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224028

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much in legal aid claims was paid to Leigh Day in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Castle Point
tabling member printed	Rebecca Harris
uin	225672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The net payment to Leigh Day in the 2013/14 financial year was £529,559.30.</p><p> </p><p>This payment covers all work undertaken by the firm under legal aid. The payment made will be offset by recoupment on successful cases where the opponent has paid the costs.</p><p> </p><p>Legal aid is a vital part of our justice system but we must ensure it is sustainable for those who need it, for those who provide legal services as part of it and for the taxpayer, who ultimately pays for it. When we began the process of reform England and Wales had one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world at around £2 billion a year. We have made tough choices to make the necessary savings whilst still ensuring legal aid remained available where people were most in need of a lawyer.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 03/03/2015 17:43:10 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3948 label Biography information for Rebecca Harris

223679

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Television Licences: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid in fines for television licensing offences in the (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	225430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This question can only be answered at disproportionate cost as it would require a manual search of all live and closed fine accounts to identify the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/03/2015 12:55:43 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

223363

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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, pursuant to his Answer of 13 January 2015 to Question 217622, what the resource requirements are for each planned stage of the court reform programme; what the planned (a) start and (b) finish time is for each stage of the programme; and what the planned staff allocation is for each planned stage of the programme.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	225118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Planning for the stages of the programme, which spans five years, is underway and will be subject to ongoing refinement through the mobilisation phase up to Summer 2015. The resource requirement for these stages has not yet been finalised and will be developed as part of the ongoing planning.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 03/03/2015 16:09:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

223044

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average annual cost of court cases involving children that collapse due to insufficient or unreliable evidence.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	224876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I have interpreted this question as referring to cases in the criminal courts, and to costs relating to Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS).</p><p> </p><p>No estimate of the average annual cost of court cases involving children that collapse due to insufficient or unreliable evidence is available. HMCTS' case management systems do not record the age of victims and witnesses in all trial cases. The only way to obtain this information would be to manually check every trial case file at each magistrates' court and Crown Court centre and collate the data, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Even if this data were available, this would not enable an estimation of the cost to HMCTS as the cost of a criminal case that does not proceed varies widely, depending on a range of factors including the point at which the case ‘collapses’.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is working closely with other criminal justice system agencies to ensure that cases that proceed to trial are effective, as well as to support children and other vulnerable victims and witnesses in giving evidence.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is, for example, piloting section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, a special measures provision allowing the cross examination of eligible witnesses’ evidence to be recorded in advance of the trial.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 26/02/2015 17:54:59 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

223046

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the proposed increase in court fees for bringing money claims over the value of £10,000 on the ability of people on low incomes to make such claims.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	224889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>90% of money claims are for sums of less than £10,000 and will therefore be unaffected by these plans.</p><p>In order to protect access to justice, a system of fee waivers is available to those unable to afford court fees. Eligibility is based on an individual’s ability to pay, and the scheme is targeted towards those in households on low incomes who are in receipt of certain state benefits. Applicants will also be subject to an assessment of the value of their disposable capital assets with a higher threshold applying to those aged 61 or over.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/03/2015 17:10:10 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

223047

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many apprentices employed by (a) his Department and (b) its executive agencies and associated bodies are aged (i) 16 to 18, (ii) 19 to 24 and (iii) 25 years or older; and how many of those apprentices employed in each form of body and of each age group were previously employed by the Government.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>It has not been possible to collate and quality assure this information in the time available. I will write to the Honourable Member when this information is available.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/03/2015 17:28:52 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

222615

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Contempt of Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer on 12 February 2015 to Question 223311, what calculations were made to determine that to answer the original question would incur disproportionate costs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	John Hemming
uin	224672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In order to answer 223311 Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) would have to manually check every court log from 1 May 2013 to the present at Birmingham County Court, Birmingham Family Court and the High Court at Birmingham. Birmingham County Court and Birmingham Family Court between them heard in excess of 24,000 cases, each of which would have to be manually checked for any hearings for contempt of court.</p><p>HMCTS have been able to check records of cases heard since November 2014, and identified those where committal orders were made for imprisonment for contempt of court. The contemnors weren’t all present at court and did not necessarily begin their term of imprisonment straight away. There were none at Birmingham Family Court. Details of committal orders made for imprisonment for contempt of court at Birmingham County Court and High Court since 1 November 2014 can be found in the table below. This data has been collated specifically to answer this question and has not been checked to the standard of Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Court</p></td><td><p>Judge</p></td><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham High Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ Purle QC</p></td><td><p>13-2-15</p></td><td><p>6 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>DJ Rich TD</p></td><td><p>7-11-14</p></td><td><p>8 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ McKenna</p></td><td><p>19-11-14</p></td><td><p>16 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ McKenna</p></td><td><p>15-1-15</p></td><td><p>18 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ McKenna</p></td><td><p>15-1-15</p></td><td><p>25 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>DJ Ingram</p></td><td><p>30-1-15</p></td><td><p>24 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>DJ Shorthose</p></td><td><p>13-2-15</p></td><td><p>26 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 224769 question first answered 27/02/2015 10:21:14 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

222616

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many domestic violence courts sat at each magistrates' court in Lancashire in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mark Hendrick
uin	224736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table below sets out the number of domestic violence courts scheduled to be sat in each magistrates’ court in Lancashire in 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Magistrates Courts in Lancashire</p></td><td><p>Number of half day sessions scheduled to sit on domestic violence during 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ormskirk Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burnley Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 25/02/2015 17:21:34 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

222618

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Contempt of Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the letter sent on 2 February 2015 to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley by HM Courts and Tribunals Service's Performance, Analysis and Reporting Team, what the (a) name of the judge, (b) date and (c) period of committal was of each court order issued by (i) Birmingham County Court, (ii) Birmingham High Court and (iii) Birmingham Family Court for contempt of court since November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	John Hemming
uin	224769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>In order to answer 223311 Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) would have to manually check every court log from 1 May 2013 to the present at Birmingham County Court, Birmingham Family Court and the High Court at Birmingham. Birmingham County Court and Birmingham Family Court between them heard in excess of 24,000 cases, each of which would have to be manually checked for any hearings for contempt of court.</p><p>HMCTS have been able to check records of cases heard since November 2014, and identified those where committal orders were made for imprisonment for contempt of court. The contemnors weren’t all present at court and did not necessarily begin their term of imprisonment straight away. There were none at Birmingham Family Court. Details of committal orders made for imprisonment for contempt of court at Birmingham County Court and High Court since 1 November 2014 can be found in the table below. This data has been collated specifically to answer this question and has not been checked to the standard of Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Court</p></td><td><p>Judge</p></td><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham High Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ Purle QC</p></td><td><p>13-2-15</p></td><td><p>6 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>DJ Rich TD</p></td><td><p>7-11-14</p></td><td><p>8 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ McKenna</p></td><td><p>19-11-14</p></td><td><p>16 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ McKenna</p></td><td><p>15-1-15</p></td><td><p>18 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>HHJ McKenna</p></td><td><p>15-1-15</p></td><td><p>25 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>DJ Ingram</p></td><td><p>30-1-15</p></td><td><p>24 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham County Court</p></td><td><p>DJ Shorthose</p></td><td><p>13-2-15</p></td><td><p>26 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 224672 question first answered 27/02/2015 10:21:14 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

222621

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value of contracts his Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	224664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Noted below are the values for contracts with private sector providers awarded in each of the financial years, the values show the average annual spend for the financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p><strong>2010 - 11</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>2011 - 12</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>2012 - 13</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>2013 -14</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>2014 – 15</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>£256,880,714</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£568,924,146</p></td><td><p>£438,322,765</p></td><td><p>£276,327,267</p></td><td><p>£1,086,494,704</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The private sector has an important role to play in helping deliver much needed reforms. We remain committed to promoting a diverse market including public, private and voluntary sectors, as well as ensuring rigorous contract management and high standards of behavior.</p><p> </p><p>We have undertaken a major review of contract management to ensure that we have in place robust and accountable systems. We will continue to improve our commercial capability and share this crucial learning across Government.</p><p> </p><p>When buying products and services we always seek best value for taxpayers' money and find savings were possible.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 27/02/2015 09:38:28 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff