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1123671

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/05/2019
	date	29/04/2019
	date tabled	29/04/2019
	ddp created	29/04/2019 19:30:29
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	29/04/2019 19:39:40 16/05/2019 16:58:02
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	identifier	248645
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	16/05/2019 16:26:11
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Social Security and Child Support Tribunal appeals have taken longer than 52 weeks for a determination, in each of the last five years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 248645
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	248645
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below:</p><p>SOCIAL SECURITY &amp; CHILD SUPPORT CLEARANCES 1<br>Period Number of clearances that exceeded 52 weeks from receipt<br>1 April 2013 - 31 March 2014 16,161<br>1 April 2014 - 31 March 2015 12,350<br>1 April 2015 - 31 March 2016 3,100<br>1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017 4,084<br>1 April 2017 - 31 March 2018 7,330<br>1 April 2018 - 31 December 2018 2 13,162</p><p>1. Data include hearings cleared with and without a Tribunal hearing</p><p>2. The latest period for which data are available. Provisional data and subject to further change</p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</p><p> </p><p><br>It is important that appeals are heard as quickly as possible. Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) recognises there are delays in the system and it is in the process of recruiting more judicial office holders in order to increase capacity and help to reduce waiting times for appellants. This includes 250 judges across the First-tier Tribunal, 125 disability qualified members and up to 230 medical members.</p><p>In addition, we have recently launched a new digital service with a view to enabling speedier processing of appeals. Information on the new digital service can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal</p><p>We are also working with the Department for Work and Pensions to understand what could be done to reduce the number of appeals being submitted to the Tribunal, through their focus on improving decision-making and the mandatory reconsideration process.</p><p>These measures will increase the capacity of the Tribunal. As a result, the number of appeals outstanding in the Tribunal is starting to fall as the number of cases heard by the Tribunal outweigh those sent to the Tribunal. If this continues, over time, we expect the time it takes for the Tribunal to hear, and the age of, appeals to reduce.</p><p>The time taken for the Tribunal to hear an appeal is mainly driven by the number of appeals sent to the Tribunal and the capacity of the Tribunal to deal with them. The number of appeals sent to the Tribunal is directly affected by changes in welfare policy.</p><p>The time it takes the Tribunal to hear an appeal is calculated from the time it is sent to the Tribunal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing has been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier for its final disposal.</p><p>HMCTS is very sensitive to the needs of people who may be affected by waiting times for Tribunal hearings. Tribunal staff and judicial office-holders, are trained accordingly, with HMCTS’s reasonable adjustments policy and practice applied where appropriate. Guidance on the policy is published on GOV.UK. If an expedited hearing is sought, or where the Tribunal identifies a case which might benefit from an expedited hearing, a judge or caseworker will make a decision on the issue, taking all the circumstances of the case into account.</p><p> </p> question first answered 16/05/2019 16:26:11 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	creator	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1122871

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	29/04/2019
	date	24/04/2019
	date tabled	24/04/2019
	ddp created	24/04/2019 19:34:27
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	24/04/2019 19:43:34 21/05/2019 15:30:05
	hansard heading	Birmingham Prison
	house id	1
	identifier	247133
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	21/05/2019 14:58:51
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Written Statement of 2 April 2019, Official Report HCWS1475 on HMP Birmingham, if he will list the new approaches that have been delivered by the private sector referred to in that Statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 247133
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	247133
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Privately-managed prisons have pioneered the use of modern technology to improve the running of establishments and help promote rehabilitation. This includes the development of in-cell telephony to help prisoners maintain ties with their families; interactive story-time activities between prisoners and their children; and the introduction of electronic kiosks, which allow prisoners to have greater control of managing their day-to-day lives. The use of body-worn video cameras was introduced by private prisons. Private prisons also have excellent facilities as standard, such as showers in cells, which it is not possible to provide in our older prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 21/05/2019 14:58:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	creator	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1123082

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	29/04/2019
	date	25/04/2019
	date tabled	25/04/2019
	ddp created	25/04/2019 16:56:39
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	25/04/2019 17:07:09 03/07/2019 12:52:05
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	identifier	247719
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	28/06/2019 15:17:52
	question first ministerially corrected	03/07/2019 12:20:42
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on staff were recorded in each prison in each quarter from 2010 to 2018 by the type of weapon used.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 247719
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	247719
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Data for the numbers of assaults and serious assaults in each prison, broken down by type of weapon and type of injury, is set out in the attached tables. The figures are presented by calendar year rather than by quarter. This is because analysis at the level of detail requested produces many results of 5 or fewer. Disclosure-proofing to reduce the risk of identification, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, requires such low numbers to be suppressed. Even at the annual level, some such values have had to be suppressed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since October 2016, and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search teams to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody.</p> attachment 1 title Table 1 2 title Table 2 3 title Table 3 question first answered 28/06/2019 15:17:52 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	creator	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1123083

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	29/04/2019
	date	25/04/2019
	date tabled	25/04/2019
	ddp created	25/04/2019 16:56:41
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	ddp modified	25/04/2019 17:07:11 28/06/2019 15:51:02
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	identifier	247720
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	28/06/2019 15:17:51
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on staff were recorded in each prison in each quarter from 2010 to 2018 by the type of injury inflicted.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 247720
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	247720
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Data for the numbers of assaults and serious assaults in each prison, broken down by type of weapon and type of injury, is set out in the attached tables. The figures are presented by calendar year rather than by quarter. This is because analysis at the level of detail requested produces many results of 5 or fewer. Disclosure-proofing to reduce the risk of identification, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, requires such low numbers to be suppressed. Even at the annual level, some such values have had to be suppressed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since October 2016, and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search teams to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody.</p> question first answered 28/06/2019 15:17:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	creator	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain