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43444

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time between judgement and sentencing in criminal trials in England was in the latest period for which figures are available; and what assessment he has made of the trends in the time taken.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	192266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p>HMCTS can only answer this question for trials in the Crown Court. The case management database for magistrates' courts does not hold the date of conviction in a way we can calculate the time from conviction to sentence for all defendants so the only way we could answer the question would be to manually check each case file which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p>The Crown Court database does and Table 1 below shows the average length between the latest conviction date in a trial and the date of sentence. The trend has seen the time between conviction and sentence falling from an average of 35.8 calendar days in 2007-08 to 24.6 calendar days in the first half of 2013-14. When a trial has more than one offence the jury may not reach verdicts against all on the same day, and the sentence cannot take place until all offences have a verdict.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Table 1 -Average length between conviction and sentence in Crown Court centres in England for defendants sentenced between April and September 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Average</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to September 2013</p></td><td><p>24.6 calendar days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>30.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>32.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>34.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>35.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol type="1"><li>The average number of calendar days between the latest jury conviction date and the earliest substantial sentence date.</li><li>Includes cases where the defendant changes their plea to guilty during the trial.</li><li>This is internal management information run specifically to answer this question.</li></ol><p> </p><p>The judiciary are able to sentence following conviction without the need for additional hearings as a result of initiatives currently in place. The judicially lead early guilty plea scheme aims to have guilty plea cases concluded at a single hearing. Similarly the probation service are able to provide reports on the day of conviction to facilitate the sentencing of the defendant.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

43822

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what databases managed by his Department or its executive agencies and which will contain personal information are (a) under construction and (b) expected to go live in the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice and its executive agencies including Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) and the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), currently have no plans to introduce any new HR-related centralised, multi-user database systems.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ascertain the individual categories of personal information across all existing, relevant centralised HR-related databases, we would be required to either allocate specialist business resources to identify the requirements and produce the data, or commission it directly from third party IT suppliers. All this would be at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 192727 192728 question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

43823

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what categories of personal information will be held on each database managed by his Department or its executive agencies expected to become operational in the next five years; what estimate he has made of the number of individuals' details each such database will hold when fully operational; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice and its executive agencies including Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) and the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), currently have no plans to introduce any new HR-related centralised, multi-user database systems.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ascertain the individual categories of personal information across all existing, relevant centralised HR-related databases, we would be required to either allocate specialist business resources to identify the requirements and produce the data, or commission it directly from third party IT suppliers. All this would be at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 192728 192729 question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

43824

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what categories of personal information are contained on each relevant database managed by his Department and its executive agencies; on what date each category of information was first collected; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice and its executive agencies including Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) and the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), currently have no plans to introduce any new HR-related centralised, multi-user database systems.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ascertain the individual categories of personal information across all existing, relevant centralised HR-related databases, we would be required to either allocate specialist business resources to identify the requirements and produce the data, or commission it directly from third party IT suppliers. All this would be at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 192727 192729 question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

43907

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 5 February 2014, Official Report, column 293W and 28 February 2014, Official Report, column 548W, on prisoners: foreign nationals, which three countries have the next largest number of foreign nationals in UK prisons; and what steps he is taking to return those offenders to secure detention in their own countries.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	192744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>Data on the nationality of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) held in custody is published in the quarterly offender management statistics. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276084/prison-population-tables-q3-2013.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276084/prison-population-tables-q3-2013.xls</a> (table 1.6)</p><p> </p><p>The countries with the 7<sup>th</sup>, 8<sup>th</sup> and 9<sup>th</sup> largest populations of FNOs in UK prisons on 31<sup>st</sup> December 2013 are:</p><p> </p><p>7 Nigeria (469)</p><p>8 Somalia (430)</p><p>9 India (426)</p><p> </p><p>We signed a Prisoner Transfer Arrangement (PTA) with Nigeria in January and we expect to see transfers before the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have any prisoner transfer arrangements with Somalia at present, and security concerns and the requirement for prison reform may provide challenges in the short-term. We have a voluntary PTA with India and are planning to work to try and make this more effective.</p><p> </p><p>The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders (FNOs). The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 234 FNOs to date.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

44113

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of offences concerning the illegal wildlife trade in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
	tabling member printed	Mr Simon Burns
	uin	192854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against and found guilty of triable either way offences under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulation 1997, together with Intentionally obstruct an authorised person acting in accordance with the powers conferred by Regulation, under Section 9(6) of the regulations, in England and Wales from 2011 to 2012 can be viewed in the table. Please note data for the triable either way offences prior to 2011, together with a large quantity of other offences to this day are kept on paper records which would require manual inspection. This would be at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Court Proceedings data for what can be provided by separate identification for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 192854 - Burns - Wildlife convictions - Table for minister.XLS title Table 1
	tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

44116

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what resources his Department has provided to youth offending teams to support families in order to prevent youth offending since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The YJB distributes an annual grant to the 158 Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) in England and Wales (£92m in 2014/15). YOTs decide locally how to use this funding, and the YJB is therefore unable to determine the proportion of this funding spent specifically on supporting families to prevent youth offending:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Funding for the purposes of preventing youth offending is also provided to Local Authority Children's Services, via the Department for Education's Early Intervention Grant; and to Police and Crime Commissioners via the Home Office's Community Safety Grant. In addition, the Ministry of Justice has provided £25m over three years towards the Troubled Families Programme, and is helping to shape the next phase of the expanded Programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

44117

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings his Department has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to discuss proposals in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill on extreme pornography.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government is extending the extreme pornography offence to capture pornographic images depicting rape and other non-consensual penetrative sexual activity.</p><p> </p><p>Officials in the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have liaised closely on this matter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

44118

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he first became aware of the so-called comfort letters issued to on-the-runs; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
	uin	192838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government has announced an independent inquiry led by Lady Justice Hallett which will set out the facts in relation to the operation and extent of the 'on the runs' scheme. This issue is a matter for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

44431

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with Essex Probation Service since November 2013; what issues were raised in each such discussion; what steps his Department took following each such discussion; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Southend West
	tabling member printed	Mr David Amess
	uin	193162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>There have been no discussions between Ministers and Essex Probation Trust since November 2013. Ministry of Justice officials are in frequent contact with the trust.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess