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date	21/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the present backlog of cases awaiting trial in (1) the Crown Court, and (2) the Magistrates' Court.
tabling member printed	Lord Wasserman
uin	HL7120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p>The table below provides the information requested on the current number of outstanding cases awaiting trial in (1) the Crown Court, and (2) the Magistrates’ Courts.</p><p> </p><p>These data are taken from the national statistics on the level of outstanding work in the criminal courts for the first quarter of 2020 which were published on 26 June 2020 and are available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a>. The data for the second quarter will be published in September 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Outstanding cases awaiting trial in the Magistrates’ and Crown Court as at 31 March 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Magistrates’ Court<sup>12</sup></p></td><td><p>77,459</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Court<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>31,686</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>The magistrates’ court figure represents all those cases outstanding that are categorised as for trial (Indictable-only and Triable-either-way) and not just those awaiting a trial hearing. For example, it will include cases where defendants plead guilty and not guilty, and those where a warrant has been issued</p><p><sup>2</sup> Though the figures for both Magistrates’ and Crown Court includes for trial cases (Triable-either-way and Indictable Only) which are outstanding for trial we are unable to say at what stage of the court process these are, for example, this may include cases where a trial has started but has not concluded.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 04/08/2020 14:46:58 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4207 label Biography information for Lord Wasserman

1227144

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Solicitors: Video Conferencing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average delay in terms of weeks before solicitors are able to consult their clients in prison via video link.
tabling member printed	Lord Wasserman
uin	HL7121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 04/08/2020 14:49:33 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4207 label Biography information for Lord Wasserman

1227145

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their announcement on 24 March that 900 secure phone handsets were to be provided to prisons to support family contact during the COVID-19 pandemic, how many minutes prisoners have spent on calls to date (1) in total, and (2) in each prison in which such phones have been allocated.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL7081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p>In recognition of the importance of maintaining family ties, since 24 March the Government has rolled out 1297 secure mobile phones across the prison estate in England and Wales. This is in addition to existing wing phones and in-cell telephones. As of the 21 July 2020, 153,918 minutes of calls have taken place from secure mobile PIN phones since 2nd April when this service was deployed.</p><p>We do not routinely record the number of calls that take place over long periods of time, however our most recent data shows that on 21 July, 2803 calls took place across all mobile phones. This equates to 14,783 minutes across the estate. For comparison, 222,889 minutes of calls took place across the non-mobile based PIN network. There has been a 52% increase in calls across pin phone calls from the average call number in February, we do not currently have the equivalent data for just mobile phones.</p><p>We do not record figures for minutes that prisoners have spent on calls by prison across the time period mentioned.. We have access to daily call figures across the entire secure mobile network and also individual prison figures on a given day. We are working with our supplier to identify whether we can report on cumulative figures for individual prisons.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 04/08/2020 14:50:06 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1226220

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison and Probation Service: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the budget allocated to the HM Prisons and Probation Service Payment Plus scheme has been spent so far in the current financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL7051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2020 answer text <p>Payment Plus is funded through Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service’s staff pay budget from savings arising from any staff vacancies, which are then re-invested by each prison to fund the Payment Plus (PP) needed to cover operational staff vacancies.</p><p>Prison governors have always had the authority to use PP to allow for additional staff time to cover vacancies. They are given an annual budget for staff costs based on agreed staffing levels and are expected to manage PP within this.</p><p>In the first quarter of this financial year, the total spend on PP was £20.4m, which includes additional overtime cover in response to the impact of COVID-19.</p><p>At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a high risk of increased staff absence and to mitigate this, staff were asked to volunteer for additional PP hours in advance of need. Since the start of the scheme in mid-March, to end June, about 60% of the total extra PP hours volunteers had committed to work were used and the remainder are being used as prisons move into recovery.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL7050 question first answered 04/08/2020 10:33:12 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley