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1035224

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date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Partnerships Dissolution and Divorce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparison he has made of the divorce rates of married couples and couples within civil partnerships.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	205181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics has published data on the rates of divorce and civil partnership dissolution, available at <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/vitalstatisticspopulationandhealthreferencetables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/vitalstatisticspopulationandhealthreferencetables</a>. The most recent data is for 2017. These rates are not directly comparable, given that no civil partnerships can date back before the first formations in 2005. The first dissolutions took place in 2007.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that committed family relationships are important to society. That is why the Prime Minister has announced that the Government will extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 17:25:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1035225

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trespass
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make trespass a criminal offence.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	205182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Last year the Government ran a consultation on <strong><em>Powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampment. </em></strong>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government will publish a Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 17:04:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1035325

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Fines
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 uncollected court fines is in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	205342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>The cumulative amount of outstanding court fines as at 31<sup>st</sup> March of each year is detailed below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year ended 31<sup>st</sup> March</p></td><td><p>£’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>623,609</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>504,754</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>374,135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>340,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>335,377</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>370,591</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>396,766</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>413,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>395,804</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/01/2019 17:47:27 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1035331

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Duty Solicitors
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 long term viability of the criminal duty solicitors scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	205348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is clear that there are sufficient solicitors to undertake criminal legal aid-funded cases and will make sure this continues to be the case. The Legal Aid Agency monitors capacity across criminal legal aid contracts on a regular basis and takes action to ensure there is ongoing availability of criminal legal advice for the public.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017 tender for crime contracts resulted in a greater number of offices being awarded a criminal legal aid contract, providing sufficient coverage in each local authority area. The Government is also beginning a review of all criminal legal aid fee schemes, including the criminal duty solicitor fee scheme, in January 2019.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 16:46:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1035360

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Brexit
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 additional staff required by his Department in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	205327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The approximate total number of people working on EU exit across the MoJ is 110 MoJ EU exit programme includes work on both deal and no-deal scenarios in preparation for the UK exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Departments continually review workforce plans, reprioritise and assess changing needs, which includes identification and cessation of non-priority work where appropriate. We have accelerated our plans, and at the same time, the Civil Service as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit</p><p>Implementation is carried out to high quality without impacting public service delivery across the whole of government.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 16:46:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens