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date	29/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of magistrates’ court closures on access to justice.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	214135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The decision to close a court is never taken lightly. In the case of each magistrates’ court closure, we undertook a public consultation exercise and considered the responses we received very carefully. The Lord Chancellor only agreed to close the court when satisfied that effective access to justice would be maintained when the court closed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/02/2019 17:42:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 99519 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1050627

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of leaving the EU on the UK’s legal sectors.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	214136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the single market will have implications for market access and some UK and EU service suppliers will not enjoy the same rights as they do today. The Political Declaration outlines the EU and the UK’s commitment to, among other things, ambitious arrangements for services and investment that go well beyond WTO commitments, and build on recent EU FTAs.</p><p> </p><p>Delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s top priority. Alongside this the Government is also accelerating no deal preparations to ensure the country is prepared for every eventuality. The technical notice <em>providing services including those of a qualified professional if there's no Brexit deal</em>, published by the Government on 12 October 2018 sets out the implications of a no deal exit for EEA legal professionals and business owners in the UK. An impact assessment was published alongside the SI implementing these changes.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the EU Commission technical notice published on 21 June 2018, in a no deal scenario the rights of practice, ownership and establishment of UK nationals and businesses in the EU will be governed by the national policies and rules of individual member states.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/02/2019 17:32:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 99522 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1050628

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Witnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of non-appearances by (a) defendants and (b) witnesses in magistrates’ courts over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	214137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>There are two main sources of data on defendants failing to appear (FTA). Data on trials where the defendant fails to appear in the magistrates’ court shows that there has been an increase between 2015 and 2017. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>FTA</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>63141</p></td><td><p>65922</p></td><td><p>67411</p></td></tr></tbody></table>In the same time period there has been little change in the total number of warrants issued for failure to attend in magistrates’ courts for all hearings.<table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Numbers of FTA warrants issued</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>92983</p></td><td><p>92862</p></td><td><p>93317</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Figures for warrants are broader, including warrants that relate not only to trials but also all other hearings and those issued for failure to comply with the requirements of an order or breach on summons in relation to an order. Analysts in HMCTS and MoJ have confirmed we cannot be sure of the causes of changes in FTA. Data on non-appearance of witnesses is not held by the Ministry of Justice or HMCTS.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 18:23:28 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 99534 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens