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388689

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date	08/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on which occasions the Supreme Court has declared an incompatibility between domestic legislation and the European Convention on Human Rights under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 since that Court's inception; and what the Government's response was in each such case.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text Since its inception, the Supreme Court has confirmed two declarations of incompatibility under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998, both of which had been made previously by the Court of Appeal. These were in the cases of R (F and Thompson) v SSHD (2010) UKSC 17 and T &amp; Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department &amp; Anor [2014] UKSC 35.<p>In the first case, the incompatibility was remedied by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Remedial) Order 2012.</p><p> </p><p>In the second case, while the Government’s application to appeal to the Supreme Court was outstanding, changes were made to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and to the Police Act 1997 by secondary legislation in response to the Court of Appeal’s earlier judgment.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 13/07/2015 14:02:33 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

388690

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date	08/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines have been (a) issued by courts and (b) collected in the most recent 12 months for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last four years. The amount of money collected has risen from £259m to a record of £310 million at the end of 2014/15. This is an increase of £20m (7%) in cash collection of financial impositions (excluding confiscation) compared to that collected in 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>The number of financial imposition accounts opened and closed since 2012 is published here: (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a>)</p><p> </p><p>Financial impositions include fines imposed in the Magistrates and Crown courts, costs orders, compensation orders, victim surcharge orders and unpaid fixed penalty notices and penalty notices for disorder which are registered as fines for enforcement.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/07/2015 16:42:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

388694

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) ethnic background and (b) gender was of people serving custodial sentences in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>Figures for the prison population by ethnicity and gender are published and are available from the following link:</p><p> </p><p>The Offender Management Statistics Quarterly publication includes a time series on the gender of the sentenced prison population and on the ethnicity of the combined sentenced and unsentenced prison population . Table A1.1 at the link below gives gender figures from June 2010 to June 2014 and table A1.7 by ethnic group:</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339036/prison-population-2014.xls" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339036/prison-population-2014.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339036/prison-population-2014.xls</a></p><p>The latest figures to March 2015, are available in Table 1.1 and 1.7 at the link below:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/424896/prison-population-q1-2015.xlsx" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/424896/prison-population-q1-2015.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/424896/prison-population-q1-2015.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/07/2015 14:27:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

388719

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of the recent Airports Commission report into aircraft capacity.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>On setting up the Commission in 2012, the Department set a budget of £20.35m to allow for building, staff and IT costs, expert consultancy, publishing, travel and hosting public consultation events over the four financial years 2012/13 to 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p /><p> </p><p>Sir Howard Davies and his fellow commissioners have not been paid for their work.</p><p /><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost to date is around £12.7m. The exact cost will be known once the Commission Secretariat has been completely dissolved, following which we intend to publish the final figures.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 13/07/2015 16:11:14 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter