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595959

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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 steps her Department is taking to increase capacity at the Asylum and Immigration Chamber.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	47206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). HMCTS have provided an additional 4,500 tribunal sitting days for this financial year compared to 2015/16. HMCTS keeps performance and resource levels under close review. answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 12:46:22 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

521657

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
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 review the position of people serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection who are significantly over tariff and assessed as low or medium risk.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	38512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave for PQ 38441, answered on 6 June 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/06/2016 10:28:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

421452

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps Community Rehabilitation Companies are taking to engage with local charities to prevent prisoners from reoffending.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	11973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Charities and the voluntary sector have long played an important role in rehabilitating offenders and continue to do so under the Government’s reforms to rehabilitation services. Under the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, we opened up the market in order to get the best out of the public, private and third sectors. 19 out of the 21 CRCs are being run with assistance from staff mutual or VCSE, and all contracted probation providers have included VCSE organisations in their supply chains.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/10/2015 09:38:35 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

416218

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bullingdon Prison: Death and Self-harm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of (a) suicide, (b) other death and (c) self-inflicted injuries there have been in Bullingdon Prison in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	8508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Annual information on deaths in each prison can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449651/safety-in-custody-deaths-mar-15.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449651/safety-in-custody-deaths-mar-15.xls</a> (tables 1.16 to 1.18).</p><p><br> Annual information on self-harm incidents in each prison is located here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449653/safety-in-custody-self-harm-dec-14.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449653/safety-in-custody-self-harm-dec-14.xls</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/09/2015 10:34:24 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

100139

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Driving Offences: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to better secure the payment of speeding fines by offenders whose vehicles are registered overseas.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	211277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to encourage payment of impositions and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>When it appears to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) that an offender is normally resident in another EU country HMCTS can transfer road traffic offence fines, imposed by courts in this country, to other EU jurisdictions for enforcement under the EU Framework Decision on Mutual Recognition of Financial Penalties (MRFP). The Framework Decision obliges Member States to take over enforcement of eligible fines imposed by other Member States’ courts, where the offender is resident or has assets in the enforcing state. All monies collected however are retained by the enforcing Member State.</p><p> </p><p>Where the offender is resident in a non EU country or in one not included in the MRFP Framework there is no mechanism for HMCTS to be able to recover the amounts outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify the value of fines outstanding which relate to motoring offences for offenders who live overseas without incurring disproportionate cost as this information could only be obtained by a manual search of all live fine accounts.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 211323 question first answered 27/10/2014 15:32:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

100259

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Speed Limits: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of speeding fines incurred by motorists whose vehicle is registered overseas were paid in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	211323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to encourage payment of impositions and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>When it appears to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) that an offender is normally resident in another EU country HMCTS can transfer road traffic offence fines, imposed by courts in this country, to other EU jurisdictions for enforcement under the EU Framework Decision on Mutual Recognition of Financial Penalties (MRFP). The Framework Decision obliges Member States to take over enforcement of eligible fines imposed by other Member States’ courts, where the offender is resident or has assets in the enforcing state. All monies collected however are retained by the enforcing Member State.</p><p> </p><p>Where the offender is resident in a non EU country or in one not included in the MRFP Framework there is no mechanism for HMCTS to be able to recover the amounts outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify the value of fines outstanding which relate to motoring offences for offenders who live overseas without incurring disproportionate cost as this information could only be obtained by a manual search of all live fine accounts.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 211277 question first answered 27/10/2014 15:32:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith