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100227

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases in (a) magistrates' courts and (b) the Crown court were awaiting trial on 1 October in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	211356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Data are published in Court Statistics Quarterly showing the number of outstanding trial cases in the Crown Court annually at the end of 2001, and quarterly at the end of each quarter commencing March 2009, including at the end of 30 September. The outstanding number of cases in magistrates’ courts is published broken down by indictable only trial cases, either way trial cases, summary motoring cases and summary non-motoring cases from the quarter ending June 2012. This data set was created in April 2012 so data is not available prior to that date. Prior to this, completed proceedings were published for magistrates’ courts. The data does not distinguish between trial cases still awaiting their trial and those who have either pleaded guilty or been convicted and are awaiting sentence. Court Statistics Quarterly is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/court-statistics-quarterly</a> Data to September 2014 is due to be published on 18 December 2014.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:48:46 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

100233

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases dealt with by (a) magistrates' courts, (b) family proceedings courts, (c) county courts, (d) coroners' courts, (e) the Crown court, (f) high court, (g) the court of appeal or (h) the Supreme Court involved a party for whom there is no legal representations on the court record in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	211297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Parties with no legal representation are not a new phenomenon in our courts. Judges are used to helping persons with no legal representation, including explaining procedures and what is expected of them. We have taken steps to help people who either want or have to represent themselves in court, particularly in the family court. On 23 October we announced further support for separating parents and court users in civil and family courts.</p><p>The new support will include:</p><p>· Improving online information so that it is accurate, engaging and easy to find.</p><p>· A new strategy, funded by the Ministry of Justice, and agreed with the legal and advice sectors which will help to increase legal and practical support for litigants in person in the civil and family courts.</p><p>· A new <em>‘Supporting separating parents in dispute helpline’</em> pilot run by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) to test a more joined-up and tailored out-of-court service.</p><p>This package of support will help provide separating couples and court users with the information, advice and guidance they need to help settle disputes in the most appropriate and proportionate way.</p><p> </p><p>However, it has not been possible to answer the question within the timeframe as the information is being assembled from a variety of sources, but I will write to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available. A copy of the letter will be placed in the House Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:40:26 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

99914

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many full time equivalent staff (a) in total and (b) by category of staff were employed in (i) magistrates' courts and (ii) Crown courts on 1 October in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	211173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on how many full time equivalent staff were employed in each Magistrates' court and Crown court on 1 October in each of the last five years is not centrally held. However, this information is available on an annual basis as at the 31<sup>st</sup> March which is attached as an annex.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 23/10/2014 16:35:50 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes attachment 1 file name 211173 - Annex A.xls title Full time equivalent staff
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92029

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many freedom of information requests his Department received in each month since January 2013.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly and annual statistical reports on the handling of requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reports include statistics on the number of requests received by the Department each quarter since 2010. These reports can be accessed via the following webpage: <a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/foi/implementation" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/foi/implementation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 14/10/2014 13:58:45 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92048

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many responses to freedom of information requests have been subject to an internal review in each year since 2010; and how many such requests initially refused were subsequently granted in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice does not routinely collect statistics on the number of requests that have been subject to internal review, upheld and subsequently fulfilled. To obtain this information we would need to review each request received since 2010. Therefore, it would only be possible to provide this information at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 14/10/2014 14:05:59 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

78562

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the monthly cost is of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	206212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Department is committed to disposing of surplus property assets expeditiously and reducing holding costs. The monthly cost of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010 is detailed below. The majority of these courts were closed as part of the Court Estate Reform Programme (CERP).</p><p> </p><p>CERP is expected to deliver an estimated £99m resource savings plus £53m from the sale of buildings. Under this Government court buildings that were rarely used or no longer suitable were closed as part of our drive to cut waste. There are temporary costs associated with ensuring unused courts are kept secure and protecting the fabric of each building, as well as property tax rates payable to the local council. When disposing of surplus property assets we will always seek best value for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the courts announced for closure under CERP, the Ministry of Justice has closed and disposed of a number of court buildings as a result of the integration and co-location.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: monthly cost of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010 as at 30 June 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Court Building</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average monthly cost <sup>1, 6</sup></strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Bishop Auckland Magistrates’ &amp; County Court <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£2,893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgwater Magistrates’ Court <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>£1,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridport Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£1,839</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burton-upon-Trent County Court</p></td><td><p>£1,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cirencester Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coleford Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorking Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£4,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epping Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Flint Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£1,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frome Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£869</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goole Magistrates' Court <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>£632</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haywards Heath (Mid Sussex) Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£7,255</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honiton Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,298</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Houghton Le Spring Magistrates' Court <sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>£1,794</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Keighley (Bingley) Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£5,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewes Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£8,456</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lyndhurst Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£2,557</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Market Drayton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£3,898</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oswestry Magistrates' Court &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>£1,958</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontefract Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£4,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£9,974</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Selby Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£6,055</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sherbourne Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£1,301</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£9,040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totnes Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£2,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Towcester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£1,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weston Super Mare Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£488</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wimborne Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>£4,122</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Witham Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,502</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Footnotes:</strong></p><p>1. Monthly cost based on financial year data 2013/14. Holding costs include rates, fuel and utilities, facilities management, telephony and other property costs.</p><p>2. Bishop Auckland Magistrates’ Court and County Court building was sold on 11 August 2014</p><p>3. Monthly cost based on financial year data 2012/13 and 2013/14 in order to address rates rebates in 2013/14</p><p>4. Monthly cost based on financial year data 2012/13 and 2013/14 in order to address rates rebates and accounting adjustments made in 2013/14</p><p>5. Monthly costs includes spend for associated office, The Villa.</p><p>6. Costs are not comparable between financial years due to events such as rebates for rates, utilities, facilities management and telephony.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:39:18 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

76890

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many off-payroll engagements for more than £220 a day and for a period of longer than six months were established in each of the last four years; and what the total cost of such payments has been.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In responding to this question we have utilised data provided by our contracted supplier of interim staff who fall into the category above. This data is only available for the last 3 years under contract. Where the interim’s contract spans financial years the spend data is reported for the year in which spend was incurred, all figures are based on total charge rate exc VAT:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Contractors paid £220 or more, with a total contract length of more than 6 months</p></td><td><p>Spend in Financial Year from workers who have had contracts over 6 months in duration</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>242</p></td><td><p>£20,814,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>£23,792,142</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>£26,152,415</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are currently no off-payroll staff from whom assurances about their tax status are outstanding. We have made it absolutely clear to all relevant contractors that they must meet their tax and national insurance obligations. Any senior off-payroll workers who fail to provide assurances about their tax arrangements face having their contracts terminated.</p><p>We only use temporary staff to fulfil essential roles within the Ministry of Justice; these staff provide a fast, flexible and efficient way to obtain necessary skills that are not currently available in-house.</p><p>Spend for this requirement has increased due to the demand of our priority programmes – which will deliver significant savings across the Ministry of Justice’s budget. It should be noted that since April 2010 the annual spend on interims as a whole has decreased by £10m.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:27:49 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

62369

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bronzefield Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) the prison governor or (b) another official gave permission for the performance of Sister Act in HMP Bronzefield in February and March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	201121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Former employees of the Trusts have transferred to the new organisations, namely the National Probation Service (NPS) and the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies. A small number of Chief Executives have taken early retirement or are due to do so over the next few weeks. There have also been a number of departures at Assistant Chief Officer (ACO) level. These were part of the normal turnover of staff; details of these are not held centrally.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">HM Prison Bronzefield is a private (contracted out) prison and therefore any activities in the establishment are the decision of the Director of that prison. The production of the performance of Sister Act was arranged between Sodexo Justice Services and the respective parties. Therefore this is not part of the contractual agreement between Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Sodexo Justice Services.</ins></p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 23/06/2014 16:46:18 question first ministerially corrected 25/06/2014 12:03:56 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes previous answer version 4697 answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

38810

registered interest
date	12/02/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new criminal offences have been created in each year since May 2010; and what the predicted effect was on the number of prisoners for each such offence.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	188279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I have set out below the number of criminal offences in England and Wales created by government departments. The numbers are collated by the Criminal Offences Gateway which scrutinises proposals on new and amended criminal offences for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers are based on offences put through the Criminal Offences Gateway during the period 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2013 (the latest available data).</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in the New Criminal Offences England and Wales <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-new-criminal-offences-statistics-in-england-and-wales-june-2009-may-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-new-criminal-offences-statistics-in-england-and-wales-june-2009-may-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>The numbers of new criminal offences, which include entirely new offences and existing offences which have been extended or amended in some way, are published annually by my department in the statistical bulletin <em>New Criminal Offence</em>s. The new criminal offences enforce Government policy in a range of areas, including to contain the spread of serious animal diseases and to criminalise squatting in a residential building.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period covered</p></td><td><p>Number of legislative provisions (secondary &amp; primary) containing new offences</p></td><td><p>Total criminal offences created</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 June 2011 to 31 May 2012</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 June 2012 to 31 May 2013</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>327</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>712 criminal offences were created during the period 1 June 2009 to May 2010 which was the 12 months immediately prior to the establishment of the Criminal Offences Gateway.</p><p> </p><p>New offences are needed for a number of reasons, for example, to update legislation that is now out of date, to underpin delivery of government priorities and to set out clearly what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. The Government committed to putting in place a mechanism, an additional layer of scrutiny, for proposals to create new offences. This is the first time a Government has done so and committed to doing so publicly. The Government has repealed 140 offences in the 12 months ending May 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The information on the predicted effect on the number of prisoners for each relevant offence is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan