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date	25/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Abuse in North Wales Judicial Inquiry Review
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 14 January 2016 to Question 21819, what progress has been made on establishing a date of publication for the Macur report.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	23926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Lady Justice Macur’s report is being considered as a matter of urgency with a view to publication as soon as possible.</p><p>The report needs to be considered by law enforcement agencies and the government before it can be published. This includes considering whether redactions need to be made. Lady Justice Macur has herself recommended that certain material should be considered for redaction before publication.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2016 16:42:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

447442

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many civil partnerships have been (a) conducted, (b) terminated and (c) converted to marriage status since such partnerships were established.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	24071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Based on the latest publicly available data from the Office of National Statistics, since the Civil Partnership Act came into force in December 2005, the total number of civil partnerships formed in England and Wales up to the end of 2014 is 62,621.</p><br /><p>From January 2007 to December 2014, there were 4,527 civil partnerships dissolutions in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>A total of 7,732 couples chose to convert their existing civil partnership into a marriage in the six months between 10 December 2014 and 30 June 2015 in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>This information is available from the Office of National Statistics: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Civil+Partnerships" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Civil+Partnerships</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2016 13:49:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

446397

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what special measures exist for survivors of domestic abuse in the family courts in child contact proceedings.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	23268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Family judges have a range of powers and training to ensure that vulnerable witnesses are handled sensitively in court. The Child Arrangements Programme and Practice Direction 12J set out a strong and clear framework where domestic violence is alleged. Judges can intervene to prevent inappropriate questions or have questions relayed. Practical protections, for example, protective screens, video links, separate waiting rooms and separate entrances are available where appropriate. It is for the judge involved, on the basis of the evidence, to determine how the framework will be applied in a particular case.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2016 16:30:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

446398

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that judges and other decision-makers have appropriate knowledge and training on issues relating to child arrangements orders made in the family court in cases in which there is a history of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	23269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, responsibility for judicial training rests with the Lord Chief Justice and this responsibility is exercised through the Judicial College. Accordingly, the independence of the judiciary means that Government Ministers do not intervene with regard to the content of judicial training.</p><br /><p>The Judicial College has advised that judges, magistrates and their Legal Advisers have all received specific training on domestic violence issues and were trained in the new Child Arrangements Programme and Practice Direction 12J as part of the Family Justice Review reforms in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2016 16:26:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham