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894748

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135130, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all procurement areas have at least 2 legal aid providers of family law on 1 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The LAA seeks to maintain at least 5 providers holding a family contract per procurement area, to deal with conflicts of interest in public law family matters. The LAA currently has more than two in all areas and the following the tender for the 2018 Standard Civil Contract expects the position to remain the same or improve. Currently 93% of all procurement areas contain 5 or more providers.</p><p> </p><p>In most other categories of law where advice is delivered face to face to clients, the LAA seeks to maintain a minimum of one provider in each procurement area.</p><p>The LAA received one or fewer compliant tenders in 6 Immigration and Asylum access points, as follows:</p><ul><li>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</li><li>City of Kingston upon Hull</li><li>East &amp; West Lancashire</li><li>Swindon</li><li>City of Plymouth and Devon</li><li>North East Wales</li></ul><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors legal aid provision, and where a gap is identified it takes appropriate steps to ensure clients have access to services. Clients are also able to access advice through the LAA’s telephone advice services.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 139554 139556 question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894749

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135130, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all procurement areas have at least 2 legal aid providers of housing law on 1 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The LAA seeks to maintain at least 5 providers holding a family contract per procurement area, to deal with conflicts of interest in public law family matters. The LAA currently has more than two in all areas and the following the tender for the 2018 Standard Civil Contract expects the position to remain the same or improve. Currently 93% of all procurement areas contain 5 or more providers.</p><p> </p><p>In most other categories of law where advice is delivered face to face to clients, the LAA seeks to maintain a minimum of one provider in each procurement area.</p><p>The LAA received one or fewer compliant tenders in 6 Immigration and Asylum access points, as follows:</p><ul><li>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</li><li>City of Kingston upon Hull</li><li>East &amp; West Lancashire</li><li>Swindon</li><li>City of Plymouth and Devon</li><li>North East Wales</li></ul><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors legal aid provision, and where a gap is identified it takes appropriate steps to ensure clients have access to services. Clients are also able to access advice through the LAA’s telephone advice services.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 139553 139556 question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894767

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the change in real terms was in his Department's funding allocation to the Legal Aid Agency for 2018-19 compared to 2017-18; and what that same change was for 2018-19 compared to 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>Final expenditure figures for the period 2017-2018 and full expenditure figures for 2018-2019 are not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 139009 139011 139012 139013 139014 139015 139016 question first answered 03/05/2018 15:39:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894768

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135134 on Legal Aid Scheme: Immigration, in how many areas one or fewer compliant tenders were received in response to the Legal Aid Agency's recent tender process; and if he will list those areas.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The LAA seeks to maintain at least 5 providers holding a family contract per procurement area, to deal with conflicts of interest in public law family matters. The LAA currently has more than two in all areas and the following the tender for the 2018 Standard Civil Contract expects the position to remain the same or improve. Currently 93% of all procurement areas contain 5 or more providers.</p><p> </p><p>In most other categories of law where advice is delivered face to face to clients, the LAA seeks to maintain a minimum of one provider in each procurement area.</p><p>The LAA received one or fewer compliant tenders in 6 Immigration and Asylum access points, as follows:</p><ul><li>Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth &amp; Isle of Wight</li><li>City of Kingston upon Hull</li><li>East &amp; West Lancashire</li><li>Swindon</li><li>City of Plymouth and Devon</li><li>North East Wales</li></ul><p>The Legal Aid Agency monitors legal aid provision, and where a gap is identified it takes appropriate steps to ensure clients have access to services. Clients are also able to access advice through the LAA’s telephone advice services.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 139553 139554 question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894769

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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, whether the courts reform programme which was launched in 2015 is on course to be completed by the end of 2021.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>To transform our Justice System as set out in the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice’s joint statement, an extensive programme of change activity is underway and on track to complete delivery by March 2022, and benefits will have been fully embedded by March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Reform will utilise digital services to make justice more accessible and straightforward; simplify and modernise processes to avoid unnecessary hearings, redundant paper forms, and duplication; and make more effective use of courts and judiciary for difficult and sensitive issues while handling routine issues out of court wherever possible. HMCTS expects the reformed, modernised and upgraded justice system to work better for all those involved, use court time more proportionately, and make services more accessible to users.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/06/2018 15:55:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894887

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has set a target for the net number of prison officers to be employed in the prison service in the next (a) 12 months and (b) three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer to PQs 13<ins class="ministerial">7</ins>608-10, given on 27 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>As we focus on making our jails safe and decent places to support rehabilitation between the end of October 2016 and the end of March 2018 we have increased prison officer numbers by 3,111, which is already significantly over our target of 2,500 additional staff by the end of December 2018. These recruitment efforts form part of a wider drive to ensure that all prisons are fully staffed so that they can deliver safe and decent regimes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/05/2018 15:40:33 question first ministerially corrected 04/05/2018 10:29:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 55954 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894888

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons and to which prisons his Department has issued improvement orders in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The term ‘improvement order’ is not recognised but I have interpreted these questions as asking for details of formal improvement notices issued to prisons. Improvement notices are issued only to privately managed prisons as part of our robust contract management processes.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Improvement Notices issued since 2010 is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of Improvement Notice</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reason Improvement Notice Issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Improvement Notice outstanding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2010</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>29 May 2012</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Oakwood (G4S)</p></td><td><p>13 February 2013</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Doncaster (Serco)</p></td><td><p>12 August 2015</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Northumberland (Sodexo)</p></td><td><p>10 June 2015</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>28 July 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>2 August 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>23 September 2016</p></td><td><p>Estate maintenance</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><br> We are clear that prisons should be places of safety and reform, and are working closely with G4S to improve conditions for prisoners at HMP Birmingham. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has issued two improvement notices to HMP Birmingham which cover contract delivery and documentation. An improvement notice is a contractual mechanism to request an improvement plan to address concern in a given area.</p><p> </p><p>Privately managed prisons achieve the vast majority of their performance targets, and are an important part of our reform plans. We continue to closely monitor the performance of all privately managed prisons, and will take further action if and when required.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 139560 139561 139562 question first answered 09/05/2018 16:52:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894889

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many improvement orders his Department has issued to each prison in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The term ‘improvement order’ is not recognised but I have interpreted these questions as asking for details of formal improvement notices issued to prisons. Improvement notices are issued only to privately managed prisons as part of our robust contract management processes.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Improvement Notices issued since 2010 is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of Improvement Notice</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reason Improvement Notice Issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Improvement Notice outstanding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2010</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>29 May 2012</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Oakwood (G4S)</p></td><td><p>13 February 2013</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Doncaster (Serco)</p></td><td><p>12 August 2015</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Northumberland (Sodexo)</p></td><td><p>10 June 2015</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>28 July 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>2 August 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>23 September 2016</p></td><td><p>Estate maintenance</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><br> We are clear that prisons should be places of safety and reform, and are working closely with G4S to improve conditions for prisoners at HMP Birmingham. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has issued two improvement notices to HMP Birmingham which cover contract delivery and documentation. An improvement notice is a contractual mechanism to request an improvement plan to address concern in a given area.</p><p> </p><p>Privately managed prisons achieve the vast majority of their performance targets, and are an important part of our reform plans. We continue to closely monitor the performance of all privately managed prisons, and will take further action if and when required.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 139559 139561 139562 question first answered 09/05/2018 16:52:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894890

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many improvement orders his Department has issued to prisons in each year since 2010; and for what reason each order was issued.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The term ‘improvement order’ is not recognised but I have interpreted these questions as asking for details of formal improvement notices issued to prisons. Improvement notices are issued only to privately managed prisons as part of our robust contract management processes.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Improvement Notices issued since 2010 is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of Improvement Notice</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reason Improvement Notice Issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Improvement Notice outstanding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2010</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>29 May 2012</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Oakwood (G4S)</p></td><td><p>13 February 2013</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Doncaster (Serco)</p></td><td><p>12 August 2015</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Northumberland (Sodexo)</p></td><td><p>10 June 2015</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>28 July 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>2 August 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>23 September 2016</p></td><td><p>Estate maintenance</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><br> We are clear that prisons should be places of safety and reform, and are working closely with G4S to improve conditions for prisoners at HMP Birmingham. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has issued two improvement notices to HMP Birmingham which cover contract delivery and documentation. An improvement notice is a contractual mechanism to request an improvement plan to address concern in a given area.</p><p> </p><p>Privately managed prisons achieve the vast majority of their performance targets, and are an important part of our reform plans. We continue to closely monitor the performance of all privately managed prisons, and will take further action if and when required.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 139559 139560 139562 question first answered 09/05/2018 16:52:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894891

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have outstanding improvement orders.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The term ‘improvement order’ is not recognised but I have interpreted these questions as asking for details of formal improvement notices issued to prisons. Improvement notices are issued only to privately managed prisons as part of our robust contract management processes.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Improvement Notices issued since 2010 is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of Improvement Notice</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reason Improvement Notice Issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Improvement Notice outstanding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2010</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>29 May 2012</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Oakwood (G4S)</p></td><td><p>13 February 2013</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Doncaster (Serco)</p></td><td><p>12 August 2015</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Northumberland (Sodexo)</p></td><td><p>10 June 2015</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>28 July 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>2 August 2016</p></td><td><p>Procedural</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Rye Hill (G4S)</p></td><td><p>23 September 2016</p></td><td><p>Estate maintenance</p></td><td><p>No</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham (G4S)</p></td><td><p>12 March 2018</p></td><td><p>Safety and Security</p></td><td><p>Yes</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><br> We are clear that prisons should be places of safety and reform, and are working closely with G4S to improve conditions for prisoners at HMP Birmingham. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has issued two improvement notices to HMP Birmingham which cover contract delivery and documentation. An improvement notice is a contractual mechanism to request an improvement plan to address concern in a given area.</p><p> </p><p>Privately managed prisons achieve the vast majority of their performance targets, and are an important part of our reform plans. We continue to closely monitor the performance of all privately managed prisons, and will take further action if and when required.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 139559 139560 139561 question first answered 09/05/2018 16:52:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon