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date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Teachers
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 cumulative years experience of teachers working in prisons in (a) 2010 (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	279091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The information referred to is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility for education in adult prisons in England transferred from the Department for Education to the Ministry of Justice on 1 October 2016. Prior to that, prison education was managed and delivered by the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) under contracts held by the Skills Funding Agency.</p><p> </p><p>From 2016, revised OLASS arrangements placed responsibility on the OLASS contractor to ensure that competent and appropriately qualified staff were in place to deliver and assess learning delivered.</p><p> </p><p>New education delivery contracts in England are now in place: these were procured in succession to the OLASS arrangements that expired at the end of March. The new contracts require that all suppliers must operate a range of human resource and supplier personnel development arrangements that focus on establishing and maintaining a cadre of high-quality personnel capable of delivering an outstanding service</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 15:41:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140162

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have paid Employment Tribunal Fees during the operation of that policy.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	279092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>We do not collect information on the number of individual claimants who paid fees in the Employment Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>The number of fee payments received in the Employment Tribunals between 29 July 2013 (when fees were introduced) and 26 July 2017 is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017</a> . Fee payments do not directly correlate to the number of individual claimants because there could be multiple claimants named in single claim.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:41:34 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140163

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Recorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Recorders have sat to hear cases in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	279093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Information on how many Recorders have sat to hear cases in each year has only been held centrally since 2017/18. The below table, however, sets out the number of Recorders in post at 1<sup>st</sup> April of each year since 2010. We expect Recorders in post to have been offered the opportunity to sit.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Recorders<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>873</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><sup>1 </sup>Figures are at 1st April of each year.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Some Recorders hold more than one judicial appointment. In such cases, the appointment that the judicial office holder undertakes for the majority of their time is known as their primary appointment. In order to avoid double counting of judges, this table shows figures for primary appointments only and as such will not count judges whose appointment as a Recorder is not their primary appointment.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Figures are from the published Judicial Diversity Statistics which can be found here: <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/publication-type/statistics/" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.uk/publication-type/statistics/</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Recorders sit mainly in the Crown, County and Family Courts. Figures on court sitting days are published on Gov.uk and the latest information covering 2018 is available here. It is part of the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables (which contain at Tables 5.1 and 5.2 a breakdown of sitting days by type of work and level of judge): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019</a>. This information covers both England and Wales and is published annually.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:44:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140247

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department has implemented the parts of the plan entitled, Handling civil legal cases that involve EU countries if there’s no Brexit deal.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has laid 13 Statutory Instruments to put into effect the approach set out in the paper “Handling civil legal cases that involve EU countries if there is no Brexit deal”. These Statutory Instruments ensure that the statute book will function effectively in the area of civil judicial cooperation if we leave without a deal. We have also provided guidance on the website ‘gov.uk’, for both legal practitioners and the public on how cross border civil and family cases will be handled in the event of a no deal:</p><ul><li><strong>Guidance for legal professionals on family law after Brexit</strong> (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals</a>)</li><li><strong>Guidance for legal professionals on civil and commercial law after Brexit </strong>(<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals</a>)</li><li><strong>Guidance for members of the public involved in family law disputes</strong>:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit</a>.</li></ul> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/07/2019 15:48:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna