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1694126

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/03/2024
	date	06/03/2024
	date tabled	06/03/2024
	ddp created	06/03/2024 19:28:39
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	07/03/2024 12:25:13 11/03/2024 17:38:09
	hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
	house id	1
	identifier	17246
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	11/03/2024 17:06:49
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been subject to a special guardianship order in each of the last 10 years.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 17246
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	17246
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures in relation to how many children are subject to a special guardianship order at any one time.</p><p>However, the following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures provides details on the number of children involved in orders from 2013 until 2022. Data for public law cases in 2022 has not been published due to data issues resulting from the reform of public law services.</p><p>The number of these orders has remained relatively stable over that period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,923</p></td><td><p>1,863</p></td><td><p>6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,852</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>6,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5,514</p></td><td><p>1,949</p></td><td><p>7,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5,668</p></td><td><p>1,812</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,758</p></td><td><p>1,581</p></td><td><p>7,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5,920</p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>7,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,835</p></td><td><p>1,544</p></td><td><p>7,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>5,268</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td><td><p>6,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>6,124</p></td><td><p>1,293</p></td><td><p>7,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>1,184</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 11/03/2024 17:06:49
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1700022

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/04/2024
	date	12/04/2024
	date tabled	12/04/2024
	ddp created	12/04/2024 14:19:42
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	12/04/2024 15:17:39 22/04/2024 12:51:05
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	identifier	20836
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	22/04/2024 12:19:55
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals held in the prison estate have previously been detained after conviction.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 20836
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	20836
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. This is because it would require data linking between prison data and the Ministry of Justice extract of the police national computer.</p> question first answered 22/04/2024 12:19:55
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1700020

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2024
	date	12/04/2024
	date tabled	12/04/2024
	ddp created	12/04/2024 14:19:36
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	12/04/2024 15:07:29 17/04/2024 17:04:06
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	identifier	20834
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	17/04/2024 16:32:38
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of offences committed by foreign nationals held in the prison estate.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 20834
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	20834
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The requested information can be found in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p>The removal of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) is a Government priority and my department continues to work closely with the Home Office to maximise the number of deportations.</p><p> </p><p>Published figures show that FNO returns have increased following the pandemic, in the latest 12-month period (ending December 2023) by 27% when compared to the previous 12-month period. Between January 2019 and December 2023 17,795 FNOs have been removed.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of FNOs held in custody is 12% of the total prison population and has remained stable in recent years while the overall prison population has grown.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 March, the Government set out a plan to increase the number of FNOs removed through:</p><ul><li>The recruitment of 400 additional caseworkers and streamlining the end-to-end removal process;</li><li>Extending foreign national conditional cautions to FNOs with limited leave to remain; and</li><li>Amending deportation policy to enable FNOs given suspended sentences of 6 months or more to be considered for deportation.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These actions build on our expansion of the Early Removal Scheme to allow for removal of FNOs up to 18 months before the end of the custodial element of their sentence, and expediting prisoner transfers with priority countries such as Albania and seeking to conclude new transfer agreements with partner countries.</p><p> </p> question first answered 17/04/2024 16:32:38
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1700019

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/04/2024
	date	12/04/2024
	date tabled	12/04/2024
	ddp created	12/04/2024 14:19:33
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	12/04/2024 15:07:25 17/04/2024 17:03:06
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	identifier	20833
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	17/04/2024 16:31:08
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals are held in the prison estate by nationality.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 20833
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	20833
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Data on how many Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) are held in custody are published in Offender Management Statistics Quarterly: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2023" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly: July to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. For data on the prison population by nationality, see prison population table 1_7.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published data from 31 December 2023 shows that there were 10,423 (3,333 remand, 6,697 sentenced and 393 non-criminal) FNOs held in custody; representing 12% of the total prison population. The most common nationalities after British Nationals in prisons are Albanian (13% of the FNO prison population), Polish (9%), Romanian (7%), Irish (6%) and Jamaican (4%).</p><p> </p><p>The removal of FNOs is a Government priority and my department continues to work closely with the Home Office to maximise the number of deportations.</p><p> </p><p>Published figures show that FNO returns have increased following the pandemic, in the latest 12-month period (ending December 2023) by 27% when compared to the previous 12-month period. Between January 2019 and December 2023 17,795 FNOs have been removed.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of FNOs held in custody is 12% of the total prison population and has remained stable in recent years while the overall prison population has grown.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 March, the Government set out a plan to increase the number of FNOs removed through:</p><ul><li>The recruitment of 400 additional caseworkers and streamlining the end-to-end removal process;</li><li>Extending foreign national conditional cautions to FNOs with limited leave to remain; and</li><li>Amending deportation policy to enable FNOs given suspended sentences of 6 months or more to be considered for deportation.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>These actions build on our expansion of the Early Removal Scheme to allow for removal of FNOs up to 18 months before the end of the custodial element of their sentence, and expediting prisoner transfers with priority countries such as Albania and seeking to conclude new transfer agreements with partner countries.</p><p> </p> question first answered 17/04/2024 16:31:08
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1690262

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/02/2024
	date	08/02/2024
	date tabled	08/02/2024
	ddp created	20/02/2024 12:24:40
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	20/02/2024 12:25:25 20/02/2024 20:11:15
	hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality: Coroners
	house id	1
	identifier	901597
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	20/02/2024 19:39:20
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to enact section 4 of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019.
	session	2023/24
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2023/24 901597
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	901597
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Work to publish the response to the 2019 consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths was paused during the pandemic, and since then the landscape of maternity investigations has changed significantly.</p><p>The findings of the consultation were complex, and it is imperative that they are carefully considered when deciding whether the coronial jurisdiction should be extended to include the investigation of stillbirths.</p> question first answered 20/02/2024 19:39:20
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1647885

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	28/06/2023
	date	26/06/2023
	date tabled	26/06/2023
	ddp created	26/06/2023 20:58:11
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	26/06/2023 21:17:56 03/07/2023 16:36:25
	hansard heading	Probate: Standards
	house id	1
	identifier	191000
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	03/07/2023 16:04:24
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the current average processing time for probate cases; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 191000
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	191000
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts during January to March 2023, the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate, following receipt of the documents required, is 9 weeks.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and these resources are focussed on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness on all types of applications.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to March 2023.</p> question first answered 03/07/2023 16:04:24
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1646478

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	26/06/2023
	date	21/06/2023
	date tabled	21/06/2023
	ddp created	21/06/2023 20:15:22
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	21/06/2023 20:25:50 26/06/2023 16:08:18
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
	house id	1
	identifier	190500
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	26/06/2023 15:37:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the inclusivity induction pack provided to all new employees in his Department.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 190500
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	190500
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>There is no single departmental inclusivity induction pack provided to all new employees.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) regularly host a corporate induction workshop which all new starters can attend, and information about induction into the MoJ is made available on the MoJ Intranet. This is supplemented with the online Civil Service Expectations training which includes specific learning outcomes relating to diversity and inclusion.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all new employees receive an induction through their individual business areas where induction products are tailored to their delivery model.</p> question first answered 26/06/2023 15:37:15
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1582764

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	08/02/2023
	date	01/02/2023
	date tabled	01/02/2023
	ddp created	01/02/2023 18:57:07
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	01/02/2023 19:07:21 09/02/2023 14:52:12
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Gender
	house id	1
	identifier	137709
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	09/02/2023 14:20:48
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that data collected by (a) his Department and (b) his Department’s associated arms-length bodies records biological sex as opposed to gender identity.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 137709
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	137709
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>To provide a response Ministry of Justice officials would need to ascertain the facts in relation to all steps taken to ensure that data is recorded as biological sex in MoJ HQ and its 34 public bodies, which could only be done at disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p> </p><p>The scope of this question covers MoJ and its 34 public bodies. All ALBs do not use the same systems to record biological sex information and it is not known what steps are taken in each ALB to ensure biological sex is recorded, as opposed to gender identity, because this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>To reach a factual conclusion each ALB would need to be investigated to identify and extract all information pertaining to all steps taken to ensure that data collected records biological sex as opposed to gender identity across all records.</p><p> </p><p>However, I can confirm that our policy concerning prisons is that transgender prisoners are allocated based on legal gender rather than self-declared gender identity. HMPPS also records the transgender status of every transgender prisoner, meaning that for each we know both their biological sex and their gender identity.</p> question first answered 09/02/2023 14:20:48
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1564359

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/01/2023
	date	06/01/2023
	date tabled	06/01/2023
	ddp created	06/01/2023 15:09:49
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	09/01/2023 19:25:18 12/01/2023 16:19:12
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Albania
	house id	1
	identifier	117405
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	12/01/2023 15:47:35
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Albanian nationals have voluntarily been transferred from UK prisons to detention in Albania in the last year.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 117405
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	117405
	version	3
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>More than 10,000 foreign national offenders have been returned to their home countries in the last three years.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Albania. This agreement came into force in May 2022. We are working closely with our counterparts in Albania to begin transferring prisoners – with or without the offender’s consent – as soon as possible, as outlined in our new bilateral prisoner transfer agreement.</p><p>Justice is a devolved matter in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS), an agency of the Scottish Government, operates Scottish prisons. Similarly, the Northern Ireland Prison Service is responsible for the management of prisons in Northern Ireland. The MoJ therefore does not hold this information in relation to prisoners in Scottish or Northern Irish prisons.</p> question first answered 12/01/2023 15:47:35
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1564364

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/01/2023
	date	06/01/2023
	date tabled	06/01/2023
	ddp created	06/01/2023 15:10:02
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	06/01/2023 15:36:12 11/01/2023 18:44:12
	hansard heading	Duncan Lewis Solicitors: Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	identifier	117408
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	11/01/2023 18:12:22
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public funds in the form legal aid were paid to Duncan Lewis Solicitors for immigration cases in each of the last 5 years.
	session	2022/23
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 117408
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	117408
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The requested information can be found in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Costs, £</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>9,224,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>9,150,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>8,091,003</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>7,737,439</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>8,055,383</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Duncan Lewis is the largest Legal Aid provider in the UK currently operating across 23 offices.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency publishes data regarding civil legal aid expenditure broken down by category of law and legal aid provider as part of its <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086940/legal-aid-statistics-civil-completions-provider-area-data-to-mar-2022.zip" target="_blank">official statistics</a>.</p><p>Legal aid is only available in respect of immigration cases which are within the scope of legal aid as set out under Schedule 1, Part 1 of the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/contents/enacted" target="_blank">Legal Aid and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012</a> and subject to the application of a strict financial eligibility and merits test.</p> question first answered 11/01/2023 18:12:22
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton