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1700504

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judgements: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish the results of his Department's consultation on Including claimant data on the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines, which closed 16 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	21391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice intends to publish a response to the consultation on including claimant names on the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines (the Register) in due course. That response will set out whether the Government intends to bring forward legislation to allow for the publication of claimant names on the Register.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 21392 21393 question first answered 22/04/2024 16:20:05 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1700505

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judgements: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to publish claimant data for (a) County Court Judgements and (b) the Courts Service.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	21392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice intends to publish a response to the consultation on including claimant names on the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines (the Register) in due course. That response will set out whether the Government intends to bring forward legislation to allow for the publication of claimant names on the Register.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 21391 21393 question first answered 22/04/2024 16:20:05 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1700506

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	County Courts: Judgements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will bring forward legislative proposals to allow claimant data for County Court Judgements to be published.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	21393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice intends to publish a response to the consultation on including claimant names on the Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines (the Register) in due course. That response will set out whether the Government intends to bring forward legislation to allow for the publication of claimant names on the Register.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 21391 21392 question first answered 22/04/2024 16:20:05 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1611688

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Central Criminal Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sentencing hearings at the Old Bailey were rescheduled because a holding cell was not available in the year ending 31 March 2023; and whether his Department is taking steps to ensure future sentencing hearings at the Old Bailey are not rescheduled for that reason.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	181232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>No sentencing hearings at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) were rescheduled due to a lack of holding cell availability in the financial year ending 31 March 2023. We do not expect this to be a reason for rescheduling sentencing hearings in future either. We continue to work with our external partners to ensure pressures across the criminal justice system are managed appropriately and to deliver justice for the public.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 26/04/2023 14:18:02 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1611690

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to section 240A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ensure that time spent remanded on bail by offenders is not counted towards time served in cases in which a victim died as a result of the crime.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	181234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The decision to remand an individual in custody or to grant bail is solely a matter for the courts acting in accordance with the Bail Act 1976.</p><p>Time spent remanded on bail does not count towards time served unless, as a defendant, the offender was remanded on bail with an electronically monitored curfew of 9 hours or more per day. An electronically monitored curfew of 9 hours or over can result in a credit of half a day of custodial time. If compensation against time in custody is to be considered by the court following sentencing, they will need to be satisfied that the electronically monitored curfew was fully complied with on each day that is taken into account.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2023 11:44:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1580251

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that offenders released from prison on probation are being safely supervised.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	131404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>Action to enable the safe supervision of those released from custody on licence or under post-sentence supervision starts before they leave prison with critical work undertaken by prison and probation staff. In the majority of cases (except very short sentences where they are managed by their home probation region) this involves a formal handover from the prison offender manager to the community offender manager. This arrangement was introduced as part of the Offender Management in Custody initiative, and monitoring is in place at a national level through a Service Level Agreement in order to promote continuous improvement in this area and ensure compliance with national standards. The handover is intended to focus on public protection measures, sharing of information, and the opportunity for the offender and the community offender manager to begin building a good relationship.</p><p>The Probation Service has a range of measures in place to promote the safe supervision of offenders in the community. Every offender’s risk is assessed, and will be re-assessed if there is any indication that the level may have increased. Offenders released on licence are required to abide by a set of standard conditions, to which additional conditions may be added to take account of a particular risk the individual may pose. Offenders who breach their licence are liable to immediate recall to custody.</p><p>HM Inspectorate of Probation reports to the Government on the effectiveness of work with those who have offended, with the aim of reducing re-offending and protecting the public. The quality of supervision is also measured through HM Prison &amp; Probation Service (HMPPS)’s annual Sentence Management Audit. Recommendations made by both internal and external scrutineers are implemented via regional Quality Improvement Plans. HMPPS auditors will conduct regular reviews of the delivery of these plans through 2023-24, as one of the measures we have in place to promote high standards of supervision.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/02/2023 10:05:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1580252

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent cross-departmental discussions he has had on reducing pressures on the Probation Service.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	131405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>We have unified the Probation Service and injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year to deliver more robust supervision, reduce caseloads and recruit thousands more staff to keep the public safer. We have recruited a record-breaking 2,500 trainee probation officers over the last two years and we plan to recruit a further 1,500 by March 2023.</p><p>Recruitment of key operational roles has been centralised to accelerate recruitment in 6 priority regions, including London. There are schemes available to provide financial support to encourage new and existing staff to move permanently to areas with the most significant staffing challenges.</p><p>In collaboration with local probation regions, the Department for Work and Pensions and Career Transition Partnerships, local outreach has increased to improve awareness of Probation and the roles available. Marketing campaigns have been rolled out to attract undergraduate/students to work in part time roles.</p><p>The Probation Service is also committed to widening routes to achieve probation qualifications by developing pathways for existing staff, as well as creating routes for those without a graduate degree.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/02/2023 10:05:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1521180

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to (a) create an offence for Predatory Marriages, (b) ensure that no one who is showing insufficient mental capacity marries against their will or unknowingly, and (c) amend the relevant marriages laws so that it does not automatically revoke an existing Will when the marriage is registered.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	62075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>Under the current law, causing a person who lacks capacity to consent to a marriage is a criminal offence of forced marriage under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014, for which the maximum penalty is seven years imprisonment.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to wills, the principle in English and Welsh law that marriage has the effect of revoking wills is long established. The issue of whether marriage or civil partnership should invoke automatic revocation of the wills of those involved is being considered as part of a review by the Law Commission on reforming the law of wills.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will review the case for reforming the current law when it has received the recommendations in the Law Commission’s final report.</p> answering member constituency Dartford answering member printed Gareth Johnson question first answered 20/10/2022 10:40:44 answering member 3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1507278

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	County Courts: Standards
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 implications for his Department’s policies of backlogs at County Courts; and what steps his Department is taking to reduce delays in hearing cases.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	53503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The civil courts play a crucial role in ensuring citizens have access to justice and in supporting the economy and growth. The Government is committed to resolving cases quickly and improving timeliness in our courts, ensuring that claims are dealt with appropriately and proportionately according to their complexity and value.</p><p>£1.3 billion has been invested to transform the justice system; introducing 21st Century technology and online services to increase access to justice and improve efficiency. We will spend a further £324 million over the next three years to improve timeliness in civil and family courts and tribunals. We are maximising the number of sitting days utilised across the civil jurisdiction and that appropriate administrative, and staffing is in place.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice is also taking forward proposals to ensure the early and consensual resolution of disputes where appropriate, ensuring that court resources are focused on cases that require a judgment.</p><p>Since May 2021, for example, over 300,000 claims for low-value road traffic accident personal injury claims have been made on the online Official Injury Claim service run by the Motor Insurance Bureau for the Ministry of Justice. We are also currently consulting on <em>Increasing the use of mediation in the civil justice system,</em> including proposing the introduction of compulsory mediation for all defended small claims.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093682/mediation-consultation-web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093682/mediation-consultation-web.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These reforms mean a large number of cases will potentially be resolved outside the formal court process reducing both throughput and backlogs in our courts.</p> answering member constituency Dartford answering member printed Gareth Johnson question first answered 28/09/2022 15:27:47 answering member 3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1504947

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	Social Security and Child Support Tribunal: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost to (a) his Department and (b) HM Courts & Tribunal Service was of administering appeals in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal in each year since 2012-13 for (i) all cases, (ii) Work Capability Assessment cases and (iii) Personal Independent Payment decision cases.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	47646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>With respect to part (a) of the question, it is confirmed that the costs of administering appeals in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal are recorded by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service and not by the Ministry of Justice as a department.</p><p>With respect to part (b) of the question, the total cost to HM Courts &amp; Tribunal Service of administering appeals in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal in each year since 2012-13 for (a) all cases was:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Security &amp; Child Support Tribunal</p></td><td><p>139,720,428</p></td><td><p>87,357,366</p></td><td><p>92,554,070</p></td><td><p>105,776,214</p></td><td><p>121,482,762</p></td><td><p>117,804,233</p></td><td><p>121,771,734</p></td><td><p>104,792,533</p></td><td><p>100,057,460</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The total cost to HM Courts &amp; Tribunal Service of administering appeals in the Social Security and Child Support Tribunal in each year since 2012-13 specifically for (b) Work Capability Assessment cases and (c) Personal Independent Payment decision cases is not held at the requested level of granularity.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 20/09/2022 15:51:33 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova