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386499

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department has issued to UK companies who will need to implement the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	4893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Under this Government's transparency policy, meetings between ministers and external organisations are published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice published an Impact Assessment on the Commission’s original proposals for a General Data Protection Regulation on the 22nd November 2012. The Council of the European Union agreed on a general approach at Justice and Home Affairs Council on June 15 2015 after making many amendments to the text. The Government is currently evaluating the impact the Council’s text would have on the UK overall. The potential effect of specific elements of the text on a range of sectors, including the financial sector, will also be explored.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has not issued any guidance to companies about the General Data Protection Regulation as the final text is still under negotiation. Once the outcome of trilogue negotiations between the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the Commission are complete, the Information Commissioner’s Office will be considering what guidance may be necessary in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is currently exploring how it will need to implement the provisions in the General Data Protection Regulation requiring national legislation after the final text has been adopted. Negotiations on the Regulation remain ongoing. Once a final text is adopted, it will be a minimum of two years before it comes into force.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 4891 4892 4894 question first answered 08/07/2015 16:06:06 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

386500

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring forward legislation to enact the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	4894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Under this Government's transparency policy, meetings between ministers and external organisations are published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice published an Impact Assessment on the Commission’s original proposals for a General Data Protection Regulation on the 22nd November 2012. The Council of the European Union agreed on a general approach at Justice and Home Affairs Council on June 15 2015 after making many amendments to the text. The Government is currently evaluating the impact the Council’s text would have on the UK overall. The potential effect of specific elements of the text on a range of sectors, including the financial sector, will also be explored.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has not issued any guidance to companies about the General Data Protection Regulation as the final text is still under negotiation. Once the outcome of trilogue negotiations between the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the Commission are complete, the Information Commissioner’s Office will be considering what guidance may be necessary in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is currently exploring how it will need to implement the provisions in the General Data Protection Regulation requiring national legislation after the final text has been adopted. Negotiations on the Regulation remain ongoing. Once a final text is adopted, it will be a minimum of two years before it comes into force.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 4891 4892 4893 question first answered 08/07/2015 16:06:06 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

386529

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings his Department has had with the (a) Corporation of London and (b) FCA on the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation and possible costs to the UK financial services sector.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	4892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Under this Government's transparency policy, meetings between ministers and external organisations are published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice published an Impact Assessment on the Commission’s original proposals for a General Data Protection Regulation on the 22nd November 2012. The Council of the European Union agreed on a general approach at Justice and Home Affairs Council on June 15 2015 after making many amendments to the text. The Government is currently evaluating the impact the Council’s text would have on the UK overall. The potential effect of specific elements of the text on a range of sectors, including the financial sector, will also be explored.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has not issued any guidance to companies about the General Data Protection Regulation as the final text is still under negotiation. Once the outcome of trilogue negotiations between the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the Commission are complete, the Information Commissioner’s Office will be considering what guidance may be necessary in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is currently exploring how it will need to implement the provisions in the General Data Protection Regulation requiring national legislation after the final text has been adopted. Negotiations on the Regulation remain ongoing. Once a final text is adopted, it will be a minimum of two years before it comes into force.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 4891 4893 4894 question first answered 08/07/2015 16:06:06 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

386530

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of General Data Protection Regulation on the (a) UK economy and (b) UK financial services sector.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	4891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Under this Government's transparency policy, meetings between ministers and external organisations are published quarterly.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice published an Impact Assessment on the Commission’s original proposals for a General Data Protection Regulation on the 22nd November 2012. The Council of the European Union agreed on a general approach at Justice and Home Affairs Council on June 15 2015 after making many amendments to the text. The Government is currently evaluating the impact the Council’s text would have on the UK overall. The potential effect of specific elements of the text on a range of sectors, including the financial sector, will also be explored.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has not issued any guidance to companies about the General Data Protection Regulation as the final text is still under negotiation. Once the outcome of trilogue negotiations between the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the Commission are complete, the Information Commissioner’s Office will be considering what guidance may be necessary in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is currently exploring how it will need to implement the provisions in the General Data Protection Regulation requiring national legislation after the final text has been adopted. Negotiations on the Regulation remain ongoing. Once a final text is adopted, it will be a minimum of two years before it comes into force.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 4892 4893 4894 question first answered 08/07/2015 16:06:06 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

386739

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Acquittals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to ensure that the complainants in cases in which a person has been acquitted of a crime do not pursue vexatious civil cases against the person so acquitted.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	4986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has no plans to remove or limit the rights of a claimant to bring a civil claim against a defendant who has been acquitted of an alleged offence based on the same facts. Acquittal of a criminal charge does not rule out civil claims because criminal offences must be proved beyond reasonable doubt, while civil claims are adjudicated on the lesser standard of the balance of probabilities. Rules of court provide adequate protection for acquitted defendants in criminal cases by enabling the court to dismiss unmeritorious claims and, in the case of repeated unmeritorious claims, to ban vexatious litigants from bringing civil proceedings without its permission.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 07/07/2015 15:19:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

386746

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent information he holds on the number of states party to the European Convention on Human Rights whose prisons breach any term of that convention; and what recent assessment he has made of the effect of such breaches on the deportation of people from the UK to prisons in (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	4764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer to the answer to PQ 3772 - the MoJ does not hold information on the number of states party to the European Convention on Human Rights whose prisons breach any term of the Convention. However, information on states party to the European Convention on Human Rights, whose prisons have caused them to be found to be in violation of the Convention by the European Court of Human Rights, can be found on the Court’s searchable database at:</p><p><a title="http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#%7B%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]%7D http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]}" href="http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#%7B%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]%7D" target="_blank">http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22]}</a></p><p>Where the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that poor prison conditions in a state party to the Convention breach the requirements of the Convention, the government would seek to find a way to enable the transfer to take place through assurances or other measures to address that issue. We have not yet had to seek such an assurance nor have we refused a transfer based on the grounds that prison conditions breach article 3.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 14/07/2015 10:17:00 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

385104

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of states party to the European Convention on Human Rights, the prisons of which breach any term of that convention.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	3772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The department does not hold the information requested .</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 01/07/2015 16:39:15 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

384533

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the office space owned or leased by his Department is not in regular use; what the total (a) rental and (b) retail value is of all such office space; and if he will place in the Library a copy of his most recent departmental real estate valuation.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	3478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is constantly seeking ways of reducing its rental liability. It is currently engaged in an active programme to rationalise its estate including exiting properties on lease expiry or break option if earlier in accordance with Cabinet Office National Property Controls.</p><p> </p><p>Details of MoJ’s vacant properties including the tenure, size and availability, are recorded on the Central Government property database, Epims. These records are available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a title="http://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/epims" href="http://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/epims" target="_blank">www.data.gov.uk/dataset/epims</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the retail value of unused office space, including that within surplus court buildings, is not collected centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the valuation of land and property assets is available in the Ministry of Justice Report and Accounts via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justice-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justice-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justice-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 30/06/2015 14:12:04 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

384731

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Court of Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unimplemented judgements of the European Court of Human Rights there have been in each member state of the Council of Europe in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Nick Herbert
uin	3535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>Under Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is responsible for supervising the execution (or implementation) of a final judgment of the European Court of Human Rights.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not available for years before 2007, but since then the Committee of Ministers has published an annual report on its supervision of execution of judgments, which provides figures for the number of judgments against each state party to the Convention that remain unimplemented at the end of the year. The annual reports can be found at:</p><p><a title="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution/Documents/Publications_en.asp" href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution/Documents/Publications_en.asp" target="_blank">http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution/Documents/Publications_en.asp</a></p><p> </p><p>In view of the amount of information requested I will write to the honourable Member and arrange for copies to be placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 30/06/2015 15:37:19 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1479 label Biography information for Lord Herbert of South Downs

381775

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the UK remaining a party to the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Holborn and St Pancras
tabling member printed	Keir Starmer
uin	2871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>The government will legislate for a Bill of Rights to protect our fundamental rights, prevent abuse of the system and restore some common sense to our human rights laws.</p><p> </p><p>Our plans do not involve us leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. That is neither our objective nor our policy. However, our number one priority is to restore some balance to our human rights laws, so no option is off the table for the future.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 26/06/2015 13:54:21 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4514 label Biography information for Keir Starmer