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1173820

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for legal assistance by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure were granted in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	9118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.</p><p> </p><p>The data on the number of grants of this type of legal aid in 2019 is not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 9116 9117 question first answered 03/02/2020 16:13:18 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1173819

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests were made for legal assistance by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure by (a) regular, (b) accelerated, (c) border and (d) Dublin procedures in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	9117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.</p><p> </p><p>The data on the number of grants of this type of legal aid in 2019 is not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 9116 9118 question first answered 03/02/2020 16:13:18 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1173818

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for legal assistance were made by asylum applicants during the first instance procedure in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	9116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>Information on the total number requests for this type of legal assistance is not held. Such assistance when provided by legal aid is funded under the ‘Legal Help’ scheme, where the decision on whether or not to grant funding is taken by the legal aid provider, and hence refusals are not reported to the Legal Aid Agency.</p><p> </p><p>The data on the number of grants of this type of legal aid in 2019 is not available, as this is not broken down to the level of detail required until a claim for payment is submitted.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 9117 9118 question first answered 03/02/2020 16:13:18 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1173817

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Middle East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of appeal proceedings was against first instance decisions on asylum applications for (a) Syrian, (b) Afghan and (c) Iraqi in the last 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	9115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The average clearance time, from receipt to disposal, of an asylum appeal in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, over the last 12 months for which data are available</p><p>(1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019), was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>29 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Syrian nationals</p></td><td><p>34 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Afghan nationals</p></td><td><p>31 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iraqi nationals</p></td><td><p>20 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures are from internal management information extracted from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.</p><p>Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal reduce by more than two-thirds, from 64,800 to 20,300 between July 2016 and September 2019. The average duration across all case types has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 34 weeks in the period July to September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 9114 question first answered 04/02/2020 10:59:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1173816

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average duration of appeal proceedings on first instance decisions on asylum applications was in the last twelve months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	9114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The average clearance time, from receipt to disposal, of an asylum appeal in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber, over the last 12 months for which data are available</p><p>(1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019), was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>29 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Syrian nationals</p></td><td><p>34 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Afghan nationals</p></td><td><p>31 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iraqi nationals</p></td><td><p>20 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures are from internal management information extracted from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.</p><p>Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal reduce by more than two-thirds, from 64,800 to 20,300 between July 2016 and September 2019. The average duration across all case types has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 34 weeks in the period July to September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 9115 question first answered 04/02/2020 10:59:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1679593

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Care Leavers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will update the HM Prison and Probation Service Strategy for Care-Experienced People to include a specific focus on race.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	8093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>We are updating our strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system, to ensure we are using care-experienced people’s time in the criminal justice system to support them to lead crime-free lives.</p><p>This will include a focus on race and its role in shaping the experiences and outcomes of those with care experience in the criminal justice system, and will link to wider departmental efforts to address racial disproportionality in the criminal justice system.</p><p>We are aiming to publish this strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 12/01/2024 15:38:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1167201

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are due for release from prison on each day from 20 December 2019 to 3 January 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	7197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The release data for December 2019 is planned for publication in April 2020. The publication in July 2020 will include the data for January 2020.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to state the number of future releases by date because of the many factors affecting release date that can take place following sentence, such as added days awarded on prison disciplinary hearings, time spent unlawfully at large after escapes/absconds, appeals against the sentence, and further sentences imposed concurrently or consecutively.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:15:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1167200

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were released from prison on each day from 17 December 2018 to 31 December 2018; and how many of those people were recalled to prison within one month of release.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	7196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>A total of 2,853 prisoners were released from prison between 17 December 2018 and 31 December 2018 inclusive. Of these, 325 individuals had a licence recall within one month (31 days) of release although not all would have been apprehended by the Police and returned to prison custody within that timeframe.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is our priority. Offenders on licence are subject to strict licence conditions and supervision and are liable to be recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The figures detailed in the answer have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:24:10 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1354495

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Proceedings
	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 help ensure the prompt rectification of errors that are identified in reports submitted in family court proceedings.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	47039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>The manner in which errors or alleged errors contained within a report submitted in family court proceedings are rectified is a matter for the court to decide, however in all cases the court will seek for such errors to be dealt with promptly and without undue delay.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR) Part 1 “the overriding objective” requires the court to deal with cases expeditiously and fairly and for the parties to assist the court in this objective. This general obligation could require the court, or the parties, to act to ensure any issues with a report are rectified.</p><p> </p><p>Depending on the nature of the error contained within a report, if the court considers that the error needs to be rectified in the written report, the court could use its general case management powers (FPR rule 4.1) to direct that an amended or addendum report be submitted to the court.</p><p> </p><p>Where it is alleged by one or more of the parties that a report contains errors, the accuracy and veracity of the information included within the report can be tested during the court hearing, in order for the court to make a determination on this issue.</p><p> </p><p>Proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth. (FPR, rule 17.6)</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/09/2021 16:18:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1354494

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Proceedings
	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 help ensure that accurate information is provided to the family courts by the criminal courts when allegations of abuse or criminal convictions are made in family court proceedings.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	47038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>The ‘2013 Protocol and Good Practice Model’ for disclosure of information in cases of alleged child abuse provides for the local authority to notify the police on issue of family court proceedings, if not before. This notification serves as a request for disclosure to the police.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2021, amendments were made to rules 3.3 and 3.5 of the Criminal Procedure Rules. These changes imposed a duty on parties to criminal proceedings to alert the criminal court to any related family proceedings and encourage the exchange of relevant information with a court dealing with those proceedings. Information about criminal proceedings may be obtained from criminal courts under Part 5 of the Criminal Procedure Rules by those who are parties to the criminal proceedings and by members of the public generally.</p><p> </p><p>The Government regularly considers how the join up between the criminal and family jurisdictions can be improved. In 2022, we aim to pilot a new “one family, one judge” approach to hearing cases where the same judge will hear the criminal and family court proceedings.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/09/2021 16:16:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous