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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

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

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

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

1289665

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release, Extra funding for organisations that steer women away from crime, published on 23 January 2021, if will publish the Programme business case for the 500 new prison places to be built in existing women's prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	158155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>Our prison population projections published in November last year, show that the female prison population is projected to rise by around two-fifths by 2026 (1,300 women) with most of that rise coming in the next two years. Our projections took in to consideration the impact of the planned recruitment of a further 23,400 police officers – which is likely to increase charge volumes and future prison populations.</p><p>Our projections further assumed the future gender composition of the prison population will be broadly consistent with the pre-COVID 19 composition, although there is a fair degree of uncertainty here however particularly due to the additional police recruitment. As such we modelled a total of four scenarios which included a 20% higher/lower throughput from the Police and a fast court recovery scenario. Table 2.1 and 4.1 taken from our prison population projections, illustrate this below:</p><p>Table 2.1 below shows the two extra scenarios of a lower and a higher impact police scenario for both men and women.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Central Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lower Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Higher Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fast Court Recovery Scenario</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>83,000</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td><td><p>85,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>87,200</p></td><td><p>89,100</p></td><td><p>88,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>91,300</p></td><td><p>94,700</p></td><td><p>91,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>93,800</p></td><td><p>98,300</p></td><td><p>94,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,000</p></td><td><p>100,300</p></td><td><p>97,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,900</p></td><td><p>101,600</p></td><td><p>98,400</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 4.1 below shows the projections separately for children, females over 18 years and males over 18 specifically for the central scenario.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Children</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female 18+</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male 18+</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>3,217</p></td><td><p>75,623</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td><td><p>78,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>4,100</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>88,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>90,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>92,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>93,500</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Both tables are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026</a></p><p>The business case has not yet reached a position where it could be published. We intend to continue dialogue with stakeholders as to how best to meet the needs of those women sentenced to a custodial sentence</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 158156 question first answered 01/03/2021 17:03:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1289666

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement on the 23 January 2021 that up to 500 new prison places will be built in existing women’s prisons, if his Department will publish the modelling used in the programme’s Strategic Case that the recruitment of an extra 20,000 police officers is expected to cause a temporary increase in the female prison population.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	158156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>Our prison population projections published in November last year, show that the female prison population is projected to rise by around two-fifths by 2026 (1,300 women) with most of that rise coming in the next two years. Our projections took in to consideration the impact of the planned recruitment of a further 23,400 police officers – which is likely to increase charge volumes and future prison populations.</p><p>Our projections further assumed the future gender composition of the prison population will be broadly consistent with the pre-COVID 19 composition, although there is a fair degree of uncertainty here however particularly due to the additional police recruitment. As such we modelled a total of four scenarios which included a 20% higher/lower throughput from the Police and a fast court recovery scenario. Table 2.1 and 4.1 taken from our prison population projections, illustrate this below:</p><p>Table 2.1 below shows the two extra scenarios of a lower and a higher impact police scenario for both men and women.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Central Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lower Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Higher Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fast Court Recovery Scenario</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>83,000</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td><td><p>85,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>87,200</p></td><td><p>89,100</p></td><td><p>88,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>91,300</p></td><td><p>94,700</p></td><td><p>91,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>93,800</p></td><td><p>98,300</p></td><td><p>94,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,000</p></td><td><p>100,300</p></td><td><p>97,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,900</p></td><td><p>101,600</p></td><td><p>98,400</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 4.1 below shows the projections separately for children, females over 18 years and males over 18 specifically for the central scenario.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Children</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female 18+</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male 18+</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>3,217</p></td><td><p>75,623</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td><td><p>78,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>4,100</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>88,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>90,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>92,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>93,500</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Both tables are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026</a></p><p>The business case has not yet reached a position where it could be published. We intend to continue dialogue with stakeholders as to how best to meet the needs of those women sentenced to a custodial sentence</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 158155 question first answered 01/03/2021 17:03:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1003583

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Opinion: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has been made of the ability of sponsors to meet the costs of legal advice on completing refugee family reunion applications.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	189787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not collect data on the private legal costs of individuals to assist with a refugee family reunion application.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/11/2018 17:27:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138850

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Homelessness
	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 the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 on the (a) effectiveness of joint-working between criminal justice agencies and local authorities and (b) homelessness.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	277248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>Everyone leaving custody should have a safe and suitable home to go to on release; having somewhere to live gives people a stable platform from which to access health services, hold down a job and reduces the likelihood of them reoffending.</p><p>Ministry of Justice officials are working closely with officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to monitor the referrals being made and to facilitate joint working between local authorities and prison and probation providers.</p><p>Overcoming the many barriers offenders face to securing suitable accommodation is something that Ministry of Justice cannot do in isolation. While statutory responsibility for housing (including planning) and homelessness lies with local authorities in England, and with the Welsh Assembly in Wales, we are committed to working with other departments to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 14:46:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138851

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children under the age of 18 have been released from custody without accommodation in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	277249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost, as there would be a need to check individual records of young people released from custody in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>The first step to reducing reoffending is making sure everyone leaving prison has access to secure and stable accommodation, and we work closely with local authorities to support offenders with their resettlement on release.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/07/2019 17:30:07 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous