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1005722

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking help older people maintain access to services in a modernising court system.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	190522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Ensuring access to justice is a fundamental principle of the Government and judiciary’s £1bn reform programme to transform our courts and tribunals system. The reform programme aims to expand the ways users can resolve their justice needs, while maintaining and improving traditional methods for those who need them. We are designing the reformed services to be accessible for all, including older users, and to provide users with options on how they can interact with our services as well as access appropriate support, should they need to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Many users will be able to benefit from new digital services and, if needed, will be able to seek telephone or face to face support to help them to use these. This ‘assisted digital’ support is currently in place for the ‘Application’ stage for our reformed services for Divorce, Civil Money Claims, Social Security &amp; Child Support Tribunal, Probate and the Single Justice Service. Where assisted digital support is not appropriate or sufficient, users will continue to be able to use traditional methods, such as paper forms, which are also being improved and made more accessible.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/11/2018 15:38:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

388321

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Driving: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of convictions for driving whilst disqualified resulted in an immediate custodial sentence in each year since 2005; and how many people convicted of driving whilst disqualified who had been convicted of the same offence within the previous 10 years received an immediate custodial sentence in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	5882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2015 answer text <p>Information on sentencing and convictions from 2005-2014 for driving whilst disqualified can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website and it is available at the following link:-</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>Select and open ‘Motoring data tool: with criminal justice area’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the numbers of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified and the numbers sentenced to immediate custody for the same offence 2005-2014 in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong><em>Table 1: Number of offenders<sup>1</sup> sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified by the number of previous immediate custody received for the same offence in England and Wales, 2005 to 2014</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>year</em></p></td><td><p><em>Number of offenders<sup>1 </sup></em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em>Previous immediate custody received<sup>2</sup></em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2005</em></p></td><td><p><em> 9,925 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 5,012 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2006</em></p></td><td><p><em> 7,543 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 3,839 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2007</em></p></td><td><p><em> 5,754 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,820 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2008</em></p></td><td><p><em> 4,705 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,109 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2009</em></p></td><td><p><em> 3,724 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,590 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2010</em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,652 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,134 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2011</em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,309 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 944 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2012</em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,030 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 807 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2013</em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,847 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 696 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2014</em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,654 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 638 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Source:</em></strong></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Ministry of Justice, Police National Computer (PNC)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>1. Figures are based on counting the number of occasions an offender was sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified in each year. An offender can appear more than once in the totals for each year if the offender was convicted on multiple occasions in a given year.</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>2. Number of previous immediate custody are counts of the number of separate occasions an offender has previously received an immediate custodial sentence and is calculated from the point of their latest conviction over the period. </em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>3. All data have been taken from the MoJ extract of the Police National Computer. This includes details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings given for recordable offences (see <a title="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made</a> for definition).</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>4. 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 and are subject to revision in future editions.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 27/07/2015 14:35:50 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

390268

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many emergency protection orders there were in England between 2010 and 2015; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the level of scrutiny for such orders.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	7326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The number of Emergency Protection Orders is published as part of the Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication. Data is available from 2011 up to January to March 2015 and can be found at:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On 24 June the Prime Minister announced a new Child Protection Taskforce chaired by the Secretary of State for Education. The Prime Minister’s announcement can be found online here: <a title="http://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection" href="http://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection</a>. The Taskforce will lead work to: extend and accelerate reforms to the quality of social work practice and leadership; develop better multi-agency working between children’s social care, the police, health and other local services; improve local authority performance and promote innovative practice; and strengthen governance and accountability in children’s social care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/07/2015 15:56:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

390418

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	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 (a) murders of staff and prisoners, (b) riots, (c) assaults on staff, (d) instances of prisoner self-harm, (e) instances of prisoner suicide, (f) instances of improper mobile telephone use and (g) absconders from open conditions have occurred in prisons in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	7324
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2015 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is committed to running safe establishments. Violence of any kind in prison is not tolerated and all assaults are treated extremely seriously. Any prisoner who commits an act of violence can expect to have action taken against them.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS has launched a new Violence Reduction project, which has been created to gain better understanding of the causes of the current levels of violence in prisons and to make sure that there is strengthened handling of it, in terms of both prevention and response.</p><p><br>There is no central record of persons having been convicted of Prison staff murders. On 29 June 2015 at Blackfriars Crown Court, Lorraine Barwell, a Serco Prisoner Custody Officer, was assaulted and sadly died of her injuries. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is currently undertaking an investigation into the incident. The NOMS Investigator is working with the Metropolitan Police to ensure that the ongoing Murder investigation is not compromised.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS Incident Reporting does not record riot as an incident type.</p><p> </p><p>Latest published figures on prisoner deaths (homicide and self-inflicted), self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales can be found in the safety in custody publication at <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual</a> This publication provides statistics on deaths to the end of March 2015 and assaults and self-harm to the end of December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Latest published figures on absconds can be found in the prison and probation management information addendum at <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 24/07/2015 13:13:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

419152

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Care Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for each application made by local authorities in England and Wales for care orders in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	10474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 10475 10476 10477 question first answered 12/10/2015 09:49:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

419153

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Care Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for which each care order was granted to a local authority in England and Wales in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	10475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 10474 10476 10477 question first answered 12/10/2015 09:49:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

419154

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Emergency Protection Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for each application made by local authorities in England and Wales for emergency protection orders in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	10476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 10474 10475 10477 question first answered 12/10/2015 09:49:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

419155

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Emergency Protection Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for which each emergency protection order was granted to a local authority in England and Wales in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) January to March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	10477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 10474 10475 10476 question first answered 12/10/2015 09:49:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

420781

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Foreign Relations: Saudi Arabia
	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 publish the Memorandum of Understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, signed in September 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	11446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner’s Office has upheld the decision not to publish this Memorandum of Understanding. That correspondence can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2015/1432375/fs_50579089.pdf.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/10/2015 16:40:21 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

426267

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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, what measures the Government plans to take to address the concerns expressed by the Chief Inspector of Prisons in his Annual Report for 2014-15, published on 15 July 2015; and what those measures will be on each of the four assessed outcomes referred to in the introduction to that report.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	14701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice welcomed the scrutiny brought by the Chief Inspector of Prisons in his annual report published in July 2015. Steps have been taken at each of the prisons inspected during 2014-15 to address the specific recommendations made, and detailed action plans put in place. We are also seeking to address the Chief Inspector’s comments on each of the four outcomes of safety, respect, purposeful activity and resettlement, and we are tackling the risks of increased violence highlighted by the Chief Inspector.</p><p>The National Offender Management Service is committed to running safe prisons. We are holding a more violent prison population; the number of people sentenced to prison for violent offences has increased by 30% in the last 10 years. In addition the illicit use of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) has been a significant factor in fuelling violence in prisons. This Government has introduced two new offences through the Serious Crime Act 2015 for being in possession of a knife or other offensive weapon within a prison without authorisation, and throwing of items, including NPS over a prison wall without authorisation. This offence will help to control these substances in prison. We are also introducing an offence of possession of NPS in the prison estate.</p><p>NOMS also operates a violence reduction project to gain a better understanding of the causes of the current levels of violence in prisons and to ensure that there is strengthened handling of it, in terms of both prevention and response. A joint national protocol between the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the CPS, and ACPO was published in February 2015 with the purpose of ensuring a nationally consistent approach to the referral and prosecution of crimes in prison.</p><p>The Chief Inspector of Prisons found that “respect” (how a prisoner is treated) held up best amongst their four areas of inspection. We are continuing to take forward the strengths he highlighted which included: good staff/prisoner relationships, increased use of prisoner peer mentors and good practice in health care.</p><p>We noted the Chief Inspector’s concerns about “purposeful activity”. We want prisons to be places of hard work, rigorous education and high ambition, with incentives for prisoners to learn and for prison staff to prioritise education and work. The hours worked by prisoners in industrial occupations has already risen from 10.6 million hours in 2010/2011 to 14.2 million hours in the 2013-2014.</p><p>Finally in relation to resettlement (preparing prisoners for their release into the community) we have put in place an unprecedented nationwide ‘through the prison gate’ resettlement service, meaning most offenders are given continuous support by one provider from custody into the community. Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) launched their ‘Through the Gate’ service on 1 May 2015. This service provides offenders with support to find accommodation and jobs, finance and debt advice, and support for sex workers and victims of domestic violence.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/11/2015 17:26:36 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell