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1248081

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to help reduce the spread of covid-19 in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	908312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>As community rates increase, the risk of outbreaks in prisons inevitably rises. We have planned for this and have a range of measures in place, informed by public health advice, to protect our staff, prisoners and the NHS over Winter.</p><p>Our hard-working prison staff are continuing to implement regimes that have been adapted for safety, with social distancing and PPE use. We are also quarantining new arrivals, isolating those with symptoms, and shielding the vulnerable.</p><p>These interventions are supporting us to minimise importation, limit the spread of infection and protect against explosive outbreaks.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/11/2020 17:36:16 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

1248082

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to help reduce the spread of covid-19 in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Kate Griffiths
uin	908319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>As community rates increase, the risk of outbreaks in prisons inevitably rises. We have planned for this and have a range of measures in place, informed by public health advice, to protect our staff, prisoners and the NHS over Winter.</p><p>Our hard-working prison staff are continuing to implement regimes that have been adapted for safety, with social distancing and PPE use. We are also quarantining new arrivals, isolating those with symptoms, and shielding the vulnerable.</p><p>These interventions are supporting us to minimise importation, limit the spread of infection and protect against explosive outbreaks.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/11/2020 17:36:25 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4773 label Biography information for Kate Kniveton

1248083

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Evidence: Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on bringing forward legislative proposals to regulate the use of facial recognition technology as evidence.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	908316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor or Ministers have not held specific meetings on this but regularly discuss a broad range of criminal justice matters with Cabinet colleagues and others.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 03/11/2020 15:59:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1248084

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to help ensure that BAME communities have confidence in the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	908318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The overall changes we are making to the system are designed to give all communities and victims of crime increased confidence.</p><p>Ensuring the trust of Black and minority ethnic people in the criminal justice system is critical to its effectiveness. We have responded positively to previous reviews on this subject and look forward to welcoming the conclusions of the independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.</p><p>We are committed to increasing the diversity of people working in the CJS to represent the communities they serve, making it more transparent in the data on ethnicity it produces, and we are making progress on this.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 03/11/2020 16:57:47 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1248085

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to ensure that courts operate effectively during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
uin	908323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>Progress against the HMCTS recovery plan published on 1 July is already well underway to reduce outstanding cases and to get our operating capacity as close as possible to pre-Covid levels.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing record amounts, with £153m to improve court and tribunal buildings – the biggest single investment in court estate maintenance for more than 20 years. We’ve also opened 14 Nightingale Courts and over 240 jury courtrooms, while Magistrates’ Courts have been completing more cases than they are receiving.</p><p> </p><p>We’ve piloted Covid Operating hours at the Crown Court in Liverpool and several other crown courts. I’m also pleased the number of hearings across the civil, family and tribunal jurisdictions is also increasing.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/11/2020 15:53:01 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1248086

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to help reduce the spread of covid-19 in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Sarah Atherton
uin	908331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>As community rates increase, the risk of outbreaks in prisons inevitably rises. We have planned for this and have a range of measures in place, informed by public health advice, to protect our staff, prisoners and the NHS over Winter.</p><p>Our hard-working prison staff are continuing to implement regimes that have been adapted for safety, with social distancing and PPE use. We are also quarantining new arrivals, isolating those with symptoms, and shielding the vulnerable.</p><p>These interventions are supporting us to minimise importation, limit the spread of infection and protect against explosive outbreaks.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/11/2020 17:36:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4855 label Biography information for Sarah Atherton

1248087

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to ensure that courts operate effectively during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Cherilyn Mackrory
uin	908328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>Progress against the HMCTS recovery plan published on 1 July is already well underway to reduce outstanding cases and to get our operating capacity as close as possible to pre-Covid levels.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing record amounts, with £153m to improve court and tribunal buildings – the biggest single investment in court estate maintenance for more than 20 years. We’ve also opened 14 Nightingale Courts and over 240 jury courtrooms, while Magistrates’ Courts have been completing more cases than they are receiving.</p><p> </p><p>We’ve piloted Covid Operating hours at the Crown Court in Liverpool and several other crown courts. I’m also pleased the number of hearings across the civil, family and tribunal jurisdictions is also increasing.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/11/2020 16:00:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4758 label Biography information for Cherilyn Mackrory

1248088

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps HM Courts and Tribunals Service is taking to tackle the backlog of landlord and tenant cases.
tabling member constituency	Bexhill and Battle
tabling member printed	Huw Merriman
uin	908325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>At the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Government took unprecedented action to protect tenants from eviction by ensuring no one could be evicted from their homes as a result of the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Master of the Rolls working party, of which HMCTS are members, has introduced robust measures to ensure that HMCTS can deal with the backlog of cases to provide access to justice for landlords while protecting the most vulnerable.</p><p> </p><p>These arrangements include improvement in the signposting and guidance for landlords and tenants, the introduction of a review process to allow early engagement between parties and provisions for possession hearings to take place in a safe way.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/11/2020 15:55:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman

1248089

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps HM Courts and Tribunals Service is taking to tackle the backlog of criminal court cases.
tabling member constituency	Keighley
tabling member printed	Robbie Moore
uin	908327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>COVID-19 has been an unprecedented challenge for the criminal justice system but HMCTS has worked closely with the judiciary to keep courts open and cases flowing through the system.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has led the way internationally in continuing justice; restarting jury trials ahead of all other comparable systems.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to make significant progress on Criminal Courts Recovery. Since August, magistrates’ courts have been consistently completing more cases than they are receiving, dealing with over 21,000 cases each week and tackling the backlog.</p><p> </p><p>In the Crown Court, we’re listing over 150 jury trials and conducting thousands of other hearings each week.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/11/2020 16:59:11 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore

1248395

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners on Remand: Video Conferencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when HM Courts and Tribunals Service plans to take on the operation of virtual remand hearings from court premises as police forces return to their usual duties.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
uin	110932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2020 answer text <p>HMCTS will continue to facilitate video remand hearings using the Cloud Video Platform (CVP). Steps have been taken to increase the capacity of our existing systems to enable other participants to appear remotely. We continue to engage with Policing across England and Wales on the use of video in the criminal justice system.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/11/2020 17:02:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby