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1725510

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Evictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time has been for county courts to (a) accept, (b) consider, (c) process and (d) enforce possession cases brought by residential private landlords via Section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	2848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>Statistics on the timeliness of possession claims are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-april-to-june-2024/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-april-to-june-2024#main-points" target="_blank">Mortgage and landlord possession statistics: April to June 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published covering the period to June 2024.</p><p>The Government has announced its intention to legislate to abolish Section 21 repossessions. Once Section 21 repossessions are no longer available for landlords to use, the County Court will continue to work to the procedures and timelines set out in the Civil Procedure Rules for the management of possession claims including enforcement brought under other grounds.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 2849 question first answered 05/09/2024 12:37:11 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1725511

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Evictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the average time it would take for county courts to (a) accept, (b) consider, (c) process and (d) enforce possession cases brought by residential private landlords once Section 21 repossessions end.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	2849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>Statistics on the timeliness of possession claims are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-april-to-june-2024/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics-april-to-june-2024#main-points" target="_blank">Mortgage and landlord possession statistics: April to June 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Data is published covering the period to June 2024.</p><p>The Government has announced its intention to legislate to abolish Section 21 repossessions. Once Section 21 repossessions are no longer available for landlords to use, the County Court will continue to work to the procedures and timelines set out in the Civil Procedure Rules for the management of possession claims including enforcement brought under other grounds.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander grouped question UIN 2848 question first answered 05/09/2024 12:37:11 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1725659

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts: Custody
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 ensure that the presumption of contact at the Family Court does not result in unsafe contact arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	2967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>The welfare of a child must be the court’s paramount consideration when making decisions about a child’s life. This is known as the welfare principle. Prior to the application of the presumption of parental involvement, the court is legally obliged to assess if a parent poses a risk of harm to the child - if their involvement would pose a risk to the child, the presumption does not apply.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has undertaken evidence gathering on the presumption of parental involvement, focused on its application in the family court. We will publish the evidence and proposed next steps in due course.</p><p>As part of our commitment to ensuring the justice system is designed to put victims and survivors first, including those who have experienced domestic abuse, we are carefully considering the next steps for supporting victims and survivors across the justice system, including in the family court. We are working across departments to ensure that victims and survivors are supported and that children are kept safe.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 05/09/2024 09:04:30 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1725660

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to review the recommendations of the Final Report on Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	2968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that parties to private law children cases in the family courts are protected from harm and that the welfare of the child is always the court’s paramount consideration when making decisions about children’s lives.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice published a delivery update in May 2023 which outlined the progress made against the recommendations of the Final Report on Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases. This can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/646e0e577dd6e7000ca9b2f8/harm-panel-delivery-update.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/646e0e577dd6e7000ca9b2f8/harm-panel-delivery-update.pdf</a>.</p><p>We will now take the time to consider what more should be done to ensure that children and families are kept safe and supported throughout the family justice system.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 05/09/2024 09:05:25 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1725955

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
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 help ensure prisoners do not become homeless upon release.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	3208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service delivers a transitional accommodation service, known as the Community Accommodation Service – Tier 3 (CAS3), which offers prison leavers who are subject to probation supervision and at risk of homelessness on release up to 12 weeks of basic, temporary accommodation to provide a stable base on release. The service has been gradually rolled out nationwide since July 2021 and since then has supported over 12,200 prison leavers who would otherwise have been homeless.</p><p>However, we know there is more to do to ensure people leaving prison can move to long-term settled accommodation, and will work closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to develop a long-term strategy to put us back on track to ending homelessness.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 05/09/2024 09:34:30 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1726124

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation Service
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 reduce the backlog of cases within the probate service.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Blair McDougall
uin	3370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has invested in more staff, alongside system and process improvements, which has seen record levels of grants of probate issued during the last 6 months.</p><p>Management Information published by HMCTS shows, despite continued high levels of receipts, the open workable caseload (cases not waiting for more information from the applicant) has reduced by over 50% (36,000 cases) since August 2023 and currently stands at 31,842 in June 2024.</p><p>The average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate (following receipt of the documents required) has reduced by 4.5 weeks in June 2024 compared to August 2023. The average timeliness for cases completing in June was 8.5 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 05/09/2024 12:52:00 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	5076

1726248

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crimes against the Person: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing sentences for people convicted of assaulting public service workers .
tabling member constituency	Uxbridge and South Ruislip
tabling member printed	Danny Beales
uin	3638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent courts. Parliament has provided the courts with a broad range of sentencing powers to deal effectively and appropriately with offenders, including discharges, fines, community sentences, suspended sentences and custodial sentences.</p><p>The law is clear that where an assault is committed against those providing a public service, performing a public duty, or providing a service to the public this is to be considered by courts as an aggravating factor, increasing the seriousness of the offending. This applies to assaults committed against a wide range of workers. The statutory aggravating factor came into force on 28 June 2022.</p><p>Going forward, we will undertake a review of sentencing, to make sure that our framework is consistent, coherent, and cuts crime. We will use this review to develop a new long-term vision for sentencing which makes sense to victims and the wider public. The Lord Chancellor will announce more details of this review in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 05/09/2024 09:32:58 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	5339

1726368

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders: Departmental Coordination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans she has to work with Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to help reduce reoffending by people in the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	South Devon
tabling member printed	Caroline Voaden
uin	3552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice, working with the Department of Health and Social Care, is firmly committed to reducing reoffending by addressing health-related causes of offending behaviour.</p><p>Where appropriate, we are working to divert offenders with health needs out of the criminal justice system altogether, including through Liaison &amp; Diversion services, present in all police custody suites and criminal courts in England. Community Sentence Treatment Requirements can also be used as part of community or suspended sentences. Previous research has shown reduced reoffending rates for these types of sentences compared to short custodial sentences, and we are working to evaluate their use.</p><p>For those in prison, we work in close partnership with NHS England, who are responsible for commissioning healthcare services, including drug treatment, in all English prisons, so that all prisoners have access to health care equivalent to that in the community. We also work with the Welsh Government, who are ultimately responsible for commissioning and delivering health services for people in prison in Wales. We also work in partnership to ensure that our prisons provide wider support to help prisoners engage with treatment. 80 prisons currently have Incentivised Substance Free Living units where prisoners commit to regular drug tests.</p><p>We also want to better support rehabilitation of prisoners leaving custody, who have engaged in treatment and help them to remain in treatment on release. NHS England’s RECONNECT service supports prison leavers with vulnerabilities including mental health and substance misuse needs to engage with services through referrals and peer support.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 05/09/2024 09:37:41 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	5216

1724278

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Lincoln Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Lincoln (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	2231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2024 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of prisoners released from, and recalled to, HMP Lincoln and HMP Peterborough between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, and the number of those who were subsequently recalled, either once or more than once, during that period.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Prison released from</p></td><td><p>Number of releases</p></td><td><p>Number of offenders recalled once<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Number of offenders recalled more than once<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln</p></td><td><p>878</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peterborough<sup>1 </sup></p></td><td><p>1,437</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1"><li><p>Includes prisoners at both male and female establishments at HMP Peterborough.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Number of individual sentences. It is possible that a very small number of offenders may have been released for the first time on different sentences during the period.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p>Source: Prison NOMIS and Public Protection Database</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin grouped question UIN 2232 question first answered 04/09/2024 16:08:32 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1724279

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Peterborough Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were released and recalled to HMP Peterborough (a) once and (b) multiple times in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	2232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2024 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of prisoners released from, and recalled to, HMP Lincoln and HMP Peterborough between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, and the number of those who were subsequently recalled, either once or more than once, during that period.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Prison released from</p></td><td><p>Number of releases</p></td><td><p>Number of offenders recalled once<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Number of offenders recalled more than once<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln</p></td><td><p>878</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peterborough<sup>1 </sup></p></td><td><p>1,437</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1"><li><p>Includes prisoners at both male and female establishments at HMP Peterborough.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Number of individual sentences. It is possible that a very small number of offenders may have been released for the first time on different sentences during the period.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p>Source: Prison NOMIS and Public Protection Database</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin grouped question UIN 2231 question first answered 04/09/2024 16:08:32 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes