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1197883

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reading Prison: Change of Use
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review their decision to reject Reading Council’s bid to convert HM Prison Reading into an art centre; and what consideration they gave to the preservation of the building as an arts venue.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL4848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2020 answer text <p>Marketing of the former prison at Reading has completed and a preferred bidder selected. We have no plans to review our decision not to progress with any of the other bids for the site. A range of factors were considered in assessing which bid represented the best value for the department and the taxpayer.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 05/06/2020 13:53:16 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1248573

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time for cases to come to trial in England; and what action they are taking to speed up the process.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL9935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2020 answer text <p>Data relating to the waiting time in weeks for cases at the Crown Court in England and Wales can be found in Tables C6 (by case type), C7 (by plea) and C8 (by remand status) of the published National Statistics series ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’ (latest to June 2020) <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Waiting times for England alone require a further breakdown from the published data and are provided in the table attached with this response.</p><p> </p><p>On Monday 7 September, the Crime Recovery Plan was published which sets out our comprehensive plan to tackle the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the justice system by boosting capacity across criminal courts.</p><p> </p><p>As one of the first among other comparable jurisdictions globally to resume jury trials, our Crown Courts are currently listing over 200 jury trials and conducting thousands of other hearings every week. The magistrates’ courts have been completing more cases than they receive, dealing with over 21,000 cases each week and tackling the backlog.</p><p>We have also installed plexiglass screens into over 200 courtrooms and over 100 jury retiring rooms enabling us to safely open 255 Crown Court rooms for jury trials, roughly the number that were hearing jury trials before Covid.</p><p> </p><p>We’re also investing record amounts - the biggest single investment in court estate maintenance for more than 20 years – and have unlocked vital capacity by opening 16 Nightingale Courts to provide 29 additional court rooms.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 17/11/2020 17:23:17 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name HL9935 - table.xlsx title HL9935 - table
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1404690

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Standards
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current backlog of cases in (1) Magistrates Courts in England and (2) the Crown Court; and, in each case, (a) what is the average reduction in the backlog each month, and (b) how long it will take to clear the backlog at the current rate of progress.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL5544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>The table below shows the latest published data on the outstanding cases in the Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court, and the current rate of change. The data on outstanding cases can be found on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021" target="_blank">criminal court statistics page</a>.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outstanding cases</p></td><td><p>Crown Court</p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ Court</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q3 2021</p></td><td><p>59,928</p></td><td><p>349,277</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q2 2021</p></td><td><p>60,812</p></td><td><p>362,842</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>For further data on disposals including by each Crown Court and by region in the Magistrates’ Court please see the Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool and the Magistrates' Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool available on the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly Web Address (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2021" target="_blank">Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2021</a>).</p><p>The Spending Review will provide an extra £477 million for the criminal justice system over the next three years to help reduce the backlog.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 02/02/2022 17:42:47 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1613210

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Child Trust Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to amend legislation to help (1) child trust fund beneficiaries who do not have the capacity to make their own financial decisions, and (2) the families of those beneficiaries, to access their savings, without needing to apply to the Court of Protection for a financial deputyship; and what estimate they have made of the number of child trust funds that belong to young people in this category.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL7375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>Following a public consultation, the Government concluded it would not seek to amend legislation in this area but would instead seek to address issues in the existing system whilst also continuing the appropriate protections and safeguards for vulnerable individuals.</p><p>A programme of work is already underway to streamline and simplify the property and affairs application process in the Court of Protection.</p><p>The Government does not collect figures on the number of Child Trust Funds held by individuals who lack mental capacity.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 27/04/2023 15:50:38 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1695969

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of, and what action they are taking to reduce, overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL3254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>In prisons where we have crowding in place, a rigorous cell certification process is undertaken that ensures the use of cells is subject to formal assessment of safety and decency.</p><p>We continue to pursue the package of longer-term measures the Lord Chancellor announced on 16 October 2023 to reform the justice system and continue to address the prison capacity challenges. The measures include: the extension of the Early Removal Scheme, introducing a presumption to suspend sentences of 12 months or less, curtailing the licence period for IPP sentences and extending the use of Home Detention Curfew. On 11 March, the Lord Chancellor announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing foreign national offenders (FNOs). This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania, and the creation of a new taskforce across the Home Office and Ministry of Justice to change the way we process FNO cases radically.</p><p>To meet pressing demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.</p><p>The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 26/03/2024 17:23:52 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1177128

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Suicide: Gambling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to amend the list of circumstances in which a registered medical professional has a duty to notify a relevant senior coroner of a death to include suicide as a result of problem gambling.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2020 answer text <p>Under the Notification of Deaths Regulations 2019, registered medical practitioners are required to notify the coroner of a death in specified circumstances, which include cases of suspected self-harm or where the cause of death is unknown. As part of the notification process, the medical practitioner must tell the coroner which of the specified circumstances they believe apply to the death. The guidance for registered medical practitioners (published in September 2019 and available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notification-of-deaths-regulations-2019-guidance) makes clear that, in most cases, the practitioner should provide the coroner with a detailed narrative explanation of the likely cause of death.</p><p>In practice, therefore, a requirement already exists for cases of suspected suicide – which would include suicide as a result of problem gambling – to be notified to the coroner and, consequently, the Government has no plans to amend the 2019 Regulations in this regard.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 20/02/2020 15:52:30 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1274602

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Domestic Abuse
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards introducing Integrated Domestic Abuse Court pilot schemes.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL11900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>Planning for the Integrated Domestic Abuse Court pilot is under way with the Steering Group and Design Groups established and developing detailed proposals. We intend to launch the pilots later this year, despite the challenges brought by Covid-19 and the significant ongoing work to ensure the family courts continue to function throughout the pandemic.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 21/01/2021 17:55:25 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1471588

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce (1) a Community Sentence Treatment Requirement for gambling addiction, or (2) a Gambling Treatment Requirement, similar to community sentence treatments for offences where alcohol, drugs or mental health issues were an underlying factor.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>Offenders with a gambling addiction may be suitable for a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) as part of a community or suspended sentence order where mental health has been identified as an underlying factor.</p><p>The MHTR clinical practitioner assessment would identify an individual’s vulnerability (for example gambling addiction) and this would determine the psychological interventions suitable for them. Due to the complexity of gambling addiction, different approaches are used to enhance therapeutic effectiveness.</p><p>HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is committed to increasing awareness of the hidden harms of addiction to gambling and helping to support those with a problem, at all stages of the criminal justice system. To this end, a needs analysis is planned so that we can better understand the size of the issue. The results will inform the development of an HMPPS national gambling strategy, designed to raise awareness of problem gambling and ensure that our probation officers have the confidence to help identify and signpost individuals into the most appropriate care.</p><p><br>I refer the noble Lord to the answer given to HL980 for a more detailed account of the work in hand to raise awareness and knowledge of problem gambling with prison staff, probation and the police.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 30/06/2022 12:16:13 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1485950

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Gambling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were subject to a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) as part of a (1) community, or (2) suspended, sentence order due to a serious gambling addiction for each year since their introduction in 2005.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>Offenders with a gambling addiction may be suitable for a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) as part of a community or suspended sentence order where mental health has been identified as an underlying factor.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the factors underlying the use of MHTRs is collected on the primary presenting need such as anxiety or depression. As problem gambling is not identified as a primary presenting need the data requested is not currently available</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 18/07/2022 15:21:15 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1659962

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Coroners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to review the guidance for coroners in Prevention of Future Deaths Reports.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL10072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>The Chief Coroner has issued Guidance for coroners on Reports to Prevent Future Deaths which can be found at: <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/revised-chief-coroners-guidance-no-5-reports-to-prevent-future-deathsi/" target="_blank">Revised Chief Coroner's Guidance No.5 Reports to Prevent Future Deaths[i] - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary</a>.</p><p>Any review of the Guidance is a matter for the Chief Coroner in his independent judicial capacity.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 19/09/2023 14:23:18 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans