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1330734

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date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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 improve the quality of care for adults in the criminal justice system with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	12176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2021 answer text <p>We are committed to improving the interaction that individuals with neurodivergent conditions have with the criminal justice system (CJS), and we are exploring what improvements can be made. An independent call for evidence on neurodiversity has been completed and the findings are expected to be reported in the summer. This will enable us to understand current practices and how we can improve these to realise better outcomes.</p><p>Once the MoJ receive the full written report from the Call for Evidence, a ‘Neurodiversity Toolkit’ is to be developed, as announced in the Sentencing White Paper. This will aim to improve our staff’s awareness and understanding of neurodivergent needs, including ADHD, and enable them to feel confident to make referrals to health services if needed.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 16/06/2021 14:29:36 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1330989

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many prison service staff have attended intersectionality courses, (2) what is the cost of any such courses, and (3) how the courses help prison officers deal with prisoners.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>There are no courses on intersectionality but Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) had a package on intersectionality as part of its ‘Let’s Talk’ series.</p><p>Involvement in the ‘Let’s Talk’ series was not mandatory. As a result, HMPPS does not collect or hold data on the number of staff who have participated. All HMPPS diversity and inclusion training is developed internally as part of wider learning and development activity, and so no additional cost was incurred for any of the ‘Let’s Talk’ toolkit.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 22/06/2021 14:14:48 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1331015

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their Safety in custody quarterly: update to December 2020, published on 29 April, what steps they are taking to address self-harm in women’s prisons.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>We recognise that the level of self-harm in the women’s estate is too high and are determined to reduce this. A task force was set up in April 2020 in response to our increasing concerns about the level of self-harm in the women’s estate. We know that many of the drivers and protective factors linked to women’s risk of self-harm in prisons have been affected by Covid-19 and the restricted regimes that have been put in place to control the spread of infection.</p><p>The task force worked to introduce a number of specific interventions to counteract the impact of Covid-19 on the women’s estate, including bespoke well-being checks, increased phone credit and more access to video calls with family and friends.</p><p>We have prioritised women’s prisons for the roll out of the revised version of the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) multi-disciplinary case management system used in prisons to support people at risk of suicide and self-harm. We also introduced the Offender Management in Custody model in the female estate in April. This will provide each woman with a dedicated key worker or equivalent who will be able to better support them and identify concerns at an early stage so that women can receive the right support at the right time.</p><p>We have produced a range of products to support Governors in devising and implementing local safety and welfare plans designed to mitigate risks and promote wellbeing. We have developed new guidance for staff on understanding and supporting someone who is self-harming. We continue to make the Samaritans phone service available and are working with this charity to ensure that the Listener peer support scheme continues to function effectively.</p><p>Importantly, we have also invested £5m in alternatives to prison, including new women’s centres which help people address issues such as alcohol or drug addiction which leads them to crime.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 22/06/2021 15:30:42 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1331016

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Opinion: Low Incomes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to address so-called "legal advice deserts".
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>We continue to work to ensure that civil legal aid advice remains accessible to those who need it. The Legal Aid Agency keeps market capacity under continual review to ensure adequate provision across England and Wales. Wherever you are in England and Wales, legal advice is available through the CLA telephone service.</p><p>We are currently considering the sustainability of the civil legal aid market broadly, looking at a range of factors, from the current remuneration rates, to the pipeline into a career in legal aid, as well as the ability of providers to offer legal aid services into the future. We intend to continue working very closely with stakeholders to increase our understanding of the challenges currently faced by the whole sector.</p><p> </p><p>Legal Aid is central to access to justice, but it is only one part of a broader picture. We know that early intervention is key to help people resolve their legal problems as swiftly as possible, potentially without the need to receive legally aided advice or attend court at all. We are delivering pilots for early resolution of legal problems and to test what works. This includes looking at how we can improve signposting and enhance access to existing online and in person legal support services, and a targeted expansion of funding for early legal advice in a specific area of social welfare law to test its impact.</p><p> </p><p>Charities in the advice sector play a crucial role to help people resolve their legal problems across England and Wales, which has been vital throughout Covid-19. MoJ has provided £5.4m in funding for not-for-profit providers of specialist legal advice. £3m was given to Law Centres and the remaining £2.4m to the Community Justice Fund administered by the Access to Justice Foundation. In 2020, we launched the two-year, £3.1m Legal Support for Litigants in Person Grant. We’re delighted to be working in partnership with the Access to Justice Foundation to deliver the grant, which is designed to fund services provided at local, regional and national levels with the aim of understanding more about how they can combine to help people.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 22/06/2021 16:31:50 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1331018

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Nationalisation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards the restoration of the probation service in England and Wales to public ownership and control.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>We are on track to launch a new unified Probation Service for England and Wales on 26 June this year. The new Service will bring together staff from the previous National Probation Service (NPS) and 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and will strengthen public protection by bringing together management of offenders of all levels of risk into one organisation.</p><p>The new unified service will strengthen rehabilitation by delivering unpaid work and behavioural change programmes in England and Wales. Specialist organisations will continue to play a role in the probation system, delivering resettlement and rehabilitative services such as education, training and employment and accommodation and other rehabilitative interventions. 110 contracts are now in place for these commissioned services. We are also in the final stages of the estates and digital transfers needed to support transition.</p><p>Once we have completed transition to the new organisation, we will begin implementing the new operating model for the unified service. We have already recruited a record 1,000 new trainee probation officers in 2020/21 and plan to recruit a further 1,500 in this financial year.</p><p>Our progress in delivering these crucial reforms will ensure a joined up and improved Probation Service to cut crime and reduce reoffending, meet the needs of our communities, offer more support in rehabilitating offenders and protect the public from crime.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 22/06/2021 16:35:14 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1331027

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Life Imprisonment: Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving a life sentence were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2000.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to each question could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central data was not stored in a way that it can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information, until 2009. As a result, the tables below provide data for each year from 2009.</p><p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a life sentence who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes for all tables:</p><p>1. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p>2. The figures in these tables do not include recalled indeterminate-sentence prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the indeterminate sentence population in prisons are routinely published as part of the Quarterly Offender Management Statistics on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL846 question first answered 22/06/2021 14:43:47 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1331028

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2005.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to each question could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central data was not stored in a way that it can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information, until 2009. As a result, the tables below provide data for each year from 2009.</p><p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a life sentence who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes for all tables:</p><p>1. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p>2. The figures in these tables do not include recalled indeterminate-sentence prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the indeterminate sentence population in prisons are routinely published as part of the Quarterly Offender Management Statistics on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL845 question first answered 22/06/2021 14:43:47 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1330028

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Government has allocated to legal aid in England and Wales in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	11466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>The Lord Chancellor has a duty to ensure that legal aid is made available in accordance with the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (2012), for cases where the relevant criteria, such as the financial eligibility of the applicant and/or the degree of legal merit in their case, is met, where applicable.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice works within HM Treasury allocations as shown in the Main and Supplementary Estimates (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-main-estimates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-main-estimates</a>) each year. However, the nature of Legal Aid funding means that it is demand led, and as such the MoJ ensures sufficient allocation is made to cover the incurred costs.</p><p>Spend on legal aid since 2010 can be viewed at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics</a>, which currently shows expenditure up to and including December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/06/2021 15:27:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1330112

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken is for a probate grant to be issued; what plans he has to reduce that time taken; what progress he has made in reducing the length of the time taken to process all probate cases in 2021; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	11482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>The most recently published information regarding combined waiting times for a grant of probate, on paper and digital cases, covers September 2020 to December 2020 and is published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 26):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2020</a></p><p>Average time to grant issue for grants of Probate, England and Wales, quarterly Q2 2019 - Q4 2020<sup>1,2,3</sup></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Probate - All</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Application submission to grant issue</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Document receipt to grant issue<sup>4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Quarter</p></td><td><p>Grants issued</p></td><td><p>Mean weeks</p></td><td><p>Median weeks</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Mean weeks</p></td><td><p>Median weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>Q2<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,019</p></td><td><p>Q3</p></td><td><p>53,403</p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td><td><p>8.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9.5</p></td><td><p>8.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,019</p></td><td><p>Q4</p></td><td><p>54,389</p></td><td><p>7.8</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>Q1</p></td><td><p>49,706</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>Q2</p></td><td><p>45,493</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>4.6</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>Q3</p></td><td><p>60,225</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>Q4</p></td><td><p>54,476</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Probate - Digital</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Application submission to grant issue</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Document receipt to grant issue<sup>4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grants issued</p></td><td><p>Mean weeks</p></td><td><p>Median weeks</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Mean weeks</p></td><td><p>Median weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7,166</p></td><td><p>9.4</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>7.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11,060</p></td><td><p>10.2</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10,784</p></td><td><p>7.1</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10,955</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21,591</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21,875</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Probate - Paper</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Application submission to grant issue</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Document receipt to grant issue<sup>4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grants issued</p></td><td><p>Mean weeks</p></td><td><p>Median weeks</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Mean weeks</p></td><td><p>Median weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td><td><p>:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>46,237</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>43,329</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>38,922</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>34,538</p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>38,634</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>32,601</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: HMCTS Core Case Data</p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p><em>1) HMCTS Core Case Data came into effect at the end of March 2019, following a transition between data systems recording information regarding the Probate Service.</em></p><p><em>2) The average timeliness figures are produced by calculating the time from application/document receipt (which may be from an earlier period) to the grant issued made in that period. Currently grants being issued on the same day as the application submission/document receipt are being calculated as 0 days. This is being reviewed as to whether it is an accurate reflection of workload and may be adjusted in future..</em></p><p><em>3) Some averages presented here may be based on a small number of grants. Where this occurs, any conclusion drawn from these will be limited..</em></p><p><em>4) Document receipt occurs after payment has been made and all accompanying paperwork has been received by HMCTS.</em></p><p><em>5) Due to quality issues in the transition between data systems, the breakdown by type of grant has not been published for Q2 2019.</em></p><p><em>6) A probate application can be stopped for several reasons: a caveat can be entered when there’s a dispute about either who can apply for probate or issues with a will or proposed will, or if an error is identified and a request for further information is made.</em></p><p> </p><p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, the average waiting for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between four to six weeks.</p><p>More recent management information published by HMCTS (which does not go through the same level of quality assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly) provides waiting time information up to March 2021. This shows that the waiting time on digital grant of probate applications, which are not stopped due to errors or missing documentation, has been below one week since September 2020. Similarly paper cases, not stopped, took less than three weeks on average in March 2021 compared to five weeks in March 2020.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/hmcts-management-information-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/hmcts-management-information-march-2021</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/06/2021 14:39:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

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date	07/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Solicitors: North East
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 encourage solicitors to practice in the North East of England.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	11481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>Under the framework established by the Legal Services Act 2007, the legal profession in England and Wales, and the bodies that regulate it, are independent from government. We continue to ensure that legal aid advice remains accessible to those who need it, and the Legal Aid Agency keeps market capacity under continual review to ensure adequate provision across England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/06/2021 14:34:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown