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944010

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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, whether his Department has commissioned research on the effect of court closures on (a) non-attendances of defendants and (a) staff morale.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	165529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service holds data showing failure-to appear rates of defendants mapped against the number of courts and tribunals that have closed in each year. There was no significant increase in failure to attend warrants being issued as a proportion of hearings following the large closure programme of 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service acknowledges the impact that court closure may have on staff and when implementing a court closure support is offered to staff members in discussing relocation options with them. More broadly, staff morale is monitored annually through the HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service People Survey.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:27:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

944011

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that geographic accessibility to courts does not become a barrier to access to justice as a result of the courts closure programme.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	165530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>In January 2018, HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service published its <em>Fit for the future: transforming the Court and Tribunal estate </em>consultation, outlining proposals for its future strategy and approach to the court and tribunal estate in the context of the over £1 billion programme of modernisation currently underway across HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service.</p><p> </p><p>Access to justice, of which proximity to courts and tribunals is one factor, was referred to in the consultation, which closed on 29 March 2018. We are currently considering responses to the consultation and will publish our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:40:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

944012

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure magistrates courts are adequately staffed with magistrates.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	165531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p><em>The number of magistrates required by magistrates’ courts and the Family Court are assessed annually through an established protocol agreed with the Judiciary. This can be found at </em><a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/protocol-support-jud-deployment-in-mags-cts/" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/protocol-support-jud-deployment-in-mags-cts/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/07/2018 16:22:28 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943039

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Drug and Alcohol Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken to ensure that the graduation rate of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court is maintained beyond September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	164968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Local Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) will continue to be funded, as they and other innovative models similar to FDAC currently are, by those local areas who choose to establish or commission these services locally. It is important that families are supported to overcome issues related to alcohol and substance misuse, and the government is investing £16 billion in public health services and has set out a wide-ranging drug strategy to address this.</p><p>We understand that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is considering the future of the FDAC National Unit, which they have run since its establishment in 2015. Officials are currently working with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to ensure that the impact of the potential closure of the FDAC National Unit on local sites is minimised and that any resources developed by the FDAC National Unit remains accessible to them, and others, interested in the FDAC model in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164969 question first answered 24/07/2018 17:40:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943042

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Family Drug and Alcohol Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the closure of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court on rates of substance abuse by people who would otherwise have gone through that Court.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	164969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Local Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) will continue to be funded, as they and other innovative models similar to FDAC currently are, by those local areas who choose to establish or commission these services locally. It is important that families are supported to overcome issues related to alcohol and substance misuse, and the government is investing £16 billion in public health services and has set out a wide-ranging drug strategy to address this.</p><p>We understand that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is considering the future of the FDAC National Unit, which they have run since its establishment in 2015. Officials are currently working with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to ensure that the impact of the potential closure of the FDAC National Unit on local sites is minimised and that any resources developed by the FDAC National Unit remains accessible to them, and others, interested in the FDAC model in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 164968 question first answered 24/07/2018 17:40:16 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943193

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
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 26 February 2018 to Question 127570, on Courts: Video Conferencing, what proportion of defendants have appeared in court proceedings via video link from (a) police stations and (b) prisons in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	164972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the proportion of defendants that appeared in court proceedings via video link from (a) police station and (b) prisons between 2013-2017.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for periods before June 2012, as data collections were not undertaken during that time.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS do not hold the proportion of witnesses that have appeared in Magistrates or Crown court proceedings via video link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><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>Overall </strong> <strong>(2013-17)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison (number of defendants that appeared in court by video by prison video link)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>53,487</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>72,201</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>81,219</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>74,429</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>77,722</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>359,058</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison (proportion of defendants that appeared in court by video by prison video link) </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90.1%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>89.9%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.8%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>86.0%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.5%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.7%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Police station (number of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station video link)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,884</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,083</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,270</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,089</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,067</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>46,393</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Police station (proportion of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station video link)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9.9%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10.1%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11.2%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14.0%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11.5%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11.3%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total number of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station or prison video link</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>59,371</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>80,284</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91,489</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>86,518</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>87,789</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>405,451</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: HMCTS management information</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>Data is not available for periods before June 2012 as data collections were not undertaken. Data has been supplied for the complete years 2013 to 2017.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><ul><li>Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been recorded manually by the local courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>The data provided is the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><ul><li>The data supplied is based on a count of defendants appearing in the Magistrates' Courts and Crown Court via Police Station (Mags only) and Prison video link. Therefore, the same defendant will appear in the tables more than once where they initially appeared via Police Station video link, and then subsequently appeared via Prison video link on one or more occasions.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>Data has not been cross referenced with case files.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 164973 question first answered 24/07/2018 13:04:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 71579 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

943194

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
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 26 February 2018 to Question 127570, on Courts: Video Conferencing, what proportion of witnesses have appeared in court proceedings via video link in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	164973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the proportion of defendants that appeared in court proceedings via video link from (a) police station and (b) prisons between 2013-2017.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for periods before June 2012, as data collections were not undertaken during that time.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS do not hold the proportion of witnesses that have appeared in Magistrates or Crown court proceedings via video link.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><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>Overall </strong> <strong>(2013-17)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison (number of defendants that appeared in court by video by prison video link)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>53,487</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>72,201</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>81,219</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>74,429</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>77,722</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>359,058</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison (proportion of defendants that appeared in court by video by prison video link) </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90.1%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>89.9%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.8%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>86.0%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.5%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.7%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Police station (number of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station video link)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,884</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,083</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,270</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,089</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,067</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>46,393</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Police station (proportion of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station video link)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9.9%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10.1%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11.2%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14.0%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11.5%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11.3%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total number of defendants that appeared in court by video by police station or prison video link</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>59,371</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>80,284</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91,489</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>86,518</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>87,789</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>405,451</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: HMCTS management information</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>Data is not available for periods before June 2012 as data collections were not undertaken. Data has been supplied for the complete years 2013 to 2017.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><ul><li>Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been recorded manually by the local courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when data are used.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>The data provided is the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><ul><li>The data supplied is based on a count of defendants appearing in the Magistrates' Courts and Crown Court via Police Station (Mags only) and Prison video link. Therefore, the same defendant will appear in the tables more than once where they initially appeared via Police Station video link, and then subsequently appeared via Prison video link on one or more occasions.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>Data has not been cross referenced with case files.</li></ul></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 164972 question first answered 24/07/2018 13:04:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 71580 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

932744

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans hold discussions with the National Deaf Children’s Society on changes to funding for deaf children’s education.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	158979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Bolton South East to the answer I gave on 4 June 2018 to Question 146815: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-22/146815/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-22/146815/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/07/2018 15:05:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

931404

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to extend the right to buy scheme to tenants of housing association properties.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	157707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>We remain committed to ensuring that housing association tenants have the opportunity to own their homes, and are using pilots to make sure we get the policy right. The forthcoming large-scale regional pilot in the Midlands, which will launch in the summer, will test key aspects of the voluntary agreement with housing associations not tested in the initial small-scale pilot, including the portable discount and one for one replacement.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 04/07/2018 15:58:29 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

931405

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the timescale is for extending the right to buy housing scheme to tenants of housing association properties.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	157708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 157707 on 4 July 2018.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/07/2018 15:41:01 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi