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515694

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of potential steps to increase provision of (a) court time and (b) relevantly skilled members of the judiciary to ensure the timely management of legal proceedings on complex planning disputes.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	35494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>The Planning Court was established in 2014 and has greatly increased the speed in which planning cases are dealt with.</p><p>A dedicated cadre of lawyers and judiciary have been appointed to deal expediently with all significant planning cases.</p><p>The Criminal Courts and Justice Act 2015 introduced a permission stage in applications for statutory review, to remove unmeritorious statutory challenges to planning decisions as early as possible.</p><p>Current statistical data shows that the average time taken for a planning case to be dealt with in the Planning Court has reduced from 46.9 weeks in February 2014 to 25.9 weeks in March 2016.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/05/2016 09:38:16 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

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	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with Police and Crime Commissioners about devolving justice powers locally.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	118672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and junior ministers have had meetings with various Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), including those for North Yorkshire, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Northumbria and Thames Valley, to discuss matters relating to the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Amongst the topics discussed have been their ambitions for greater devolution in the CJS.</p><p> </p><p>Together with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice officials are exploring how PCCs and Mayors with PCC powers can play a greater role in the wider CJS. The strengths that PCCs currently bring to policing could be of real benefit to the wider CJS, and we are keen to explore this further.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 14/12/2017 09:59:17 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury