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1088245

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date	13/03/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Public Houses: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many pubs closed in the 12 months (a) before the business rates revaluation came into force in 2017 and (b) after that revaluation.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	231972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not hold the requested information.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 21/03/2019 17:21:41 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1088270

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service spent on consultancies (a) in total, (b) per consultancy in each of the financial years (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	231973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Please find below the total spend on consultancy for HMCTS for the period requested. Please note the spend is taken from our Bravo spend tool and is an accurate figure of what has been invoiced within this period:</p><p> </p><p>(i) 2016-17 = £3,103,764.16</p><p>(ii) 2017-18 = £11,805,649.04</p><p> </p><p>Please see below table which outlines the consultancy projects for the periods requested for HMCTS, the information includes start dates, contract values and descriptions of the services:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Start Date</p></td><td><p>Supplier</p></td><td><p>Total Value of Contract</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>BMT Hi-Q Sigma</p></td><td><p>£150,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Capita</p></td><td><p>£795,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Concerto Partners LLP</p></td><td><p>£258,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Ernst &amp; Young LLP</p></td><td><p>£6,236,775</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>KPMG LLP</p></td><td><p>£1,129,875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>PA Consulting Services Limited</p></td><td><p>£2,415,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</p></td><td><p>£107,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Allen Lane Consultancy Limited</p></td><td><p>£3,657,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Deloitte LLP</p></td><td><p>£462,040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Methods Business and Digital</p></td><td><p>£1,997,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</p></td><td><p>£30,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Veracity Consulting</p></td><td><p>£681,015</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Consultants are engaged to deliver short-term on projects where specialist skills required are not available within the organisation. As part of the governance process, approvals are sought from Finance Business Partner, HR Business Partner &amp; the Director General to ensure that project outcomes and budget are validated and to seek confirmation that internal resource is not available to deliver either due to the specialist nature of the project or due to capacity issues enabling delivery within the project timescales.</p><p><br> By making use of consultants, the department can save on salary, national insurance and pension costs associated with permanently employing individuals whose skills may not be needed after a set period.</p><p> </p><p>The government is investing £1bn to reform our courts and tribunals service, bringing new technology and modern ways of working to the justice system and benefiting all those that use it.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/03/2019 17:17:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1086492

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 214022 on Courts: Closures, for how many years do staff who move their work location to an alternative court as part of the Estates Rationalisation Programme have access to the Excess Fares Allowance; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	230664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Staff who incur additional travel costs as a result of a permanent compulsory transfer from their current work location to an alternative location, as part of the Estates Rationalisation Programme, will have access to Excess Fares Allowance for a period of 3 years. In certain exceptional circumstances the period of Excess Fares Allowance may be extended by an additional year.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/03/2019 16:11:17 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1086493

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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, whether his Department has commissioned any research into changes to journey times to courts for (a) witnesses, (b) victims of crime and (c) court staff in areas where courts have closed as a result of the Estate Rationalisation Programme.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	230665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The decision to close a court is never taken lightly. In the case of each court closure, we undertook a public consultation exercise and considered the responses we received very carefully. The Lord Chancellor has only agreed to close courts when satisfied that effective access to justice would be maintained.</p><p> </p><p>Research and analysis of changes to journey times for those who attend court is conducted and published as part of the consultation process. The analysis is further reviewed based on responses to the consultation and is carefully considered by the Lord Chancellor before final decisions are made regarding the future of a court.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/03/2019 16:11:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1086500

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts were affected by the temporary failure of the Crown Court Digital Case System during the week commencing 4 March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	230667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>HMCTS initial investigations suggest that there were eight adjournments as a result of the slowdown of DCS: Two cases at Manchester (Crown Square), two cases at Sheffield Crown Court, three cases at Leeds Crown Court and one case at Norwich Crown Court. Six cases were relisted for hearing on 8 March 2019. The remaining two cases will be heard on 14 March 2019.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/03/2019 17:54:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1086501

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Crown Court Digital Case System is operated by HM Courts and Tribunals Service or contracted to a third-party supplier.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	230668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Digital Case System (DCS) is operated by a third-party supplier, Netmaster Solutions LTD (NSL).</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/03/2019 16:14:18 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1082573

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Reform
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 the revised completion date of the courts reform programme on (a) the cost of the programme and (b) the predicted date when the cumulative benefits of the programme are expected to be greater than the cumulative costs.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	229148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>Learning from the services that have already been delivered and the feedback received, we have decided to re-order aspects of the programme to allow more time to develop some of the shared systems that sit behind our next set of online services, working to an updated finish date of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The overall budget will remain unchanged. The cumulative benefits are expected to be greater than the cumulative costs from 2024/25, a year later than previously expected.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/04/2019 10:39:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 108025 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

1064746

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HM Courts and Tribunals Service report, Evaluating our reforms: Response to PAC recommendation 4, published in January 2019, what areas of that service have achieved savings of £158 million.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	224316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>This government is investing over £1 billion to reform and modernise the justice system, providing easier and more efficient justice for all. As we increase the use of digital services, we reduce the number of staff needed to run the Courts and Tribunal systems, decommission old IT systems and exit court and tribunal buildings which are no longer needed.</p><p> </p><p>Savings of £158m have been achieved between the start of the programme in 2014-15 financial year and the date of the NAO report. Of this £76m arises from savings from closing court and tribunal buildings we no longer need, with every penny raised from selling these underused buildings reinvested back into the justice system; £68m has been saved from the costs of administering the courts system through achieving greater efficiency and the use of modern IT processes; £9m from more effective use of judge time; and £5m from decommissioning old IT systems.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/03/2019 15:33:38 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1064495

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service plans to spend on consultancies in total; and how much and on which consultancies that service plans to spend (a) more and (b) less than £50,000 in the 2018-19 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	224081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the amounts of expenditure on consultants planned by HMCTS for the 18/19 financial year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY Forecast</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PWC - Delivery Partner</p></td><td><p>18,041,125</p></td><td><p>Strategic advice on Reform Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Methods Business &amp; Digital Technology LTD</p></td><td><p>2,118,619</p></td><td><p>Judicial engagement project to raise awareness of HMCTS reform</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Revolving Doors</p></td><td><p>72,000</p></td><td><p>Improve digital services in HMCTS service centres</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PORISM LTD</p></td><td><p>2,385</p></td><td><p>Documenting workshops for three service project</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pinsett Mansons</p></td><td><p>14,233</p></td><td><p>Legal advice re Authorised Enforcement Agency project</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cabinet Office</p></td><td><p>23,628</p></td><td><p>Consultancy services on Transforming Compliance and Enforcement Programmes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Veracity</p></td><td><p>56,574</p></td><td><p>Refinancial Services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beamans Ltd</p></td><td><p>4,296</p></td><td><p>Profile Evaluations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beamans Ltd</p></td><td><p>28,050</p></td><td><p>Job families framework</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beamans Ltd</p></td><td><p>20,000</p></td><td><p>Profile Evaluations (JECS or JEPS)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beamans Ltd</p></td><td><p>32,346</p></td><td><p>Profile Evaluations (JECS or JEPS)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cabinet Office</p></td><td><p>1,050</p></td><td><p>Work on MoJ participation in National Fraud Initiative</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PA Consultancy Services LTD</p></td><td><p>1,402</p></td><td><p>Facilitation Services for staff away day</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte</p></td><td><p>87,500</p></td><td><p>Financial services forecast for remainder 18/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>20,503,208</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The majority of spend relates to the PWC Delivery Partner contract, which provides strategic advice and support across HMCTS Reform Note that the figure cited above includes VAT. It should be noted that the PWC contract is a strategic partnership contract that replaced several individual contracts, and as such gives us access to specialist skills across the change spectrum.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 18:41:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1064496

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the planned completion date is for the common platform programme.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	224082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>Our aim is that by 2020, criminal justice partners and HMCTS will have co‐designed and co-delivered the common platform fully. As with all programmes, timelines are under continuous review.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/03/2019 15:07:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi