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1174903

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women making a claim at employment tribunal were pregnant in (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2017 and (d) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Morgan
uin	10458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not hold data on the number of claimants who were pregnant at the time of making their claim to the Employment Tribunal.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:52:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1174920

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each month of (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	10343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of days sat in the Crown Court for each month of (a) 2017, (b) 2018, and (c) 2019 are set out in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p>Sitting days are based on the number of cases we expect the court to hear and, with fewer cases making it to the Crown Court, were reduced accordingly.The number of outstanding Crown Court cases has reduced by almost 40% since 2014.</p><p>We keep sitting days under constant review and in November allocated an extra 850 days to the Crown Court for this financial year to ease immediate pressure on the court.We have allocated a minimum of 87,000 to inform listing decisions in the first half of 2020/21 which is an increase of 4,700 on last year’s allocation.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>The attached HMCTS data covers the number of days in which a Crown Court room was sat by any number of judges.</li></ul><ul><li>In some circumstances, judges will ‘share’ a courtroom to conduct judicial business; in most instances this will involve a returning judge for sentencing purposes only. These figures may therefore differ from the number of <em>judicial sitting days</em> at Crown Court as published in MoJ official statistics (which can, for example, also include days sat in chambers).</li></ul><p>The information for 2019 covers January to March, as the National Statistics on judge sitting days for 2019 are due to be released in June 2020. Access to statistics before their publication is strictly controlled, with rules and principles on pre-release access set out in the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 16:09:32 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ10343.xlsx title Table for 10343
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174921

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each of the court circuits in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	10344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of days sat in the Crown Court for each of the court circuits in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019 are set out in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p>Sitting days are based on the number of cases we expect the court to hear and, with fewer cases making it to the Crown Court, were reduced accordingly. The number of outstanding Crown Court cases has reduced by almost 40% since 2014.</p><p>We keep sitting days under constant review and in November allocated an extra 850 days to the Crown Court to ease immediate pressure on the court. We have allocated a minimum of 87,000 to inform listing decisions in the first half of 2020/21 which is an increase of 4,700 on last year’s allocation.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The attached HMCTS data covers the number of days in which a Crown Court room was sat by any number of judges.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>In some circumstances, judges will ‘share’ a courtroom to conduct judicial business; in most instances this will involve a returning judge for sentencing purposes only. These figures may therefore differ from the number of <em>judicial sitting days</em> at Crown Court as published in MoJ official statistics (which can, for example, also include days sat in chambers).</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>The information for 2019 covers January to March, as the National Statistics on judge sitting days for 2019 are due to be released in June 2020. Access to statistics before their publication is strictly controlled, with rules and principles on pre-release access set out in the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 15:53:29 question first ministerially corrected 05/02/2020 10:16:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ10344.xlsx title Table for 10344 previous answer version 4799 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174932

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time is between the listing of a case to a first hearing for non-custody trials in each court circuit in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	10345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:53:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174410

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Justice and Security Act 2013
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 23 January 2020 to Question 4315 on Justice and Security Act 2013, if he will make it his policy to consult (a) civil society and (b) the legal profession on scope of the planned review of the operation of sections 6 to 11 of the Justice and Security Act 2013.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	9613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>As the answer provided to the Honourable Member’s earlier questions on the planned review of the operation of sections 6 to 11 of the Justice and Security Act 2013 advised, discussions are ongoing and an announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:44:31 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1173816

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of appeal proceedings on first instance decisions on asylum applications was in the last twelve months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	9114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The average clearance time, from receipt to disposal, of an asylum appeal in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, over the last 12 months for which data are available</p><p>(1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019), was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>29 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Syrian nationals</p></td><td><p>34 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Afghan nationals</p></td><td><p>31 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iraqi nationals</p></td><td><p>20 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures are from internal management information extracted from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.</p><p>Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal reduce by more than two-thirds, from 64,800 to 20,300 between July 2016 and September 2019. The average duration across all case types has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 34 weeks in the period July to September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 9115 question first answered 04/02/2020 10:59:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1173817

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Middle East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of appeal proceedings was against first instance decisions on asylum applications for (a) Syrian, (b) Afghan and (c) Iraqi in the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	9115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The average clearance time, from receipt to disposal, of an asylum appeal in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, over the last 12 months for which data are available</p><p>(1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019), was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>29 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Syrian nationals</p></td><td><p>34 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Afghan nationals</p></td><td><p>31 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iraqi nationals</p></td><td><p>20 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures are from internal management information extracted from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.</p><p>Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal reduce by more than two-thirds, from 64,800 to 20,300 between July 2016 and September 2019. The average duration across all case types has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 34 weeks in the period July to September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 9114 question first answered 04/02/2020 10:59:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1173410

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what statistics his Department holds on hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	8478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information regarding prosecutions, convictions and sentencing for hate crime offences specifically defined in legislation, i.e. ‘racially or religiously aggravated’ offences. The court outcomes for these offences can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p>(using the pivot table, filter by ‘Offence’ for offences starting with ‘racially or religiously aggravated…’ and select all that appear).</p><p> </p><p>Other hate crime offences are prosecuted under the specific offence in legislation that they fall under and the ‘hate’ element is an aggravating factor in that crime rather than the offence itself but these cannot be separately identified in the data.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:56:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1173558

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escorts: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to collate data on the number of prisoners not produced in court by companies operating prisoner escort contracts.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	8373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The next generation of Prisoner Escort and Custody Services (PECS) contracts will commence in August this year. Under these contracts data specifically related to any contractor failure to produce prisoners in court will be collated.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/02/2020 16:11:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1173559

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escorts: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to collate data on the number of court days lost as a result of prisoners not being produced in court by companies operating prisoner escort contracts.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	8374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>HMCTS does record data on the number of trials that are ineffective in both Crown and Magistrate’s Courts as a result of a defendant not being produced by prisoner escort custody services. These statistics are published in Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly publication on gov.uk and the latest data is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>There is currently no requirement or plans for HMCTS to collate data on the number of court days lost as a result of prisoners not being produced in court by companies operating prisoner escort contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/02/2020 16:12:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk