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791041

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Injury: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made in reducing the abuse of personal injury whiplash claims for incidents involving motor vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	113476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s whiplash reforms in recent years have included improving the independence and quality of whiplash medical reports through the introduction of the MedCo system in 2015, as well as reducing and fixing the cost of those reports.</p><p>In February this year, following consultation, the Government announced further reforms to help bear down on the number and cost of claims. Those reforms that require primary legislation will be introduced through a Civil Liability Bill which was announced in the Queen’s Speech. They are:</p><ul><li>the introduction of a fixed tariff of compensation for pain, suffering and loss of amenity for whiplash claims with a duration of up to two years; and</li></ul><ul><li><p>banning the practice of seeking or offering to settle such claims without medical evidence.</p></li></ul><p>In addition, secondary legislative rule changes will bring the vast majority of whiplash claims into the small claims track.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/11/2017 17:15:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

755994

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help prisons to increase levels of (a) drugs testing and (b) searches for mobile phones.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	7299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of mobile phones and SIM cards in prisons continues to be too high. We have purchased better quality detection equipment in larger quantities and equipped all prisons with additional portable detection devices to use across the prison. We are also working with mobile network operators to deliver ground-breaking technology to stop illicit phones working in prisons.</p><p>The illicit supply of drugs undermines the safety and security of prisons. The introduction of mandatory drug testing for psychoactive substances in prisons in September 2016 was also a significant step to support our prisons in tackling the supply and use of these lethal drugs. We are not aware of any other prison service in the world that has introduced these innovative new tests.</p><p>As part of our commitments in the Prison Safety and Reform White Paper, published in November 2016, we will invest to strengthen the frontline with 2,500 additional prison officers by 2018. These new prison officers will receive dedicated substance misuse training which explains the substantial impact of drug use, particularly psychoactive substances, implementation of the Psychoactive Substance Act 2016 in prisons and insight into what they can do to prevent further PS supply and use.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 13:43:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

755995

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Chelmsford Prison: Violence
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 address violence in HM Prison Chelmsford.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	7300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The level of violence in our prisons is unacceptable. We are fully committed to making prisons safer and addressing the significant increase in violence and assaults by increasing staffing levels and the ways of working in our prisons.</p><p><br>The White Paper on Prison Safety and Reform announced a major shake-up of the prison system with 2,500 extra prisons officers and new security measures to tackle drones, phones and drugs. The additional 2,500 prison officers will allow us to introduce a new key worker role, in which all prison officers on wings will support a small caseload of prisoners, improving the quality of staff-prisoner relationships and tackling the drivers of each prisoner’s offending.</p><p><br>The Governor at HM Prison Chelmsford leads on reducing violence and chairs thePrison Safety meeting. Chelmsford are using the Violence Diagnostic Tool to identify violence trends and with the support of the regional safety team they are working to address these. <br>Five-minute intervention training is being delivered at Chelmsford which equips staff to turn everyday conversations into rehabilitative interventions.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/09/2017 16:44:29 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

573815

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Chelmsford Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she plans to take in response to the most recent HM Inspectorate of Prisons report on HMP Chelmsford; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Sir Simon Burns
uin	44527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2016 answer text <p>HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ report on HMP Chelmsford was published on 16 August this year. We take all recommendations made by the Chief Inspector seriously and the prison is taking action to address the Chief Inspector’s findings. We will produce a detailed action plan within three months responding to all the recommendations in the report. The action plan will be published on the Inspectorate’s web site.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/09/2016 16:38:01 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

348536

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects HM Courts and Tribunals Service to send to the Department for Work and Pensions the Statement of Reasons in respect of the recent appeal, Ref: SC133/14/00156, relating to Ms C Ely; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Burns
uin	1254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The First-tier Tribunal - Social Security and Child Support, administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The Tribunal heard the appeal brought by Ms Ely on 27 April. A request for a full statement of reasons was received from the DWP on 15 May.</p><p> </p><p>The Tribunal’s Procedure Rules require the statement of reasons to be provided within one month of the request or as soon as practicable thereafter.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/06/2015 16:22:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns

44113

registered interest
date	19/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of offences concerning the illegal wildlife trade in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Mr Simon Burns
uin	192854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against and found guilty of triable either way offences under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species Regulation 1997, together with Intentionally obstruct an authorised person acting in accordance with the powers conferred by Regulation, under Section 9(6) of the regulations, in England and Wales from 2011 to 2012 can be viewed in the table. Please note data for the triable either way offences prior to 2011, together with a large quantity of other offences to this day are kept on paper records which would require manual inspection. This would be at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Court Proceedings data for what can be provided by separate identification for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 192854 - Burns - Wildlife convictions - Table for minister.XLS title Table 1
tabling member	46 label Biography information for Sir Simon Burns