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1581397

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Documents
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the fees set down in (1) the Commissioner for Oaths (Authorised Persons) Fees Order 1993, and (2) the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges) Regulations 2008.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee
	uin	HL5129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <ol start="1"><li><p>We do not currently have any plans to review the fees set down in the Commissioners for Oaths (Authorised Persons) Fees Order 1993.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>On 10 January 2023, the Government published the response to its Review of the Statutory Charges which the police can levy when they have exercised their vehicle recovery powers. We will be introducing an increase of 28% to ensure that the vehicle recovery industry can continue to operate sustainably. This consultation did not cover the way in which the police use their power to order vehicle removal, or the operation of recovery schemes and contracts. These are operational matters for the police and National Highways.</p></li></ol> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 12:33:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4969 label Biography information for Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee

1504743

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time that (1) adult prisoners, and (2) young offenders, are locked in their cells each day.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL2153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>(1) The information requested for adult prisoners is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as it would require the detailed daily monitoring of out of cell activity of each individual prisoner in each prison establishment. We undertake regular monitoring of regime levels in prisons and formally account for all time spent out of cell engaged in regime activities.</p><p>There is no current central instruction prescribing the amount of time prisoners should spend out of their cells, however, there is a clear commitment to the delivery and performance management of time spent in purposeful activity. Governors have the flexibility to deliver balanced regimes that maintain an appropriate level of time out of cell on a range of activities such as education and employment which meet the needs of the establishment’s population with a heavy focus on reducing reoffending. This is alongside basic access to time in the open air and domestic services such showers.</p><p>We do see impact on time spent out of cell that can result from staffing availability and from operational incidents.</p><p>This government has committed to prison regime reform in the Prison Strategy White Paper and will set clearer stands for time spent in prison. A new Purposeful Activity performance measure has been introduced for the 2022/23 performance period which will drive delivery. Additional measures are in place for attendance at work, education, interventions and services. These will over time give more detailed information than that currently available.</p><p>(2) While we do not collect information on time during which young people are locked in their rooms, information is held regarding time spent out of room. In July 2022, the average time out of room offered in Youth Offender Institutions was 5 hours 50 minutes: of that, an average of 5 hours 15 minutes was taken.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 21/09/2022 15:31:09 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1674193

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Legal Costs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on access to third-party litigation funding of the Supreme Court’s judgment in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) (Appellants) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 28.
	tabling member printed	Lord Gold
	uin	HL700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>A Government amendment to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill seeks to mitigate the impact of the judgment on litigation funding agreements for opt-out collective proceedings in the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT). The Bill is currently being considered by Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is assessing the impact of the judgment and considering options for non-CAT proceedings.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 13/12/2023 12:49:04 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4237 label Biography information for Lord Gold

1588991

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Women
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many restricted status prisoners were held in the female estate in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
	uin	HL5837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>A Restricted Status (RS) prisoner is any female, young person or young adult prisoner, convicted or on remand, whose escape would present a serious risk to the public and who is required to be held in designated secure accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the overall total figure for the specified year for those held in the female estate.</p><p> </p><p>A remanded female prisoner classified as RS is subject to review on an annual basis up until the time of their trial unless further information is received to suggest that an earlier review of their RS status is required.</p><p> </p><p>Following completion of their trial and if convicted and sentenced, the prisoner will then have their First Formal review which will decide whether RS remains warranted.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2023</strong></p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 06/03/2023 14:16:40 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1581642

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Law Commission
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to prepare and lay before Parliament the annual reports, required by section 3A of the Law Commissions Act 1965, on the extent to which Law Commission recommendations were implemented for the reporting years (1) 2018–19, (2) 2019–20, (3) 2020–21, (4) 2021–22, and (5) 2022–23.
	tabling member printed	Lord Anderson of Ipswich
	uin	HL5177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2023 answer text <p>A draft of the Government’s report on the implementation of Law Commission recommendations is currently being prepared and is expected to be laid before Parliament as soon as practicable this year. It will provide an update on the implementation status of all relevant Law Commission recommendations since the report was last published in 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 13/02/2023 15:48:13 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4705 label Biography information for Lord Anderson of Ipswich

1489978

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Arrears
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many county court judgements there have been for private renters for non-payment of arrears, each year for the past five years, across England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Chelmsford
	uin	HL1839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2022 answer text <p>A landlord of a privately rented property may apply to the court either as part of an application seeking repossession of the property, or separately to eviction action, for a county court judgement seeking repayment of rent arrears from their tenant.</p><p>Our case management systems do not record what a judgement debt relates to, this information is only recorded in the particulars of claim which would require manual reviewing of court files to extract and as such could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Published quarterly statistics on volumes of county court judgements can be found here – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly#2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly#2022</a></p><p>Published quarterly statistics on possession volumes can be found here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics</a></p><p>At the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Government took unprecedented action to protect tenants from eviction resulting in the majority of possession claims being stayed until 20 September 2020. This meant that possession claims could not progress through the court process including hearings and enforcement action by way of evictions. Since the lifting of the stay, private rented possession claims have largely returned to pre-covid volumes, but social landlord possession claims remain supressed and are currently sitting at around 60% of their pre-covid volumes.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 01/08/2022 13:44:08 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4922 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Chelmsford

1653708

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Victims' Commissioner: Public Appointments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when the new Victim’s Commissioner will be appointed; and what is the reason for the delay in recruitment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Gohir
	uin	HL9395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>A recruitment campaign to appoint the next Commissioner is underway and it is right that the new Lord Chancellor looks at this carefully. We hope to announce the outcome of the campaign as soon as possible.</p><p>At both Ministerial and official level, we engage with the victims’ sector on a regular basis to ensure the voices of victims and witnesses are heard while the appointment of the next Victims’ Commissioner is being made.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 26/07/2023 14:16:03 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4944 label Biography information for Baroness Gohir

1655121

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Victims' Commissioner: Public Appointments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to appoint a Victims Commissioner.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hamwee
	uin	HL9685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/08/2023 answer text <p>A recruitment campaign to appoint the next Commissioner is underway and it is right that the new Lord Chancellor looks at this carefully. We hope to announce the outcome of the campaign as soon as possible.</p><p>At both Ministerial and official level, we engage with the victims’ sector on a regular basis to ensure the voices of victims and witnesses are heard while the appointment of the next Victims’ Commissioner is being made.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 07/08/2023 15:48:10 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	2652 label Biography information for Baroness Hamwee

1520215

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence are currently on licence in the community; and of those, how many have had their supervision requirement terminated, broken down by the number of years since they were first released from custody.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moylan
	uin	HL2440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>All IPP offenders are released on an IPP licence for a minimum period of 10 years. The Probation Service may apply to the Parole Board for the suspension of the supervisory conditions on an offender’s IPP licence only after the offender has completed five years of continuous, trouble-free resettlement and good behaviour in the community (other than in exceptional circumstances). The Parole Board is responsible for making the final decision on whether supervision should be suspended.</p><p>As of March 2022, 3,258 offenders, serving an IPP sentence, were on licence in the community. Of these, 172 offenders serving an IPP sentence have had their supervision requirement suspended. The following table shows this figure broken down by the number of years since they were first released from custody*.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Years since first release from custody</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count of IPP cases where the supervision requirement is terminated</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>4</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>11</strong></p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>13</strong></p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>14</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>172</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Data Caveats:</p><ul><li>Three cases are shown as having data suspended after 4 years in the table above. This is because the policy previously allowed for consideration after 4 years, so some currently in the community applied under the previous policy at the 4 year point.</li><li>As with any large administrative data source the possibility of errors cannot be eliminated.</li><li>While data has been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 24/10/2022 15:59:55 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4883 label Biography information for Lord Moylan

1674213

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legislation: Reviews
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans the Ministry of Justice has to undertake post-legislative review of (1) the Civil Liability Act 2018, (2) the Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018, (3) the Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019, (4) the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, (5) the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act 2020, (6) the Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Act 2020, (7) the Sentencing Act 2020, and (8) the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020, in line with the policy of reviewing Acts three to five years after enactment
	tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
	uin	HL721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>All bills that have reached Royal Assent are eligible for post-legislative scrutiny three to five years after they are enacted. Post-legislative scrutiny memoranda have been published on GOV.UK where bills have undergone the process. In addition, the Lords Special Inquiry Committee appointed to carry out post-legislative scrutiny on specific Acts publishes information on its inquiries on parliament.uk.</p><p>It is also important to note that post-legislative scrutiny is not the only way policy is reviewed. Many Acts have built-in statutory review mechanisms and consultations have also been launched. This has the effect of providing opportunities for the legislation to be reviewed and assessed without requiring post-legislative scrutiny.</p><p> </p><p>There is no planned timetable for post-legislative scrutiny of the Acts mentioned in this question.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 13/12/2023 12:55:02 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth