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595959

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to increase capacity at the Asylum and Immigration Chamber.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	47206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is administered by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). HMCTS have provided an additional 4,500 tribunal sitting days for this financial year compared to 2015/16. HMCTS keeps performance and resource levels under close review. answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 12:46:22 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

595963

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on how many times provisions under Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 have been used to convict people in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	46895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold statistics on the number of offenders found guilty under Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015, as the offence has yet to be commenced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 13:01:56 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

595979

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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: Debt Collection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many civilian enforcement officers were employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service in each year since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	46842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of civilian enforcement officers that were employed by HM Courts and Tribunals Service since 2013 are:-</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>FTE (Full time Equivalent)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2013</p></td><td><p>296</p></td><td><p>287.49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>242</p></td><td><p>231.18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>202.59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>173.72</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data prior to 2013 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and is working to ensure that clamping down on defaulters is a continued priority nationwide 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 five years. The amount of money collected has risen from £310m at the end of 2014/115 to a record of £381 million at the end of 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 18/10/2016 09:26:10 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

595967

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Arrest Warrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many arrest warrants were issued for defendants who failed to attend court in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	47082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The number of arrest warrants issued for defendants who failed to attend court in England and Wales for the period 2010 to 2014, the latest data available, can be viewed in the table below.</p><p><strong>Number of Failure to Appear (FTA) Warrants received<sup> (1)</sup> in England and Wales, 2010- 2014.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total warrants issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>93,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>88,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012<sup> (2)</sup></p></td><td><p>72,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70,225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014<sup> (3)</sup></p></td><td><p>70,016</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from live systems used by police forces principally for operational reasons. As such, they are subject to change over time. For these reasons, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) West Midlands constabulary are unable to supply any FTA warrant data from 1 April 2012.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3) Lincolnshire Police were unable to supply any data for Q4 of 2014 because of technical issues related to the introduction of a new warrant management system. Data presented are for the first three quarters of 2014 only.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong><ul><li>These data are reported to the Ministry of Justice by police forces. As such, they are not directly comparable with other data presented in the Criminal Statistics bulletin, which are returned directly from administrative data systems used by magistrates' courts and the Crown Court.</li></ul></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 15:38:47 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

595444

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will consider the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to reduce the notice period for a landowner who has secured a court order to evict travellers from 48 to 12 hours.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	47245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The accelerated procedure for obtaining a possession order to evict trespassers (which may include travellers) is set out in the Civil Procedure Rules, Part 55.</p><p> </p><p>There is no notice period once a landowner has obtained an order to evict. The standard order for a successful claim for possession would be an order for immediate possession.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not consider that the process requires change.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 47244 question first answered 17/10/2016 13:19:04 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

595960

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of potential measures to make access to courts (a) easier and (b) substantially faster for a landowner seeking to get an order to evict travellers.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	47244
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The accelerated procedure for obtaining a possession order to evict trespassers (which may include travellers) is set out in the Civil Procedure Rules, Part 55.</p><p> </p><p>There is no notice period once a landowner has obtained an order to evict. The standard order for a successful claim for possession would be an order for immediate possession.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not consider that the process requires change.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 47245 question first answered 17/10/2016 13:19:04 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

595977

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to conduct a three and five year post-implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	46871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is finalising the one year post implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 and a decision will be made about publication in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is considering the further reviews.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 47401 question first answered 17/10/2016 12:16:41 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

595988

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the one-year post-implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 has been completed; and if she will make the outcome of that review available to hon. Members.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	47401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is finalising the one year post implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 and a decision will be made about publication in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is considering the further reviews.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 46871 question first answered 17/10/2016 12:16:41 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

595980

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2016 to Question 44657, for what reasons the commencement of Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has not yet taken place.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	46894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to commencing section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. We are continuing to consider its implementation carefully whilst also considering our other justice priorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 17/10/2016 15:49:53 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

595994

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Chlorine Dioxide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to enable the prosecution of people who promote the use of miracle mineral solution as a cure for autism.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	47521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued advice that Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) is not safe and should not be sold for human consumption. It has been working with local authorities across the country to share knowledge, investigate and disrupt the sale of MMS and other similar products.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA’s National Food Crime Unit has secured the removal of MMS products from major marketplace websites, and has shared information internationally through the National Crime Agency, alerting authorities in specific countries to the risks relating to known proponents of the use of MMS in this manner.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, the Government has no plans to bring forward legislation in this area.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 19/10/2016 15:02:58 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman