Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

77442

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (i) have let and (ii) plan to let that are worth (A) between £1 million and £3 million and (B) over £3 million since 2010; how much his Department has spent on monitoring each such contract; and how many officials in his Department monitor each contract.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p><strong>A)</strong></p><p>Since the start of January 2010 the Ministry of Justice has let 114 contracts with a estimated value between £1m and £3m, and 189 with a estimated value over £3m. Please note this figure can vary between points in time as forecast contract value at award can be more or less than actual contract value as the contract progresses - this means contracts could fall into, or drop out of, the parameters specified above.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice cannot accurately provide a figure for the number of contracts it plans to let. The department will evaluate each requirement on a case by case basis before making the decision to engage with the market or continuing to deliver the service in-house.</p><p>The private sector has an important role to play in helping deliver much needed reforms. We remain committed to promoting a diverse market including public, private and voluntary sector, as well as ensuring rigorous contract management and high standards of behaviour.</p><p>We have undertaken a major review of contract management to ensure that we have in place robust and accountable systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>B) </strong>We are unable to answer the second part of the question as doing so would incur disproportionate costs. To provide this information would entail contacting all individuals responsible for the operational and commercial management of contracts, performance managers, audit and others. We would then be required to do a cost analysis of the time that individual allocated to the management of the respective contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/09/2014 12:22:54 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77443

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who were born male but now live as a women have been moved to a women's prison in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	205412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>It is not possible to report on the number of prisoners with Gender Recognition Certificates or on the number who were born male but now live as female. Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 prohibits disclosure of the fact that someone has applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate or disclosure of someone's gender prior to the acquisition of the Gender Recognition Certificate.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals with a gender recognition certificate are recorded on administrative systems as their legal gender, and are not identifiable as having changed gender. To use any other source of information to identify such individuals would not be appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Equality Duty, NOMS is committed to paying due regard to the need to address and eliminate the unlawful discrimination and harassment of transgender individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 205389 205390 205391 question first answered 16/07/2014 16:04:46 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

77449

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who were born as men have been issued self-certificated gender recognition certificates; and how many such prisoners have been transferred to women's prisons.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	205391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>It is not possible to report on the number of prisoners with Gender Recognition Certificates or on the number who were born male but now live as female. Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 prohibits disclosure of the fact that someone has applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate or disclosure of someone's gender prior to the acquisition of the Gender Recognition Certificate.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals with a gender recognition certificate are recorded on administrative systems as their legal gender, and are not identifiable as having changed gender. To use any other source of information to identify such individuals would not be appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Equality Duty, NOMS is committed to paying due regard to the need to address and eliminate the unlawful discrimination and harassment of transgender individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 205389 205390 205412 question first answered 16/07/2014 16:04:46 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

77450

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have self-certified gender recognition certificates; and how many such prisoners were born (a) male and (b) female.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	205389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>It is not possible to report on the number of prisoners with Gender Recognition Certificates or on the number who were born male but now live as female. Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 prohibits disclosure of the fact that someone has applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate or disclosure of someone's gender prior to the acquisition of the Gender Recognition Certificate.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals with a gender recognition certificate are recorded on administrative systems as their legal gender, and are not identifiable as having changed gender. To use any other source of information to identify such individuals would not be appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Equality Duty, NOMS is committed to paying due regard to the need to address and eliminate the unlawful discrimination and harassment of transgender individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 205390 205391 205412 question first answered 16/07/2014 16:04:46 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

77451

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Gender Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who were born as female but now live as men, have been moved to men's prisons; and how many such prisoners have self-certified gender recognition certificates.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	205390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>It is not possible to report on the number of prisoners with Gender Recognition Certificates or on the number who were born male but now live as female. Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 prohibits disclosure of the fact that someone has applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate or disclosure of someone's gender prior to the acquisition of the Gender Recognition Certificate.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals with a gender recognition certificate are recorded on administrative systems as their legal gender, and are not identifiable as having changed gender. To use any other source of information to identify such individuals would not be appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Equality Duty, NOMS is committed to paying due regard to the need to address and eliminate the unlawful discrimination and harassment of transgender individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 205389 205391 205412 question first answered 16/07/2014 16:04:46 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

77452

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on refurbishing (a) gym and leisure facilities, (b) cafeteria and (c) interior decoration within (i) his Department and (ii) buildings owned by his Department in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice keeps its estate under review to ensure it meets business need, is cost effective, provides value for money for the taxpayer and is more sustainable. Separate information on interior decoration, cafeteria and gym and leisure facility refurbishment is not collected centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Since the start of the Spending Review (SR10) the size of the estate has been reduced by over 600 properties to nearly 1,500 properties. As a result, lower business as usual costs have been achieved. We have removed nearly 50% of the administrative estate from our portfolio over the last four years. We have reduced 180 properties to 98 in England and Wales including from 18 properties to 4 in London, saving over £34m a year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 17/07/2014 10:49:24 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77453

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many away days his Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not hold away days. The MoJ does on occasion hold training events outside its main buildings. However, these events are neither recorded nor funded centrally as they would be organised by heads of directorates. Therefore to provide the information requested would incur disproportionate costs as we would be required to contact all directorates and organisations within MoJ and its Arms Length Bodies to produce an accurate figure.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 17/07/2014 10:42:24 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77454

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on what (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) him and (ii) Ministers in his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>Three Ministers received media training from an external provider in July 2010, at a total cost of £3,000. The training was designed to assist them in clearly communicating the work of the Ministry of Justice to the public. There has been no further spending on such training.</p><p> </p><p>No Minister has received social media training.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/07/2014 15:37:43 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77455

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Media: Subscriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In response to Part A of the question “what magazine subscriptions his Department funds”.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no contracted provision to supply general magazines.</p><p> </p><p>In response to Part B of the Question “what television channels his department funds”.</p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service funded The Life Channel in a limited number of Prisons in 2013/2014. This service provides broadcast programming that is aimed at reducing reoffending and cascading general health information to prisoners and visitors.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 20/10/2014 14:13:07 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

77456

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's policy is on alcohol consumption on the premises (a) in general and (b) during parties held in his Private Office.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>The Departmental policy sets out that when providing in-house hospitality, no alcohol is to be paid for from departmental funds. When providing hospitality to external stakeholders discretion can be exercised but only where there is a justification, where expenditure is modest, and only then with approval at Director level. The same policy applies to parties held in Private Offices.</p><p> </p><p>Employees are expected to behave in accordance with the standards set out in the Civil Service Code and the departmental Conduct policy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 30/07/2014 15:29:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter