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391875

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	First-tier Tribunal: Leasehold
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of each type of application listed on the HM Tribunals Service website were made to the Residential Property (First Tier) Tribunal for cases relating to leasehold in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	8294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>There are seven types of applications that can be made to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber - Residential Property). <ins class="ministerial">Two types of applications, namely leasehold disputes and leasehold enfranchisement, are types that</ins><del class="ministerial">Leasehold dispute applications and leasehold enfranchisement applications</del> relate to leasehold matters; the remaining five application types do not usually have any connection to leaseholds.</p><br /><p>Data specific to such cases relating to leasehold are not routinely published. The table below <ins class="ministerial">contains statistics sourced using internal data and </ins>sets out the number of applications made to the Property Chamber for cases relating to leasehold in each of the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Number of Leasehold Applications</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Number of Leasehold Enfranchisement Applications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2010/11</ins><del class="ministerial">2009/10</del></p></td><td><p>3216</p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2010/11</ins><del class="ministerial">2009/10</del></p></td><td><p>3118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2011/12</ins><del class="ministerial">2010/11</del></p></td><td><p>3122</p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2011/12</ins><del class="ministerial">2010/11</del></p></td><td><p>3284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2012/13</ins><del class="ministerial">2011/12</del></p></td><td><p>3645</p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2012/13</ins><del class="ministerial">2011/12</del></p></td><td><p>3574</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2013/14</ins><del class="ministerial">2012/13</del></p></td><td><p>3299</p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2013/14</ins><del class="ministerial">2012/13</del></p></td><td><p>3857</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2014/15</ins><del class="ministerial">2013/14</del></p></td><td><p>2773</p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2014/15</ins><del class="ministerial">2013/14</del></p></td><td><p>5069</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Leasehold applications relate to Service Charges, Breach of Covenants, Administration Charges and Appointment of Managers. Leasehold Enfranchisement applications relate to the buying of a property’s freehold and extending a lease.</p><br /><p>As this data is drawn from internal data it has not undergone the usual quality assurance work associated with statistical publications.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 09:39:27 question first ministerially corrected 05/11/2015 15:10:37 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 20819 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

416380

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Northamptonshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the ownership of (a) Corby, (b) Kettering and (c) Wellingborough magistrates' courts is on a (i) freehold or (ii) leasehold basis.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
	uin	8877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Corby and Kettering magistrates’ courts are freehold buildings. Wellingborough magistrates’ court is occupied under a peppercorn lease.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 13:57:35 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

416382

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many active magistrates in England were sitting each year between 2005 and 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
	uin	8898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The annual figures, as calculated at the end of the financial year, for the number of serving magistrates, for each year between 2005 and 2015, are given in the table below. Although magistrates are generally assigned to one local bench, they have jurisdiction to sit across England and Wales and, as a result, we can only show figures for the two countries combined.</p><p>The downturn in the number of magistrates, and the recruitment of new magistrates, are a natural consequence of falling workloads in the magistrates’ courts, due to falling crime and increased use of out of court disposals.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year End</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Serving Magistrates in England &amp; Wales</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2005</p></td><td><p>28,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2006</p></td><td><p>28,865</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2007</p></td><td><p>29,841</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2008</p></td><td><p>29,419</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2009</p></td><td><p>29,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2010</p></td><td><p>28,607</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2011</p></td><td><p>26,966</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2012</p></td><td><p>25,104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2013</p></td><td><p>23,387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>21,396</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td><td><p>19,634</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 14:08:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

416383

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Northamptonshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department used to decide which magistrates' courts in Northamptonshire it proposes in its current consultation to keep open.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
	uin	9042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The estate principles used to decide which courts were included are detailed in the national consultation document. <a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/proposal-on-the-provision-of-court-and-tribunal-es" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/proposal-on-the-provision-of-court-and-tribunal-es</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 14:22:25 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

417332

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Northamptonshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the potential additional (a) travel expenses, (b) costs of non-attendance and (c) other costs to the public purse that would arise due to closure of magistrates courts in (i) Kettering and (ii) Corby.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
	uin	9093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No decision has been taken to close the magistrates’ courts in Kettering and Corby.</p><p>We will consider all identified impacts once the consultation closes and all responses have been fully analysed. To ensure that access to justice is maintained, even in more rural locations, we are committed to providing alternative ways for users to access our services, including the use of other civic buildings. We are building a justice system which is simpler, swifter and more efficient. By using modern technology we can meet the needs of everyone who uses our services now and in the future.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 13:42:09 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

416823

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many pregnant women have begun a prison sentence in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	8861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/09/2015 13:29:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

416179

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Unmanned Air Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the risks posed by unmanned drones to prison security; and what steps he is taking to protect against drones dropping contraband material into prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	8567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service continues to assess the developing risk posed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or ‘drones’. All prisons have local contingency plans to respond to incidents including drones.</p><p>The previous Government introduced legislation which prohibits the “projection” of any item into prison by any means, including by a drone. Prisons work with law enforcement to investigate and prosecute perpetrators, where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/09/2015 11:07:05 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416467

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Trials: Bridgend
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hearings were held in Bridgend Law Courts between 2010 and 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	8866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Data for hearings at Bridgend Law Courts are presented in Table 1 below for each calendar year for each jurisdiction where data is available centrally. Hearings in different jurisdictions will take different lengths of time and cannot easily be compared. Complete data for 2015 is not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Hearings at Bridgend Law Courts 2005 to 2015 <sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Crime Adult<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Crime Youth<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Civil<sup>2 3</sup></p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Enforcement<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Civil</p></td><td><p>Family <sup>2 </sup></p></td><td><p>Tribunals (SSCS)<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,252</p></td><td><p>259</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>539</p></td><td><p>1,281</p></td><td><p>1,229</p></td><td><p>252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5,068</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>1,498</p></td><td><p>1,412</p></td><td><p>2,161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8,385</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>1,461</p></td><td><p>1,279</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>8,250</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>1,823</p></td><td><p>1,457</p></td><td><p>919</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>7,010</p></td><td><p>781</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>1,143</p></td><td><p>1,962</p></td><td><p>1,561</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>8,038</p></td><td><p>963</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>2,038</p></td><td><p>2,010</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2,358</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2,306</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3,474</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3,711</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes</p><p>1 Magistrates’ data are only available from 2009, when the case management system was rolled out. Magistrates data counts cases with a hearing, a defendant may have more than one case heard in a single hearing and therefore each case will be counted</p><p>2 Magistrates Civil cases can either be a single case or on occasions can be bulk listed and in such circumstances will only attract a single count when multiple claims will have been dealt with in the hearing</p><p>3 The Family case management system has been in use in Bridgend since 2010. Data is not available centrally prior to this. Data for January to March 2015 is subject to change as data are revised.</p><p>4 Bridgend sat SSCS cases as a satellite of Cardiff between April 2011 and May 2014.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 8637 question first answered 14/09/2015 14:06:14 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

416470

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Tribunals: Bridgend
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of (a) youth, (b) adult, (c) civil and (d) family tribunal hearings were held at Bridgend Law Courts in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	8637
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Data for hearings at Bridgend Law Courts are presented in Table 1 below for each calendar year for each jurisdiction where data is available centrally. Hearings in different jurisdictions will take different lengths of time and cannot easily be compared. Complete data for 2015 is not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Hearings at Bridgend Law Courts 2005 to 2015 <sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Crime Adult<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Crime Youth<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Civil<sup>2 3</sup></p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Enforcement<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Civil</p></td><td><p>Family <sup>2 </sup></p></td><td><p>Tribunals (SSCS)<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,252</p></td><td><p>259</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>539</p></td><td><p>1,281</p></td><td><p>1,229</p></td><td><p>252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5,068</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>1,498</p></td><td><p>1,412</p></td><td><p>2,161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8,385</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>1,461</p></td><td><p>1,279</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>8,250</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>1,823</p></td><td><p>1,457</p></td><td><p>919</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>7,010</p></td><td><p>781</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>1,143</p></td><td><p>1,962</p></td><td><p>1,561</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>8,038</p></td><td><p>963</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>2,038</p></td><td><p>2,010</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2,358</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2,306</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3,474</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3,711</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes</p><p>1 Magistrates’ data are only available from 2009, when the case management system was rolled out. Magistrates data counts cases with a hearing, a defendant may have more than one case heard in a single hearing and therefore each case will be counted</p><p>2 Magistrates Civil cases can either be a single case or on occasions can be bulk listed and in such circumstances will only attract a single count when multiple claims will have been dealt with in the hearing</p><p>3 The Family case management system has been in use in Bridgend since 2010. Data is not available centrally prior to this. Data for January to March 2015 is subject to change as data are revised.</p><p>4 Bridgend sat SSCS cases as a satellite of Cardiff between April 2011 and May 2014.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 8866 question first answered 14/09/2015 14:06:14 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

416146

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects the agreement with the new contractor on enforcing criminal fines to take effect.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	8399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Full Business Case supporting the proposed outsourcing of compliance and enforcement services is currently going through a robust approvals process. A decision will be made following the completion of that process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 09:06:58 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff