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90870

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by his Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	208429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested for the proportion of named day answers which have been answered within the prescribed period is set out in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Session</p></td><td><p>Proportion answered within the prescribed period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15*</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Data correct as of 8 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State and the ministerial team take our obligations to Parliament seriously and want to ensure that honourable members receive answers of a high standard which set out the relevant context. More complex questions can involve compiling and analysing large volumes of information, and we respond to such questions as promptly as we can.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has implemented a number of measures to ensure it provides high quality and timely Parliamentary Question answers. Following these changes there has been a significant improvement in timeliness.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental performance information is published on a sessional basis by the Procedure Committee. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report for the 2013-14 session is due to be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 11/09/2014 15:09:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90620

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Property Searches: Fees and Charges
	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 cost to local authorities to date of claims made by property search companies for refunds of local land charges search fees as a result of the implementation of the 2003 European Directive on public access to environmental information and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	208276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Communities and Local Government are considering a submission prepared by the Local Government Association that the new burden assessment carried out in 2010 in respect of the revocation of the fee payable for a personal search of the local land charges register should be re-opened.</p><p> </p><p>Any costs properly incurred by local authorities in England in dealing with claims for refunds of local land charge search fees will be taken into account by the departments should it be decided to re-open the assessment. No decision has yet been taken.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 208157 question first answered 11/09/2014 13:57:58 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90628

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Property Searches: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to make further financial payments to local authorities in respect of claims made against them by property search companies for refunds of local land charges search fees as a result of the implementation of the 2003 EC directive on freedom of information and the 2004 environmental information regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	208157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Communities and Local Government are considering a submission prepared by the Local Government Association that the new burden assessment carried out in 2010 in respect of the revocation of the fee payable for a personal search of the local land charges register should be re-opened.</p><p> </p><p>Any costs properly incurred by local authorities in England in dealing with claims for refunds of local land charge search fees will be taken into account by the departments should it be decided to re-open the assessment. No decision has yet been taken.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 208276 question first answered 11/09/2014 13:57:58 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn