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423146

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance is provided to magistrates and judges about when it is appropriate to apply the maximum tariff available in cases of animal cruelty.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>Animal cruelty is a summary offence with a maximum penalty of a level 5 (unlimited) fine and/or 6 months’ imprisonment. The maximum penalty for any offence is set by Parliament to deal with the most serious possible cases. Guidance on sentencing for this offence is contained in the Magistrates’ Courts Sentencing Guidelines, which are published by the independent Sentencing Council.</p><br /><p>These are the sentencing starting points from the guidelines for animal cruelty, based on a first time offender pleading not guilty:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Examples of nature of activity</em></p></td><td><p><em>Starting point Range</em></p></td><td><p><em>Range</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>One impulsive act causing little or no injury;</p></td><td><p>short term neglect</p></td><td><p>Band C fine Band B fine to medium level community</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Several incidents of deliberate ill-treatment/frightening</p></td><td><p>High level community order</p></td><td><p>Medium level community order to 12 weeks custody</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attempt to kill/torture; animal baiting/conducting or permitting cock-fighting etc.; prolonged neglect</p></td><td><p>18 weeks custody</p></td><td><p>12 to 26 weeks custody</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 02/11/2015 14:26:44 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

388811

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each of the last four years, how much was paid through legal aid to legal professionals advising asylum seekers and immigrants who had been charged with offences.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not record the immigration or asylum status at any stage of the billing or application process for criminal legal aid.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 20/07/2015 11:36:41 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

386128

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to help people protect their personal data.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes the protection of personal data very seriously and is committed to making sure that the Information Commissioner has sufficient powers to ensure that organisations handle personal data appropriately and in accordance with the principles in the Data Protection Act 1998.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last six months a number of steps have been taken to strengthen the Information Commissioner’s powers; including:</p><p>· Extending the Information Commissioner’s powers of compulsory audit to public sector NHS providers.</p><p>· Commencing section 56 of the Data Protection Act (DPA). This makes it a criminal offence for a person to require another person to use their subject access rights in the DPA to obtain and provide certain records as a condition of employment, or for providing a service, unless the relevant record is required by law or where it is justified in the public interest.</p><p>· Making it easier for the Information Commissioner to take action against companies that breach the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations by making nuisance calls.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 13/07/2015 16:31:48 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

179731

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Buildings
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost to the public purse of maintaining disused court buildings; and how many disused court buildings are currently lying empty because they have not been sold.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Court Estate Reform Programme (CERP) was introduced in 2010 to improve efficiency through the closure of poor quality and underused court buildings. The total cumulative gross benefits expected from CERP is an estimated £152m over the SR10 period. At the end of June 2014, approximately £140m had been realised through resource savings of approximately £98m and gross capital proceeds of £42m.</p><p> </p><p>There are 32 closed courts currently not in use. Of these, 27 were closed between May 2010 and March 2013 as part of CERP and business as usual closures. The full year cost of maintaining these courts in 2013/14 was £942,162. A further five courts were closed since then. The cost of maintaining these courts since their closure to date has been £122,444. All closed courts are being prepared for or undergoing sale processes.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of maintaining courts following closure includes costs on rent and rates, maintenance, labour costs on facilities management, fuel and utilities and other property costs. One court, Stourbridge County Court, was closed but is being used for administrative purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to disposing of surplus property assets expeditiously and reducing holding costs. The sale of former courts is dependent on a number of factors e.g. market, potential future use, location and the fact that some are occupied in part by the police and local authorities which also make disposal difficult. We have improved efficiency through the closure of poor quality and underused court buildings.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 26/02/2015 17:03:43 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

167252

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the average annual cost of incarcerating a prisoner in each year between 2011 and 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The average cost per prisoner has been reducing year-on-year since 2009-10. Between 2009-10 and 2013-14 there has been a real terms reduction of 17% in the overall average cost per prisoner.</p><p> </p><p>The Department routinely publishes average costs per prisoner and prison place, based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison and in summary form for the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales on an annual basis after the end of each financial year. This includes a breakdown of these costs by prison category and individual prison within each category.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published information for the average cost of a prison place and average cost of a prisoner for financial year 2013-14, together with other information on the calculation of prison unit costs is published alongside the Management Information Addendum to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Annual Report &amp; Accounts. This can be accessed using the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p><p>A copy of this and similar information for previous financial years can also be found in the House library.</p><p> </p><p>Continuing to reduce prison unit costs is one of the key targets for the Department and we are committed to delivering prison changes designed to modernise the prison estate and further reduce prison costs.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 11/12/2014 17:29:53 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

167254

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support services are currently available to victims and survivors of Northern Ireland-related acts of terrorism in Great Britain.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Individual victims and survivors of Northern Ireland related acts of terrorism who are resident in England and Wales are able to apply for funding from the Victims and Survivors Service (VSS) in Northern Ireland. The VSS is the main funder of victims’ groups in Northern Ireland and provides a tailored package to meet the individual needs of victims and survivors including counselling, physiotherapy and the purchase of equipment such as wheelchairs.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own devolved arrangements for supporting victims of crime.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 16/12/2014 17:58:12 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

167255

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many foreign nationals convicted for criminal offences have re-offended over the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Proven re-offending data currently produced by the Ministry of Justice does not include information on the nationality of all offenders. To extract this information would require the manual inspection of individual offender records, and linking releavnt offender details to the Police National Computer to assess their re-offending, which could be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 17/12/2014 17:59:23 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

93680

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prison transfer applications from Great Britain to Northern Ireland have been (1) sent, (2) approved, and (3) rejected, in the past 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>From 1 October 2013 to the 30 September 2014 the National Offender Management Service referred a total of eight applications to the Northern Ireland Prison Service from prisoners seeking to transfer from a prison in England and Wales to one in Northern Ireland to continue serving a sentence of imprisonment or to facilitate a period of temporary visits with close family.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 8 applications, two were approved and the prisoners were transferred, one application was refused, one prisoner withdrew their application and four applications remain under consideration.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/10/2014 15:40:38 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

93426

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the total annual cost of imprisoning foreign national offenders in United Kingdom prisons in each of the last four calendar years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not calculate separately the annual cost of imprisoning foreign nationals in England and Wales. NOMS does not analyse cost by prisoner nationality, as costs recorded on the NOMS central accounting system do not allow identification of costs attributable to holding individual prisoners.</p><p>All prison costs for Scotland and Northern Ireland are a devolved matter and the responsibility of the relevant Minister.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 28/10/2014 17:19:53 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

77284

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to ensure that there are sufficient prison places to accommodate people who receive custodial sentences.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>Prison numbers fluctuate throughout the year and we have sufficient accommodation for the current and expected population. Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we will have sufficient capacity to deal with the projected level of the population. These measures include identifying additional places if required in prisons that can provide safe and decent conditions. This is a proportionate measure to ensure that we are able to hold all of those committed to custody by the courts.</p><p> </p><p>We are planning to open an additional 2,000 places over the next nine months. We will have more adult male prison places at the end of this Parliament than we inherited. In the next Parliament, we will open a new prison in Wrexham, providing a further 2,000 places.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 22/07/2014 16:48:27 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont