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1145459

	registered interest
	date	24/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Fines: Surcharges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2019 to Question 252551, Answer of 10 July 2019 to Question 273770 and Answer of 29 July 2019 to Question 280263, on fines: surcharges, for what reason there was a £1 million difference between the raised and allocated amounts in the 2016-17 financial year; and where that money has been allocated.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	290445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>I am sorry to have to inform you that a rounding error was made in our response to PQ252551 and 252552. In checking that figure, we have also noted several other rounding errors. I therefore set out corrected figures relating to the Victim Surcharge provided in response to these PQs and PQ280263.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Victim Surcharge (VS) Collected* </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>VS contribution to the Victim and Witness Budget* </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>VS contribution to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£10.5m</p></td><td><p>£10.5m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£10.2m</p></td><td><p>£10.2m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£10.5m</p></td><td><p>£10.5m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£19.5m</p></td><td><p>£19.5m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£24.6m</p></td><td><p>£24.6m</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£28.3m</p></td><td><p>£18.3m</p></td><td><p>£10.0m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£31.0m</p></td><td><p>£27.0m</p></td><td><p>£4.0m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£35.0m</p></td><td><p>£31.0m</p></td><td><p>£4.0m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£33.5m</p></td><td><p>£30.5m</p></td><td><p>£3.0m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Rounded to one decimal place</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 30/09/2019 16:20:03 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1143955

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Resomation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing resomation, also known as water cremation, to be used as an alternative to flame cremation in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	285131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 09/09/2019 16:12:10 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1150852

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Resomation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing resomation to be used as an alternative to flame cremation.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	2662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has not made such an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 24/10/2019 15:41:13 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1142738

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Translation Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723 on translation services, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in expenditure between the 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	284295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Spend on language services increased in October 2016 as a result of an intentional move by the Ministry of Justice to increase the quality of the services. A new set of contracts commenced in 2016 which included various improvements based on independent recommendations made about the previous contract. These changes included a more robust performance management regime, improved data and the implementation of a new quality assurance service.</p><p> </p><p>Spend on Language Services is expected to fluctuate due to the nature of the contracts being demand led.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/09/2019 14:21:42 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1145902

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Trials: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legislation or guidelines determine who should pay the cost of counsel when a court case is adjourned the night before that trial is scheduled to take place.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	290849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>For publicly funded criminal legal aid work, payment for the trial advocate (or counsel) in the Crown Court is determined in accordance with fees set out in Schedule 1 of The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013. The Crown Court Fee Guidance published by the Legal Aid Agency provides further guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Paragraph 16, Schedule 1 of the Remuneration Regulations states that an ineffective trial fixed fee <em>is payable in respect of each day on which the case was listed for trial but did not proceed on the day for which it was listed, for whatever reason.</em> The fee payable is set out at paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 of the Regulations and there are different fees according to the category of advocate instructed in the trial.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 03/10/2019 15:03:00 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1156095

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Justice: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been spent on projects aimed at (a) improving data on racial disparities within the justice system, (b) improving judicial diversity, (c) conducting academic research on methods for reducing racial disparities and (d) reducing racial disparities in the youth justice estate, in each year since the publication of the Lammy Review in September 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	4968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Efforts to better understand and tackle racial disparity in the Criminal Justice system are typically resourced as part of the mainstream responsibilities for Ministry of Justice and partner organisations, without dedicated budget(s). As such we have not been able to isolate the spend requested. Some additional commentary follows.</p><p> </p><p>On a) per Government’s response to David Lammy’s review of the treatment of BAME people in the CJS, we remain committed to publishing more and better data to inform us on issues of racial disparity in the criminal justice system.</p><p> </p><p>On b) Ministry of Justice is funding a three year programme, the Pre-Application Judicial Education programme, to support improving judicial diversity at a cost of £300,000 over financial years 2018/19 to 2020/21. The Judicial Appointments Commission also lead on initiatives to support diversity in the judiciary including outreach events.</p><p> </p><p>On c) as a matter of course our work on tackling racial disparities engages with academics and their research.</p><p> </p><p>On d) we have taken a range of steps to integrate activity to reduce racial disparities within the youth custodial estate in to the work of establishments and to drive improvements. This includes having dedicated equalities staff in Youth Offender Institutions and Secure Training Centres. We also have specific members of staff based at head-quarters, both within the Ministry of Justice and the Youth Custody Service, who consider the needs of BAME children, develop and implement improvement initiatives and feed into wider policy and delivery work. Examples include, the appointment of a Senior Policy Advisor: BAME Development lead to help address Recommendations 28 and 29 of the Lammy Review, on the recruitment of BAME staff; the YCS mandating the take-up of unconscious bias training for senior managers across public sector establishments, the commissioning and introduction of ‘debiasing training’ for key staff; and the inclusion of a problem-solving approach to complaints (Lammy Review Recommendation 27) in the new Youth Custody Service framework for behaviour support.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 29/10/2019 17:40:03 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1149538

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Remand in Custody: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of children remanded in custody in 2018 (a) received a custodial sentence, (b) were acquitted and (c) were charged with a violent offence.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report, we committed to undertake further work to consider the use of youth custodial remand in greater detail. Within the next year, we aim to identify options to reduce the numbers of children remanded to custody where appropriate, while ensuring victims and the public are protected.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on individuals who were remanded in custody during court proceedings. Information on the age of those prosecuted, the type of crimes and the outcome of prosecution can be found by using the Remands: Magistrates’ Court data tool available here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804525/remands-magistrates-court-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804525/remands-magistrates-court-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p>and the Remands: Crown Court data tool available here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802317/remands-crown-court-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802317/remands-crown-court-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Individuals may have different remand status at different courts (e.g. at magistrates’ and Crown courts), the status given in these tools relates only to the remand status at that specific court. As a result, court totals should not be combined. With this in mind, the answers to questions a, b and c should be considered independently in each data tool.</p><p> </p><p>Note that we have answered question (c) based on the number of prosecutions as MoJ do not hold data on charges and interpreted ‘children’ as being juveniles, therefore aged 10-17 years old.</p><p> </p><p>In the Magistrates’ Court data tool:</p><p>Use the ‘Age Group’ filter and select juveniles. Use ‘the Row Labels’ option on row 28 to select ’03: Custody’. Use the ‘Outcome’ filter to de-select ’01: FTA’, ’06: Committed for trail’ and ’07: Committed for sentence’</p><ul><li>To select the number of individuals who (a) received a custodial sentence filter ‘outcome’ to ’08: immediate custody’. This number can be used to calculate the proportion of juveniles remanded in custody who received a custodial sentence at the Magistrates’ Court.</li><li>To select the number of individuals who (b) were acquitted filter ‘outcome’ to include ’02: Proceeding discontinued’, ’03: Discharged Sec 6’, ’04: Withdrawn’ and ’05: Dismissed’. The total number can be used to calculate the proportion of juveniles remanded in custody who were acquitted at the Magistrates’ Court.</li><li>To select the number of individuals who (c) were prosecuted for a violent crime, filter ‘Offence Group’ to select ’01: Violence against the person. The total number can be used to calculate the proportion of juveniles remanded in custody prosecuted for a violent crime at the Magistrates’ Court.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In the Crown Court data tool:</p><p>Use the ‘Age Group’ filter and select juveniles. Use ‘the Row Labels’ option on row 29 to select ’03: Custody’. Use the ‘Outcome’ filter to de-select ’01: FTA’.</p><ul><li>To select the number of individuals who (a) received a custodial sentence filter ‘outcome’ to ’04: immediate custody’. This number can be used to calculate the proportion of juveniles remanded in custody who received a custodial sentence at the Crown Court.</li><li>To select the number of individuals who (b) were acquitted filter ‘outcome’ to include ’02: Not tried Crown Court’ and ’03: Acquitted Crown Court’. The total number can be used to calculate the proportion of juveniles remanded in custody who were acquitted at the Crown Court.</li><li>To select the number of individuals who (c) were prosecuted for a violent crime filter ‘Offence Group’ to select ’01: Violence against the person. The total number can be used to calculate the proportion of juveniles remanded in custody prosecuted for a violent crime at the Crown Court<p> </p></li></ul><p>Please note: Children classified as remanded in custody may include individuals who were remanded to local authority accommodation rather than youth detention accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 22/10/2019 14:50:42 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1167208

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Libraries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual budget was for library services for (a) HM Young Offender Institution Cookham Wood, (b) HM Young Offender Institution Feltham A, (c) HM Young Offender Institution Wetherby, (d) HM Young Offender Institution Parc, (e) HM Young Offender Institution Werrington, (f) Medway Secure Training Centre, (g) Oakhill Secure Training Centre and (h) Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	7163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Youth Custody Service has commenced reform of education services and are developing a vision for learning. Included in the education reform is the provision of wellbeing and exercise with flexibility of provisions. The vision for learning is expected to bring about flexibility which is tailored to the needs of children within the secure estate and we are working with our education</p><p>providers to increase the flexibility of the core day and curriculum to allow for more space, time and resources to provide young people with the activities that are tailored to their needs and offer the most positive engagement with education.</p><p> </p><p>We have also devolved additional funds to Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) governors to commission additional educational, vocational and enrichment activities that best engage and meet the needs of the children in their establishments. This amounts to £0.3m in 18/19 and £1.8m in 19/20 across the four public sector sites.</p><p> </p><p>Where available the information requested on the allocations to the requested establishments for prison libraries are provided in the attached table. Prior to 2014 all library finances were carried out locally in establishments, and are therefore not included. Data for establishments which were or are Privately Managed Prisons are not available as the cost of provision is included in the overall budget. It should also be noted that at HMYOI Feltham the library is shared across both sites and the figures provided are for full provision. Budgets for 19/20 have yet to be officially allocated.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 04/11/2019 17:52:18 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton attachment 1 file name PQ 7163 - Imran Hussain - Library Budgets - data.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1169445

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children and young people in HM Young Offenders Institutes (a) Werrington, (b) Wetherby, (c) Swinfen Hall, (d) Feltham, (e) Cookham Wood and (f) Aylesbury have accumulated (i) 1-24, (ii) 25-49, (iii) 50-74, (iv) 75-99, (v) 100-149 and (vi) 150 or more additional days of imprisonment as punishment since their arrival.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	1364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2020 answer text <p>Discipline procedures are central to the maintenance of a safe, decent and rehabilitative custodial environment. They require adjudications to be conducted lawfully, fairly and justly. All prisoners have a full opportunity to hear what is alleged against them and to present their case. Children and young people in custody are some of the most vulnerable people in society and their safety and welfare is our highest priority. But there are occasions when their behaviour is so challenging and violent that it is necessary to instigate disciplinary procedures. Young or vulnerable prisoners, who may lack experience of adjudications, are encouraged to request help from an advocate.</p><p> </p><p>Only Independent Adjudicators, who are District Judges or Deputy District Judges, can, in cases deemed to be sufficiently serious, make an award of additional days. The adjudicators will follow the punishment guidelines issued by the Chief Magistrate. These are rightly, independent of the Ministry of Justice and a matter for the Chief Magistrate.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested can be found in the tables attached.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 15/01/2020 16:22:56 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 1364 table for publication.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1174957

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Suicide: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Office of the Chief Coroner on the recording of suicides among the veteran community.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	10352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>Any suicide is a tragedy, and we take the welfare of our brave service men and women extremely seriously.</p><p> </p><p>For data on suicides amongst veterans to be of value, the information collected must be reliable, consistent and comprehensive. It is not possible to achieve this through coroners’ inquest conclusions for a number of practical and administrative reasons, including the parameters of the coroner’s role.</p><p> </p><p>Ministry of Justice officials have talked to colleagues in the Chief Coroner’s office about the issues to do with coroners recording whether the deceased had ever served in the armed forces.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence have on several occasions discussed the issue of to explore how we gather data on veterans in inquests. The Government recognises that personal information about victims of suicide can be used to improve understanding of “at risk” groups and, from that, to support better targeted interventions. More widely, the Government recognises the need to gather data on veterans in the criminal justice system. The Ministry of Justice will continue to work with the Ministry of Defence and other government departments to explore how we can further this objective.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 10353 10354 question first answered 07/02/2020 14:03:01 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas