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61241

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what training they provide for magistrates.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Responsibility for the training of magistrates rests with the Lord Chief Justice and this is exercised through the Judicial College. The National Training Programme for Magistrates provides the framework of training and appraisal for magistrates who sit as chairs and wingers for each of the jurisdictions of Adult Court, Youth Court and Family Court in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The training programme supports the learning and development of magistrates to a consistent standard across England &amp; Wales to enable them to perform their duties effectively. Magistrates will go through an induction process and thereafter attend continuation training. The Judicial College supports the training process by providing Bench Books for the Adult, Youth and Family proceedings. Where a need is identified, the Judicial College will also provide training materials to the magistracy for the implementation of major legislation and other changes.</p><p> </p><p>Magistrates are advised in court by their legal advisers who, as professional lawyers, will keep themselves up-to-date with legal developments.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 24/06/2014 13:30:07 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

61244

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Clothing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the implementation of the Prison Service Instruction 30/2013, which prohibits prisoners from receiving parcels from relatives, whether any prisons have introduced measures to help women who no longer have access to sufficient underwear.
tabling member printed	Baroness Corston
uin	HL204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>In order to ensure that women have access to sufficient underwear, there is now no restriction on the number of pairs of underwear women in prison can have in their cells (subject to standard overarching volumetric limits on property held in possession).</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 16/07/2014 16:41:09 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	215 label Biography information for Baroness Corston

61245

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Sanitary Products
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a full range of sanitary products is provided to female prisoners, or whether they have to be purchased.
tabling member printed	Baroness Corston
uin	HL205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>All prisons across the female custodial estate provide Interlude tampons and sanitary towels to women free of charge. Other brands of sanitary products are available for women to buy via the National Product list.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 16/07/2014 16:39:57 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	215 label Biography information for Baroness Corston

60528

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Probation Service for England and Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the budgeted annual expenditure of the National Probation Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The total probation budget for 2014-15 is £804 million. This includes the first two months of the financial year, during which services were provided by the probation trusts. As well as operational delivery, the probation budget includes provision of corporate services to support the new operating model.</p><p> </p><p>The budget figureis based on an initial assessment of operational and business needs and may vary within the financial period. The costs associated with high-risk offenders fall within a number of budget items and do not constitute a separate category.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL118 question first answered 18/06/2014 17:07:49 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

60529

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Probation Service for England and Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the National Probation Service budget has been allocated for the management of high-risk cases.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The total probation budget for 2014-15 is £804 million. This includes the first two months of the financial year, during which services were provided by the probation trusts. As well as operational delivery, the probation budget includes provision of corporate services to support the new operating model.</p><p> </p><p>The budget figureis based on an initial assessment of operational and business needs and may vary within the financial period. The costs associated with high-risk offenders fall within a number of budget items and do not constitute a separate category.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL117 question first answered 18/06/2014 17:07:49 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

60530

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the event of a rise in the anticipated costs of community rehabilitation companies emerging from the bidding process, the Secretary of State will delay the process; and, if so, what estimated impact on the National Probation Service would trigger such a decision.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Transforming Rehabilitation Programme is opening up the market to a diverse range of new providers, so that we can harness the best that the private and voluntary sectors has to offer to reduce reoffending. We are on track to award and mobilise Payment by Results (PbR) contracts for offender rehabilitation services across England and Wales by 2015. Bids to run the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) have yet to be submitted, but are expected by the end of June 2014. We currently have strong, competitive bidder interest across all Contract Package Areas, and we do not expect rising costs to be an issue.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 18/06/2014 15:11:31 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

60550

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Utilities: Meters
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times magistrates have issued warrants to utility companies permitting the forcible installation of prepayment meters in the homes of their customers in each year since 2002–03.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Utility companies apply for warrants of entry to magistrates' courts. When the application is heard the outcome is recorded on the court register. They are not recorded or collated centrally so this question could only be answered by manually inspecting records at each magistrates' court, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 17/06/2014 14:12:47 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

60558

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what monitoring they are conducting on the effect of the increase in tribunal costs on cases being brought concerning harassment in the workplace.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
uin	HL147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Justice Secretary is committed to reviewing the impact of the introduction of fees in the employment tribunals system. The Ministry of Justice is currently finalising arrangements for the timing and scope of this review, to enable the impacts to be properly assessed, and we will be making an announcement in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 18/06/2014 17:08:35 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

60574

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Union
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what rules currently govern the disclosure of European Union information; and whether any past or present rule, or any proposed rule, bans disclosure of information disadvantageous to the European Union.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Access to documents held by the European Union (EU) is governed by Regulation 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (the Regulation), which provides a public right of access to documents held by these three institutions. The Regulation has also been extended to further EU institutions through other instruments. Information relating to the EU may also be requested from UK public authorities under domestic information rights legislation, including the Freedom of Information Act 2000.</p><p> </p><p>Neither the Regulation nor domestic legislation contain provisions which prohibit the disclosure of information simply because its release would be disadvantageous to the EU, and there are no plans to introduce such a measure. However, both the Regulation and domestic legislation provide a range of exemptions, often subject to a public interest test, which permit bodies subject to them to withhold genuinely sensitive information from disclosure where release would undermine legitimate interests specified in that legislation. These include, for example, exemptions which may be relied upon to protect international relations, commercial interests or the decision-making processes for making EU legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 24/06/2014 13:29:10 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

60589

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Claims Management Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will bring forward delegated legislation under the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 enabling complaints against claims management firms to be heard by the Legal Services Ombudsman.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 provides the necessary enabling powers to put in place the funding arrangements for the Legal Ombudsman to deal with complaints against claims management companies. These provisions were commenced on 21 March 2014. They include a power for the Lord Chancellor to make Regulations to charge fees to recover the costs he has incurred in meeting the expenditure of the Legal Ombudsman in relation to claims management complaints.</p><p>The Government consultation on the proposed structure of the Lord Chancellor's cost recovery fee ended on 6 June and the responses are being analysed. Once the fee structure is finalised, the Fee Regulations will be laid in Parliament for approval. Following this, an order to commence section 161 of the Legal Services Act 2007 will be laid. This will extend the remit of the Legal Ombudsman to enable it to deal with complaints about authorised claims management companies.</p><p>The government is committed to enabling this as soon as possible.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 24/06/2014 13:22:32 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town