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1079549

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Probation: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of estimated cost to the public purse of the probation and courts IT systems failure in January 2019 has been recovered from IT suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The financial impact(s) on operations following the IT outage are still being assessed, therefore at this stage the Ministry of Justice cannot provide an estimate of the cost to the public purse. We continue to work to leverage remedies available under the contract with our supplier, but at this stage cannot state how much will be recovered.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:28:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079550

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Probation: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has undertaken a review into the causes of the probation and courts IT systems failure in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>A review of the IT issues experienced in January and the resiliency of our core IT systems is currently being conducted by a Ministry of Justice Non-Executive Director and will report to the Permanent Secretary.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:34:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079552

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Closures
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 the effect of court closures on the time taken for hearings to be listed.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service closely monitors the operational performance of courts in England and Wales, including listing timeliness. Court statistics, including listing timeliness, are routinely published on GOV.UK;</p><p> </p><p>Criminal - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Family - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Civil - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly#2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly#2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Court performance is influenced by many factors which include, but are not limited to, available judicial resource, changes in the offence and case mix and the overall performance of other justice sector agencies.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to close a court has not been taken lightly. In the case of 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 there was sufficient capacity in the remaining estate, and that effective access to justice would be maintained when the court closed.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 18:43:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 106176 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079553

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court cases have proceeded in the absence of a defendant in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The tables below show the number of trials heard in the absence of the defendant in magistrates’ courts and in the Crown Court.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Trials heard in absence of a defendant in a magistrates’ court</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018 (January- September)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12,443</p></td><td><p>14,132</p></td><td><p>13,743</p></td><td><p>13,981</p></td><td><p>10,262</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Trials heard in absence of a defendant in the Crown Court</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018 (January- September)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>In the Magistrates’, the court can proceed with a trial in the absence of the defendant unless it would be contrary to the interests of justice. In the Crown Court, the judge has the discretion to permit a trial to proceed in the defendant’s absence. </strong></p><p>The priority is to ensure the case can be concluded fairly and that victims, witnesses, and the public can see justice being done.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:45:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079554

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
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: Probate Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in the Probate Service have applied to work in a Courts and Tribunal Service Centre in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The number of staff in the Probate service who have applied to work in a Courts and Tribunal Service Centre in the last six months is one member of staff.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:34:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079555

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate Service: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consultation with recognised trades unions his Department undertook on the proposal to use bulk scanning and printing services in the Probate Service before that contract had been signed with the supplier.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>HMCTS began consultation with its recognised Trade Unions on the provision of bulk scanning and printing services in October 2017. This included the intention to use these arrangements for probate services. HMCTS has remained in dialogue with the Trade Unions since this point. The contract was signed in April 2018.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:30:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079556

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Divorce
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 was for (a) the issue of a divorce petition and (b) the issue of divorce petition to decree nisi in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	227399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>A decree nisi is the provisional decree of divorce pronounced when the court is satisfied that a person has met the legal and procedural requirements to obtain a divorce. When a party applies for divorce, the court must complete administrative checks before it can issue the divorce petition. The time taken between the issue of a petition to when a decree nisi is granted is affected by a range of factors, including the respondent acknowledging that they have received the petition, the petitioner applying for the decree nisi, and the court considering the case and listing a hearing to pronounce the decree nisi.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Average time from receipt to issuing of petition </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Average time from issuing of petition to decree nisi</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Mean average</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median average</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean average</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median average</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2.1 days</p></td><td><p>0.0 days</p></td><td><p>24.1 weeks</p></td><td><p>17.0 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>3.6 days</p></td><td><p>0.0 days</p></td><td><p>23.7 weeks</p></td><td><p>15.9 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 (January-September)</p></td><td><p>8.3 days</p></td><td><p>3.0 days</p></td><td><p>27.9 weeks</p></td><td><p>20.3 weeks</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:31:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1079560

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2019 to Question 223971 on Home Office: Staff, what the daily rate of pay was for each of the roles listed in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	227371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation and in law generally to protect personal data.</p><p><br>The contractual terms and conditions for an employee are personal data between the employer and the employee as set out in the contract of employment.</p><p><br>We cannot therefore comment on contracted daily rate of pay for individual staff.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/04/2019 16:49:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1079562

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2019 to Question 223140 on Home Office: Staff, whether a (a) Counter Terrorist Check, (b) Security Check and (c) Developed Vetting has been required for each of the staff contracted by suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	227373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Staff contracted by suppliers are required to have a minimum clearance level of Base Level Clearance (BPSS).</p><p>All roles are assessed against the security framework to establish the level of clearance required. Where deemed appropriate for the role, staff contracted by suppliers are must also successfully complete a Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) or Security Check (SC). There are no resources on the programme that require Developed Vetting (DV).</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/03/2019 13:15:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1079579

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to improve the transparency of his Department’s aid budget.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	227379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government transparency target set out in the 2015 Aid Strategy commits all Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending departments to achieve ‘Good’ or ‘Very Good’ in the International Aid Transparency Index (IATI) by 2020. The Home Office is working to improve the transparency of our its aid projects and achieve at least a ‘Good’ rating’ on the Aid Transparency Index by 2020. This will involve publishing detailed information on Home Office ODA projects, whilst safeguarding UK national security obligations, and individual’s’ personal information.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/03/2019 16:45:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael