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1581397

registered interest
date	26/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Documents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the fees set down in (1) the Commissioner for Oaths (Authorised Persons) Fees Order 1993, and (2) the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges) Regulations 2008.
tabling member printed	Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee
uin	HL5129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <ol start="1"><li><p>We do not currently have any plans to review the fees set down in the Commissioners for Oaths (Authorised Persons) Fees Order 1993.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>On 10 January 2023, the Government published the response to its Review of the Statutory Charges which the police can levy when they have exercised their vehicle recovery powers. We will be introducing an increase of 28% to ensure that the vehicle recovery industry can continue to operate sustainably. This consultation did not cover the way in which the police use their power to order vehicle removal, or the operation of recovery schemes and contracts. These are operational matters for the police and National Highways.</p></li></ol> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 12:33:16 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4969 label Biography information for Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee

1581437

registered interest
date	26/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which retained EU laws the Ministry of Justice is planning to reform or revoke in the event of a passage into law of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL5169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>We are currently reviewing each piece of retained EU law for which the Ministry of Justice is responsible to decide whether it should remain on the statute book, and if so whether it should in due course be amended using powers in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, or whether it should be left to sunset.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 11:55:11 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1579911

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Contact Orders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support mediation in disputes that would otherwise require grandparents to apply for Contact Orders in order to have access to their grandchildren.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government understands the difficulties that some grandparents face in continuing relationships with their grandchildren following disputes arising from parental separation or divorce, and that grandparents often play an important role in children’s lives and can provide stability in families. We are also committed to supporting families to resolve private family law matters outside of court where appropriate to ensure that matters are resolved earlier, before conflict becomes entrenched.</p><p>Unless there is a valid exemption, any party seeking to apply for a child arrangements order must first attend a Mediation Information &amp; Assessment Meeting.</p><p>We have also put in place a mediation voucher scheme for up to £500 financial assistance to help families resolve certain private law children matters outside of court. This support is not limited to parents and grandparents are eligible for support with the costs of mediation under this scheme too.</p><p>The government is exploring further measures to support parents and wider family members to resolve these matters outside of court and will announce proposals in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 11:57:06 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1569096

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing Council for England and Wales
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to assess the efficacy of the Sentencing Council.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Sentencing Council is an independent non-departmental public body. Section 119 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 sets out that the Council must provide the Lord Chancellor with an annual report on the exercise of its functions, and that the Lord Chancellor must lay a copy before Parliament. The Ministry of Justice also regularly reviews performance to provide assurance that the Council is fulfilling its statutory functions. In addition, a tailored review of the Council was published in 2019 which made a number of operational recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness, which have been implemented.</p><p>The 2021/22 Annual Report can be found here: <a href="https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/item/sentencing-council-annual-report-2021-22/" target="_blank">https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/item/sentencing-council-annual-report-2021-22/</a>.</p><p>The 2019 tailored review of the Sentencing Council can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tailored-review-of-the-sentencing-council" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tailored-review-of-the-sentencing-council</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 11:56:13 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1568869

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reparation by Offenders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many restorative justice services they plan to have set up by the end of 2023, broken down by the location of those services.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is more than quadrupling funding for victim and witness support services by 2024/25, up from £41m in 2009/10.</p><p>This includes grant funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to commission local practical, emotional, and therapeutic support services for victims of all crime types. It is at the PCCs’ discretion to allocate this funding for local services, based on their assessment of local need, which could include Restorative Justice services.</p><p>We collect data and information from PCCs on funding activities and impact on a bi-annual basis, throughout the financial year; we therefore do not yet have any data for 2023.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 02/02/2023 11:55:32 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1568368

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many people serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection had their first parole hearing (1) on, or (2) after, tariff expiry and were either (a) directed, or (b) not directed, for release, following their hearing in each year since 2009.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL4840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>By law any prisoner serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence who has completed the minimum term (tariff) set by the Court at the point of sentence is eligible to be considered for release. However, the Parole Board will direct the prisoner’s release where it concludes that it is no longer necessary on the grounds of public protection for the prisoner to remain confined.</p><p>The Secretary of State must refer a prisoner’s case to the Parole Board at the end of their minimum tariff period and, if release is not directed, at least every two years thereafter. The Parole Board is responsible for the listing of cases referred to it. Ministers or officials may not intervene in this process.</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving an IPP sentence that had their first parole hearing after 2009 and were either (a) directed for release, or (b) not directed for release, following the hearing, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Hearing/Outcome Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Release</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Not directed for Release (including open condition decisions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>(Note 3 below refers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>1,033</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>1,207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>344</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>366</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>246</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Cases not directed for release include open condition decisions.</li><li>Providing the data as asked is not possible due to a number of process and system related issues that form part of the normal generic parole process.</li><li>‘Hearing/outcome year’ refers to the date of the hearing or, in instances where the date of the hearing is not recorded, the outcome date.</li><li>Records prior to 2010 could not be located using administrative systems. The data provided only accounts for cases where the parole eligibility date starts from 2009. The first parole hearing data in the database is from 2010, so this restriction is necessary to improve identification of first parole hearings. It is likely that some cases with a parole eligibility date in 2009 or 2010 had a parole date hearing in 2009; these would not be captured in the table.</li><li>Some hearings in recent years may be yet to conclude.</li><li>This data does not account for deferrals or adjournments of parole hearings. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by HM Prison &amp; Probation Service. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</li></ol> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 01/02/2023 12:03:57 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1568369

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bellamy on 30 November 2022 (HL3458), how many of those people were serving an extended determinate sentence with a custodial tariff of (1) six months or less, (2) more than six months but less than 12 months, (3) more than 12 months but less than two years, (4) more than two years but less than four years, (5) more than four years but less than six years, (6) more than six years but less than 10 years, and (7) more than 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL4841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2023 answer text <p>The table below sets out the minimum terms of imprisonment (custodial tariffs) of prisoners serving an extended determinate sentence (EDS) who are eligible for release via parole as part of their EDS, who were released after their first parole review in each of the last five years in which full data is available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sentence length</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Release year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Six months or less</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than six months to less than twelve months</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From twelve months to less than two years</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From two years to less than four years</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From four years to less than six years</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>From six years to less than ten years</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>232</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ten years or more</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data sources and quality:</p><p>1. Some prisoners were released without accessing the parole process because they were deported or, exceptionally, left prison following early release on compassionate grounds</p><p>2. Some parole hearings were not completed as a result of the prisoner receiving a new sentence or being transferred to secure hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983.</p><p>3. Total figures in the table do not match published total releases for EDS offenders, as some EDS offenders are not eligible for release via parole as part of their EDS.</p><p>4. The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p>5. Disclosure control: An asterisk (*) has been used to suppress values of one or two. This is to prevent the disclosure of individual information. Further suppression may be applied where needed.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 01/02/2023 12:02:52 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1566592

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many women in prison were sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL4699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2023 answer text <p>Under sections 47/49 and 48/49 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the Secretary of State may authorise by warrant the transfer of female prisoners to a secure hospital, where he is satisfied that the criteria for detention are met.</p><p>The number of women prisoners transferred to hospital in each of the last five years are:</p><p>2021 – 184</p><p>2020 - 181</p><p>2019 - 213</p><p>2018 - 192</p><p>2017 – 180</p><p>The data for 2022 are not currently available, they are due for publication later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/01/2023 14:44:37 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1566601

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when the past minutes of the (shadow) Senior Data Governance Panel will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL4708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>Under its Terms of Reference, a summary of the proceedings of the Senior Data Governance Panel will be published after each meeting.</p><p>The Panel’s Secretariat intend to issue during Spring 2023 a public summary of all previous meetings, which took place over the 24 months when the Panel was not yet formalised, alongside the public summary of the first formalised Panel meeting.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 19/01/2023 13:05:06 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones

1566626

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to review the sentencing of those currently in the prison system serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
uin	HL4742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>Following their inquiry into the continued existence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, the Justice Select Committee (JSC) published their report which included a recommendation that the Government conduct a resentencing exercise of all remaining IPP sentences. The Government is carefully considering all the recommendations in the JSC report and will respond shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is focused on the successful rehabilitation of IPP prisoners and is working jointly with the Parole Board to realise this goal via the IPP Action Plan. This approach is working; the number of IPP prisoners who have never been released stood at 1,437 in September 2022, down from over 6,000 at its peak in 2012. The JSC also recommended that HMPPS review and update the IPP Action Plan; this work is now underway.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 25/01/2023 11:48:33 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury