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	registered interest
	date	15/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Forensic Science: Misconduct
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement of 27 November 2017 on Toxicology, HCWS265, how many people have subsequently been (a) released from prison and (b) had a conviction quashed as a result of the discovery of the manipulation of testing results.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	191960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The re-testing of toxicology samples is ongoing and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are working to identify the exact numbers and impact upon cases affected by re-testing. Figures as to the number of convictions quashed cannot be provided at this time. We are not aware of anyone having been released from prison as a result of toxicology re-testing.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/11/2018 14:03:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

964744

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State Justice, how many people have been convicted of offences relating to forced marriage in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	169911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The number of defendants prosecuted and convicted of offences relating to forced marriage, from 2015-2017, can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733981/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733981/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p>Search ‘Offence’ for ’36.1 Forced marriage’ and ’66.6 Breach of a forced marriage protection order’.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/09/2018 12:35:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

896282

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many appeals there have been against Education and Health Care Plan decisions; how many such appeals have been successful; and what the cost to the public purse was of each appeal.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	140759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>Information about the number and outcomes of Special Educational Needs and Disability appeals including against Education and Health Care Plan (EHC) decisions, is published on gov.uk.</p><p>The most recent statistics, for the period July to September 2017 (which includes data from September 2014 when EHC were introduced), published on 14 December 2017, can be viewed at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017</p><p>The cost to HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service of processing an appeal to the Tribunal varies between £1115 and £2688 depending on the nature of the dispute to be determined.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/05/2018 16:30:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

857786

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justcie, how much money has been obtained in fines from people found guilty of an offence of illegal working since the introduction of that offence.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	131687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Centrally held court proceedings data indicates that no offenders were found guilty of illegal working up to the end of 2016. Court proceedings data for 2017 will be available in May 2018.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify how much has been collected in fines from persons convicted of this, or any other, offence as our systems enable us to capture the total amount of financial imposition but do not allow that to be broken down by offence type. To extract information on financial imposition by offence type we would need to conduct a manual search of all current financial penalty accounts within our fine database.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131686 question first answered 13/03/2018 17:50:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1110218

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for exceptional case funding for legal aid for cases of refugee family reunion were made in 2018; how many of those applications were successful; and what the average time was for processing those applications.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	242082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/04/2019 16:18:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

825600

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Ombudsman: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints the Legal Ombudsman has received about its service in the year 2016-2017.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	123728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Legal Ombudsman received 87,193 contacts (calls, letters and e-mails), and accepted 7,223 legal services jurisdiction cases and 2,290 claims management jurisdiction cases for investigation in 2016-2017. In the same period it received 118 complaints about its service. This represents about 1% of its caseload.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/01/2018 17:39:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

938714

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have an outstanding statutory charge placed by the Legal Aid Agency against their property.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	162954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The legal aid scheme is monitored by the number of cases funded, as opposed to the number of people who have been in receipt of that funding. This is because one individual may receive legal aid on multiple occasions.</p><p> </p><p>A secured statutory charge exists in favour of the Legal Aid Agency in 24,880 cases as at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2018.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/07/2018 13:26:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

906304

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have held events to observe (a) Holocaust Memorial Day, (b) National Black History Month and (c) Interfaith Awareness Week in each of the last five years; and what his policy is on prisons observing those events.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	145276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>Prisons are free to decide locally how they participate in Holocaust Memorial Day and Black History Month. Although chaplaincy teams locally may have marked the event in some way, there has been no national engagement regarding Interfaith Awareness Week. National Prison Radio promotes national support for local initiatives, and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service also provides information to prisons via its staff networks to support prison staff in their participation in local events. We do not collect information centrally on the number of prisons which have held such events.</p><p> </p><p>We have not evaluated the Empty Spaces project which, as it is being conducted in a prison in Northern Ireland, does not fall under our jurisdiction as we are responsible for Prisons in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 145277 question first answered 29/05/2018 13:47:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 60360 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

1109726

	registered interest
	date	04/04/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Justice and Security Act 2013
	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 14 June 2018 to Question 152051, and with reference to the fifth annual Report to Parliament on the use of closed material procedures published in December 2018, what steps he has taken to establish the review of the operation of sections 6 to 11 of the Justice and Security Act 2013; and when that review is scheduled to begin.
	tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
	tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
	uin	240976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>A reviewer has not been appointed yet. Discussions between officials are ongoing and an announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 240977 240978 question first answered 11/04/2019 16:24:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1055191

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	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 28 January 2019 to Question 210641 on Prisons: Drugs, what information his Department holds on the number of incidents where staff may have been exposed to psychoactive substances.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	217064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>We take all reports of the effects of secondary inhalation of psychoactive substances very seriously as protecting the health and safety of both our prisoners and our staff is our priority.</p><p>We are looking very closely at the information we receive on reported incidents but are currently unable to ascertain reliably whether an incident might be associated with secondary exposure to a psychoactive substance. We are working closely with Public Health England to understand the issue and to ensure that we respond appropriately.</p><p>While we continue to assess the risks posed by secondary exposure, we seek to mitigate any risks as far as possible and have revised our internal guidance on controlling these. The revised guidance will be published shortly and includes information on how to assess and control risk on entry into cells where psychoactive substances have been used, with more detail on specific airborne risks and control methods, and clearer guidance on responding to and investigating exposure.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 08/02/2019 14:53:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts