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757155

registered interest
date	29/08/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to extend the broadcasting of court proceedings.
tabling member constituency	Maldon
tabling member printed	Mr John Whittingdale
uin	900687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>Broadcasting of live footage of the UK Supreme Court is already allowed. Since 2012, judgements and sentencing decisions in cases before the Court of Appeal, in both criminal and civil divisions are also broadcast.</p><p>In 2016 we conducted a not for broadcast test for judges’ sentencing remarks in eight Crown Court centres.</p><p>We will consider the lessons learnt from this test before considering next steps so to ensure that proper safeguards are introduced and that parties are treated fairly and their rights are respected.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 07/09/2017 23:11:09 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale

757156

registered interest
date	29/08/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Port Talbot
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, Whether he or Ministers of his Department have plans to attend the public meeting in Port Talbot on 20 September 2017 on the proposed siting of a prison in Baglan, Port Talbot.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	900688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The site at Port Talbot was proposed along with a number of other sites by the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government continue to support us in redeveloping the site for the purpose of building a new prison.</p><p>It is not customary for Ministers to attend public consultation events about obtaining planning permission for new prisons.</p><p>My officials will be holding a two-day public event about our plans for the new prison in Port Talbot, in due course. This event will be over and above the statutory consultation process required.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/09/2017 23:11:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

757157

registered interest
date	29/08/2017
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 steps the Government is taking to reduce violence and self-harm among prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	900677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>I take our duty to keep both prisoners in our care and our hard-working staff safe extremely seriously.</p><p>I chair a weekly safer custody meeting with officials to drive forward improvements. I review details of every self-inflicted death to see how we might prevent others.</p><p>We are improving support for prisoners in their early days in custody and working to improve case management processes for those at risk.</p><p>We are also bringing in more staff dedicated to safer custody work to ensure prisons are following all the processes they need to.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/09/2017 23:09:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

757158

registered interest
date	29/08/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
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 appropriate ratio of staff to prisoners in each prison for operating a safe and rehabilitative prison regime.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	900683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>There are arrangements in place in every prison, taking into account population and accommodation, to set staffing levels which are sufficient to maintain safe and decent conditions.</p><p>We are significantly increasing staff numbers by recruiting a net 2,500 extra prison officers by December 2018.</p><p>This will allow us to introduce a new key worker role, in which all prison officers on wings will support a small caseload of prisoners, improving the quality of staff-prisoner relationships and tackling the drivers of each prisoner’s offending.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/09/2017 23:10:38 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

757159

registered interest
date	29/08/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to use technology to improve the efficiency of the judicial process.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	900678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is investing £1.1bn to transform our courts and tribunals and deliver a modern, swift and accessible justice system that maintains our global reputation for legal excellence.</p><p>As part of this we will digitise our services to make them easier to use, and install modern and robust technology across all courts, to make the lives of our excellent judiciary and professional users easier.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/09/2017 13:22:28 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

754481

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has received the results of any consultation on Civil Service pay levels in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	6449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has not publicly consulted on Civil Service pay levels in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/09/2017 13:42:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

754482

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Government purchasing currently comes from small and medium-sized enterprises.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	6494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer my Hon Friend to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith on 18 July 2017 to UIN: 4273.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/09/2017 13:44:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

754483

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Jarrow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of people in Jarrow constituency worked in the public sector in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	6673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/09/2017 13:16:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ6673.pdf title UKSA Response to PQ6673
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

754484

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voting Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure people can vote only once in an election.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	6701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Voting more than once at a General Election or at other national polls such as a referendum is a crime which carries a financial penalty.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We take this matter very seriously. I have raised this issue as a priority with the Electoral Commission, and will consider carefully the findings of their report on electoral registration at the 2017 General Election, as well as their upcoming report on the administration of that poll.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is possible to determine whether an individual has voted twice at a General Election by checking the marked register of those who have voted. If anyone has evidence of someone voting twice, then they should report this to their local returning officer and to the police.</p><p> </p><p>I have also written to the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) to reiterate the Government's support for the police to make every effort to investigate reports of criminal behaviour in relation to elections.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to consider if further steps should be taken to ensure the integrity of the electoral system and where opportunities could exist to reiterate that voting more than once at the General Election or other national polls is illegal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/09/2017 13:26:57 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

754485

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will seek to repeal the Fixed Terms Parliament Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	6705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government stated in its manifesto its intention to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Under the Act, the Prime Minister will make arrangements in 2020 for committee to carry out a review of the operation of the Act and, if appropriate, to make recommendations for its repeal or amendment. The Government believes that it is right for the committee to review the operation of the Act, before repealing it, to inform decisions about the nature of the repeal.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/09/2017 13:31:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock