Payment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL2078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The noble Lady will be aware that the Government is investing £1 billion to modernise our world-leading justice system. That means creating a system that is just, proportionate and accessible.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Transforming our Justice System’ consultation is about the administration of justice across all courts and tribunals and not one specific area. My officials are engaging with appropriate stakeholders, including disability groups, on relevant matters.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 17/10/2016 14:41:50 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester