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654266

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: North East
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultations have taken place about the decision that only trials will be heard at Newcastle Magistrates Court, with domestic violence and weekday remands being heard at Bedlington Magistrates Court, some road traffic accident cases at Gateshead Magistrates Court, and all other new cases being heard at North Shields Magistrates Court; what consideration has been given to the cost and time impact on parties, witnesses and legal representatives of relocating hearings between those four courts; and what is the estimated saving to HM Courts and Tribunal service of the changes in venue.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL3931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>No decision has been made to alter the current listing patterns in Northumbria. The Northumbria Judicial Business Group will consider proposals for changes at their next meeting on 5th January 2017 following which there will be full engagement and consultation with local practitioners in respect of any proposed changes and their impact on court users.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 21/12/2016 16:03:37 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

654463

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Restraining Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders imposed in England and Wales in 2014 and 2015 explicitly restricted online contact.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	56514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government is clear that stalking and harassment, which cause misery for victims, are totally unacceptable. The fixated nature of stalking may result in a prolonged campaign sometimes lasting many years. So we are determined to do everything possible to protect all victims of stalking and stop perpetrators at the earliest opportunity – even before the stage at which a perpetrator might be prosecuted. That is why, following a public consultation, we have recently announced that there will be a new civil stalking protection order, to support victims of stalking at an earlier stage and address the perpetrator’s behaviours before they become entrenched.</p><p>The number of restraining orders imposed as result of stalking and harassment in England and Wales, 2014 and 2015 can be viewed in the table. Information on the specific restrictions included in a restraining order is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Nor do we hold data on how frequently perpetrators of these crimes seek to contact their victims through action in the civil or family courts. The courts do have powers to deal with unmeritorious claims and applications. The court may strike out the action as an abuse of process or issue an order restricting the litigant’s ability to continue with further applications or claims, either of its own motion or on request by a party to the proceedings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/12/2016 12:51:16 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2017 17:42:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name Final table 56513-56515.xls title Table 56513-56515 previous answer version 26921 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

654464

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Restraining Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders imposed in England and Wales in 2014 and 2015 restricted contact through the use of legal processes.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	56515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government is clear that stalking and harassment, which cause misery for victims, are totally unacceptable. The fixated nature of stalking may result in a prolonged campaign sometimes lasting many years. So we are determined to do everything possible to protect all victims of stalking and stop perpetrators at the earliest opportunity – even before the stage at which a perpetrator might be prosecuted. That is why, following a public consultation, we have recently announced that there will be a new civil stalking protection order, to support victims of stalking at an earlier stage and address the perpetrator’s behaviours before they become entrenched.</p><p>The number of restraining orders imposed as result of stalking and harassment in England and Wales, 2014 and 2015 can be viewed in the table. Information on the specific restrictions included in a restraining order is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Nor do we hold data on how frequently perpetrators of these crimes seek to contact their victims through action in the civil or family courts. The courts do have powers to deal with unmeritorious claims and applications. The court may strike out the action as an abuse of process or issue an order restricting the litigant’s ability to continue with further applications or claims, either of its own motion or on request by a party to the proceedings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/12/2016 12:51:16 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2017 17:42:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name Final table 56513-56515.xls title Table 56513-56515 previous answer version 26921 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

654465

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Harassment: Restraining Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many restraining orders were imposed as a result of stalking and harassment in England and Wales in 2014 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	56513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government is clear that stalking and harassment, which cause misery for victims, are totally unacceptable. The fixated nature of stalking may result in a prolonged campaign sometimes lasting many years. So we are determined to do everything possible to protect all victims of stalking and stop perpetrators at the earliest opportunity – even before the stage at which a perpetrator might be prosecuted. That is why, following a public consultation, we have recently announced that there will be a new civil stalking protection order, to support victims of stalking at an earlier stage and address the perpetrator’s behaviours before they become entrenched.</p><p>The number of restraining orders imposed as result of stalking and harassment in England and Wales, 2014 and 2015 can be viewed in the table. Information on the specific restrictions included in a restraining order is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Nor do we hold data on how frequently perpetrators of these crimes seek to contact their victims through action in the civil or family courts. The courts do have powers to deal with unmeritorious claims and applications. The court may strike out the action as an abuse of process or issue an order restricting the litigant’s ability to continue with further applications or claims, either of its own motion or on request by a party to the proceedings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/12/2016 12:51:16 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2017 17:42:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name Final table 56513-56515.xls title Table 56513-56515 previous answer version 26921 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

654466

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 on access to justice for the most vulnerable people in society.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	56494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The operation of the legal aid scheme is continually monitored by both the Ministry of Justice and the Legal Aid Agency, with legal aid statistics published on a quarterly basis. In addition to this, we are committed to reviewing Parts 1 and 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 by April 2018. The timing of this review will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 16/12/2016 12:57:32 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

654467

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions appeal cases for hearing at tribunals have been adjourned as a result of the Department for Work and Pensions not providing sufficient information on universal credit in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	56468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 12/12/2016 17:33:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

654468

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the problem-solving courts pilot programme announced by her Department in May 2016 will begin.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	56475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>We are exploring further the opportunities for problem solving approaches following completion of the joint judicial working group report earlier this year. A number of courts are already using problem solving approaches, including clustered listing of drug review hearings, female-specific courts in Manchester and Aberdeen, and the Choices and Consequences programme in St Albans. I have visited a number of courts where problem solving approaches have been developed at a grassroots level in local communities, and will set out further plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 20/01/2017 16:49:15 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

654469

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Offender Management Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and (b) her Department spent on external consultancy fees relating to NOMS in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	56476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 15 December 2016 to Question 41046 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-06-20/41046/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-06-20/41046/</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/04/2017 12:35:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

654470

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Vandalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of the offence of throwing any article or substance into a prison without authorisation since that offence came into force; and how many such people have received the maximum sentence for that offence.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	56477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>This information is available on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/12/2016 17:40:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

654471

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to incentivise employers to recruit ex-offenders.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	56433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>We want prisons to be places of hard work and high ambition, with incentives for prisoners to learn. We also want prison staff to prioritise education and employment opportunities. We are giving governors greater control over their budgets to bring in education and employment schemes that deliver real results. More private sector companies now employ ex-offenders than ever before, but we are keen to increase the number of employers who can provide valuable vocational work for offenders in prison, and who are able to offer them employment on release.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/12/2016 13:01:06 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk