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786261

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Staff
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 3 November 2017 to Question 109713, on staff: probation, what the minimum level of staffing required by each community rehabilitation company is to meet its obligations of a sufficient level of staff.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	112018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) contracts do not specify that CRCs must maintain staffing numbers at a particular level. However, the contracts do contain robust provisions requiring each CRC to ensure that it employs a sufficient level of competent and appropriately trained staff. We continue to closely monitor this as part of our contract management and assurance process.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/11/2017 17:08:32 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786263

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of risk assessments for cell-sharing in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to keeping prisoners safe. The cell-sharing risk assessment process brings together all available information with the aim of identifying factors that increase the likelihood of harm by or to an offender, so that decisions about locating prisoners in shared cells are made in a way that minimises those risks. We keep the process under review and continue to work to improve the information that is available to staff making these important decisions.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 17/11/2017 13:10:45 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786265

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholism and Drugs: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in prison in England and Wales (a) requested and (b) received drug and alcohol treatment in each quarter for the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Secure setting treatment figures are currently only available for 2015-16. Figures are not available for people who requested treatment, only for those starting or already receiving treatment.</p><p>Data in secure setting statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System for England showed there were 60,254 adults in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services within secure settings during 2015-16, and most (56,803) of these were within a prison setting:</p><p><a href="http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/secure-setting-statistics-from-the-national-drug-treatment-monitoring-system-2015-2016.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/secure-setting-statistics-from-the-national-drug-treatment-monitoring-system-2015-2016.pdf</a></p><p>There were a further 3,124 in contact with treatment services within Youth Offending Institutions and 327 within Immigration Removal Centres.</p><p> </p><p>Of all the people in contact with treatment services in secure settings in this year, there were 40,382 people starting a new treatment programme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/11/2017 13:45:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786266

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were litigants in person in England and Wales in each of the last five years in (a) civil and (b) criminal cases.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department publishes County Court, Family Court and Crown Court figures on defendants or parties with no (or unknown) representation. This data does not represent the number of litigants in person, however, because a party may be without representation for only part of a case or may be entitled to legal help but not full representation. Information on unrepresented defendants in Magistrates Courts is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of parties with and without representation in cases with at least one hearing is published in Table 9 in the Family Court Statistics Quarterly, and trend analysis since 2011 is also given. The latest edition is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>Figures on the number of no (or unknown) representation in the Crown Court, including trends since 2010, is published in table AC11 of the annual publication, link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>Figures on the number of civil defended claims with and without representation, since 2013, are published in table 1.6 of the quarterly publication, link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/11/2017 11:45:40 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786267

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate the Government has made of the cost of the Client and Cost Management System in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>In each of the last five years, the Government’s expenditure on the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) has remained within its estimates. The costs (£m) incurred in each of the last five years are set out below.</p><p> </p><p>This expenditure is representative of all aspects of the system, i.e. the LAA’s internal management and administration of CCMS, and the interface used by the legal profession.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£ 15.174</p></td><td><p>£ 7.858</p></td><td><p>£ 4.526</p></td><td><p>£ 3.995</p></td><td><p>£ 3.841</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 111872 question first answered 15/11/2017 16:27:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786268

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Government has spent on the Client and Cost Management System in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>In each of the last five years, the Government’s expenditure on the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) has remained within its estimates. The costs (£m) incurred in each of the last five years are set out below.</p><p> </p><p>This expenditure is representative of all aspects of the system, i.e. the LAA’s internal management and administration of CCMS, and the interface used by the legal profession.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£ 15.174</p></td><td><p>£ 7.858</p></td><td><p>£ 4.526</p></td><td><p>£ 3.995</p></td><td><p>£ 3.841</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 111871 question first answered 15/11/2017 16:27:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786269

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the calls received by the Mandatory Civil Legal Advice Gateway in each year since 2013 have been referred for face-to-face advice, for each category of advice.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Figures are provided for the full financial years of 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 with data given for each of the Civil Legal Advice Mandatory Gateway categories of Debt, Discrimination and Education.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not hold data on the number of calls received per category but does record the number of cases per category; a case can have more than one call. This information is shown below. In the table below the number of CLA Operator Service cases is the total number of enquiries irrespective of whether the client is eligible for legal aid or not; the number of cases referred to CLA Specialists is the number of cases identified at initial diagnosis where the client is eligible for legal aid.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Financial Year 2013/14 </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> Financial Year 2014/15 </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> Financial Year 2015/16 </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> Financial Year 2016/17 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong> Category of Law </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Debt </strong></p></td><td><p>42,911</p></td><td><p>2,398</p></td><td><p>37,514</p></td><td><p>1,487</p></td><td><p>30,651</p></td><td><p>796</p></td><td><p>19,699</p></td><td><p>646</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Discrimination </strong></p></td><td><p>6,921</p></td><td><p>3,558</p></td><td><p>6,748</p></td><td><p>3,419</p></td><td><p>4,655</p></td><td><p>2,608</p></td><td><p>6,743</p></td><td><p>3,727</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Education </strong></p></td><td><p>3,647</p></td><td><p>1,312</p></td><td><p>3,467</p></td><td><p>1,425</p></td><td><p>3,991</p></td><td><p>1,878</p></td><td><p>3,928</p></td><td><p>2,055</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below shows the number of clients in each of the categories who either received face-to-face advice via Civil Legal Advice (CLA) or who were referred to legal aid face-to-face advice providers.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that in the category of Debt a Civil Legal Advice Provider will make a referral to a suitable Legal Aid Provider if they identify a client as needing face-to-face advice. In the categories of Discrimination and Education the CLA Specialists are contracted by the Legal Aid Agency to also provide Face-to-Face advice when needed.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Year 2013/14 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Financial Year 2014/15 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Financial Year 2015/16 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Financial Year 2016/17 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong> Category of Law </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Debt </strong></p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>153</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Discrimination </strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Education </strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 111874 question first answered 17/11/2017 13:13:34 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786270

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many calls have been received by the Mandatory Civil Legal Advice Gateway in each year since 2013, for each category of advice.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Figures are provided for the full financial years of 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 with data given for each of the Civil Legal Advice Mandatory Gateway categories of Debt, Discrimination and Education.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not hold data on the number of calls received per category but does record the number of cases per category; a case can have more than one call. This information is shown below. In the table below the number of CLA Operator Service cases is the total number of enquiries irrespective of whether the client is eligible for legal aid or not; the number of cases referred to CLA Specialists is the number of cases identified at initial diagnosis where the client is eligible for legal aid.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Financial Year 2013/14 </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> Financial Year 2014/15 </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> Financial Year 2015/16 </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong> Financial Year 2016/17 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of CLA Operator Service cases </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Number of cases referred to CLA Specialists </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong> Category of Law </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Debt </strong></p></td><td><p>42,911</p></td><td><p>2,398</p></td><td><p>37,514</p></td><td><p>1,487</p></td><td><p>30,651</p></td><td><p>796</p></td><td><p>19,699</p></td><td><p>646</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Discrimination </strong></p></td><td><p>6,921</p></td><td><p>3,558</p></td><td><p>6,748</p></td><td><p>3,419</p></td><td><p>4,655</p></td><td><p>2,608</p></td><td><p>6,743</p></td><td><p>3,727</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Education </strong></p></td><td><p>3,647</p></td><td><p>1,312</p></td><td><p>3,467</p></td><td><p>1,425</p></td><td><p>3,991</p></td><td><p>1,878</p></td><td><p>3,928</p></td><td><p>2,055</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below shows the number of clients in each of the categories who either received face-to-face advice via Civil Legal Advice (CLA) or who were referred to legal aid face-to-face advice providers.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that in the category of Debt a Civil Legal Advice Provider will make a referral to a suitable Legal Aid Provider if they identify a client as needing face-to-face advice. In the categories of Discrimination and Education the CLA Specialists are contracted by the Legal Aid Agency to also provide Face-to-Face advice when needed.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Financial Year 2013/14 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Financial Year 2014/15 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Financial Year 2015/16 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Financial Year 2016/17 Number of CLA Clients referred/advised Face-to-Face </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong> Category of Law </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Debt </strong></p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>153</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Discrimination </strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Education </strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 111873 question first answered 17/11/2017 13:13:34 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786271

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the Government funding for legal aid is spent on court fees.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Legal aid providers may claim for court fees under Licensed Work. The amounts claimed will be definitively recorded against claims paid on cases registered after 1 April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>However, court fees cannot yet be distinguished from other categories of disbursement for the majority of cases because of the way they were recorded on previous data systems.</p><p> </p><p>What information is identifiable could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 15/11/2017 16:28:50 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786272

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Housing
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 who lost their home after being recalled to prison in each quarter of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	111876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally and could not be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is our priority. The power to recall is used to ensure that offenders on licence who present a high risk of harm to the public or are at risk of re-offending are returned to custody as quickly as possible. Probation services assess the risk an offender poses and recommend recall where they consider that necessary in all the circumstances. Officials in HM Prison and Probation Service headquarters will then ensure that the probation services have provided the evidence to support the recall before formally revoking the offender’s licence. We are committed to ensuring that the power to recall is used effectively and appropriately and that offender managers identify alternatives to recall wherever possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 111503 question first answered 17/11/2017 13:09:53 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon