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891379

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for a benefit appeal tribunal hearing for benefit claimants from Kettering constituency in the last twelve months for which data are available; what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times in areas which are beyond the national average for such times; and what the reasons are for the length of wait for claimants in Kettering constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	138006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The average waiting time<sup>1,2</sup> for Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) appeals in the Kettering<sup>3</sup> constituency between January 2016 and December 2017 (the latest period for which figures are available) is 33<sup>4</sup> weeks.</p><p> </p><p>In order to respond to a general increase in appeal receipts, HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has been working with the Tribunal’s judiciary both to appoint additional judges and panel members and take forward initiatives with potential to increase the capacity and performance of the Tribunal, including reviewing current listing practices to increase the number of cases being listed on a Tribunal session, and introducing case management “triage” sessions, with the aim of reducing the time taken for appeals to reach final determination. All these measures will increase the capacity of the Tribunal with the aim of reducing waiting times for appellants in all areas, not just those which are beyond the current national average.</p><p> </p><p>Specifically, in the Kettering constituency area we have introduced a new venue with increased capacity to reduce waiting times. Additionally, appellants are also offered Northampton as an alternative venue which is able to offer shorter hearing dates.</p><p> </p><ol><li>Waiting time is interpreted as average Clearance Time – time taken for appeal receipt to outcome.</li><li>Includes only appeals cleared at tribunal hearing and excludes those cleared without the need of a tribunal hearing.</li><li>SSCS data are recorded by the office that dealt with the case, and if the case went to oral hearing, the location of the Tribunal hearing, normally the hearing venue nearest to the appellants home address. We cannot retrieve data based on constituencies, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue. For the Kettering constituency this is the Wellingborough venue. Data include all cases attributed to that venue. Prior to the Wellingborough venue being used cases were heard in Kettering. In 15_16 only two cases were head in Wellingborough and as such the data maybe skewed.</li><li>HMCTS data April to December 17 is provisional.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:51:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

891418

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Bedford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when Bedford Magistrate’s Court was closed; and to where the services of that court were relocated.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	138084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>In June 2014 the majority of magistrates’ court work at Bedford Magistrates’ Court (at the Shire Hall building) was centralised into Luton Magistrates’ Court. This was following a judicially-led consultation on revised listing arrangements, which was conducted in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Magistrates’ family cases, along with civil and tribunal cases, continue to be heard at the court. The Shire Hall building will only close subject to a public consultation, which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:50:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

891419

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Bedford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were heard at Bedford Magistrate’s Court in each year from 2009 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	138085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The number of magistrates’ court cases heard at Bedford Magistrates’ Court between 2010 and 2017 are shown below. HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service do not hold data for 2009. Magistrates’ Court cases can require more than one hearing and therefore the data includes instances where there have been multiple hearings in the same case.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of cases dealt with</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>14,652</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>13,059</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>10,955</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>6,396</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>1,912</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>742</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>574</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:53:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

891421

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Bedford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the utilisation statistics for all court rooms at (a) Shire Hall in Bedford and (b) Bedford County Court and Family Court for (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17 and (iii) 2017 to date.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	138086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The courts at Shire Hall Bedford sat for the following hours between 2015 and the end of 2017:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Courtroom Data 2015/16</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Courtroom Data 2016/17</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Courtroom Data April-December 2017*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chamber/<br> Courtroom</p></td><td><p>Magstrates' Court</p></td><td><p>County/<br> Family<br> Court</p></td><td><p>Tribunals</p></td><td><p>Magstrates' Court</p></td><td><p>County/<br> Family<br> Court</p></td><td><p>Tribunals</p></td><td><p>Magstrates' Court</p></td><td><p>County/<br> Family<br> Court</p></td><td><p>Tribunals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chambers 01</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>868</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>874</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>636</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chambers 02</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>620</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>716</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Courtroom 01</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Courtroom 02</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Courtroom 03</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Courtroom 04</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Courtroom 05</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>703</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>738</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>538</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>129</p></td><td><p>2,272</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>2,516</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2,040</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>County court utilisation includes the civil and family jurisdictions. Utilisation data for Count Court and Employment Tribunals are manually collected and therefore may be affected by associated measurement and recording errors.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:48:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

891422

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Bedford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal hearings have been listed at Shire Hall in (a) 2015–16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017 to date.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	138087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide an answer to this question from centrally held data as this does not differentiate between different court locations in Bedford. Since the employment tribunal building in Bedford ceased to hold public hearings in September 2017, the administration of cases has moved to Watford and has not differentiated between cases heard in that office and in Bedford.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:55:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

891423

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Bedford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has for the future of court services in Bedford when the lease expires on the building that hosts Luton County and Family Court on 9 January 2020; and what provision he has made for court services in Luton and Bedfordshire when that lease expires.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	138088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service is currently considering options regarding the future court estate in Bedfordshire. The Shire Hall building will only close subject to a public consultation regarding the distribution of the work currently heard in the building, which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:46:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

891433

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to enable cohabiting couples to share financial and property rights.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	138023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government will be considering how to proceed in relation to proposals made by the Law Commission in the context of any further reforms to the family justice system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 17:43:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

891491

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of immigration appeals were overturned at tribunal in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	138080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS).</p><p>The proportion of successful immigration appeals, overturning the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s decision, in each of the last six months for which published data are available is:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>July 17<sup> P</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>August 17<sup> P</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sept 17<sup> P</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>October 17 <sup>P</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov 17<sup> P</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Dec 17<sup> P</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>51%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>P: Provisional data taken from a live management information system and subject to change.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/04/2018 16:56:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West