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677403

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what requirements they have set for community rehabilitation companies to make specific arrangements for the rehabilitation of minority groups whose first language is not English.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Afshar
	uin	HL4869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>We have given Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) the flexibility to innovate and do what works to reduce reoffending, including tailoring rehabilitative support to offenders based on their individual needs. To promote equality of opportunity and avoid discrimination against offenders on the grounds of protected characteristics, CRCs are required to comply with relevant equalities and human rights legislation as they work with offenders.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst not defined in law as a protected characteristic, we have taken steps to ensure that language is not a barrier to an individual’s rehabilitation. At the beginning of each sentence, CRCs are contractually required to arrange a face to face interview to assess each offender’s risk profile and rehabilitative needs. This informs the initial sentence plan, which the CRC must explain to the offender verbally and in writing to ensure they understand how they must behave and what they must do to comply with their sentence. The CRC must also seek confirmation that the offender has understood this explanation. Where the offender understands insufficient English to enable this, CRC must undertake the initial interview and provide confirmation of the sentence plan in a language they were able to understand.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 02/02/2017 16:39:32 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3847 label Biography information for Baroness Afshar

683640

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Council Tax: Non-payment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people have been subject to suspended committals for non-payment of council tax over the last three years; and what was the breakdown by (1) gender, and (2) age groups.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Afshar
	uin	HL5203
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of cases subject to suspended committals for non-payment of Council Tax over the last three years by gender. There are a few cases where the gender is not known. Data relating to age is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Not Known</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>549</p></td><td><p>482</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>1,179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>402</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>1,115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 (January -September)</p></td><td><p>313</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>682</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is possible that one defendant may have more than one case.</p><p> </p><p>Although suspended committals are reported as occurring within a particular year, the non-payment of Council Tax itself may be from a previous year or even a period covering more than one year.</p><p> </p><p>This data is sourced from the HMCTS Libra Management Information System (MIS), and does not form part of the statistics for England and Wales published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be found at: <a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.justice.gov.uk</a>. As such this data set is not subject to the same levels of quality assurance.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 14/02/2017 16:04:54 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3847 label Biography information for Baroness Afshar

657375

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	County Courts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to strengthen procedures designed to protect those against whom costs are awarded without their knowing that a case is proceeding in the County Court, resulting in a County Court Judgment being registered on their credit record.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2016 answer text <p>On 23 December the Ministry of Justice announced a consultation on ways to protect people from having their credit ratings affected despite being unaware of the claims made against them. The consultation, which will be launched in the spring will consider how the current system can be improved and reinforced to ensure that companies take all reasonable steps before they are able to apply to a court for a claim. We will also examine to what extent unscrupulous debt agencies have contributed to the problem.</p><p> </p><p>To accompany the consultation the Ministry of Justice will also launch a new public advice campaign on how to protect people unaware of their debts and will remind people of the important of informing companies of their new address.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4010 HL4011 question first answered 28/12/2016 13:19:50 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

657376

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	County Courts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that companies which sue individuals for non-payment of monies in the county courts have taken adequate steps to ensure that they have the correct and up-to-date address for the person against whom they are taking action, in those cases where the individual does not lodge a defence.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2016 answer text <p>On 23 December the Ministry of Justice announced a consultation on ways to protect people from having their credit ratings affected despite being unaware of the claims made against them. The consultation, which will be launched in the spring will consider how the current system can be improved and reinforced to ensure that companies take all reasonable steps before they are able to apply to a court for a claim. We will also examine to what extent unscrupulous debt agencies have contributed to the problem.</p><p> </p><p>To accompany the consultation the Ministry of Justice will also launch a new public advice campaign on how to protect people unaware of their debts and will remind people of the important of informing companies of their new address.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4009 HL4011 question first answered 28/12/2016 13:19:50 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

657377

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	County Courts
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to penalise companies which repeatedly take action against individuals who do not lodge a defence and who are subsequently discovered not to have received any notification of the relevant County Court action.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL4011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2016 answer text <p>On 23 December the Ministry of Justice announced a consultation on ways to protect people from having their credit ratings affected despite being unaware of the claims made against them. The consultation, which will be launched in the spring will consider how the current system can be improved and reinforced to ensure that companies take all reasonable steps before they are able to apply to a court for a claim. We will also examine to what extent unscrupulous debt agencies have contributed to the problem.</p><p> </p><p>To accompany the consultation the Ministry of Justice will also launch a new public advice campaign on how to protect people unaware of their debts and will remind people of the important of informing companies of their new address.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL4009 HL4010 question first answered 28/12/2016 13:19:50 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

901027

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Transgender People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people identifying as trans have been convicted of offences against women in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
	uin	HL7671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to determine from information held centrally by the Ministry of Justice, the number of offenders who identify as transgender that have been convicted of offences against women, without incurring a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 23/05/2018 15:48:56 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1014634

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for enacting legislation to provide financial relief under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 to victims of forced marriages whose religious marriages are not binding under UK law as outlined in section 121(4) of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Berridge
	uin	HL11773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is clear that forced marriage is a terrible form of abuse and that we will not allow political or cultural sensitivities to get in the way of tackling it.</p><p> </p><p>However, the purpose of Part II of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 is to set out how the Court orders financial provision on the legal ending of marriage.</p><p> </p><p>Since forced marriage was made a criminal offence in England and Wales in 2014, the Government has continued to introduce measures to protect victims, including lifelong anonymity in 2017. Last month, the Home Secretary launched a consultation to seek views on whether it is necessary to introduce a new legal mandatory reporting duty relating to cases of forced marriage. That consultation also seeks views on how the current guidance on forced marriage could be improved and strengthened.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to keeping this area of family justice under review.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/12/2018 15:49:07 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge

1064198

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Food
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average cost of food per prisoner, per day, in prisons in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Boycott
	uin	HL13845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) allocates food budgets to prisons based on £2.02 per prisoner per day, which covers the daily prisoner food and beverage requirements.</p><p>With increased responsibilities to Governors since April 2017, and devolved budgets to prisons, what is spent on food per prisoner per day and the breakdown per meals is ultimately a decision for each Governor and their catering team, and therefore individual prison food budgets may vary.</p><p>The food budget for prisoners within privately managed prisons is agreed in the contract between the provider and the Ministry of Justice, the details of which are commercially sensitive. This is reviewed regularly.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 05/03/2019 17:38:11 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4704 label Biography information for Baroness Boycott

792397

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that appropriate pastoral support is available to non-religious prisoners in English and Welsh prisons on an equal basis to religious chaplaincy, and whether that support is proportionate to the percentage of patients who describe themselves as non-religious.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	uin	HL3349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Chaplaincy teams provide pastoral support to prisoners of all religions and none, and increasingly include non-religious pastoral carers accredited by Humanists UK. Pastoral support is available to all prisoners regardless of whether or not they have declared an affiliation to a particular religion.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, support is provided to prisoners through a range of other sources, including prison staff, volunteers and peer supporters (such as Samaritans-trained Listeners). Our prison reforms are building on this, and the 2,500 additional frontline staff that we are recruiting will allow us to deploy all residential staff as dedicated key workers, each providing support to a caseload of about six prisoners.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 27/11/2017 17:44:14 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

792399

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Ministers of Religion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the compatibility with equality and human rights legislation of section 7 of the Prison Act 1952, which mandates that every prison must employ a clergyman from the Church of England to fulfil its chaplain position before members of other religions or beliefs can be considered for employment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	uin	HL3350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>All prisons have multi faith chaplaincy teams to provide religious and pastoral support to prisoners. Chaplaincy provision reflects the faith/denominational requirements of the prison and prisons appoint chaplains on the basis of need, which will include a Church of England Chaplain. Church of England Chaplains are appointed under section 7 of the Prison Act 1952, and other Prison Chaplains under section 10 of the Prison Act.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that the provisions on prisoner religion in the Prison Act 1952 and the Prison Rules 1999 are compatible with Articles 9 and 12 of the ECHR, and therefore we believe that HMPPS meets its obligation under the Human Rights Act 1998 to act compatibly with convention rights.</p><p> </p><p>These provisions are also in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, in avoiding discrimination on grounds of religion, whether directly or indirectly. Where new prisons open, the aim is to have a fully functioning multi faith chaplaincy team appointed before the prison becomes operational.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 04/12/2017 14:30:08 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull