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174455

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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, what steps he is taking to ensure that the successful bidder for Compliance and Enforcement Service Project offers value for money.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	221188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The final bids submitted by the remaining three bidders on 5 January 2015 for the competition for Compliance and Enforcement Services are going through a robust evaluation process and HMCTS will award the contract based upon the bidder which submits the most economically advantageous tender. The evaluation criteria takes into account price and non price factors and the overall achievability and financial viability of the bids.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this the agreement that will be put in place with the selected service provider will deliver value for money through a combination of the payment mechanism which incorporates a Payment By Results element based upon performance, Key Performance Indicators and penalties for underperformance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 22/01/2015 16:03:03 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

174456

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Town Halls: Fenton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the next meeting between officials of his Department, Urban Vision and Stoke-on-Trent City Council to discuss Fenton Town Hall will take place.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	221182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Ministry of Justice officials met, including telephone conferences, with Urban Vision on one occasion and with Stoke on Trent City Council on three occasions in the last three months. There are no further meetings scheduled to take place. The MoJ is now in commercial discussions for the sale of the property to a private bidder.</p><p> </p><p>Members of the community in Stoke-on-Trent have made their views on the court building clear to us, and we have engaged in constructive dialogue with Urban Vision as they developed their business case.</p><p> </p><p>Following those discussions, we offered to transfer ownership of the building to Stoke-on-Trent City Council, for a peppercorn rate so they could work with Urban Vision and others on the long term future of the building. Unfortunately the council has declined that offer and sadly now we will be looking to sell the court.</p><p> </p><p>We were keen to explore solutions that suited the community but we have a duty to get best value for the taxpayer when disposing of surplus property and this building had been empty for over two years.</p><p> </p><p>We will be paying for three of the war memorials to be carefully relocated to the nearby Fenton Christ Church. There will be a legal duty for whoever buys the building to preserve the Minton Memorial which cannot be safely moved.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 221235 question first answered 22/01/2015 16:08:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

174457

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of convictions, (b) conviction rate as a percentage of prosecutions brought and (c) rate of convictions as a percentage of crimes reported was for (i) murder, (ii) grievous bodily harm, (iii) sexual offences, (iv) burglary, (v) robbery, (vi) theft, (vii) criminal damage, (viii) public order offences, (ix) drug offences, (x) driving offences and (xi) all offences in (A) Elmbridge, (B) Surrey, (C) the South East of England and (D) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	221192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Crime is falling and is at its lowest level since records began in 1981, as per the Crime Survey in England and Wales. Since 2010 those who do offend are more likely to go to prison and for longer than ever before. For the first time in ten years, an immediate prison sentence is the most common disposal for indictable offences.<br> <br>This follows a series of measures by the Government to toughen up sentencing and make sure those who commit these crimes face a significant term in prison, including an automatic life sentence for a second serious sexual or violent offence. <br><br>There are also several measures to strengthen sentencing in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, which has completed its passage through Parliament and awaits Royal Assent. These include ensuring that all dangerous offenders who receive the tough Extended Determinate Sentence (EDS) are no longer automatically released two-thirds of the way through their custodial term. The Government has also banned the use of simple cautions for serious offences. <br> <br>We are also determined that our justice system delivers the right outcomes for victims of crime and the public as a whole, and we have made great strides in recent years – not least through smarter use of technology, and joined-up working.<br><br>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty, along with conviction ratio at all courts of the offences specified in the question from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in the tables as detailed below:-<br><br>Figures for Surrey can be viewed in Table 1<br>Figures for the South East of England can be viewed in Table 2<br>Figures for England as a whole can be viewed in Table 3<br><br>There are no courts in the Borough of Elmbridge; hence the figure for that portion of the question is zero. The Ministry of Justice court proceedings database cannot specifically identify the exact location of offences. These figures are based on the location of the court hearing the case.<br><br>Conviction ratio is provided in place of conviction rate as a case can be commenced in one year and concluded in a subsequent year.<br><br>A defendant may be convicted in a different year to that in which they were proceeded against. Variation in the conviction ratio can be caused either by a change in the percentage of cases that end in conviction or by a change in the percentage of cases that end in a conviction in the same year as the original proceeding. Therefore fluctuations in data, particularly in the last year for which figures are available can be misleading. <br><br>Rates of convictions as a percentage of reported crime cannot be provided. The Home Office collects data on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police. Of these, some crimes may be subsequently ‘no crimed’ (for example if it is believed a crime did not actually take place or was incorrectly recorded as a crime).<br><br>Therefore, conviction rates as a percentage of recorded crime could therefore present a misleading picture.<br><br>Court proceedings data for 2014 are planned for publication in Spring 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/02/2015 09:55:12 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQ 221192 - Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts.xls title Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

174458

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Town Halls: Fenton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions officials from his Department have met (a) Urban Vision and (b) Stoke-on-Trent City Council to discuss Fenton Town Hall in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	221235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>Ministry of Justice officials met, including telephone conferences, with Urban Vision on one occasion and with Stoke on Trent City Council on three occasions in the last three months. There are no further meetings scheduled to take place. The MoJ is now in commercial discussions for the sale of the property to a private bidder.</p><p> </p><p>Members of the community in Stoke-on-Trent have made their views on the court building clear to us, and we have engaged in constructive dialogue with Urban Vision as they developed their business case.</p><p> </p><p>Following those discussions, we offered to transfer ownership of the building to Stoke-on-Trent City Council, for a peppercorn rate so they could work with Urban Vision and others on the long term future of the building. Unfortunately the council has declined that offer and sadly now we will be looking to sell the court.</p><p> </p><p>We were keen to explore solutions that suited the community but we have a duty to get best value for the taxpayer when disposing of surplus property and this building had been empty for over two years.</p><p> </p><p>We will be paying for three of the war memorials to be carefully relocated to the nearby Fenton Christ Church. There will be a legal duty for whoever buys the building to preserve the Minton Memorial which cannot be safely moved.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 221182 question first answered 22/01/2015 16:08:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

174541

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, given the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' assessment that over 60 per cent of young people in the youth justice estate have speech and language problems, what plans they have to provide time for such needs to be addressed in addition to the 30 hours per week for education in the forthcoming contract for young offender institutions and (from 2017) the new secure colleges, as stated by Lord Faulks in his Written Answers of 3 December 2014 (HL2982 and HL2983).
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL4241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Young offenders’ time in custody should be an opportunity to turn their lives around and prevent them reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>Education contracts have now been awarded in public sector young offender institutions (YOIs) for young people under 18. They will more than double the current average number of hours of education provided for young people in YOIs each week, and focus on providing a quality of education equivalent to mainstream schools and colleges that meets the individual needs of young people including those with special educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2015, local authorities will be under a duty to arrange the special education provision set out in a young person’s Education Health and Care (EHC) plan, including speech and language therapy, while a young person is detained in custody. Those in charge of secure establishments and health service commissioners will work with the local authority in fulfilling their duty to arrange appropriate provision. A request for an EHC plan assessment can also be made while the young person is detained and the assessment can begin in custody.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the improved education contracts, a new core day will be implemented in YOIs over the coming months. This will support the increased education hours and schedule other daily activities around learning as happens for young people in the community so that the full range of their needs can be addressed.</p><p> </p><p>Secure Colleges will for the first time offer a fully integrated, multi-agency approach to tackling the offending of young people. The regime will be integrated with health, substance misuse and wider services. The operator procurement will focus on ensuring that the provider has the skills and experience to achieve improved outcomes by delivering this holistic regime to meet the individual needs of each young person accommodated there.</p><p> </p><p>The first Secure College has been carefully designed with flexibility in mind to support an integrated regime which effectively addresses individual needs, and the principal health and education centres are located in a single building to facilitate ease of access and reduce interruptions.</p><p> </p><p>We will finalise expectations on Secure Colleges in respect of children and young people with special educational needs following further engagement with educationalists and prospective providers.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 02/02/2015 16:26:38 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

174245

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing: Bradford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 214963, what the (a) actual offence charged, (b) number of previous convictions, (c) number of previous knife crime convictions, (d) age of the offender, (e) other offences were charged and sentenced at the same time and (f) other information which formed part of the sentencing decision was in each case at Bradford Crown Court for which an immediate custodial sentence was not handed down.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	221097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>It has not been possible to answer these questions within the time available. I will write to my honourable friend in due course and a copy of the response will be placed in the Library.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 23/01/2015 14:58:29 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

174246

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Police Cautions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 214936, how many such cautions were issued in each police force area.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	221098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>Further to my answer to Question 214936 of 25 November 2014, information those offenders cautioned for sexual activity with a child under 13 in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 by police force area can be viewed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>This data can also be sourced, via the creation of pivot tables, from information which is in the public domain as part of the Criminal Justice Statistics annual publication, in the table “Cautions by police force area”. This is available at: <a title="blocked::https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-december-2013" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-december-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>Police Force areas are covered in column A and offences (sexual activity with a child under 13 is offence number 21) is in column J. When manipulating these data, please bear in mind the footnotes in the table apply here too.</p><p> </p><p>All sexual offences are abhorrent and the Government is clear that serious criminals should always face the courts, where judges have tough sentencing measures available to them. We have changed the rules to stop cautions being given for serious offences and have unveiled plans to scrap their use completely. This proposed new system will see cautions replaced with a system of tougher sanctions designed to make sure offenders face direct consequences for carrying out even minor crimes. People have to be able to have confidence in our justice system and serious offenders should not be getting cautions. Under this Government, more sex offenders are going to jail and for longer.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 23/01/2015 15:03:30 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes attachment 1 file name 221098 -table.xls title Offenders cautioned for sexual activity with child
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

174247

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Distress Warrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of distress warrants that were passed to private debt collection agencies were returned to his Department as uncollected in each of the last three years; and what proportion of those penalties were subsequently collected by the National Crime and Enforcement Service.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	221100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years. The amount of money collected reached an all time high of £290 million at the end of 2013/14 and collections continue to rise. In 2013/14 the total outstanding balance of financial impositions reduced by £26.7m (5%) in the year.</p><p> </p><p>We do not keep data on the numbers of distress warrants returned uncollected.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to provide figures on the proportion of those warrants returned where the impositions were subsequently collected by the National Crime and Enforcement Service due to the constraints of the current IT system.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/01/2015 16:24:55 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

174248

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Fines
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 effect of staff of his Department having access to HM Revenue and Customs information on individuals who have defaulted and are in employment on the level of collection rates of fines and compensation set by the courts.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	221135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years. The amount of money collected reached an all time high of £290 million at the end of 2013/14 and collections continue to rise. In 2013/14 the total outstanding balance of financial impositions reduced by £26.7m (5%) in the year.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2014 HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) started a pilot to utilise data provided by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to enforce outstanding financial impositions. While the pilot is limited to a number of specifically targeted cases, early indications are that HMRC are able to provide data that assists in the enforcement of outstanding accounts.</p><p> </p><p>So far HMCTS has sent over 124,000 accounts to HMRC who have been able to supply HMCTS with employer’s details on 40% of those accounts and self employment details on a further 22%. In addition, HMRC has been able to provide additional information, such as addresses and phone numbers, that differ from those held on the HMCTS account.</p><p> </p><p>As a result HMCTS have secured attachment of earnings orders on 66% of the accounts where HMRC have been able to supply employer’s details. Additionally, HMRC data secured on some of the accounts in the remaining 34% has enabled us to take immediate alternative enforcement action, such as the service of a further steps notice, but may also enable future enforcement by attachment of earnings should it be required.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify how much has been collected as direct result of the data received from HMRC, without checking every account in scope and establishing how many of those accounts would have been paid in full in any event. However, it is possible to confirm that use of the HMRC data has resulted in accounts that have been outstanding for a number of years suddenly being paid in full as a result of the attachment of earnings order, despite many previous attempts to enforce them.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/01/2015 15:54:41 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

174249

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in each prison in England and Wales were segregated in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	221133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Prisoners are segregated as a last resort and for the shortest time necessary for reasons of good order and discipline or for their own protection. While segregated, prisoners are subject to a number of mandatory safeguards designed to ensure their safety and well being. Prisoners will be returned to normal location as soon as it is safe to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Figures recording the number of prisoners who have been placed in segregation are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost by collating the information from records held locally at each prison.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/01/2015 11:40:01 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter