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437344

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Henry VIII Clauses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what Henry VIII powers were (a) enacted in legislation passed in the 2010 to 2015 Parliament and (b) since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Each time the Government proposes a new delegated power in a Bill, it submits a memorandum to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee setting out the case for the power. These memoranda are published on Parliament's website.</p> answering member constituency West Dorset answering member printed Mr Oliver Letwin question first answered 16/12/2015 10:22:06 answering member 247 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Letwin
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437367

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Torture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's Policy paper, UN Human Rights Council: United Kingdom 2017-2019 candidate, published on 9 December 2015, for what reason reference to the prevention of torture included in previous candidature policy papers was omitted from that policy paper.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Our UN pledges reflect our enduring commitment to promoting universal human rights. Our work to prevent torture globally is intrinsic to this. Our pledges renew the UK’s commitment to encourage the ratification and implementation of core UN human rights instruments - this includes the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and its Optional Protocol. As the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the member for Witney (Mr Cameron) has said, “torture is always wrong”. We continue to call on all states to set up meaningful national preventative mechanisms to put an end to all use of torture and remain committed to torture prevention work globally as evidenced by the launch of the new edition of the Torture Reporting Handbook on 24 September.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/12/2015 17:43:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437387

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015
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 whether there has been a reduction in the number of claims brought to the courts as a result of the provisions of the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Act only came into force on 13 April 2015. As is normal practice, a formal assessment of its impact may be carried out after three to five years.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 19756 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:42:56 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437388

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people whom the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015 has encouraged and enabled to play a more active role in civil society.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Act only came into force on 13 April 2015. As is normal practice, a formal assessment of its impact may be carried out after three to five years.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 19755 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:42:56 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437156

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Diplomatic Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which UK embassies have a human rights adviser on their staff.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 2014 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report stated that we have an estimated 240 full-time equivalents who work directly on human rights. That number included two contracted Human Rights Advisers within the Human Rights and Democracy Department in London, and two Human Rights Advisers at the UK Mission in Geneva. However, as the Foreign Secretary explained in his Independent article on 10 December, [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/promoting-human-rights-is-not-about-who-can-shout-the-loudest-a6767386.html], human rights work is not just the preserve of a few specialised staff but the responsibility of all British diplomats and an important part of the training our staff receive.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/12/2015 18:03:17 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437216

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison workshops have (a) opened, (b) closed and (c) changed function in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><br /><p>All prisons provide opportunities for offenders to work and learn new skills which can help them find a job on release and support their rehabilitation. We already work continuously with employers nationally and locally – including with other Government Departments - to create new opportunities in line with our code of practice.</p><br /><p>We want prisons to be places of hard work, rigorous education and high ambition. That is why we will put the tools to drive change in the hands of those at the frontline who know best.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 12:57:02 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437225

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prisons: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners received treatment for (a) alcohol addiction, (b) drug addiction and (c) any other addiction in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England provides local information for performance monitoring in the restricted access section of the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System website, but does not publish national data centrally.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 19625 question first answered 15/12/2015 15:04:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

436826

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
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, how many magistrates there were on 1 April (a) 1989, (b) 1994, (c) 2000, (d) 2005, (e) 2010, (f) 2014 and (g) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The requested information that is recorded is provided in the table below. Data for 1989 is not recorded. The reduction in the number of magistrates reflects the reduction in the workload in the adult criminal court. The role of a magistrate remains a sought after one and competition for vacancies tends to be strong.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1994</p></td><td><p>30,054</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>30,308</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>28,253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>28,607</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>21,626</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>19,634</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/12/2015 17:51:46 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

436827

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Re-employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers who have received (a) severance and (b) redundancy packages since May 2010 have subsequently been re-employed as prison officers.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>Between 1 May 2010 and 30 September 2015 60 prison officers left the prison service, received severance payments and have subsequently re-joined the National Offender Management Service as prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last Parliament, NOMS delivered £334m prison efficiency savings and £169m savings in prison capacity management through prison closures and the introduction of benchmarking.</p><p> </p><p>Voluntary exit was used in the last Parliament as a result of the closure of uneconomic prison places. These prison closures and benchmarking reforms have delivered savings of £300 million a year, with the average cost per prison place falling in real terms by 19% since 2009/10.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This figure is rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.</p><p><strong><br></strong></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 07/03/2016 12:35:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous previous answer version 35370 answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

436828

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
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 the monthly cost is of (a) each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010 and (b) the 91 courts considered for closure in his Department's recent consultation on that subject.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>Details of the operational costs of courts considered for closure can be found in the consultation document on the provision of the court and tribunal estate in England and Wales, which can be accessed via the following website:</p><br /><p><a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/proposal-on-the-provision-of-court-and-tribunal-es/consult_view" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/proposal-on-the-provision-of-court-and-tribunal-es/consult_view</a></p><br /><p>The Department is committed to disposing of surplus property assets expeditiously and reducing holding costs. As of 10 December 2015 a total of 80 courts closed under the Court Estate Reform Programme have been sold attracting disposal receipts of £49.6m.</p><br /><p>The disposal of surplus property assets is dependent on a number of factors, such as the market, potential future use, location and the fact that some are occupied in part by the police and local authorities which also make disposal difficult. Nine of the closed court buildings which have not been disposed of are either under offer or on the market. Of those which have not yet been brought to the market, two court buildings have shared locations with the police, which means the future of the building is tied in with the Police Station, one has a site contamination issue and the other three were closed only within the last seven months. We are working on bringing all of them to the market as soon as possible.</p><br /><p>There are temporary costs associated with making sure unused buildings are kept secure, protecting the fabric of the building and property rates payable to local councils. In addition, decommissioning the buildings to make them ready for sale results in some costs which cannot be disaggregated from the overall running costs. However, these are significantly lower than the costs of running the courts when open, which will have included estates costs, staffing costs and the cost of the judiciary.</p><br /><p><strong>Table: Monthly cost of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010 as at 10 December 2015</strong></p><br /><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Court building</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average monthly cost<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alton Magistrates’ Court<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£9,828</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bracknell Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£5,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cirencester Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,472</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coleford Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,561</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Keighley Magistrates’ Court (sitting at Bingley)</p></td><td><p>£2,011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knutsford Crown Court<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£9,274</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool Magistrates’ Court<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lyndhurst Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,783</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oswestry Magistrates’ Court / County Court</p></td><td><p>£2,269</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontefract Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>£1,957</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stourbridge County Court<sup>6</sup></p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spalding Magistrates’ Court<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£3,909</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totnes Magistrates’ Court<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>£790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Towcester Magistrates’ Court<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>£445</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><strong>Footnotes:</strong></p><ol><li>Monthly cost based on financial year data 2014/15 (unless otherwise stated). Holding costs include rates, fuel and utilities, facilities management, telephony and other property costs.</li><li>These courts closed in financial year 2014/15 and the stated average monthly cost is therefore based on the last three months of 2014/15. The stated costs for these 3 courts are abnormally high because maintenance costs are likely to include decommissioning costs which are incurred shortly after closure. It is not possible to strip out any decommissioning costs from this answer without incurring disproportionate costs.</li><li>Monthly cost based on financial year data 2013/14 and 2014/15 in order to address accounting adjustments made in 2014/15.</li><li>Abergavenny Magistrates Court closure was announced on 9 July 2015 but has not yet been decommissioned.</li><li>Liverpool (Dale Street) Magistrates' Court was integrated into the QEII Law Courts as of 30 June, creating a single centre for crime in the city of Liverpool. It is not possible to disaggregate the costs of the Dale Street premises from those of the operational court without incurring disproportionate costs.</li></ol><ol start="6"><li>Stourbridge County Court was being used for the back office function for Dudley County and Family Court until 7 August 2015.</li></ol> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/01/2016 14:09:44 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter