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595444

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will consider the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to reduce the notice period for a landowner who has secured a court order to evict travellers from 48 to 12 hours.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	47245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The accelerated procedure for obtaining a possession order to evict trespassers (which may include travellers) is set out in the Civil Procedure Rules, Part 55.</p><p> </p><p>There is no notice period once a landowner has obtained an order to evict. The standard order for a successful claim for possession would be an order for immediate possession.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not consider that the process requires change.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 47244 question first answered 17/10/2016 13:19:04 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

595953

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Companies: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans she has to allow commercial companies access to sensitive information held by other government departments and agencies on the proposed enforcement purposes of those companies.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Ministers have outlined their programme of work to improve the courts in the ‘Transforming our Justice System’ document and consultation published on 15 September. As part of this work we will be considering how we can improve the civil enforcement process.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 16:57:24 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595956

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the Civil Service Code does not apply to those undertaking public sector work for her Department in the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Civil Service Code only applies to Civil Servants. There is however a contractual expectation that privately contracted services are carried out in line with Ministry of Justice principles and policy.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 16:55:15 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595959

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to increase capacity at the Asylum and Immigration Chamber.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	47206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). HMCTS have provided an additional 4,500 tribunal sitting days for this financial year compared to 2015/16. HMCTS keeps performance and resource levels under close review. answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 12:46:22 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

595960

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of potential measures to make access to courts (a) easier and (b) substantially faster for a landowner seeking to get an order to evict travellers.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	47244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The accelerated procedure for obtaining a possession order to evict trespassers (which may include travellers) is set out in the Civil Procedure Rules, Part 55.</p><p> </p><p>There is no notice period once a landowner has obtained an order to evict. The standard order for a successful claim for possession would be an order for immediate possession.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not consider that the process requires change.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 47245 question first answered 17/10/2016 13:19:04 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

595963

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on how many times provisions under Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 have been used to convict people in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	46895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold statistics on the number of offenders found guilty under Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015, as the offence has yet to be commenced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 13:01:56 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

595967

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Arrest Warrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many arrest warrants were issued for defendants who failed to attend court in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	47082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of arrest warrants issued for defendants who failed to attend court in England and Wales for the period 2010 to 2014, the latest data available, can be viewed in the table below.</p><p><strong>Number of Failure to Appear (FTA) Warrants received<sup> (1)</sup> in England and Wales, 2010- 2014.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total warrants issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>93,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>88,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012<sup> (2)</sup></p></td><td><p>72,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70,225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014<sup> (3)</sup></p></td><td><p>70,016</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from live systems used by police forces principally for operational reasons. As such, they are subject to change over time. For these reasons, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) West Midlands constabulary are unable to supply any FTA warrant data from 1 April 2012.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3) Lincolnshire Police were unable to supply any data for Q4 of 2014 because of technical issues related to the introduction of a new warrant management system. Data presented are for the first three quarters of 2014 only.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong><ul><li>These data are reported to the Ministry of Justice by police forces. As such, they are not directly comparable with other data presented in the Criminal Statistics bulletin, which are returned directly from administrative data systems used by magistrates' courts and the Crown Court.</li></ul></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 15:38:47 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

595975

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Claims Management Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to tackle illegitimate and fraudulent activity by claims handling companies.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	46734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Tackling bad practices by claims management companies (CMCs) is a priority for the Government. Action already taken includes the removal of over a thousand CMC licenses since 2010 and the issuing of over £2 million in fines.</p><p> </p><p>Collaborative work between the Claims Management Regulation Unit and other regulators has resulted in the successful disruption and prosecution of criminal operations by CMCs engaged in fraudulent and illegitimate claims.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 15:42:24 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

595977

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to conduct a three and five year post-implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	46871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is finalising the one year post implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 and a decision will be made about publication in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is considering the further reviews.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 47401 question first answered 17/10/2016 12:16:41 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

595979

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Debt Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civilian enforcement officers were employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service in each year since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	46842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of civilian enforcement officers that were employed by HM Courts and Tribunals Service since 2013 are:-</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>FTE (Full time Equivalent)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2013</p></td><td><p>296</p></td><td><p>287.49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>242</p></td><td><p>231.18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>202.59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>173.72</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data prior to 2013 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last five years. The amount of money collected has risen from £310m at the end of 2014/115 to a record of £381 million at the end of 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 18/10/2016 09:26:10 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery