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1170522

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Burglary: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will increase the length of sentences handed down for burglary offences.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	900163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts, taking into account the particular circumstances of the offence and offender, and following any relevant sentencing guidelines.</p><p>Over the last ten years, the average custodial sentence lengths for all forms of burglary have increased.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/01/2020 16:26:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1170523

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of trends in conviction rates for knife possession as a result of the increased use of stop and search.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	900164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>Knife crime has devastating consequences on families, children and communities and this Government is determined to tackle it by whatever methods we can.</p><p>We are catching and prosecuting more people who carry a knife or offensive weapon. Those convicted of carrying knives and other weapons are more likely to go to prison and for longer than at any point in the last ten years.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/01/2020 16:29:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1170524

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reading Prison: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress his Department has made on the sale of HMP Reading.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	900165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>We have marketed the former HMP&amp;YOI Reading site. We are considering all the bids received carefully.</p><p>We will always seek best value for the taxpayer when disposing of surplus property assets. The number of bids, the identity of any bidders and the nature of the bids are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/01/2020 17:35:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1170525

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Law Centres: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for Law Centres.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	900166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>We recognise the valuable work that Law Centres do in local communities around the country, and we support them in this through both grant funding and through legal aid contracts.</p><p>We are also working collaboratively with the sector to explore co-locating piloting co-located support hubs as part of work to explore new, better ways to help people resolve their issues.</p><p>My officials continue to meet regularly with representatives of law centres to discuss ways in which we can work together to enhance the breadth of legal support available to everyone in society.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 14/01/2020 16:51:17 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1170526

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to increase the use of electronic tagging.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	900167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>I am pleased to confirm to the Hon Gentleman that my Department completed the national roll-out across England and Wales of location monitoring GPS tags for adults in September last year. They have been well received by courts as an important additional tool to manage offenders in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Building on this success, in November we began the phased roll out of GPS tags to under 18s. This will complete nationally in March this year.</p><p> </p><p>To tackle offending fuelled by alcohol, we are introducing sobriety tags, increasing our electronic monitoring capabilities and our ability to manage offenders in the community effectively.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/01/2020 17:04:28 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1170527

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Debt Collection: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	When he plans to publish his Department's response to the Review of enforcement agent (bailiff) reforms: call for evidence, which closed on 17 February 2019.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	900168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>In a Statement to the House of 22 July 2019, the Government set out its initial response to the call for evidence on the enforcement agent reforms.</p><p>We intend to make body-worn cameras for private enforcement agents mandatory and to make improvements to the complaints process. We are also considering strengthening regulation of the industry.</p><p>My officials have since met further with a range of stakeholders. We will respond in full to the call for evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/01/2020 16:28:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1170528

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of crime in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	900172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>Our prisons face a range of security challenges including supply of drugs and psychoactive substances and use of illicit phones. This fuels crime both behind and beyond the prison walls.</p><p>We are investing £100 million across the estate on airport-style security, including X-ray scanners, to stop drugs and phones from getting in.</p><p>Our previous investment in staff means prisons are making greater use body, property, cell and area searches to find contraband that gets in, aided by dedicated search teams and drug detection dogs.</p><p>And we are working closely with law enforcement to detect, disrupt and pursue the organised crime groups who drive significant amount of this criminal activity.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/01/2020 17:08:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1170624

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prosecutions
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 4 November 2019 to Question 7113 on Prosecutions, what proportion of trials were cracked on the first day of the trial in each month in (a) 2019, (b) 2018 and (c) 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	3161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes annual and quarterly data on cracked trials in England and Wales, available at <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>In these statistics a cracked trial is defined as: “a trial which does not commence on the scheduled date and the trial is not rescheduled, as it is no longer required. Cracked trials are usually the result of an acceptable guilty plea being entered by the defendant on the day or the case ending as the prosecution decides not to proceed (offers no evidence) against the defendant.”</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to separately identify if the trial was cracked on the day of trial or at any prior point from the data centrally collated by the Ministry of Justice. As a result, identifying the proportion of trials that were ‘cracked on the first day of the trial’ would require a search of court records, which would be of disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/01/2020 17:19:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1170650

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Ombudsman: Bullying and Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assurances his Department has received from the Office for Legal Complaints in relation to the Legal Ombudsman’s (a) governance and management and (b) allegations of bullying and harassment.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	3256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department seeks on-going assurance from the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC) as to the governance and management of the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) as part of its partnership arrangements. This includes reports from the OLC on any issues of concern; regular meetings between Executives at the OLC and Ministry of Justice officials and attendance at OLC’s internal Audit and Risk Committee meetings.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 20/01/2020 17:07:43 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1170651

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fixed Penalties: Shoplifting
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 fixed penalty notices of under £100 were issued for shop theft offences in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	3299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office collates and publishes information on fixed penalty notices. The Ministry of Justice has published information on out of court disposals including Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) and cautions up to December 2018. This information, relating to specific offences, can be found using the Out of Court Disposals data tool.</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802305/out-of-court-disposal-tool-2018.xlsx<br> <br>In the PND pivot replace ‘Outcome’ with ‘Offence’ in the ‘Row’ field. The total number of PNDs issued for ‘DA12 Theft (retail under £100)’ will then be displayed in row 28. Totals of all PNDs are displayed in row 51 of the same table, which allows a proportion to be identified.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/01/2020 16:55:23 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris