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1701120

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the average cost of obtaining the (a) sentencing remarks and (b) judge's summing-up to HM Courts and Tribunals over the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	21738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>Management information held about transcript requests is limited, and the information requested is not held centrally. Contracted suppliers are required to provide HM Courts and Tribunals Service with certain data, including raw data on individual application costs, but that data could not be disaggregated to report specifically on requests for sentencing remarks or summing up per se.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/04/2024 14:52:27 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1701121

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the average number of words in a judge's sentencing remarks from court proceedings at HM Courts and Tribunals over the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	21739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>Management information held about transcript requests is limited, and the information requested is not held centrally. Contracted suppliers are required to provide HM Courts and Tribunals Service with certain data, including the folio count, but that data could not be disaggregated to report specifically on requests for sentencing remarks per se, and in any event would not enable any report on word (rather than page) count.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/04/2024 14:54:26 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1695935

	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	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 16 October 2023 to Question 199796 on HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges, how many and what proportion of those orders were made for trials that involved allegations of (a) rape and (b) serious sexual assault.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	18545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/03/2024 17:37:37 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1686065

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Ministerial Boxes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many ministerial red boxes belonging to his Department have been reported (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	12168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The following table includes the number of lost or stolen ministerial red boxes from the Ministry of Justice between 2021 and 2024.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>February 2021-February 2024</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lost</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stolen</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The departmental security unit records and investigates each reported loss from the Department. If appropriate, the police are invited to undertake further inquiries.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 06/02/2024 09:56:42 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1684911

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Ministers' Private Offices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any refurbishments have been made to ministerial offices in his Department in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	11401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>There has been no refurbishment of the Ministry of Justice’s ministerial offices in the last two years.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 01/02/2024 12:20:59 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1681557

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Bullying and Harassment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many settlement payments his Department issued following claims of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination in the (i) 2021-22, (ii) 2022-23 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	9256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The information requested in relation to Employment Tribunal settlements could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Data in relation to settlements is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 17/01/2024 17:22:12 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1679565

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Bullying and Harassment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many settlement payments his Department issued following claims of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination in the (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	8068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The information requested for the period between 2019 - 2020 is not held centrally due to GDPR rules.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for the period between 2020 and 2023 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 10/01/2024 16:59:53 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1679576

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on press and public relations in each financial year since 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	8079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Like any large operational organisation, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has press and public relation roles to work with the media to ensure the work of the department and its agencies is communicated to the public, as well as ensuring the department is able to attract and recruit sufficient staff to operate critical front line services.</p><p>MoJ operates a 24/7, 365-day press office that supports MoJ, HM Prison and Probation Service, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, Legal Aid Agency, Office for the Public Guardian and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.</p><p>In the face of an increasingly challenging recruitment market over recent years, the MoJ has stood up additional, separate PR support to generate applications for critical frontline roles, including prison and probation staff and magistrates, which has led to an increase in PR spend over this period. This has allowed the department to ensure its front line public services remain staffed and operational.</p><p>Below is a table showing the Ministry of Justice’s press and PR spend since 2019.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-2020</p></td><td><p>£1,507,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>£1,681,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>£1,965,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-2023</p></td><td><p>£2,612,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-2024</p></td><td><p>We are unable to provide figures on unaudited/open accounts.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 15/01/2024 16:49:09 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1669074

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Theft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data their Department holds on the (a) number and (b) total cost of replacing (i) laptops, (ii) mobile phones, (iii) memory sticks and (iv) external hard drives that have been (A) lost and (B) stolen in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	1219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>Please find the requested data summarised in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Laptops</p></td><td><p>Mobile Phones</p></td><td><p>Memory sticks</p></td><td><p>External hard drives</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lost</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stolen</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total devices</p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total cost of replacing</p></td><td><p>£239,220.00</p></td><td><p>£19,023</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has around 91,875 employees across the department. The proportion of lost and stolen devices therefore are low compared to this number.</p><p>The MoJ, including its executive agencies (HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service, HM Prison &amp; Probation Service, Legal Aid Agency, Office of the Public Guardian and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority) and smaller public bodies, treats lost or stolen devices seriously and have processes in place to ensure that when a device is reported as lost or stolen, action is taken immediately to disable the device.  All incidents are subjected to an initial security risk assessment with further action on a proportional basis.</p><p>It is MoJ policy that all laptops and removable media are encrypted to minimise the impact if a loss were to occur. All mobile phones are deactivated once reported missing to minimise the impact if a loss was to occur.</p><p>There is also published guidance on what to do which can be found via this link: <a href="https://security-guidance.service.justice.gov.uk/lost-devices-incidents/#lost-devices-or-other-it-security-incidents" target="_blank">https://security-guidance.service.justice.gov.uk/lost-devices-incidents/#lost-devices-or-other-it-security-incidents</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 20/11/2023 16:04:47 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1661066

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average cost of obtaining a transcript of (a) court and (b) tribunal proceedings in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	199795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>HMCTS does not retain data on the number of applications made to either the Court or Tribunal to obtain a transcript. HMCTS contracts with suppliers to provide transcripts and they hold data on orders that they receive. The following number of orders were received by suppliers in the 12 month period Sept 2022 to Aug 2023:</p><p>a) Court – 42,099</p><p>b) Tribunal - 278</p><p> </p><p>The average cost of obtaining a transcript in each of the last three years is:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Family</p></td><td><p>Crown</p></td><td><p>Tribunal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sept 2020- Aug 2021</p></td><td><p>£220.85</p></td><td><p>£100.56</p></td><td><p>£240.54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sept 2021- Aug 2022</p></td><td><p>£225.06</p></td><td><p>£105.17</p></td><td><p>£204.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sept 2022- Aug 2023</p></td><td><p>£205.33</p></td><td><p>£96.11</p></td><td><p>£212.45</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 199796 question first answered 16/10/2023 14:07:47 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney