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1254961

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date	24/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: International Men's Day
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department took to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2020.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	120011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>International Men’s Day offers an opportunity to highlight how outcomes for men and boys can be improved and to talk about some of the important work going on every day across Government to do this.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice marked International Men’s Day with the following range of activities:</p><p> </p><p>- Eight events for colleagues to mark International Men’s Day lead by the Staff Networks. These events included an awareness building session on prostate cancer and an intersectional event covering the support available to men who have suffered domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>- Articles and blogs featured on the organisation’s intranet to mark International Men’s Day.</p><p> </p><p>- Other activities across MoJ have included a workshop on men’s health that signposted staff to useful information, links and other resources; the annual Men’s Health and Wellbeing event where over 200 colleagues attended; and an awareness event preventing male suicide and self-harm.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 02/12/2020 17:39:26 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1241361

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date	07/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
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 his Department's internal guidance for officials on the drafting of answers to parliamentary questions; and if he will set out his Department's step by step sign off procedure before Ministerial approval is given to answers.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	100315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>This government values the ongoing work of MPs and Peers whose scrutiny, whether through written Parliamentary Questions or other methods, is an invaluable part of our democratic process.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice’s internal guidance for answering parliamentary questions was updated and published on the Department’s intranet in April 2020. I will arrange for a copy of the attached guidance to be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Cabinet Office has produced guidance for civil servants on drafting answers to parliamentary questions. This may be found on the gov.uk website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary questions are cleared by Senior Civil Servants in the relevant policy area, then Special Advisers, before receiving final sign off from Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 16/10/2020 10:33:24 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name parliamentary-questions-guidance (1).doc title parliamentary questions guidance
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1218080

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence and Homicide: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ethnicity was of (a) the perpetrator and (b) the victim in each case of (i) grievous bodily harm/unlawful wounding, (ii) grievous bodily harm/wounding with intent and (iii) attempted murder in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	64872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published data on the number of prosecutions and convictions, including the ethnicity of the defendants, in England &amp; Wales up to December 2019. This data is available here:</p><p><em>Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool</em></p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888344/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888344/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx</a></p><p>Select ‘Offence’ and search: (i) ‘8F Wound/ inflict grievous bodily harm without intent’, (ii) ‘5A Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm’ and (iii) ‘2 Attempted murder’. Open the field list (click anywhere on the table) then drag and drop the ‘Ethnicity’ variable from the ‘filters’ box into the ’rows’ box.</p><p>The total number of convictions for defendants of each ethnic group since 2013 will be shown in rows 39-44.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on victim characteristics unless specified in statute.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 03/07/2020 13:20:05 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1198579

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Convictions
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 proportion of allegations of domestic abuse that are upheld in courts and result in convictions after trial.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	51756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold the data requested centrally and information could only be identified by manually searching case records at disproportionate cost. . Offences involving domestic abuse can take various forms and are prosecuted under the offence in law that best reflects their nature and circumstances, for example, harassment, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, a public order offence. These offences can take the form of domestic abuse or non-domestic abuse and data collected centrally from courts does not distinguish between the two.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 09/06/2020 09:44:59 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies