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date	07/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of coroners' inquests.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	901972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The coroner’s statutory duty, through the investigation and inquest process, is to establish who has died, and when, where and how they died. Coroners are independent judicial office holders and the way in which they conduct their investigations and inquests is a matter for them. However, the Government and the Chief Coroner are clear that the bereaved should be placed at the heart of this process.</p><p>The office of the Chief Coroner was introduced in 2013 to provide judicial leadership, guidance and support to coroners and to promote consistency of standards and practice. In addition, the Chief Coroner is required to provide an annual report to the Lord Chancellor which, amongst other issues, assesses the consistency of standards between coroner areas.</p><p>The Government continues to identify and implement measures to promote consistency of standards in coroner services – for example, through the programme of coroner area mergers, and by means of a suite of provisions in the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 to streamline coronial processes.</p><p>We also accepted a number of recommendations made by the Justice Committee following its 2021 Inquiry into the Coroner Service, and undertook to give further consideration to others. The Committee’s current follow up Inquiry will, amongst other issues, consider progress against those recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 14/03/2024 17:10:05 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1689909

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date	19/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Profession: Accountability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a rating of legal firms by their environmental social governance each year.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	14470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>Under the Legal Services Act 2007, the legal services sector, together with its regulators, operate independently of government. The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on law firms’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. The department has no plans to publish ratings of law firms by their ESG performance.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 27/02/2024 17:35:14 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1626533

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Small Claims: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Money Claim Online system.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	184286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>Money Claim Online (MCOL) is a digital service first released in 2001 which allows users to start and reply to a civil money claim for a fixed amount of money less than £100,000. Digital claims and responses are processed automatically on the day of receipt, users also have the opportunity to respond on paper, these paper responses can take longer to process. Weekly performance statistics are published here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmcts-civil-business-centres-performance-information/weekly-performance-national-business-centres-updated-5-december-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmcts-civil-business-centres-performance-information/weekly-performance-national-business-centres-updated-5-december-2022</a>. If a case is defended it is no longer supported on MCOL and is printed and posted to a local county court to proceed on papers only.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has invested £1.3bn in the HMCTS Reform Programme to deliver large-scale modernisation. As part of the Programme, HMCTS is developing the Online Civil Money Claims (OCMC) service - providing a more modern, user-friendly service beyond the functionality of the MCOL service. Cases progress three times quicker in the OCMC service (9 weeks compared to 27 weeks) and user satisfaction currently sits at 97%. The service will ultimately replace MCOL.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/05/2023 14:41:51 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman