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1109086

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Charitable Donations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the termination of the Department’s contract with Smee and Ford, what changes his Department plans make to its legacy notification service for charities to ensure the new system is fully compliant with the law.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	239944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>HMCTS are continuing to define the long-term requirements and strategy for the future delivery of this service. In doing so, they met with representatives of the charity sector last month and a summary of this meeting is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmcts-legacy-notification-service-meeting-summary-5-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmcts-legacy-notification-service-meeting-summary-5-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is looking to establish interim arrangements to ensure that charities continue to receive a notification service beyond the end of the current arrangements with Smee &amp; Ford as we develop a sustainable arrangement that is both fully compliant with our legal duties and meets the needs of those who use it.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/04/2019 14:52:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 112729 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1109087

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Charitable Donations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the termination of his Department’s contract with Smee and Ford, what interim solutions will be put in place to ensure continuity of the legacy notification service for charities; and whether those solutions will include extending the current provider’s contract beyond July.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	239945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>HMCTS is currently considering a range of options for an interim service that will ensure charities continue to receive a notification service beyond the end of the current arrangements with Smee &amp; Ford. We are committed to developing a sustainable arrangement that meets the needs of those who use it, and meets legal requirements.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/04/2019 14:53:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 112731 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1109225

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Buzzed article entitled The Ministry Of Justice Has Been Accused Of Sitting On Evidence That Undermines Its Drive To Close Courts, published on 18 March 2019, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of reports in that article that the Government chose not to publish data which suggested that people had a more positive experience of the justice system if they had physically been in court; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	239927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The HMCTS Citizen User Experience report was published in June 2018 on gov.uk. It is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmcts-citizen-user-experience-research. Raw data has also been shared with academics and the findings presented to them.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/04/2019 16:33:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 112738 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1109231

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Wales
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 availability of solicitors qualified to conduct Criminal Legal Aid work in rural Wales.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	240032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor (via the Legal Aid Agency) has a duty to ensure that qualifying individuals who require assistance at the police station or the magistrates’ courts and who do not have their own solicitor have access to a Duty Solicitor. The LAA monitors capacity in each duty scheme area based on the number of solicitor organisations in that area, as well as the proportion of duty solicitors each of those organisations engages. There are currently 126 offices contracted to deliver criminal legal aid services in the Wales area. Additionally, across the 16 areas which make up the Duty Solicitor scheme in Wales, there are 260 solicitors listed on the rota who are available to provide advice and assistance. We are confident we have solicitors to fulfil criminal cases and will make sure we continue to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors access to public funding according to the location of the solicitor providing the service. Client location is not reliably captured for the majority of the criminal legal aid scheme and therefore accurate data based on a defendant’s residence is not available. Information on expenditure under criminal legal aid by solicitor offices located in Wales is proactively published, and is available to view at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720217/legal-aid-statistics-crime-provider-area-data-to-mar-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720217/legal-aid-statistics-crime-provider-area-data-to-mar-2018.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 240033 question first answered 09/04/2019 14:56:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 112749 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1109233

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount spent on Criminal Legal Aid was in cases in which the defendant’s place of abode was in Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	240033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor (via the Legal Aid Agency) has a duty to ensure that qualifying individuals who require assistance at the police station or the magistrates’ courts and who do not have their own solicitor have access to a Duty Solicitor. The LAA monitors capacity in each duty scheme area based on the number of solicitor organisations in that area, as well as the proportion of duty solicitors each of those organisations engages. There are currently 126 offices contracted to deliver criminal legal aid services in the Wales area. Additionally, across the 16 areas which make up the Duty Solicitor scheme in Wales, there are 260 solicitors listed on the rota who are available to provide advice and assistance. We are confident we have solicitors to fulfil criminal cases and will make sure we continue to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors access to public funding according to the location of the solicitor providing the service. Client location is not reliably captured for the majority of the criminal legal aid scheme and therefore accurate data based on a defendant’s residence is not available. Information on expenditure under criminal legal aid by solicitor offices located in Wales is proactively published, and is available to view at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720217/legal-aid-statistics-crime-provider-area-data-to-mar-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720217/legal-aid-statistics-crime-provider-area-data-to-mar-2018.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 240032 question first answered 09/04/2019 14:56:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 112740 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1109234

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people represented themselves at (a) magistrates and (b) Crown courts in Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	240034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes County Court, Family Court and Crown Court figures on defendants or parties with no (or unknown) representation. These data do not represent the number of litigants in person, however, because a party may be without representation for only part of a case. Information on unrepresented defendants in Magistrates’ Courts is not held centrally.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice holds data on representation status at (a) first hearing and (b) any hearing for defendants dealt with in the Crown Court, and the latest available data is published here for England and Wales combined: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-annual-january-to-march-2018. Data specifically for Wales is shown in the following tables.</p><p><strong>Representation status, at first hearing, of defendants dealt with in the Crown Court, Wales, annually 2014 - 2017</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Total number <br> of defendants</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Representation status at first hearing</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Known represention<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>No advocate representation/ unknown<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Percentage</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Percentage</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p><strong>5,368</strong></p></td><td><p>5,175</p></td><td><p><em>96%</em></p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p><em>4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p><strong>5,677</strong></p></td><td><p>5,433</p></td><td><p><em>96%</em></p></td><td><p>244</p></td><td><p><em>4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p><strong>4,759</strong></p></td><td><p>4,587</p></td><td><p><em>96%</em></p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p><em>4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p><strong>4,343</strong></p></td><td><p>4,244</p></td><td><p><em>98%</em></p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p><em>2%</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Representation status, any hearing, of defendants dealt with in the Crown Court, Wales, annually 2014 – 2017</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Total number <br> of defendants</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Representation status at any hearing<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Known represention<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>No advocate representation/ unknown<sup>5</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Percentage</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Percentage</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p><strong>5,368</strong></p></td><td><p>5,351</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p><strong>5,677</strong></p></td><td><p>5,655</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p><strong>4,759</strong></p></td><td><p>4,729</p></td><td><p>99%</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p><strong>4,343</strong></p></td><td><p>4,313</p></td><td><p>99%</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes</p><p>1) Includes defendants who were known to be represented by an advocate or solicitor at first hearing.</p><p>2) Includes defendants who did not have an advocate recorded at the first hearing and defendants whose advocate representation was unknown.</p><p>3) These figures do not indicate how many hearings, within a trial, had representation.</p><p>4) Includes defendants who were known to be represented by an advocate or solicitor at any hearing.</p><p>5) Includes defendants who did not have an advocate recorded at any hearing and defendants whose advocate representation was unknown.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/04/2019 15:06:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 112741 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1105114

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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, what the total amount of spending commitments was that his Department made in its post-implementation LASPO review.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	237042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Alongside the post-implementation review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO), we published the Legal Support Action Plan which outlines the steps the Government will be taking over the next two years to enhance the breadth of support to people experiencing legal problems.</p><p> </p><p>We are funding a number of changes to legal aid, including; improving the exceptional case funding scheme, removing the mandatory element of the CLA telephone gateway and expanding the scope of legal aid to include Special Guardianship Orders in private family law.</p><p>Alongside this, we are delivering £5m in innovation funding to drive change across the sector and doubling our funding to support litigants in person to £3m for each of the next two years. We will be funding a series of pilots to build a robust evidence base, testing methods of delivering support to make sure that people can access the right type of support at the right time, in the right way for them.</p><p> </p><p>The outcomes and evidence base that we will build up through the projects announced in the Legal Support Action Plan will inform future decisions on how we deliver that support.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/04/2019 14:50:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 111918 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1091044

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Records: Age
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the age at which a person can change their name by enrolling at the Royal Courts of Justice is different from that at which they can do so by deed poll.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	233627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Individuals aged 16 years or more can change their name by deed poll. The deed may be enrolled at the Central Office of the Supreme Court provided that the application for enrolment satisfies the requirements of the Enrolment of Deeds (Change of Name) Regulations 1994 (as amended).</p><p>For individuals aged between 16 and 18, the regulations require that the application for enrolment may have to completed by a person with parental responsibility for the individual and supported by evidence of the agreement of other persons with parental responsibility to the change of name. This enables the court to be satisfied that the relevant persons with parental responsibility are content with the proposed change of name.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/03/2019 17:23:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 109407 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1087136

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women in prison on a sentence of imprisonment for public protection that have children.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	231458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>There are <ins class="ministerial">2,489 unreleased IPP</ins> <del class="ministerial">10,018 IPP</del> prisoners, of which <ins class="ministerial">46</ins> <del class="ministerial">344</del> are women. We know that when coming into contact with the criminal justice system, some women choose not to disclose that they have children. Data is therefore not currently collected on numbers of prisoners with children (whether that be total numbers of children or dependent children).</p><p> </p><p>Our Female Offender Strategy is committed to improving outcomes for women at all stages of the justice system, and this includes supporting those who have children. We know that female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to be a primary carer and imprisoned mothers are more likely to be living with their children prior to custody – around 60% of women compared with about 45% of men in prison who have children. Figures from a 2015 data matching exercise with the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Work and Pensions showed that between 24% and 31% of all female offenders were estimated to have one or more child dependents.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the impact that imprisonment of a parent can have on families. That is why we have asked Lord Farmer to continue his work on the importance of family ties by conducting a further review into female offenders in custody and the community. Lord Farmer is expected to report his findings to Ministers shortly.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/03/2019 14:59:54 question first ministerially corrected 23/04/2019 09:20:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 108105 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1086523

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Rents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Rent Repayment Orders have been made by each of the five regional First-Tier residential property tribunals under (a) section 44, (b) section 45 and (c) section 46 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	230862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>All Rent Repayment Orders (RROs) are made by the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) under section 43 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016. Section 46 lays out the circumstances where the maximum RRO is to be be set (regardless of whether it is a tenant or a local housing authority application).</p><p> </p><p>Internal management information shows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of RROs made in response to applications from tenants up to the end of September 2018</p></td><td><p>Number of RROs made in response to applications from local housing authorities up to the end of September 2018</p></td><td><p>Number of RROs set at maximum under s46 up to the end of September 2018 (from tenant or local housing authority application)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midland</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastern</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southern</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/03/2019 14:44:54 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 107853 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield