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927788

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Insurance: Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment on the implications for the public liability claims handling process of the non-disclosure by organisations of their public liability insurer.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	155727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has no any plans to carry out such an assessment. A prospective claimant may be able to obtain information about insurance cover held by a prospective defendant under the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 if the defendant is insolvent or in other similar circumstances covered by that Act and under Part 31 of the Civil Procedure Rules, which permits the court to order the pre-action disclosure of documents in appropriate cases.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:24:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

927803

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Sunderland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the letter of 6 March 2018 from the Under-Secretary of State for Justice to the hon. Members for Houghton and Sunderland South and for Sunderland Central, what progress has been made on the future of the Sunderland court estate.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	155782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has completed the assessment and information gathering activities which were outlined in the letter I wrote to the Honourable Member on 6 March 2018. As stated in the letter, the HMCTS Property Board is now considering options for the court estate in Sunderland. I will write to the Honourable Member shortly to provide further information regarding the outcome of the Property Board deliberations.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:27:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

926909

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of reclassifying the offence of posting explicit or sexual images online without permission as a sex offence; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	155217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The offence at Section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 2015 criminalises the disclosure of private sexual photographs or films without the consent of an individual who appears in them and with the intent to cause that individual distress.</p><p> </p><p>Such behaviour is a terrible abuse of trust which can leave victims feeling humiliated and degraded.</p><p> </p><p>I am glad to see people are being prosecuted under this new offence which carries a maximum sentence of two years behind bars.</p><p> </p><p>At the time the offence was brought in it was deliberately designed to strengthen existing law by targeting the malicious non-consensual sharing of private sexual images, a motive more akin to the offence of blackmail. This decision was taken after consultation with victims who strongly supported the focus on the malicious nature of this behaviour.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:41:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

926928

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration law legal aid providers held a legal aid contract to provide such work in January 2018 by (a) procurement area and (b) access point.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	155344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Procurement Area Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Access Point Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Offices</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Buckinghamshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Mid, South West and Coastal Kent</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Oxfordshire &amp; Berkshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and South-East England</p></td><td><p>Surrey &amp; Sussex</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Bedfordshire &amp; South Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Cambridgeshire &amp; Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>City of Leicester</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>City of Stoke-on-Trent</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>Greater Nottingham, Derby &amp; South Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands and East of England</p></td><td><p>South Staffordshire, Sandwell and Birmingham</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East, Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>County Durham East, Teesside, Tyne &amp; Wear and Gateshead</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East, Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East, Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>East &amp; West Lancashire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West England</p></td><td><p>City of Bristol, Gloucestershire and North Somerset</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West England</p></td><td><p>City of Plymouth and Devon</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Bridgend, Cardiff and South East Wales</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Neath Port Talbot and Swansea</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>North East Wales</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:38:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926606

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for an immigration tribunal appeal hearing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	154771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) January 2018 to March 2018 was 37 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The average waiting times from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) from 2010 to 2017 were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2010 – 16 weeks</p><p>2011 – 14 weeks</p><p>2012 – 14 weeks</p><p>2013 – 20 weeks</p><p>2014 – 25 weeks</p><p>2015 – 24 weeks</p><p>2016 – 43 weeks</p><p>2017 – 45 weeks</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times extended due to a higher level of receipts than forecast. In response HM Courts and Tribunals Service increased the number of judicial sittings to deal with incoming receipts and reduce the live caseload. This has seen the live caseload nearly halve from 64,800 to 36,300 between June 2016 and March 2018 and the average waiting time has now begun to improve from 45 weeks in 2017 to 37 weeks in the period January to March 2018. Further improvement will follow.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154772 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:30:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926607

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for an immigration tribunal appeal hearing in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	154772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) January 2018 to March 2018 was 37 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The average waiting times from the receipt of an appeal to the hearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) from 2010 to 2017 were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2010 – 16 weeks</p><p>2011 – 14 weeks</p><p>2012 – 14 weeks</p><p>2013 – 20 weeks</p><p>2014 – 25 weeks</p><p>2015 – 24 weeks</p><p>2016 – 43 weeks</p><p>2017 – 45 weeks</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times extended due to a higher level of receipts than forecast. In response HM Courts and Tribunals Service increased the number of judicial sittings to deal with incoming receipts and reduce the live caseload. This has seen the live caseload nearly halve from 64,800 to 36,300 between June 2016 and March 2018 and the average waiting time has now begun to improve from 45 weeks in 2017 to 37 weeks in the period January to March 2018. Further improvement will follow.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154771 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:30:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926614

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on legal aid for social security upper tribunal cases in cases where the claimant has been successful.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	154775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Legal aid is potentially available (subject to tests as to the means of the individual and the merits of their case) in relation to an appeal on a point of law to the Upper Tribunal, the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court relating to a benefit, allowance, payment, credit or pension. However, the specific information being requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:33:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926616

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2018 to Question 136381 on Tribunals: Video Conferencing, when he plans to start pilots in other courts; and by what date those pilots will be completed.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	154776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the need to test fully video hearings in a range of locations and jurisdictions, and are working with the judiciary to identify suitable opportunities. Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is currently running a small-scale pilot in the Tax Chamber and has commissioned an independent evaluation of this pilot. The learning from this evaluation will inform our plans for further testing.</p><p> </p><p>Developing video hearings is one of the technology solutions which will support the HMCTS change portfolio, which includes the Reform programme. The costs of piloting fully video hearings cannot be determined until plans for further testing are in place, but will be met from the overall change portfolio budget of £1.2bn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154777 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:36:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926618

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2018 to Question 136381 on Tribunals: Video Conferencing, how much funding his Department has allocated to pilots of video hearing technology in courts and tribunals.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	154777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the need to test fully video hearings in a range of locations and jurisdictions, and are working with the judiciary to identify suitable opportunities. Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is currently running a small-scale pilot in the Tax Chamber and has commissioned an independent evaluation of this pilot. The learning from this evaluation will inform our plans for further testing.</p><p> </p><p>Developing video hearings is one of the technology solutions which will support the HMCTS change portfolio, which includes the Reform programme. The costs of piloting fully video hearings cannot be determined until plans for further testing are in place, but will be met from the overall change portfolio budget of £1.2bn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 154776 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:36:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

926755

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for an appeal on decisions relating to (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment support allowance and (c) universal credit was at the Newcastle Social Security Tribunal in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	154703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Clearance times are dependent on several factors, such as the availability of the appellant or their representative, or hearing capacity at the local Tribunal venue. Additionally, a decision on the appeal may be reached after a hearing has been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after a hearing has been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been referred back to the First-tier Tribunal by the Upper Tribunal for disposal. Cases may also have been stayed at the First-tier Tribunal, pending a decision by the Upper Tribunal on a lead case.</p><p>Latest figures indicate that since PIP was introduced, more than 3.1 million decisions have been made, and of these under 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned. For ESA the figure is only 8% of decisions made were appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is set out in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Average time in weeks from receipt at HM Courts &amp; Tribunal Service to outcome</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Newcastle</strong><strong> Manor View House (Social Security &amp; Child Support Tribunal hearing venue)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial years April - March</p></td><td><p>Personal Independence Payment <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Employment and Support Allowance<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Universal Credit<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup> Personal Independence Payment (PIP) (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was introduced on 8 April 2013, and also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments)</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Includes Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and Employment Support Allowance (Reassessments)</p><p><sup>3 </sup>Universal Credit was introduced on 29 April 2013 in selected areas of Greater Manchester and Cheshire, and has been gradually rolled out to the rest of the UK from October 2013.</p><p>~ Equates to a value of five or fewer</p><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 available.</p><p>The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as these data were run on a different date.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:47:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 65043 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell