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1166645

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Judiciary
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days (a) recorders and (b) judges have sat in total in England in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	6329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The official statistics for judge sitting days (tables 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 of the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly, January to March 2019) were withdrawn on 5 September 2019, due to data discrepancies that were discovered after publication on 6 June 2019 and deemed potentially misleading to users. These discrepancies remain under investigation and, in line with the Code of Practice on Statistics, the Chief Statistician and Head of Profession decided to withdraw these tables until the investigations were complete as is normal practice. The revised figures will be published in due course, and will provide the total sitting days in Family, Civil and Crown courts.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:57:04 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1166722

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Interpreters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases in the (a) family, (b) criminal and (c) civil courts have required a translator or interpreter in each of the last ten years; and what the average length of time for cases in the (i) family, (ii) criminal and (iii) civil courts requiring translation or interpretation services was in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	6331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>(a)(b)(c) Data is published concerning the ‘number and rate of completed language interpreter and translation services requests in the United Kingdom’.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published figures cover the period to June 2019 and are available back to 2013, when the initial contracts were put in place. This data is published in Criminal Court Statistics overview table L1.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Our most recent statistics show the total number of language service requests are at their highest level since the new contract was introduced in 2016 and the vast majority of these – 97% - were fulfilled.</p><p> </p><p>(i)(ii)(iii) The Ministry of Justice does not centrally collate the data requested and it is not possible to separately identify cases requiring translation from overall case counts or from data used to calculate timeliness estimates. This information may be held on court records, however, obtaining it would be of disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:41:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167024

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: International Men's Day
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>No one should suffer unfair treatment because of their gender. Every year International Men’s Day offers an opportunity to highlight how outcomes for men and boys can be improved and to talk about some of the important work going on every day across Government to do this.</p><p> </p><p>We have a range of activity planned to mark International Men’s Day, either on the day itself or in advance, including:</p><ul><li>a men’s health and wellbeing event in Leeds being run by our departmental Mental Health Allies;</li><li>working with our Corporate Communications and Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing teams and our network of Health and Wellbeing Champions to raise awareness amongst our male employees of the range of departmental support and wellbeing programmes available;</li><li>activity being led by our departmental Gender Equality Network includes an International Men’s Day quiz, a shared event with the Government Legal Department, and a breakfast session for dads and dads-to-be; and</li><li>a dedicated International Men’s Day blog from a male member of staff to feature on our employee intranet.</li></ul> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1167046

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the current listing time is for appeal hearings for personal independent payment from the date received to hearing date in (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	7115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) statistics are not calculated from receipt of the appeal to the hearing, but from receipt of the appeal to the disposal of the case. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times for appeals against decisions made about Personal Independence Payment are published at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that appeals are heard as quickly as possible. HMCTS recognises there are delays in the system and it is in the process of recruiting more judicial office holders in order to increase capacity and help to reduce waiting times for appellants. This includes 250 judges across the First-tier Tribunal, 125 disability qualified members and up to 230 medical members.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HMCTS has recently launched a new digital service with a view to enabling speedier processing of appeals. Information on the new digital service can be found at: www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:45:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1167128

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of courts in England and Wales that were inaccessible to people with disabilities in each day of 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	7110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We can provide an indication of the number of inaccessible courts during 2019 based on sites which have long-term access limitations due to a range of factors such as the building’s age, internal configuration or listed status. Our estimate is that of around 335 operational court and tribunal buildings, 26 were inaccessible to members of the general public with disabilities. We consider buildings to be inaccessible if they do not provide disabled users with both physical access to the court and the ability to access appropriate services in the building, for example disabled toilet facilities.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has a reasonable adjustments policy in place to accommodate those with particular access requirements. The modernisation and investment taking place across the justice system should mean that fewer people will need to attend court, as we make use of technology such as video-conferencing and online services. These provisions will reduce the need for people to attend a physical court building.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:44:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167129

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adjournments have taken place in each month in 2019 in the (a) criminal, (b) civil and (c) family courts.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	7111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information sought in respect (a) criminal and (b) civil courts is provided in the table below. The equivalent information for (c), the family courts, could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Cases Adjourned January to June 19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Magistrates</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crown</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Civil</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>53,671</p></td><td><p>13,529</p></td><td><p>2,843</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>46,389</p></td><td><p>12,472</p></td><td><p>2,521</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>48,881</p></td><td><p>13,383</p></td><td><p>2,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>48,844</p></td><td><p>13,204</p></td><td><p>2,706</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>51,143</p></td><td><p>13,967</p></td><td><p>2,868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-19</p></td><td><p>47,813</p></td><td><p>12,545</p></td><td><p>2,628</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>Data are: (i) taken from a live management information system and can change over time; (ii) management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics; and (iii) the most recent available and, therefore, might differ slightly from any previously published information.</p><p>Data are provided to June 2019, the most recent period for which official statistics have been published.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:34:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167130

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Attendance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) failure to appear warrants have been issued and (b) times the police have had to collect defendants to ensure that they attended trial in each of the last 24 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	7112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of warrants for the arrest of defendants who have failed to attend in criminal proceedings is not currently available in published statistics. The Ministry of Justice and HMCTS has developed a consistent statistical measure for warrants for arrest for failing to attend court, and will publish a quarterly time series in the next edition of in the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly on 12 December 2019, as announced in the most recent edition on 26<sup>th</sup> September.</p><p> </p><p>Information on action taken by the police, including the execution of arrest warrants, to secure attendance of defendants at their trial, is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:33:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167133

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases that collapsed on the day of the trial there were (a) in each month in 2019 and (b) in 2018 and (c) in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	7113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested about how many cracked cases there have been (a) in each month in 2019 and (b) in 2018 and (c) in 2010:</p><p> </p><p>Please find attached tables providing:</p><p>- Number of cracked trials at the magistrates’ court and Crown Court in England and Wales in each month for the years 2010, 2018 and 2019</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1: Number of cracked trials in criminal courts, by court type and months – 2010, 2018 and 2019 <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Magistrates' court</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crown Court</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>5,820</p></td><td><p>1,520</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>5,532</p></td><td><p>1,496</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>6,371</p></td><td><p>1,687</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>5,720</p></td><td><p>1,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>5,401</p></td><td><p>1,459</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>6,122</p></td><td><p>1,642</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>6,005</p></td><td><p>1,569</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>5,740</p></td><td><p>1,595</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>6,202</p></td><td><p>1,694</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>6,043</p></td><td><p>1,493</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>5,965</p></td><td><p>1,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>4,525</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>4,429</p></td><td><p>1,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td><td><p>951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>3,897</p></td><td><p>811</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>4,050</p></td><td><p>903</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>4,056</p></td><td><p>890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>4,282</p></td><td><p>815</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>4,162</p></td><td><p>923</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>3,886</p></td><td><p>879</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>3,901</p></td><td><p>751</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>4,329</p></td><td><p>922</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>4,019</p></td><td><p>816</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>2,775</p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>4,241</p></td><td><p>890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>3,632</p></td><td><p>711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>3,829</p></td><td><p>717</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>3,558</p></td><td><p>702</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>3,434</p></td><td><p>668</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>3,367</p></td><td><p>696</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>1) The total number of cracked trials listed during the reporting period indicated. </em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>2) Cracked trial is a trial that does not go ahead on the day as an outcome is reached and so does not need to be re-scheduled. This occurs when an acceptable plea is offered by the defendant or the prosecution offers no evidence against the defendant. </em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>3) Due to changes in data processing and timing of data extraction, figures for 2010 data may differ slightly from published information - the difference is small and relates to only one or two cases.</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>4) Latest published data available to June 2019.</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Source: Criminal Court Statistics (PQ 7113)</em></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </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><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For more detailed data on trials in the courts for England and Wales, the Ministry of Justice does publish annual data on trials in the magistrates’ courts for England and Wales, including numbers of effective trials and the key reasons for cracked trials and ineffective trials. This is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-annual-january-to-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-annual-january-to-march-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:18:24 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167189

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff HM Courts and Tribunals Service employed (a) centrally and (b) through agencies in (i) 2010, (ii) 2014 and (iii) 2018; and how many they estimate will be employed in each of those categories in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	7114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Please find below HMCTS permanent and agency staff numbers for 2014 and 2018. Staff numbers were not available in 2010 as HMCTS was created on the 1<sup>st</sup> April 2011 by the merger of Her Majesty’s Courts Service and the Tribunals Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>HMCTS Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agency Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>19114</p></td><td><p>1056</p></td><td><p><strong>20170</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-18</p></td><td><p>16023</p></td><td><p>2737</p></td><td><p><strong>18760</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>From a forecasting perspective, agency staff (as of 31 Aug 2019) currently represent 13.82% of our overall <em>Full Time Equivalent</em> (FTE) workforce. By the end of the financial year (FY) 2021/22 we are forecasting that our overall FTE will be c13,000 FTE based on a <em>Programme Business Case (05)</em> figures; therefore, if our agency % remains the same then this would equate to c1,800 agency staff. However, we do anticipate reducing our agency rates over the coming years so this % is likely to be lower by the end of FY 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:36:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167368

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is responsible for digitisation in his Department; and what mechanisms the person with responsibility for digitisation uses to champion digitisation.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	7669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for digital and technology within the department is held by the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) who acts as functional lead for Digital, Data and Technology profession. Updates on digital and technology are provided on a semi-regular basis to the department’s Executive Committee.</p><p> </p><p>The CDIO regularly attends boards and committee meetings across department agencies, and meets with Chief Executives to ensure that digital and technology needs are met.</p><p> </p><p>Due to its unique constitutional position. HM Courts and Tribunal Service has its own DDAT function.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb