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847736

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Small Claims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provisions are made available for covering the costs of raising a claim at a British court where the person raising the claim is a UK citizen living on nil income and not in receipt of benefits.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	129412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Assistance with paying Courts and Tribunals fees is available through Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals’ Services Help with Fees scheme. Legal aid is provided for claimants in cases which fall within scope, subject to means and merits tests</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/02/2018 17:31:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

847738

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Court Of Human Rights: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there is provision for covering the costs of raising a claim at the European Court of Human Rights from the public purse for a person who is a British subject living on a nil income and not in receipt of benefits.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	129414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>There is no fee for applying to the ECtHR. In England and Wales, legal aid is not available for proceedings before the ECtHR. Legal help may be used to advise a client of their position under England and Wales law and of the options available but may not be used to make an application to ECtHR or for legal aid from that court.</p><p> </p><p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) administers its own legal aid scheme which may be granted where the Court is satisfied that it is necessary for the proper conduct of the case before the Court; and the applicant has insufficient means to meet all or part of the costs, as set out in rules 100-105 of the Court’s Rules.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 28/02/2018 17:31:05 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

847740

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: 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 was for processing immigration appeals in 2016-2017.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	129416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The average time taken to clear <del class="ministerial">a case</del><ins class="ministerial">an immigration appeal</ins> in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in 2016-2017 was <del class="ministerial">46</del><ins class="ministerial">51</ins> weeks. The average time taken to clear a case in 2015-2016 was <del class="ministerial">46</del><ins class="ministerial">35</ins> weeks.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">The average clearance time, which is measured from receipt of an appeal to its conclusion, went up between 2015-16 and 2016-17 because of the Tribunal significantly reducing its outstanding caseload and clearing older cases during that period. Outstanding caseload has now reduced from 64,800 in June 2016 to 35,100 at the end of December 2017.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Immigration includes Managed Migration, Entry Clearance Officer, Human Rights, EEA Free Movement Family Visit Visa, Deportation and Deprivation of Citizenship Appeals.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">Published average clearance times are not routinely broken down by appeal type and could not be provided in the time available.</del></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/02/2018 17:30:03 question first ministerially corrected 26/03/2018 17:06:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 43913 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

847741

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: 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 was for processing immigration appeals during 2015-2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	129417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>The average time taken to clear <del class="ministerial">a case</del><ins class="ministerial">an immigration appeal</ins> in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in 2016-2017 was <del class="ministerial">46</del><ins class="ministerial">51</ins> weeks. The average time taken to clear a case in 2015-2016 was <del class="ministerial">46</del><ins class="ministerial">35</ins> weeks.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">The average clearance time, which is measured from receipt of an appeal to its conclusion, went up between 2015-16 and 2016-17 because of the Tribunal significantly reducing its outstanding caseload and clearing older cases during that period. Outstanding caseload has now reduced from 64,800 in June 2016 to 35,100 at the end of December 2017.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Immigration includes Managed Migration, Entry Clearance Officer, Human Rights, EEA Free Movement Family Visit Visa, Deportation and Deprivation of Citizenship Appeals.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">Published average clearance times are not routinely broken down by appeal type and could not be provided in the time available</del>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/02/2018 17:30:03 question first ministerially corrected 26/03/2018 17:06:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 43923 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

847795

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Voyeurism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to criminalise up-skirting under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	129471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>I am encouraged to see that up-skirting has been successfully prosecuted on a number of occasions under the offence of outraging public decency. My officials are reviewing the various laws in this area to check and ensure we have the appropriate remedies for these offences.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/02/2018 10:36:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

845532

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
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 11 September 2017 to Question 7023, on Prisons: Education, whether, as part of work to introduce a core common curriculum across the prison estate, the Government will issue guidance to prison governors on assessing the educational needs of prisoners; and whether that guidance will refer to discussion of hate crime or social educational needs.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	128504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>It will be for empowered governors to determine whether their prison’s curriculum covers modules on discrimination, equality and hate crime.</p><p> </p><p>We are putting in place a range of activity to support prison governors as they take on full responsibility for education provision in their establishments. Last October, the Prisoner Learning Alliance published guidance for prison governors (<em>Greenhouses, not Warehouses: Commissioning education to plant seeds of hope and opportunity</em>). My officials were involved in production of the material, building on our positive relationship, and my Ministerial predecessor was pleased to write a foreword. The published material includes guidance on identifying needs and priorities, including a prompt to consider the challenges in the prison that education could help to solve.</p><p> </p><p>We recently published our invitation to tender to procure successor prison education contracts. This will enable governors to begin the process of choosing who will deliver education in their prison once the current education contracts expire. Once in place, the new education delivery arrangements will mean governors own their education budget, design the curriculum, determine how education is organised and arranged, and decide who delivers it.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 128078 question first answered 28/02/2018 17:15:47 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

845654

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on prison leavers' ability to obtain housing and employment of having a criminal record.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	128626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Having a safe and suitable home gives people with an offending history a stable platform from which to access health services, hold down a job and reduce the likelihood of them reoffending. We are working together with Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to deliver a joint strategy to improve access to housing in England for those being released from prison. Concurrently, we are working with the Welsh Government to improve housing outcomes in Wales for those released from prison.</p><p>Supporting offenders into meaningful employment is a vital part of the Government’s approach to tackling reoffending. Offenders who found P45 employment in the twelve months after release from prison had one-year re-offending rates that were 6-9 percentage points lower than similar offenders who did not find employment. The New Futures Network will support empowered governors to broker relationships between prisons and employers more effectively. These, plus initiatives to incentivise employers to work with ex-offenders, will all help ensure offenders have the best chance of securing employment immediately on release.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/02/2018 17:29:42 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

843963

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
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 11 September 2017 to Question 7023 on Prisons: Education, whether as part of the work to introduce a core common curriculum across the prison estate consideration will be given to including a module on discrimination, equality and hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	128078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>It will be for empowered governors to determine whether their prison’s curriculum covers modules on discrimination, equality and hate crime.</p><p> </p><p>We are putting in place a range of activity to support prison governors as they take on full responsibility for education provision in their establishments. Last October, the Prisoner Learning Alliance published guidance for prison governors (<em>Greenhouses, not Warehouses: Commissioning education to plant seeds of hope and opportunity</em>). My officials were involved in production of the material, building on our positive relationship, and my Ministerial predecessor was pleased to write a foreword. The published material includes guidance on identifying needs and priorities, including a prompt to consider the challenges in the prison that education could help to solve.</p><p> </p><p>We recently published our invitation to tender to procure successor prison education contracts. This will enable governors to begin the process of choosing who will deliver education in their prison once the current education contracts expire. Once in place, the new education delivery arrangements will mean governors own their education budget, design the curriculum, determine how education is organised and arranged, and decide who delivers it.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 128504 question first answered 28/02/2018 17:15:47 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 43677 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves