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895244

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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, which courts in north-west Wales are available for benefits appeal hearings in (a) English and (b) Welsh.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	139987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>All HMCTS venues in Wales are available for benefit appeal hearings, where both languages are treated equally and can be used. In North West Wales, Caernarfon Justice Centre frequently hosts these types of hearings.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 10:41:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

895277

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has for the transfer of work from Camberwell Green Magistrates Court on its closure; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	140030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service announced on 8 February 2017 that, following a public consultation, Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court would close and its work would be relocated.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to judicial listing decisions, hearings for those appearing in court under the age of 18 will be relocated to Bromley Magistrates’ Court and hearings for those over the age of 18 will be relocated to Croydon Magistrates’ Court.</p><p> </p><p>Further analysis has indicated that some additional capacity is required for hearings for those over the age of 18 and, therefore, Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court has also been identified as location into which work can be listed when required. Housing possession cases which were previously heard at Lambeth County Court are now being heard at Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 16:24:54 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

895280

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of claims of equal pay to employment tribunals in the last two years were successful for (a) men and (b) women.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	140032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of equal pay claims that were deemed to be successful in the employment tribunal broken down by gender in the last two years can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Number of successful equal pay (EQP) jurisdiction complaints (</strong><strong>1)</strong><strong> by gender (</strong><strong>2)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>January 2016 - December 2016</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>January 2017 - December 2017 (</strong><strong>p)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Number of successful EQP complaints (</strong>3)</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Percentage of successful EQP complaints</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Number of successful EQP complaints</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Percentage of successful EQP complaints</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gender (</strong>2)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men</p></td><td><p>769</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Women</p></td><td><p>6,985</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>840</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1 This is the number of jurisdictional complaints disposed in the period.</p><p>2 Gender is not a mandatory field in the case management system and therefore the above figures are the number of complaints that were recorded as received by male or female claimant.</p><p>3 Includes the number of &quot;ACAS conciliated settlements&quot;, &quot;withdrawn or private settlements&quot;, &quot;Successful at hearing &quot; and &quot;Default Judgment - Claimant Successful&quot;. We do not know whether claims which have had an ACAS conciliated settlement or are Withdrawn or privately settled are successful or not.</p><p>p Provisional data - subject to further change. All data were taken from the Employment Tribunals Central database and as such are management information that are provisional and subject to change. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, and are the best data available at the time of publication.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 16:24:26 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

895320

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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 proportion of immigration appeals were overturned at tribunal in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	140173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of immigration and asylum appeals allowed in each of the last seven years is published in quarterly statistics:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2017</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 08/05/2018 16:26:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

895383

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Abortion: Clinics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for public order offences involving pro-life vigil participants outside abortion clinics in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	139950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 16:25:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

895486

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he last met the President of the Family Division; and whether they discussed the level of take-up of mediation by people attending the family court.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	140213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>I am clear that the Government remains committed to supporting mediation for separating couples. It is an effective way of resolving disputes about finances and children, when it is safe and appropriate to do so. Mediation can be less stressful than going to court. It can help reduce conflict, by avoiding potentially contentious court proceedings which can be harmful to children. We are working to improve information and signposting to raise awareness of mediation and to encourage more separating couples to try it.</p><p> </p><p>I hold regular meetings with senior judges-, that are held in confidence and it would therefore not be appropriate to disclose their content.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 10:42:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

895577

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which public bodies have obtained a transcript of the trial of Gurpal Virdi at Southwark Crown Court.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	139922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>Transcripts of Crown Court proceedings, where requested, are produced by third party transcription companies.</p><p> </p><p>Checks of the relevant transcription companies indicate that no transcript of the entire trial has been provided to a public body, although a transcript of one day of the hearing (31 July 2015) was requested by the Metropolitan Police on 28 October 2015.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 10:41:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

894748

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135130, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all procurement areas have at least 2 legal aid providers of family law on 1 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The LAA seeks to maintain at least 5 providers holding a family contract per procurement area, to deal with conflicts of interest in public law family matters. The LAA currently has more than two in all areas and the following the tender for the 2018 Standard Civil Contract expects the position to remain the same or improve. Currently 93% of all procurement areas contain 5 or more providers.</p><p> </p><p>In most other categories of law where advice is delivered face to face to clients, the LAA seeks to maintain a minimum of one provider in each procurement area.</p><p>The LAA received one or fewer compliant tenders in 6 Immigration and Asylum access points, as follows:</p><ul><li>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</li><li>City of Kingston upon Hull</li><li>East &amp; West Lancashire</li><li>Swindon</li><li>City of Plymouth and Devon</li><li>North East Wales</li></ul><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors legal aid provision, and where a gap is identified it takes appropriate steps to ensure clients have access to services. Clients are also able to access advice through the LAA’s telephone advice services.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 139554 139556 question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894749

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135130, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all procurement areas have at least 2 legal aid providers of housing law on 1 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The LAA seeks to maintain at least 5 providers holding a family contract per procurement area, to deal with conflicts of interest in public law family matters. The LAA currently has more than two in all areas and the following the tender for the 2018 Standard Civil Contract expects the position to remain the same or improve. Currently 93% of all procurement areas contain 5 or more providers.</p><p> </p><p>In most other categories of law where advice is delivered face to face to clients, the LAA seeks to maintain a minimum of one provider in each procurement area.</p><p>The LAA received one or fewer compliant tenders in 6 Immigration and Asylum access points, as follows:</p><ul><li>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</li><li>City of Kingston upon Hull</li><li>East &amp; West Lancashire</li><li>Swindon</li><li>City of Plymouth and Devon</li><li>North East Wales</li></ul><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors legal aid provision, and where a gap is identified it takes appropriate steps to ensure clients have access to services. Clients are also able to access advice through the LAA’s telephone advice services.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 139553 139556 question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894768

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2018 to Question 135134 on Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration, in how many areas one or fewer compliant tenders were received in response to the Legal Aid Agency's recent tender process; and if he will list those areas.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The LAA seeks to maintain at least 5 providers holding a family contract per procurement area, to deal with conflicts of interest in public law family matters. The LAA currently has more than two in all areas and the following the tender for the 2018 Standard Civil Contract expects the position to remain the same or improve. Currently 93% of all procurement areas contain 5 or more providers.</p><p> </p><p>In most other categories of law where advice is delivered face to face to clients, the LAA seeks to maintain a minimum of one provider in each procurement area.</p><p>The LAA received one or fewer compliant tenders in 6 Immigration and Asylum access points, as follows:</p><ul><li>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</li><li>City of Kingston upon Hull</li><li>East &amp; West Lancashire</li><li>Swindon</li><li>City of Plymouth and Devon</li><li>North East Wales</li></ul><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors legal aid provision, and where a gap is identified it takes appropriate steps to ensure clients have access to services. Clients are also able to access advice through the LAA’s telephone advice services.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 139553 139554 question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon