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	registered interest
	date	15/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of providing HM Courts and Tribunal Service cleaning and security services in-House; whether trade union recognition will form part of the tendered contracts; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that employees are paid the living wage as recognised by the Living Wage Foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	154180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has undertaken an assessment of the merits of providing services in-house but has determined that continued outsourcing of these services is the most efficient model and provides best value for the taxpayer. <ins class="ministerial">For such contracts, service providers are expected to observce Cabinet Office Guidance that &quot;service providers should actively communicate and, where appropriate, seek to build good relations with trade unions&quot;</ins><del class="ministerial">For all such contracts, trade union recognition is a requirement of service providers</del>.</p><p> </p><p>Rates of pay for employees delivering outsourced services are determined by their respective employers. All employers must comply with statutory legislation and pay at least the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:22:10 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2018 10:10:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 65433 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

927803

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Sunderland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the letter of 6 March 2018 from the Under-Secretary of State for Justice to the hon. Members for Houghton and Sunderland South and for Sunderland Central, what progress has been made on the future of the Sunderland court estate.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	155782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has completed the assessment and information gathering activities which were outlined in the letter I wrote to the Honourable Member on 6 March 2018. As stated in the letter, the HMCTS Property Board is now considering options for the court estate in Sunderland. I will write to the Honourable Member shortly to provide further information regarding the outcome of the Property Board deliberations.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:27:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

927788

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Insurance: Liability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment on the implications for the public liability claims handling process of the non-disclosure by organisations of their public liability insurer.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	155727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has no any plans to carry out such an assessment. A prospective claimant may be able to obtain information about insurance cover held by a prospective defendant under the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 if the defendant is insolvent or in other similar circumstances covered by that Act and under Part 31 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which permits the court to order the pre-action disclosure of documents in appropriate cases.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:24:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

926928

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration law legal aid providers held a legal aid contract to provide such work in January 2018 by (a) procurement area and (b) access point.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	155344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Procurement Area Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Access Point Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Offices</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Buckinghamshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Mid, South West and Coastal Kent</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Oxfordshire &amp; Berkshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Surrey &amp; Sussex</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Bedfordshire &amp; South Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Cambridgeshire &amp; Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>City of Leicester</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>City of Stoke-on-Trent</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Greater Nottingham, Derby &amp; South Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>South Staffordshire, Sandwell and Birmingham</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East, Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>County Durham East, Teesside, Tyne &amp; Wear and Gateshead</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East, Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East, Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>East &amp; West Lancashire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West England</p></td><td><p>City of Bristol, Gloucestershire and North Somerset</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West England</p></td><td><p>City of Plymouth and Devon</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Bridgend, Cardiff and South East Wales</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Neath Port Talbot and Swansea</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>North East Wales</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:38:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926909

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of reclassifying the offence of posting explicit or sexual images online without permission as a sex offence; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
	tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
	uin	155217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The offence at Section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 2015 criminalises the disclosure of private sexual photographs or films without the consent of an individual who appears in them and with the intent to cause that individual distress.</p><p> </p><p>Such behaviour is a terrible abuse of trust which can leave victims feeling humiliated and degraded.</p><p> </p><p>I am glad to see people are being prosecuted under this new offence which carries a maximum sentence of two years behind bars.</p><p> </p><p>At the time the offence was brought in it was deliberately designed to strengthen existing law by targeting the malicious non-consensual sharing of private sexual images, a motive more akin to the offence of blackmail. This decision was taken after consultation with victims who strongly supported the focus on the malicious nature of this behaviour.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:41:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

926618

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
	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 27 April 2018 to Question 136381 on Tribunals: Video Conferencing, how much funding his Department has allocated to pilots of video hearing technology in courts and tribunals.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	154777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the need to test fully video hearings in a range of locations and jurisdictions, and are working with the judiciary to identify suitable opportunities. Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is currently running a small-scale pilot in the Tax Chamber and has commissioned an independent evaluation of this pilot. The learning from this evaluation will inform our plans for further testing.</p><p> </p><p>Developing video hearings is one of the technology solutions which will support the HMCTS change portfolio, which includes the Reform programme. The costs of piloting fully video hearings cannot be determined until plans for further testing are in place, but will be met from the overall change portfolio budget of £1.2bn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154776 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:36:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926616

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
	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 27 April 2018 to Question 136381 on Tribunals: Video Conferencing, when he plans to start pilots in other courts; and by what date those pilots will be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	154776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the need to test fully video hearings in a range of locations and jurisdictions, and are working with the judiciary to identify suitable opportunities. Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is currently running a small-scale pilot in the Tax Chamber and has commissioned an independent evaluation of this pilot. The learning from this evaluation will inform our plans for further testing.</p><p> </p><p>Developing video hearings is one of the technology solutions which will support the HMCTS change portfolio, which includes the Reform programme. The costs of piloting fully video hearings cannot be determined until plans for further testing are in place, but will be met from the overall change portfolio budget of £1.2bn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154777 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:36:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926614

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on legal aid for social security upper tribunal cases in cases where the claimant has been successful.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	154775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Legal aid is potentially available (subject to tests as to the means of the individual and the merits of their case) in relation to an appeal on a point of law to the Upper Tribunal, the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court relating to a benefit, allowance, payment, credit or pension. However, the specific information being requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:33:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926607

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for an immigration tribunal appeal hearing in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	154772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) January 2018 to March 2018 was 37 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The average waiting times from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) from 2010 to 2017 were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2010 – 16 weeks</p><p>2011 – 14 weeks</p><p>2012 – 14 weeks</p><p>2013 – 20 weeks</p><p>2014 – 25 weeks</p><p>2015 – 24 weeks</p><p>2016 – 43 weeks</p><p>2017 – 45 weeks</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times extended due to a higher level of receipts than forecast. In response HM Courts and Tribunals Service increased the number of judicial sittings to deal with incoming receipts and reduce the live caseload. This has seen the live caseload nearly halve from 64,800 to 36,300 between June 2016 and March 2018 and the average waiting time has now begun to improve from 45 weeks in 2017 to 37 weeks in the period January to March 2018. Further improvement will follow.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154771 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:30:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926606

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for an immigration tribunal appeal hearing.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	154771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) January 2018 to March 2018 was 37 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The average waiting times from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) from 2010 to 2017 were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2010 – 16 weeks</p><p>2011 – 14 weeks</p><p>2012 – 14 weeks</p><p>2013 – 20 weeks</p><p>2014 – 25 weeks</p><p>2015 – 24 weeks</p><p>2016 – 43 weeks</p><p>2017 – 45 weeks</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times extended due to a higher level of receipts than forecast. In response HM Courts and Tribunals Service increased the number of judicial sittings to deal with incoming receipts and reduce the live caseload. This has seen the live caseload nearly halve from 64,800 to 36,300 between June 2016 and March 2018 and the average waiting time has now begun to improve from 45 weeks in 2017 to 37 weeks in the period January to March 2018. Further improvement will follow.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154772 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:30:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon