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1652736

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date	13/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Legal Opinion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the legal advice available to people making an asylum claim.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	194090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>Under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, all immigration advisers must be registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) or be regulated by a Designated Qualifying Regulator (DQR). The OISC and the DQRs are responsible for ensuring immigration advisers are fit, competent, and act in their clients’ best interests.</p><p>The DQRs include legal services representative bodies who designate regulatory responsibilities to legal services regulators. Legal services regulation is independent of Government and the relevant regulators are responsible for ensuring quality and standards for providers of legal advice.</p><p>The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is a DQR and responsible for the regulation of solicitors and ensuring that all solicitors meet required standards. In November 2022, the SRA published a thematic review of immigration and asylum services as well as updated immigration guidance to help solicitors understand their obligations when providing immigration advice. The guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/resources/immigration-services/guidance-and-support/" target="_blank">https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/resources/immigration-services/guidance-and-support/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 21/07/2023 11:58:35 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1652860

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer on 28 June 2023 to Question 190933 on Prisons: Education, whether Treasury guidance on the application of Fair Deal Pensions policy will be circulated to relevant stakeholders before the conclusion of the Prisoner Education Service tendering process.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	193873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>Following the procurement process, the Ministry of Justice expects to award new contracts for Prison Education in Autumn 2024. The MoJ will circulate the relevant HMT guidance, including any updates on the application of Fair Deal Pensions policy, to stakeholders at all stages of the procurement.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/07/2023 14:33:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1652886

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) algorithmic and (b) other automated decision making systems his Department uses; and for what purposes.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	194023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is still at the early stages of assessing where the uses of algorithmic models and automated decision-making tools might help drive greater efficiency and deliver maximum value for the taxpayer, as part of the Government’s digital transformation journey.</p><p> </p><p>Work done to date has primarily been around the use of Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments (ARAIs) in HM Prisons &amp; Probation Service to assess the risks posed by, and needs of, an offender by combining actuarial methods of prediction with structured professional judgement.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice recognises that the use of AI in the justice system raises important ethical considerations, such as bias in the data used to train algorithms and the potential for automated decision-making to perpetuate existing inequalities. Therefore, any implementation of AI in the UK Ministry of Justice must be done carefully and transparently, with appropriate safeguards in place.</p><p> </p><p>Any use of automated decision making will be done in compliance with provisions in GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, including the right of individuals to request a new decision is made that is not based solely on automated processing.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 21/07/2023 11:57:30 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1652906

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ipsos MORI
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the contract agreed by his Department with Ipsos (Market Research) Limited on 5 June 2023, procurement reference 336036/1227987, if he will publish (a) the deliverables specified in Annex F of that contract and (b) the (i) multiple choice and (ii) other questions asked in the public survey procured through that contract.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	193876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>In line with the Government Social Research (GSR) protocol, the intention is that the findings from this research will be published on GOV.UK, following independent peer review and quality assurance. This publication would include the content from the deliverables that will be provided by Ipsos (Market Research) as well as details of the experiment (including questions).</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/07/2023 13:14:47 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1653054

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Travellers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of The Traveller Movement's report Available but not Accessible Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers: barriers in accessing purposeful activities in prison, published on 27 March.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL9357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>As part of the HMPPS Gypsy, Roma &amp; Traveller (GRT) Strategy, we are committed to fully considering the Traveller Movement Report ‘Available but not Accessible’. This activity is ongoing, and will include consultation with the Traveller Movement, and potentially, other GRT-associated third sector organisations.</p><p>The associated action plan will be updated to incorporate necessary activity in association with further HMPPS evidence-based assessments also currently under consideration. The review is expected to be fully completed by Autumn 2023.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 26/07/2023 14:13:11 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

1653055

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Pre-sentence Reports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest available figures for the (1) number, and (2) method of delivery, of pre-sentence reports in courts in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL9358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>Data on pre-sentence reports in England and Wales is published in the Ministry of Justice’s quarterly Offender Management Statistics Bulletin. The latest published data is for October to December 2022. In this latest quarter there were a total of 21,771 pre-sentence reports (PSRs) produced. The breakdown in terms of method of delivery was as follows:</p><p> </p><p>1,013 Standard PSR</p><p>15,338 Fast Delivery PSR Written</p><p>5,420 Fast Delivery PSR Oral</p><p> </p><p>In 2022 overall, there were a total of 83,240 pre-sentence reports produced. The breakdown in terms of method of delivery was as follows:</p><p>3,561 Standard PSR</p><p>58,375 Fast Delivery PSR Written</p><p>21,304 Fast Delivery PSR Oral</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 26/07/2023 13:35:07 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker