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1551504

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate Service: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to help reduce the time it takes for the Probate Office to respond to applications.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	110831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, and the increased volume of applications that there have been seen since, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between five and seven weeks – with the average responses being almost 2 weeks faster in quarter 3 of 2022 than the yearly average for 2020 and 2021.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, up to September 2022, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2022</a></p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p>The improvement of the online probate system remains a priority for HMCTS, to ensure more applications can be issued first time and resources can be focused on reducing waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/12/2022 15:55:22 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1551567

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on the White Paper entitled A smarter approach to sentencing.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	110854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice published a Sentencing White Paper – ‘A Smarter Approach to Sentencing’ - in September 2020, which set out the department’s plans for a system that protects the public, as well as one which the public can understand and have confidence in.</p><p>The reforms announced in the White Paper were about ensuring that the most serious and dangerous offenders are kept in prison for longer, while also tackling the underlying causes of criminal behaviour and improving the rehabilitation and supervision of offenders in the community.</p><p>The legislative measures in the White Paper formed the basis of the sentencing measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act which was passed earlier this year, with most measures having commenced on 28 June 2022. Measures included abolishing automatic halfway release for certain serious offenders, making a Whole Life Order the default sentencing position for offenders who commit the premeditated murder of a child, and preventing the automatic early release for offenders who become of significant public protection concern while in custody. Other measures included a statutory duty to consult on the design and delivery of unpaid work, increasing the length and flexibility of electronically monitored curfew, and streamlining the out of court disposals framework. We also brought forward measures to allow the piloting of Problem-Solving Courts and we have announced three sites that we are working closely with to launch the pilots.</p><p>The White Paper also made a number of non-legislative commitments. We have made significant progress on these commitments and work on implementation is ongoing. Key areas of progress include the cross-government Action Plan on neurodiversity which we published in June this year, in response to the independent Evidence Review we commissioned. An update on the progress made on the Action Plan is due to published shortly. We also launched the Pre-Sentence Report Pilot in March 2021, with the initial findings from the process evaluation due to be published in 2023, and we are undertaking an evaluation of the national Community Treatment Sentence Requirement programme, with early feedback expected in 2023.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/12/2022 15:52:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1551624

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time between registering an appeal and the date of the final hearing in the First-tier Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal was in each of the last 5 years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	110865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The judicial aim is that cases should be heard within 22 weeks of the date on which the appeal was registered. This timeframe can include, amongst other things, case management hearings and possible adjournments for further evidence to be obtained.</p><p> </p><p>The average time between registering the appeal and the date of final hearing was:</p><p>In 2017 – 22 weeks</p><p>In 2018 – 24 weeks</p><p>In 2019 – 24 weeks</p><p>In 2020 – 23 weeks, and</p><p>In 2021 – 22 weeks</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/12/2022 16:16:31 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1551696

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Racial Discrimination
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 trends in the level of racial disproportionality in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	110868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Racial and ethnic disparities are closely monitored across the justice system, and we continue to develop a wider, and deeper, range of factors that we monitor. The data, including analysis of relative differences between groups, helps give a detailed picture of where over-representation and disproportionality may be occurring. A comprehensive statistical assessment of these issues from across the system, including in prisons, can be found in <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1037903/Statistics_on_Ethnicity_and_the_Criminal_Justice_Sysytem_2020.pdf" target="_blank"><em>Ethnicity and the Criminal Justice system</em></a>.</p><p>We are committed to understanding and tackling disparities that emerge in the outcomes for, and treatment of, ethnic minorities in prison. This is why in December 2020 we launched the Race Action Programme, which is focused on creating long-term change through increasing the diversity of our workforce, addressing the risk of bias in our policies, and their implementation to tackle disparity in outcomes for ethnic minorities throughout the prison and probation service.</p><p>However, last week’s thematic report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons is a sobering read and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will announce details early next year on the wide-ranging action we will deliver to bring about necessary changes.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2022 14:10:38 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1551756

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bail: Offenders
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 number of offences committed by defendants on bail while awaiting trial in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	110721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The number of offences committed by individuals on bail in each of the last three years, for which data is available, is as follows:</p><p>2019 – 34,599</p><p>2020 – 30,686</p><p>2021 – 21,354</p><p><strong>Source: MoJ extract of the Police National Computer</strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/12/2022 15:51:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1550947

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
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 probate applications submitted in the last 12 months were processed and received a response within 30 working days.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Sarah Green
uin	109690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>All applicants using the digital service receive confirmation of receipt at the point of submission and, if required, once we receive the original will or other supporting documents. In the last 12 months 56% (158,510) of all applications were either stopped or had their grant issued within 30 days of receipt of the documents needed to assess the case.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p>The improvement of the online probate system remains a priority for HMCTS, to ensure more applications can be issued first time and resources can be focused on reducing waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/12/2022 15:54:26 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4918 label Biography information for Sarah Green

1550950

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Dominic Raab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds any records of (a) informal complaints and (b) formal grievances raised about the conduct of the right Hon. Member for Esher and Walton.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	109588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The department holds records of complaints about the Rt Hon. Member for Esher and Walton. The Prime Minister has appointed Adam Tolley KC to conduct an independent investigation into complaints about the conduct of the Deputy Prime Minister and it would not be appropriate to comment further during the investigation.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/12/2022 15:53:25 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1551005

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Five Wells Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects HMP Five Wells to be able to hold offenders to its designed capacity.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	109659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>We are working closely with G4S, in accordance with the terms of the contract, to achieve full operational capacity as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 109660 question first answered 19/12/2022 14:08:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1551006

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Five Wells Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when HMP Five Wells will be contractually required to be able to hold its full planned number of prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	109660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>We are working closely with G4S, in accordance with the terms of the contract, to achieve full operational capacity as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 109659 question first answered 19/12/2022 14:08:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1551007

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HMP Berwyn is operating at its full capacity.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	109661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>As at 25 November 2022, Berwyn was operating at very near full capacity. Exact figures are published on a monthly basis and can be found via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2022</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2022 14:09:42 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts