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678113

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help ex-offenders find accommodation on their release from prison.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	61499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2017 answer text <p>Ensuring that offenders have access to suitable and stable accommodation is integral to breaking the cycle of reoffending.</p><p>As part of our probation reforms all offenders, including those sentenced to less than 12 months, now receive targeted support when they leave prison to help them reintegrate into society. This includes help to find accommodation. We are currently conducting a comprehensive review of the probation system, which will look at how we can improve outcomes for offenders. The review will be completed in April this year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/01/2017 14:36:56 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

670299

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the financial contribution to the UK economy of law firms based elsewhere in the EU and operating in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	59098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2017 answer text <p>English law has had a huge impact, spreading the rule of law around the world. It is the law of choice in over a quarter of jurisdictions. We will be championing our £25 billion legal services industry as a key part of post-Brexit global Britain.</p><p> </p><p>We are not aware of any reports that include aggregate data on the contribution that international, including EU, firms make to the UK economy. It may also be the case that firms do not separate out their UK income from their wider income, especially where they operate in a number of jurisdictions, or where work is spread across jurisdictions or provided across borders.</p><p> </p><p>English common law is the preferred choice for international commercial contracts, and English law governs about 40 per cent of all global corporate arbitrations.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 15/02/2017 10:05:08 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

647260

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the reasons for high prison officer turnover; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	55267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>A core part of our prison safety and reform plan is the recruitment of an additional 2,500 prison officers. In 10 of our most challenging prisons we have already started a recruitment programme, and I am pleased to say that we have already made 348 job offers for those 400 jobs, on top of 1,400 new officer appointed in the last 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>To address the relatively higher numbers of new officers who leave in the first year, we are improving the support that applicants and new prison officers receive, so that they have the opportunity to explore and understand the role of the prison officer before applying and supporting them through to the completion of their training and probation. At 30 of our most challenging recruitment sites we will be giving prison governors greater freedoms to hire the staff right for them, with the expertise and skills they need.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of established staff, higher staffing levels are set to improve the supervision of prisoners, operational resilience and staff engagement with prisoners; all of which will improve prison safety and encourage experienced staff to stay. The percentage of experienced staff is higher now than it was in 2010.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 24/01/2017 12:40:00 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

631211

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of how many people in (a) Greater London and (b) the UK are directly employed in legal services; and what estimate she has made of the number of jobs in that sector which might be relocated from the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	52147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>According to the CityUK UK Legal Services Report 2016, around 370,000 people are employed in the legal services sector. This includes 314,100 in private practice (which excludes those working in-house, in foreign firms and on a contract basis, and those not attached to an organisation). English law has had a huge impact, spreading the rule of law around the world. It is the law of choice in over a quarter of jurisdictions, and Brexit gives us even more opportunities to promote this. We will be championing our £25 billion legal services industry as a key part of post-Brexit global Britain.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 14/11/2016 17:18:47 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

620031

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the completion rate was for education courses taken in prisons in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	49948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The available information for prison education is published by the Department for Education (DfE) in their Statistical First Release, available on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/10/2016 14:12:51 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

584147

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of an appeal being cancelled at (a) First-tier Tribunal and (b) Upper-tier Tribunal due to documents from the Home Office not being submitted before the hearing date in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	46503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chambers) are administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS).</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS does not routinely estimate the cost of the cancellation of individual postponement and adjournments because the Tribunal will, wherever possible, replace a cancelled hearing with cases that are available in reserve.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 10/10/2016 14:12:04 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

576905

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeal hearings were cancelled in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) the first eight months of 2016 at the (i) First-tier Tribunal and (ii) Upper-tier Tribunal due to documents from the Home Office not being submitted before the hearing date.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	45321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chambers) are administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS).</p><p> </p><p>The number of appeal hearings adjourned at the hearing, or postponed prior to the hearing, due to documents from the Home Office not being submitted before the hearing date was:</p><p>(i) First-tier Tribunal: (a) 2014 – 833 and (b) 2015 – 739</p><p>(ii) Upper Tribunal: (a) 2014 – 17 and (b) 2015 – 8</p><p> </p><p>The number of appeal hearings either adjourned at the hearing, or postponed prior to the hearing due to documents from the Home Office not being submitted before the hearing date in the first six months of 2016, which are the latest figures available, was:</p><p>(i) First-tier Tribunal – 269</p><p>(ii) Upper Tribunal – 1</p><p> </p><p>Data provided are internal Management Information and not subject to the same quality checks as Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 12/09/2016 17:00:17 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

510144

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
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 additional costs incurred by his Department arising from appeal hearings at the First-tier Tribunal (Asylum and Immigration) being adjourned as a result of no Home Office representative being present.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	33377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>This information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/04/2016 13:44:01 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

487107

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeal hearings at the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) were (a) withdrawn and (b) adjourned because the Home Office did not send a representative in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	32540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service.</p><p> </p><p>There are no available data relating to numbers of appeals withdrawn where the Home Office representative did not attend the hearing.</p><p> </p><p>The number of appeal hearings adjourned because the Home Office did not send a representative in (i) 2012-13 was 64 (ii) 2013-14 was 61 and (iii) 2014-15 was 68. For comparison, the figure in 2009/10 was 94.</p><p> </p><p>Data provided are internal Management Information and not subject to the same quality checks as Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 11/04/2016 14:23:51 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms