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1180761

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on the use of restraints when transporting women from Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre to be deported.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	21297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>It may be necessary to restrain an individual in detention in order to reduce the risk of escape, prevent harm to the public, detainees or staff, or to prevent damage to property. In addition, an individual may be restrained to prevent them from self-harming or obstructing their removal.</p><p>Published guidance, and the training received by detainee custody officers makes it clear that physical force, and the use of waist restraint belts or handcuffs, should only be used after a thorough assessment of risk, and in consideration of each individual’s personal circumstances. Restraints should be removed at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The Home Office reviews all reports resulting from a use of force to ensure that techniques are used proportionately, that they are justified, and are used for the minimum period required.</p><p>There are contractual obligations for IRC suppliers to ensure detainees report on time to the escorting contractor to ensure compliance with scheduled removal directions. Although the Home Office can impose financial and operational remedies if obligations as part of the contract are not met, this would be based on a thorough investigation and consideration of any mitigating factors. In these circumstances, detainee welfare would take precedence over imposing any such penalties.</p><p>Robust statutory oversight is provided by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and Independent Monitoring Boards, ensuring that detainees are treated with proper standards of care and decency in detention and during the removal process. Reports by HMIP and IMBs are published on their respective websites.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 21303 question first answered 02/03/2020 17:07:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1180769

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on the use of fines for contractors that do not meet the timescale for getting detainees to report for deportation; and what assessment her Department has made of the effect of such fines on the deportation of women from Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	21303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>It may be necessary to restrain an individual in detention in order to reduce the risk of escape, prevent harm to the public, detainees or staff, or to prevent damage to property. In addition, an individual may be restrained to prevent them from self-harming or obstructing their removal.</p><p>Published guidance, and the training received by detainee custody officers makes it clear that physical force, and the use of waist restraint belts or handcuffs, should only be used after a thorough assessment of risk, and in consideration of each individual’s personal circumstances. Restraints should be removed at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The Home Office reviews all reports resulting from a use of force to ensure that techniques are used proportionately, that they are justified, and are used for the minimum period required.</p><p>There are contractual obligations for IRC suppliers to ensure detainees report on time to the escorting contractor to ensure compliance with scheduled removal directions. Although the Home Office can impose financial and operational remedies if obligations as part of the contract are not met, this would be based on a thorough investigation and consideration of any mitigating factors. In these circumstances, detainee welfare would take precedence over imposing any such penalties.</p><p>Robust statutory oversight is provided by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and Independent Monitoring Boards, ensuring that detainees are treated with proper standards of care and decency in detention and during the removal process. Reports by HMIP and IMBs are published on their respective websites.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 21297 question first answered 02/03/2020 17:07:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1180797

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Appeal Tribunal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average wait time is between an appeal being lodged at the Employment Appeals Tribunal to that appeal being heard.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	21315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not hold published information on the average time between an appeal being lodged at the Employment Appeal Tribunal and that appeal being heard.</p><p>Internal Management Information held works to a target of 75% of appeal cases heard within 26 weeks of appeal registration. Registration differs to lodgement as when an appeal is received/lodged with the Employment Appeal Tribunal, it will be assessed by a member of the Judiciary prior to any registration.</p><p>Latest performance indicates that between April 2019 and September 2019, 77% of Employment Appeal Tribunals were heard within 26 weeks of registration. This is internal management information only and the data is provisional and subject to further change.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 12:48:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1180456

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of waiting times for Child Maintenance Service appeals in (a) Wallasey, (b) Merseyside and (c) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	20389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>General information about waiting times for appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the average waiting time - in weeks - for Child Maintenance appeals between July and September 2019 (the latest period for which data are available).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Liverpool</strong><strong><strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Merseyside</strong><strong><strong>[2]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>North West</strong><strong><strong>[3]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="12"><p>Clearance Time includes appeals cleared with and without a tribunal hearing</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p><sup>1</sup> Liverpool venue (where Child Maintenance Service appeals for the Wallasey area are heard)</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p><sup>2</sup> Merseyside - Includes Birkenhead, Liverpool and St Helens SSCS venues</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p><sup>3</sup> North West SSCS region</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12"><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics as these data were run on a different date.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 12:54:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1180496

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department last made an assessment of the efficiency of the dispatch of probate; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	New Forest West
tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
uin	20370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Her Majesty Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) constantly monitor and review performance on the processing of probate applications. From April 2019 to September 2019, there was a temporary increase in waiting times which was caused by a combination of an increased volume of incoming work and the transition to a new case management system. The move to the new system meant that staff had to spend time being trained and familiarising themselves with it. There were also some initial performance issues which have now been resolved.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics are not published on the average length of time from receipt of the application to the issue of a grant of probate. Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) internal management information, which is not subject to the rigorous quality assurance processes of official statistics, has been used to show average times from receipt of an application to a grant being issued in January 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Measure </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Weeks to issued </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median to issue </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Submission to issue for all grants issued in the month (including those stopped for queries or missing documentation)</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From submission to issue for grants issued in the month that were not stopped.</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures include applications made via the online service and uses the receipt date of the digital application for recording the time of issue, rather than the time the necessary supporting documentation is sent to HMCTS in order to start processing the application. The data has been extracted from the HMCTS Reform Core Case Data system, which is a new system in active development, and may not be directly comparable with figures for earlier periods.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 12:51:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

1180546

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the NHS surcharge will be for EU migrants arriving after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	20439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Under the new UK Points-Based Immigration System, EU citizens arriving from 1 January 2021 will be treated equally to non-EU citizens. EU citizens resident in the UK before the end of December 2020 will be able to access healthcare as they do now and will be able to secure these rights by obtaining status through the EU Settlement Scheme.</p><p>The Government is committed to agreeing a future partnership with the EU by December 2020. The details, including any agreement on reciprocal healthcare, remain a matter for negotiation.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 17:08:01 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1180591

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been imprisoned for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in (a) Wales and (b) England in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	20397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in each year between 2015 and 2018 can be viewed in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>We have not produced the numbers each year in terms of the England and Wales split due to the small numbers involved which could result in the identification of an individual. However, between 2015 and 2018, one person was admitted to a prison in Wales for non-payment of the fine associated with using a TV without a licence – the remainder were admitted to prisons in England.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 12:56:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 20397 response table_dh.xlsx title Table
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1178958

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has chartered flights scheduled for deportations in the next six months.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	18870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Most enforced immigration returns are undertaken using scheduled flights, alongside fare-paying passengers. However, charter flight operations are an important means to return foreign national offenders and immigration offenders where there are limited scheduled routes or where the returnees may be disruptive. We utilise both approaches flexibly to best meet operational needs and maximise value for money.</p><p>For operational reasons, it is not possible to disclose full details of the returns charter flight programme over the next six months.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 17:05:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1179287

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reece Dempster
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the previous offences by (a) date, (b) category and (c) disposal of each offence committed by Reece Dempster who was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 6 February 2020.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	18566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>As is consistent with established procedure, we do not intend to publish the previous offences. An application for disclosure may be made to the relevant court under Part 5.8 Criminal Procedure Rules 2015 as amended.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 13:07:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1179289

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the custody rate was (a) in total and (b) by sex of the offender for each category of offence in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	18568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Information up to December 2018 on sentencing outcomes relating to specific offence categories is published in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>To obtain the total custody rate for each offence group:</p><ul><li>In the Pivot Table Fields, drag ‘Offence group’ to the Rows field.</li><li>The total custody rate can then be found by dividing ‘Total Immediate Custody’ (rows 206 – 218) by ‘Sentenced’ (rows 66 - 78) for each offence group.</li></ul><p> </p><p>To obtain the custody rate by sex of the offender:</p><ul><li>In the Pivot Table Fields, drag ‘Sex’ to the Rows field above the recently inserted ‘Offence group’.</li><li>The custody rate by sex of the offender for each category of offence can then be found by dividing ‘Total Immediate Custody’ (rows 714 - 764) by ‘Sentenced’ (rows 184 - 234) for each offence group and corresponding sex.</li></ul> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/03/2020 13:01:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies