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168701

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2014 to Question 214194, what the names are of the barristers referred to in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	217629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>As the Legal Aid Agency has not yet notified the remaining barristers of its intention to release this information, I will write to the hon member when the information is able to be disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/12/2014 13:29:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

168702

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
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 the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215339, how many staff of (a) his Department and (b) external contractors are working on the detailed planning of the court reform programme.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	217622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Resourcing for the HMCTS Reform Programme is appropriate for the stage the programme is at. A full resourcing plan is being developed as one of the components of the overall planning currently being undertaken, ahead of full programme mobilising in spring 2015. Current resourcing is allocated from across a number of different areas of MoJ and varies depending on the tasks the Programme is engaged in. External support for the programme is provided via a procured contractual package.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/01/2015 17:16:19 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

168731

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken is to process successful appeals against employment and support allowance sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	217737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p>HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals against sanctions imposed by DWP and does not therefore hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 217735 217736 question first answered 11/12/2014 17:31:06 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

168732

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals against employment and support allowance sanctions made from the West Midlands have been successful in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	217735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p>HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals against sanctions imposed by DWP and does not therefore hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 217736 217737 question first answered 11/12/2014 17:31:06 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

168733

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of successful appeals against employment and support allowance sanctions took longer than six months to process.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	217736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p>HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals against sanctions imposed by DWP and does not therefore hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 217735 217737 question first answered 11/12/2014 17:31:06 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

168337

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) male and (b) female.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>As at 30 November 2014, the Ministry of Justice executive board comprised 4 female and 3 male executive members, and 2 female and 2 male non-executive members.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not monitor the composition of its executive board separately from its general monitoring of the representation of protected characteristics across the Department’s workforce. Other than for gender, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of ethnicity or disability data for the Department’s executive board given the small numbers involved. This is standard practice and protects individual identification.</p><p> </p><p>MoJ workforce diversity data is published annually, the most recent report for the 2013-14 period can be found at; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/378112/moj-diversity-data-report-2013-14_.pdf&amp;rsquo;" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/378112/moj-diversity-data-report-2013-14_.pdf’</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 217381 217402 question first answered 11/12/2014 17:33:38 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168341

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal cases have been brought against companies signed up to the Government's Think, Act, Report scheme since the launch of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Data on the number of Employment Tribunal cases brought against companies signed up to the Government’s Think, Act, Report scheme is not held on central or local databases by HM Courts &amp; Tribunal Service, and a manual check of every file would incur disproportionate cost. Also, complete data is not available, as files are not retained after twelve months from the judgment date, in accordance with HMCTS’ record retention scheme.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/12/2014 15:51:07 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168342

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of members of the judiciary are (a) men and (b) women.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>General judicial diversity information is in the public domain and is available on the judiciary website: <a title="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2014/" href="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2014/" target="_blank">http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2014/</a></p><p> </p><p>This Government takes judicial diversity very seriously and has taken steps to improve representation, while still appointing the best people for the job.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of measures we have put in place to date, including the introduction of the equal merit provision, which takes diversity into account between two equally merited candidates; extending salaried part time working to the high court and working with the judiciary, Judicial Appointments Commission and representative groups to undertake outreach work, mentoring and support for potential candidates from diverse backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>We have already seen some positive changes, between 2009 and 2013 women made up nearly half of all judicial appointments. But we recognise there is still more to do, particularly at the higher end which is why we will continue to work with all concerned towards a judiciary that reflects the society it serves.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/12/2014 15:16:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168343

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of members of the judiciary are identified as (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic minority group.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>General judicial diversity information is in the public domain and is available on the judiciary website:<strong> </strong><a title="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2014/" href="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2014/" target="_blank">http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/judicial-diversity-statistics-2014/</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/12/2014 13:40:01 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168345

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sitting magistrates there were in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	217534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The number of sitting magistrates in England and Wales in each of the last five financial years was as follows:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2013-2014 – <strong>21,613</strong></p><p>2012-2013 – <strong>23,244</strong></p><p>2011-2012 – <strong>25,155</strong></p><p>2010-2011 – <strong>26,966</strong></p><p>2009-2010 – <strong>29,270</strong></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/12/2014 15:27:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter