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1133725

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Education
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 13 June 2019 to Question 262419 on Prisoners' Release: Education, what information his Department collects in order to keep under review the volume of courses delivered.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	267347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The department has mechanisms in place to collect data on volumes of courses offered nationally and on what is delivered. Data regarding the number of starts and completions of accredited programmes is published in Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Annual Digest, and can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>National data tools, including segmentation of the prison and probation population, are made available to HMPPS periodically to support business planning decisions at a local and national level. Data relating to referrals and suitability is held locally.</p><p> </p><p>We also keep under review and closely monitor courses that are offered and delivered to ensure that standards are maintained.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/06/2019 17:25:00 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1133727

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
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 13 June 2019 to Question 262418, what the threshold for the number of participants is in an accredited programme below which his Department does not consider it suitable for impact evaluation.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	267349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The department seeks to deliver impact evaluations for all accredited programmes. However, the feasibility of an impact evaluation needs to be reviewed first in an evaluability study. The factors that are reviewed to determine whether an impact evaluation is possible include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The expected reduction in reoffending rate for the specific offender cohort, and the appropriate number of years over which we expect reductions in reoffending to occur;</li><li>The number of programme completers required to detect this reduction (calculated using statistical power analysis); and</li><li>The quality of the data and information available.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Evaluability studies ensure that the best possible evaluation approach is identified. Therefore, it is not possible to provide a single threshold for the number of participants in an accredited programme below which it would not have an impact evaluation carried out, as it will differ by programme.</p><p> </p><p>The department is committed to publishing all research carried out in line with the Government Social Research guidelines.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 267350 question first answered 25/06/2019 15:43:20 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1133728

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
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 13 June 2019 to Question 262418, if he will publish the research referred to in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	267350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The department seeks to deliver impact evaluations for all accredited programmes. However, the feasibility of an impact evaluation needs to be reviewed first in an evaluability study. The factors that are reviewed to determine whether an impact evaluation is possible include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The expected reduction in reoffending rate for the specific offender cohort, and the appropriate number of years over which we expect reductions in reoffending to occur;</li><li>The number of programme completers required to detect this reduction (calculated using statistical power analysis); and</li><li>The quality of the data and information available.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Evaluability studies ensure that the best possible evaluation approach is identified. Therefore, it is not possible to provide a single threshold for the number of participants in an accredited programme below which it would not have an impact evaluation carried out, as it will differ by programme.</p><p> </p><p>The department is committed to publishing all research carried out in line with the Government Social Research guidelines.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 267349 question first answered 25/06/2019 15:43:20 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1133729

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to reduce the average time taken to conclude a claim before an employment tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	267351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has been working with the tribunal’s judiciary to appoint additional judges to increase the capacity and performance of the tribunal. 58 (51.5 full time equivalent) salaried employment judges took up positions from April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 25/06/2019 13:34:13 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1133730

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
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, how many prison staff were deployed on detached duty in each month of 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	267352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>Detached Duty (DD) is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons and respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise. The deployment of staff between prisons on DD is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing; the number of Prison Officers deployed on DD varies from one week to the next in order to reflect operational circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Detached Duty is allocated on a cycle (4 week average) rather than on a month by month basis. Annex A shows the average number of staff deployed in each Detached Duty cycle in 2018.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 28/06/2019 11:13:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name Annex A - IPP Release in error v2.docx title Annex A
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1133731

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners: Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications were granted or part granted on behalf of bereaved families for Exceptional Case Funding for legal representation under the public interest test at inquests in 2017/18.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	267353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be retrieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 25/06/2019 15:19:14 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1132396

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Probation: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much money has been recovered from IT systems suppliers since the probation and courts IT systems failures in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	265564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is continuing discussions with its Suppliers in relation to the outage. Due to the ongoing nature of these discussions it is not possible to provide any information pertaining to the quantification of costs, at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/06/2019 16:10:06 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1132398

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Julian Assange
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the procedure was for (a) public and (b) press access to the extradition hearing for Julian Assange; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	265565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>This was an open hearing, accessible to both the press and public.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Extra chairs were laid out to accommodate as many people as possible in the court room. As is usual in high-profile cases, a ticketing system was in place to allocate seats to the media.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There were, however, more people wishing to observe the hearing than there were seats available, meaning that not everyone could be accommodated on this occasion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 20/06/2019 16:10:40 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1132399

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
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 frequency with which courts are closed to the public and press without an order having been granted by the judge.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	265566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The arrangements for the admission of the public and the press to a court vary by the jurisdiction of that court, and by the nature of the application being considered. Where a court is under a duty to sit in open court, it has an inherent jurisdiction to sit in private but only if ordered by the presiding judge or magistrates. A court, to which the press or public must be admitted, will not sit in private without a judicial direction. The ability of the court to admit the public and the press may be limited by the physical constraints of the courtroom.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 20/06/2019 16:12:15 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1132401

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of HMCTS staff were agency staff by staffing band in (a) 2010 and (b) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	265568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of agency staff in HMCTS was 2,737 as of March 2018, which was 14.6%. The earliest held comparable data is from 2016 and shows 1,569, which was 8.5% of the staffing numbers. This shows an increase of 1,168, 6.1 percentage points, over this period. The following table shows a breakdown by grade as requested.</p><p> </p><p>We were unable to provide data from 2010 as HMCTS did not exist in its current form until 2011. Prior to this there were multiple business units that held their own people data. We are unable to obtain agency data from HR systems prior to 2016. As with any large data system, there are also likely to be some inaccuracies.</p><p> </p><p>Over the period of Reform, we expect the shape and size of the organisation to change. As part of this we are reducing our staffing levels and expect the future skills of our people to change. The HMCTS workforce strategy during this period is to increase the capability of our staff, whilst simultaneously increasing our workforce flexibility through the increased usage of contingent labour. This is in order to reduce redundancy costs and protect the jobs of longer serving, permanent staff. The required staffing level needed across each of our HMCTS sites is monitored closely, and proactive recruitment undertaken to ensure these levels are maintained.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 20/06/2019 16:11:43 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon