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1700517

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	Prisons: Naloxone
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of naloxone kits issued (a) within custodial settings in and (b) on release from HM Prisons in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	21404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Naloxone kits have been issued and maintained by individual healthcare providers across the prison estate and have not been supplied by the Ministry of Justice over the time specified in the question.</p><p>From January 2024, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is coordinating roll-out of Naloxone training on a voluntary basis to prison staff. We will collate data on the use of Naloxone by HMPPS staff as roll-out and usage progresses.</p><p>The information requested for opioid overdose reversals is not held centrally. In relation to fatalities, ONS data on drug-related deaths includes the number in which opiates are mentioned on the death certificate (which differs from the number of overdoses) – table 7 in this publication <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugrelateddeathsandsuicideinprisoncustody" target="_blank">Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>. However, this only covers up to 2019, as it uses data from Coroner’s reports on which there is a considerable time lag. Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, an opioid overdose could be classed as a self-inflicted death or an ‘other: non-natural' death. Therefore, without checking the individual cases, it is not possible to obtain an accurate figure from the wider data, on fatalities.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21405 21406 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1700518

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	Prisons: Naloxone
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times naloxone has been administered in custodial settings in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	21405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Naloxone kits have been issued and maintained by individual healthcare providers across the prison estate and have not been supplied by the Ministry of Justice over the time specified in the question.</p><p>From January 2024, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is coordinating roll-out of Naloxone training on a voluntary basis to prison staff. We will collate data on the use of Naloxone by HMPPS staff as roll-out and usage progresses.</p><p>The information requested for opioid overdose reversals is not held centrally. In relation to fatalities, ONS data on drug-related deaths includes the number in which opiates are mentioned on the death certificate (which differs from the number of overdoses) – table 7 in this publication <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugrelateddeathsandsuicideinprisoncustody" target="_blank">Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>. However, this only covers up to 2019, as it uses data from Coroner’s reports on which there is a considerable time lag. Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, an opioid overdose could be classed as a self-inflicted death or an ‘other: non-natural' death. Therefore, without checking the individual cases, it is not possible to obtain an accurate figure from the wider data, on fatalities.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21404 21406 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1700519

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	Prisons: Opioids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many opioid overdoses in custodial settings have (a) been successfully reversed and (b) resulted in fatalities in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	21406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Naloxone kits have been issued and maintained by individual healthcare providers across the prison estate and have not been supplied by the Ministry of Justice over the time specified in the question.</p><p>From January 2024, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is coordinating roll-out of Naloxone training on a voluntary basis to prison staff. We will collate data on the use of Naloxone by HMPPS staff as roll-out and usage progresses.</p><p>The information requested for opioid overdose reversals is not held centrally. In relation to fatalities, ONS data on drug-related deaths includes the number in which opiates are mentioned on the death certificate (which differs from the number of overdoses) – table 7 in this publication <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugrelateddeathsandsuicideinprisoncustody" target="_blank">Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>. However, this only covers up to 2019, as it uses data from Coroner’s reports on which there is a considerable time lag. Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, an opioid overdose could be classed as a self-inflicted death or an ‘other: non-natural' death. Therefore, without checking the individual cases, it is not possible to obtain an accurate figure from the wider data, on fatalities.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21404 21405 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1692787

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
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 legal aid remains accessible.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	16425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>Access to justice is a fundamental right, and in 2022/23 we spent £1.86 billion on legal aid: £926 million on civil, £873 million on crime, and £56 million through central funds (central funds provide funding for, amongst other things, Defence Costs Orders, which are made in respect of non legally-aided defendants who are acquitted, and independent cross examination of vulnerable witnesses in criminal and civil proceedings).</p><p>The Ministry of Justice published the Government Response to the Means Test Review consultation exercise in May 2023, which sets out the detailed policy decisions underpinning the new means-test arrangements.</p><p>Our changes will increase the number of people eligible for civil legal aid in England and Wales by an additional 2.5 million, with 3.5 million more people eligible for criminal legal aid at the magistrates’ court.</p><p>We have also injected up to £10 million a year into housing legal aid through the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS). HLPAS provides early legal advice on housing, debt, and welfare benefits problems for anyone facing the loss of their home.</p><p>In 2023, we broadened the evidence requirements for victims of domestic abuse applying for legal aid. Special Guardianship Orders in private law proceedings were also brought into the scope of legal aid. This represented an injection of £13 million a year.</p><p>We will shortly be consulting on expanding the provision of legal aid at inquests related to major incidents where the Independent Public Advocate is appointed or in the aftermath of terrorist incidents. If implemented, this would mean that no family involved in such cases in future would face an inquest without proper legal representation.</p><p>To support and strengthen the criminal legal aid sector, in responding to the Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review, we uplifted most criminal legal aid fee schemes by 15% in 2022. We are also consulting on reforms to the police station fee scheme and the Youth Court fee scheme, for which we have allocated an extra £21 million per year. These changes increase spend by up to £141 million a year - taking expected criminal legal aid spend to £1.2 billion per year. The additional funding into the system will help contribute towards the sustainability of the market and help ensure legal aid is accessible for the future.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 16285 question first answered 08/03/2024 14:37:18 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1685309

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Recovery of Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will undertake a review of the fixed recoverable costs scheme.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	11659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>Fixed recoverable costs (FRC) was extended for new cases on 1 October 2023. The Government will review the extended FRC regime in October 2026, three years after implementation. More information about the nature and scope of the review will be set out nearer the time.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 05/02/2024 15:50:13 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1657293

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Summerland Leisure Centre: Monuments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps with the Isle of Man Government to establish a memorial to the Summerland fire on that site.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	197257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Isle of Man is a self-governing Crown Dependency and this matter falls within the jurisdiction of the Isle of Man Government.  It would not be appropriate for the UK to intervene.</p><p>I understand that the site of the former Summerland complex is clear and available for redevelopment and that there is a willingness on the part of the Isle of Man Government to support the inclusion of a memorial within any future redevelopment.</p><p>An existing memorial, the Kaye Memorial Garden, which is very near to the Summerland site, was established on the 40th anniversary of the fire by Douglas Borough Council. The garden is recognised by Isle of Man Government as the national memorial site. This year, on the 50th anniversary, the Chief Minister, heads of emergency services, survivors and relatives of the victims gathered there to mark the occasion.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/09/2023 14:47:07 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1648952

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the prisons estate.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	191874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>We received almost £4 billion of funding at SR21 to deliver 20,000 additional, modern prison places, ensuring the right conditions are in place to rehabilitate prisoners, helping to cut crime and protect the public. We continue to invest in prison maintenance so that existing places remain in use and are safe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/07/2023 09:49:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1648558

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Warrington North
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the size of the backlog of criminal court cases in Warrington North constituency.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	191677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2023 answer text <p>The number of outstanding cases at the magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court are routinely published as part of the National Statistics release Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly. The latest published data is available to December 2022 and can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2022" target="_blank">Criminal court statistics quarterly: October to December 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. For the Crown Court, figures are published specifically for the North West. For magistrates’ courts, the Cheshire Local Justice Area is the closest match available. For further data relating to the Cheshire Local Justice Area, the Criminal Justice Delivery Data Dashboard is published quarterly and can be found at the following link: <a href="https://criminal-justice-delivery-data-dashboards.justice.gov.uk/overview" target="_blank">Criminal justice system overview - CJS Dashboard</a>.</p><p>The published data for the Crown Court are found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1146768/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Crown Court cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>, and the published data for the magistrates’ court are found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1146766/mags_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">Magistrates' courts cases received, disposed and outstanding tool</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 06/07/2023 09:07:20 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1647956

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of rape charge rates in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	191227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>Through the Rape Review, we are making sustained progress on our ambitions to increase the number of referrals to the CPS, CPS charges, and Crown Court receipts for adult rape cases back to 2016 levels. 2016 levels are an ambitious target – convictions in 2016 were 30% higher than in 2010 under Labour.</p><p> </p><p>According to the latest quarter of data we have either exceeded or are on track to exceed each ambition:</p><p>o There were 1,079 total police referrals, more than double the 2019 quarterly average of 461 and up by 41% compared to the 2016 quarterly average of 766. (Oct-Dec 2022)</p><p>o There were 472 CPS charges, nearly double the 2019 quarterly average of 244, just 12% below the 2016 quarterly average of 538. (Oct-Dec 2022)</p><p>o The number of adult rape Crown Court receipts continued to increase in the first quarter of 2023 with 605 Crown Court receipts, exceeding our ambition of 553. (Jan- March 2023)</p><p> </p><p>Crucially we are increasing the number of cases we are bringing to court. Adult rape prosecutions continue to rise, up to 1,710 in 2022, an increase of 4% on 2010 under Labour.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/07/2023 13:32:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1646423

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he is taking steps to increase the availability of legal aid.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	190679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>The changes we are making to the legal aid means test will significantly expand legal aid eligibility. We estimate that this will mean that an additional 2 million people in England and Wales will have access to civil legal aid, and 3.5 million more will have access to legal aid at the magistrates’ court.</p><p>We are also investing up to £10m each year through the creation of a Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service. This will enable people facing the loss of their home to receive early legal advice on housing, debt and welfare benefits issues as well as representation in court from 1 August 2023.</p><p>We made changes to family legal in February this year, injecting a further £13m in funding each year. One of the changes ensures Special Guardianship Orders brought in private law proceedings are now within scope of legal aid. We have also updated the supporting evidence requirements for victims of domestic abuse when they apply for certain legal aid services. This means medical practitioners can now provide a letter as evidence of domestic abuse after a telephone or video-conferencing consultation, rather than only after a face-to-face appointment.</p><p>Finally, we are spending around £8m on expanding legal aid provision through the Nationality and Borders Act. In all other immigration matters, individuals can apply for Exceptional Case Funding, where they can show that without legal aid, there is a risk that their human rights may be breached.</p><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors capacity in the legal aid market and the provision of services and takes immediate action when gaps appear.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 29/06/2023 08:52:19 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols