Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered question first ministerially corrected answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1126088

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were rescheduled in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Greater London due to insufficient court space in the months of (i) February, (ii) March and (iii) April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	253550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Published data for criminal cases show the number of trials which were vacated or ineffective (and therefore do not go ahead) in the criminal courts and for ineffective trials, the reasons why the trial was ineffective. One of these is ‘court administrative issues including a lack of court time and court accommodation failures’, – however it is not possible to identify instances where this is specifically due to reasons of ‘insufficient court space’.</p><p> </p><p>Available data on vacated and ineffective trials is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics are currently published up to December 2018. Data for January – March 2019 are due to be published on 27 June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to rescheduled cases and the reasons for them in the civil and family courts are not held by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/05/2019 11:19:54 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1126225

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: North West Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support (a) under the Litigants in Person Support Strategy and (b) through the additional grant funding announced in February 2019 will be offered to (i) victims of domestic abuse and (ii) other people from the North West Durham constituency participating in family court proceedings in (A) Durham and (B) Darlington.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	253724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>Since 2014-15, MoJ has invested almost £6.5 million of funding to support litigants in person in the civil and family courts through the Litigants in Person Support Strategy. The strategy works with a range of partners across England and Wales in the advice, voluntary and pro bono sectors to provide practical support for litigants in person. This includes online and self-help resources, as well as access to free or affordable legal advice and representation, where possible. For example, the Support Strategy continues to work with with the North East Law Centre in Newcastle Upon-Tyne to extend its reach and receive referrals from across the region, including from non-specialist services such as GP surgeries, and increase awareness of the expert advice available to litigants in person in the area.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2019, we published the Legal Support Action Plan which included a commitment to enhancing support for litigants in person. This will be achieved by increasing the funding provided to the Litigants in Person Support Strategy to £3m a year, for the next two years. We are particularly interested in focusing this additional investment on broadening the evidence base on how the services we are delivering to litigants in person can be made even more effective.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/05/2019 16:15:13 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

1125585

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the waiting time for benefits appeals from the 40 week average cited by HM Courts and Tribunal Service.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Campbell
uin	252492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>It is important that appeals are heard as quickly as possible. The Ministry of Justice recognises that there are delays in the system and is in the process of recruiting more judicial office holders in order to increase capacity and help to reduce waiting times for appellants. In the Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) jurisdiction, 225 new medical members and 119 disability-qualified members have recently been appointed and are now hearing cases.</p><p>The SSCS jurisdiction will also benefit from the fact that 250 fee-paid judges and 100 salaried judges are being recruited across tribunals more widely. In addition, we have recently launched a new digital service with a view to enabling speedier processing of appeals and providing a better service for all parties to the proceedings. Information on the new digital service can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/05/2019 10:58:52 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

1125668

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Lone Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that single mothers receive adequate support and advice in the family courts division.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	252555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Access to justice is a fundamental right. We spent £1.6bn last year on legal aid for the most vulnerable – of which £545m was in family law.</p><p>Legal aid is also part of a bigger picture and so we are now making changes to enhance the breadth of legal support available for everyone in society.</p><p>The Legal Support Action Plan, published on 7 February, announced that we would be changing the legal aid eligibility criteria to provide non-means tested legal aid for parents, or those with parental responsibility, who wish to oppose applications for placement orders or adoption orders in public family law. In addition, we announced that we will doubling the department’s funding to the Litigants in Person Support Strategy to £3m for the next two years.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/05/2019 17:04:39 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard previous answer version 118006 answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1125670

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to encourage more young people to become magistrates.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	252556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>We are taking a number of steps to encourage younger people to join the magistracy, including through the use of social media to advertise recruitment campaigns and collaborative work with Universities and employers, providing talks and information to raise the profile of the role amongst a younger audience.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/05/2019 15:02:26 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1125702

registered interest
date	09/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Evictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many notices were granted by the courts under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	252630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/05/2019 15:27:45 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1125411

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Aiding and Abetting: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ethnicity is of adults who are (a) charged and (b) convicted of joint enterprise in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	251981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Joint enterprise is a common law doctrine that applies to any offence where more than one person is being charged and convicted of the same crime. The Ministry of Justice only collects information on the ethnicity of defendants that are prosecuted and convicted of specific criminal offences in England and Wales (i.e. murder, manslaughter, etc) in any given year. Information is not collated on whether a prosecution or conviction also relied on the law of joint enterprise. Such information may be held on court records, but could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 251982 question first answered 17/05/2019 12:12:19 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1125035

registered interest
date	07/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Courts and Justice plans to respond to the letter of 14 March 2019 from the hon. Member for Lincoln on economic domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	251385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>I apologise to the honourable Member for Lincoln for the delay in responding to her letter dated 14 March. I understand that <del class="ministerial">my</del><ins class="ministerial">a</ins> response was sent to her office <ins class="ministerial">by my predeccesor, Minister Frazer,</ins> on 8 May.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/05/2019 16:16:32 question first ministerially corrected 16/05/2019 13:11:43 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard previous answer version 118228 answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1125088

registered interest
date	07/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page five of the House Commons Library Deposited Paper, DEP2019-0490, Prison Operator Competition Contract Summary, whether staffing levels are included in Daily Reports.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	251411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Daily Report is a log provided by the contractor to the Ministry of Justice each day by 9am. It provides information about the previous day, including details of: the number of available prisoner places; the number of unavailable prison places; the number of prisoners accommodated at the prison; and the number of prisoners sharing a cell. Information on staffing levels is not provided in the Daily Report but is submitted through other management information requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The information provided in the Daily Report is used to calculate the Daily Payment, the monthly aggregate of which forms the main element of the monthly payment made to the contractor. The Daily Payment is based on the number of available prisoner places provided by the contractor and is calculated daily in order to capture changes in prisoner place availability.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 251412 251420 question first answered 15/05/2019 16:09:44 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125089

registered interest
date	07/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page five of the House Commons Library Deposited Paper, DEP2019-0490, Prison Operator Competition Contract Summary, what categories of information are included in Daily Reports.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	251412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Daily Report is a log provided by the contractor to the Ministry of Justice each day by 9am. It provides information about the previous day, including details of: the number of available prisoner places; the number of unavailable prison places; the number of prisoners accommodated at the prison; and the number of prisoners sharing a cell. Information on staffing levels is not provided in the Daily Report but is submitted through other management information requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The information provided in the Daily Report is used to calculate the Daily Payment, the monthly aggregate of which forms the main element of the monthly payment made to the contractor. The Daily Payment is based on the number of available prisoner places provided by the contractor and is calculated daily in order to capture changes in prisoner place availability.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 251411 251420 question first answered 15/05/2019 16:09:44 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon