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45926

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what programmes which receive funding from his Department are available solely to (a) men and (b) women.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information required to provide a full response to the question could not be collated within the timeframe available. I will write to the honourable member providing a full reply in due course</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45935

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of offences where the victim surcharge is ordered and there is no victim.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not collate the information in the manner requested, and it is not possible to identify the amount of victim surcharge collected in relation to offences where there was no victim.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. This database holds information on offences provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought but not the specific circumstances of each case. This centrally held information does not include details of the amount of victim surcharge imposed for the majority of cases. Below is a link to our most recent quarterly bulletin.</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/282983/1-executive-summary-tables.xls" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/282983/1-executive-summary-tables.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/282983/1-executive-summary-tables.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

49754

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	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 9 April 2014, Official Report, columns 244-6W, on fraud: social security benefits, how many of the convictions listed were dealt with at (a) magistrates' courts and (b) Crown courts.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	197883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>Pursuant to the answer of 9 April 2014, the number of men and women found guilty for offences relating to benefit fraud by court type in England and Wales from 2008 to2012 (latest data available) in the attached</p><p>Please note that court proceedings statistics for the year 2013 are planned to be published by the Ministry of Justice on 15th May 2014.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara attachment 1 file name 197883 table.xls title Table
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

49762

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what average period of time is spent on bail by an offender whose case is dealt with in a (a) magistrates' court and (b) Crown court where the offender (i) pleads guilty at the outset, (ii) changes their plea to guilty during the course of the proceedings and (iii) pleads not guilty.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	197785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>Information on bail and remand collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice and held on the Court Proceedings Database does not include any information on the length of time defendants were held on bail or remand. This information could only be ascertained by reference to individual court files which could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

49770

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) judges and (b) magistrates who deal with family court cases are (i) male and (ii) female.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	197799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to judicial diversity - it is important that judges and magistrates reflect the diverse communities in which they serve. I am able to provide an answer to the first part of the question - the table below provides the gender breakdown of judges who deal with family cases.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>765 (65%)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>411 (35%)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1176</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>I am able to provide an answer to the information requested about magistrates - to do so would require each of the 47 local advisory committees to check the individual personal records of all of the family court magistrates in their respective areas. This would incur disproportionate costs. Information on magistrates' diversity more generally is published on the judiciary website: <a href="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications-and-reports/statistics/magistrates-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications-and-reports/statistics/magistrates-statistics</a></p><p>In relation to the honourable Member's question about the gender profile of magistrates who sit in the family court, I trust it will be of some assistance if I explain that the gender profile for the 21,641 serving magistrates overall is currently 10,317 (48%) male and 11,324 (52%) female.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42553

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women convicted of benefit fraud in each of the last five years received a prison sentence; and what the average prison sentence was for those of each gender so convicted.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions operates a tough series of specific penalties for benefit fraud that run alongside the criminal justice system. The Welfare Reform Act 2012 toughened penalties for those who commit, or attempt to commit benefit fraud. We have introduced a financial administrative penalty as an alternative to prosecution which, for the first time, can be applied to attempted fraud.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also introduced a tougher loss of benefit penalty to restrict benefits to people convicted of benefit fraud or who have accepted an administrative penalty. Benefits can be reduced for periods of 13 weeks, 26 weeks or 3 years, dependent on the number of benefit fraud offences committed within a specified period, where the latest offence results in a conviction.</p><p>Judges make their decisions independently of Government based on the facts of each case. The maximum penalty for fraud is 10 years in prison.</p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences relating to benefit fraud, with sentencing outcomes and the average custodial sentence length by gender, in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012 (latest data available) can be viewed in the table.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that court proceedings statistics for the year 2013 are planned to be published by the Ministry of Justice in May 2014.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191466 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 191466.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42554

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women convicted of benefit fraud in each of the last five years received (i) a conditional discharge, (ii) a fine, (iii) a community order and (iv) a suspended prison sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions operates a tough series of specific penalties for benefit fraud that run alongside the criminal justice system. The Welfare Reform Act 2012 toughened penalties for those who commit, or attempt to commit benefit fraud. We have introduced a financial administrative penalty as an alternative to prosecution which, for the first time, can be applied to attempted fraud.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also introduced a tougher loss of benefit penalty to restrict benefits to people convicted of benefit fraud or who have accepted an administrative penalty. Benefits can be reduced for periods of 13 weeks, 26 weeks or 3 years, dependent on the number of benefit fraud offences committed within a specified period, where the latest offence results in a conviction.</p><p>Judges make their decisions independently of Government based on the facts of each case. The maximum penalty for fraud is 10 years in prison.</p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court found guilty and sentenced at all courts for offences relating to benefit fraud, with sentencing outcomes and the average custodial sentence length by gender, in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012 (latest data available) can be viewed in the table.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that court proceedings statistics for the year 2013 are planned to be published by the Ministry of Justice in May 2014.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191465 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 191466.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45923

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women were refused bail and remanded in custody where the allegation related to (i) an offence against the person, (ii) a public order offence and (iii) a harassment offence in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of men and women remanded in custody at magistrates' courts and the Crown Courts for offences of violence against the person, public order offences and harassment offences, for 2012 (latest available) can be viewed in the tables. The proportion remanded in custody has remained broadly constant in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. This database holds information on offences provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought, but not all the specific circumstances of each case. This centrally-held information does not allow us to separately identify which offences proceeded against were related to domestic violence. This information is not reported to Justice Statistics Analytical Services in MoJ owing to its size and complexity, and it could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="12"><p><strong>Table 1: Defendants<sup>(1)</sup> proceeded against at magistrates' courts, by remand status, offence group and sex, England &amp; Wales, 2012<sup>(2) </sup>(e)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Offence Group</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Remand Status</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Male</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p>Female</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Violence Against the Person<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>6,867</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>401</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Public Order Offences<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1,508</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>112</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Harassment Offences<sup>(5)</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2,060</strong></p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>78</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td colspan="4"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(e) Magistrates' courts data for 2012 are estimated.</p></td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Defendants<sup>(1)</sup> appearing at the Crown Court, by remand status, offence group and sex, England &amp; Wales, 2012<sup>(2)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Offence Group</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Remand Status</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Male</p></td><td> </td><td><p>Female</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Violence Against the Person<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>6,975</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>476</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Public Order Offences<sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1,628</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>74</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Harassment Offences<sup>(5)</sup></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Custody<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>534</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="6"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(1) Defendants in Table 1 may also be counted in Table 2 if they were committed for trial or committed for sentence at the Crown Court. Defendants in Table 2 may also be counted in Table 1.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><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> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(3) Based on new Office for National Statistics (ONS) crime classifications. For further detail see: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/crime-statistics-methodology/presentational-changes-on-police-recorded-crime-in-england-and-wales.pdf</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(4) Includes those remanded in custody at any stage of proceedings at the relevant court who may also have been given bail at some stage of those proceedings.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>(5) Includes offences under S.2, S.2A(1), S.3, S.4, S.4A(1)(a)(b)(i), S.4A(1)(a)(b)(ii), S.5, SS.5A(2) &amp; 5(5) &amp; (6) of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and S.31(1)(b) &amp; (4), S.31(1)(c) &amp; (4) of the Crime &amp; Disorder Act 1998, and S.42A of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Ref: 194404</p></td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 194414 question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45924

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each prison establishment are not being held in relation to criminal proceedings; and what the reason is for their being so held in each case.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>As of the 31 December 2013, 1,230 people were being held in prisons in England and Wales not in relation to criminal proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Of these, 1,214 were being held as immigration detainees and 16 were being held for civil offences (for example non-payment of a debt, contempt of court, or breach of an injunction).</p><p> </p><p>The agreement to hold time served foreign national offenders (Immigration Detainees) in prisons is set out in a Service Level Agreement between NOMS and the Home Office and is designed to support the Home Office in achieving its objectives for removal.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing the FNO population is a top priority for this Government. We are working hard to reduce the flow of FNOs into our prison system and increase the number of FNOs removed from the UK through Prisoner Transfer Agreements (PTAs); the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) and Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS).</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 (attached) provides a breakdown of the population who are not held in relation to criminal proceedings by prison establishment.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 194405 Table 1 v2.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

45927

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners were released on temporary licence by way of (i) resettlement day release, (ii) resettlement overnight release and (iii) childcare resettlement in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	194409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1 presents the number of individuals who were granted each of these temporary licence (ROTL) release types, broken down by gender, for 2012, which is the latest year for which published figures are available.</p><p>An individual prisoner can have a number of different types of ROTL over a period of time. Where an individual received more than one type of ROTL within the year, this individual has been counted once under each type received. Therefore there will be some individuals who are counted more than once in the table presented.</p><p>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 194409.xls title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies