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	registered interest
	date	27/01/2022
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which groups her Department has met during the consultation period on legislation to ban conversion therapy.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	113050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>I am engaging with a wide range of stakeholders who hold different views in relation to conversion practices, as are officials. We continue to consult extensively with stakeholders across the spectrum including victims, representatives from a range of religions, LGBT groups, clinicians, medical regulatory professionals, and parent groups. Our public consultation will close on 4th February and I urge all those with an interest to respond. In this way and with our wider engagement with the full range of stakeholders, victims and members of the public, we will ensure the ban is effective in ending different forms of conversion therapy.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 01/02/2022 10:58:39 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1564364

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Duncan Lewis Solicitors: Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public funds in the form legal aid were paid to Duncan Lewis Solicitors for immigration cases in each of the last 5 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	117408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>The requested information can be found in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Costs, £</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>9,224,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>9,150,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>8,091,003</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>7,737,439</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>8,055,383</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Duncan Lewis is the largest Legal Aid provider in the UK currently operating across 23 offices.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency publishes data regarding civil legal aid expenditure broken down by category of law and legal aid provider as part of its <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086940/legal-aid-statistics-civil-completions-provider-area-data-to-mar-2022.zip" target="_blank">official statistics</a>.</p><p>Legal aid is only available in respect of immigration cases which are within the scope of legal aid as set out under Schedule 1, Part 1 of the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/contents/enacted" target="_blank">Legal Aid and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012</a> and subject to the application of a strict financial eligibility and merits test.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/01/2023 18:12:22 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1582764

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Gender
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that data collected by (a) his Department and (b) his Department’s associated arms-length bodies records biological sex as opposed to gender identity.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	137709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>To provide a response Ministry of Justice officials would need to ascertain the facts in relation to all steps taken to ensure that data is recorded as biological sex in MoJ HQ and its 34 public bodies, which could only be done at disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p> </p><p>The scope of this question covers MoJ and its 34 public bodies. All ALBs do not use the same systems to record biological sex information and it is not known what steps are taken in each ALB to ensure biological sex is recorded, as opposed to gender identity, because this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>To reach a factual conclusion each ALB would need to be investigated to identify and extract all information pertaining to all steps taken to ensure that data collected records biological sex as opposed to gender identity across all records.</p><p> </p><p>However, I can confirm that our policy concerning prisons is that transgender prisoners are allocated based on legal gender rather than self-declared gender identity. HMPPS also records the transgender status of every transgender prisoner, meaning that for each we know both their biological sex and their gender identity.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 09/02/2023 14:20:48 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1646478

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the inclusivity induction pack provided to all new employees in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	190500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>There is no single departmental inclusivity induction pack provided to all new employees.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) regularly host a corporate induction workshop which all new starters can attend, and information about induction into the MoJ is made available on the MoJ Intranet. This is supplemented with the online Civil Service Expectations training which includes specific learning outcomes relating to diversity and inclusion.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all new employees receive an induction through their individual business areas where induction products are tailored to their delivery model.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 26/06/2023 15:37:15 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1647885

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate: Standards
	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 current average processing time for probate cases; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	191000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Despite record level of receipts during January to March 2023, the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate, following receipt of the documents required, is 9 weeks.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and these resources are focussed on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness on all types of applications.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, are routinely published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly and currently cover the period up to March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 03/07/2023 16:04:24 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1690262

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality: Coroners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to enact section 4 of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	901597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2024 answer text <p>Work to publish the response to the 2019 consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths was paused during the pandemic, and since then the landscape of maternity investigations has changed significantly.</p><p>The findings of the consultation were complex, and it is imperative that they are carefully considered when deciding whether the coronial jurisdiction should be extended to include the investigation of stillbirths.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 20/02/2024 19:39:20 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1694126

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been subject to a special guardianship order in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	17246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures in relation to how many children are subject to a special guardianship order at any one time.</p><p>However, the following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures provides details on the number of children involved in orders from 2013 until 2022. Data for public law cases in 2022 has not been published due to data issues resulting from the reform of public law services.</p><p>The number of these orders has remained relatively stable over that period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,923</p></td><td><p>1,863</p></td><td><p>6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,852</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>6,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5,514</p></td><td><p>1,949</p></td><td><p>7,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5,668</p></td><td><p>1,812</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,758</p></td><td><p>1,581</p></td><td><p>7,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5,920</p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>7,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,835</p></td><td><p>1,544</p></td><td><p>7,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>5,268</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td><td><p>6,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>6,124</p></td><td><p>1,293</p></td><td><p>7,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>1,184</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/03/2024 17:06:49 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton