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389288

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2015
	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 full-time equivalent staff have been employed in HM Courts and Tribunals Service to deliver fine and compensation enforcement orders in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	6684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) in the area of enforcement of the payments of fines in each of the last five years is set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of staff (FTE)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/12/2010</p></td><td><p>1541.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/12/2011</p></td><td><p>1819.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/12/2012</p></td><td><p>1513.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/12/2013</p></td><td><p>1382.18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/12/2014</p></td><td><p>1346.23</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Enforcement as a separate HMCTS function was not created until June 2011. For data purposes prior to that date, the business code name and hierarchy information has been used to identify staff who work in enforcement.</p><p> </p><p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/07/2015 16:45:49 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

389291

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Debt Collection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the collection rates for (a) fines, (b) penalties and (c) confiscation orders have been in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	6687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial penalties collected over the last four years. The amount of money collected has risen from £290m at the end of 2013/14 to a record of £310 million at the end of 2014/15. This is an increase of £20m (7%) in cash collection of financial impositions (excluding confiscation) compared to that collected in 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the percentage of the value of fines that had been collected, cancelled or remained outstanding at the end of each of the last four financial years. This data is not available before April 2011.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Collected Against Impositions in Period</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Cancelled Impositions in Period</strong></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified (either because they were imposed close to the end of the year or because they had payment timescales set by the courts for beyond the end of the financial year) and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. Many of these impositions will have been paid since the end of the financial years stated.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘accounts cancelled’ percentage includes both administrative and legal cancellations. It is not possible to split the figures between the two types of cancellation.</p><p> </p><p>Administrative cancellations only take place in certain circumstances and after all attempts to collect the amount outstanding have been made. These circumstances include where the offender has died, where they have emigrated with no prospect of return, where the offender has been sent to a mental institution for 12 months or more or where the offender cannot be traced and there has been at least 12 months from the point of imposition. It should be noted that administrative cancellations can be re-instated if the prospects of recovery improve (where, for example, a new address is found).</p><p> </p><p>Legal cancellations occur after the case has been reconsidered by a judge or magistrate and further evidence has been presented. Legal cancellations can be as a result of a successful appeal, a change in financial circumstances of the offender or a committal to prison for non payment.</p><p> </p><p>We do not record ‘collection rate’ figures for Confiscation orders and fixed penalties.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/07/2015 16:52:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

389290

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Debt Collection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the successful bidder for the Compliance and Enforcement Service contract will have access to personal data held on defaulters by HM Revenue and Customs and |the Department for Work and Pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	6686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>Section 27 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 provides for the disclosure of personal information held by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions to facilitate the collection of fines and impositions by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service or a third party supplier of Compliance and Enforcement Services.</p><p> </p><p>Any provider of Compliance and Enforcement Services requiring access to this data would need to enter into their own access agreements with the relevant Government Departments.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 21/07/2015 14:44:56 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

389289

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Debt Collection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department plans to spend on the Compliance and Enforcement Service project in the next year.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	6685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2015 answer text <p>The Project Spend forecasted for 2015/16 is £6.1m.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 04/08/2015 11:51:44 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

417343

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
	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 the effect of the introduction of employment tribunal fees on access to justice for women subjected to pregnancy-related detriment or dismissal by an employer; and what steps he plans to take to improve access to justice for such women.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	9118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>On 11 June we announced the start of the post-implementation review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals. The review will seek to assess the effect fees have had including, so far as possible, any differential impact on people with protected characteristics and the types of case they bring.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/09/2015 16:58:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

445585

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Secure Training Centres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) internal and (b) external investigations have been undertaken into self-harm, suicide and restraint in secure training centres in the last five years; which organisations undertook those investigations; and what the findings of those investigations were.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	22855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>This information on investigations is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/01/2016 10:29:51 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

445587

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Discipline
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of segregation have been recorded at each youth facility in each year since 2010; how many such segregations have been for more than (a) seven, (b) 15 and (c) 28 days; and how many boys in each youth facility were subject to (i) one episode, (ii) between two and five episodes and (iii) six or more episodes of segregation in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	22856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>The safety and welfare of young people held in custody is our highest priority and we are clear that segregation must only be used as a last resort, under careful control and regular review. The number of incidents of segregation in Secure Training Centres (STCs) and Secure Children's Homes (SCHs) has fallen by almost two third since 2010.</p><br /><p>The table below shows the number of incidents of single separation in STCs and SCHs for the years ending March 2010 to March 2014, broken down by establishment.</p><br /><p>Table A: The number of single separation incidents in STCs and SCHs</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Year ending March</p></td><td colspan="3"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total incidents</p></td><td></td><td><p><strong>6,467</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>4,462</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,881</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2,712</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,392</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td><td colspan="2"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secure Children's Home</p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,681</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>3,350</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,318</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2,320</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,904</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Aldine House</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>37</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>24</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Atkinson Unit</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Aycliffe</p></td><td><p>1,096</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>534</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>646</p></td><td><p>265</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Barton Moss</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>125</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>120</p></td><td><p>146</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Clayfields</p></td><td><p>1,523</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,138</p></td><td><p>637</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>381</p></td><td><p>445</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>East Moor</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>56</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>38</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Hillside</p></td><td><p>483</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>539</p></td><td><p>939</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>402</p></td><td><p>631</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Kyloe House</p></td><td><p>204</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>150</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>272</p></td><td><p>261</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>133</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Orchard Lodge</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Redbank</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>96</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>62</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Sutton Place</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Swanwick Lodge</p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>200</p></td><td><p>221</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>321</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Vinney Green</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>203</p></td><td><p>261</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>193</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secure Training Centre</p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,786</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1,112</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>563</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>392</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>488</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Hassockfield</p></td><td><p>1,017</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>659</p></td><td><p>426</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>354</p></td><td><p>404</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Medway</p></td><td><p>402</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>139</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>11</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><p>Oakhill</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>54</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Rainsbrook</p></td><td><p>329</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>260</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>23</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Due to the way the data is collected centrally by the Youth Justice Board for single separation incidents, it is not possible to provide breakdowns by days in single separation or number of single separation episodes per young offender.</p><br /><p>Information on segregation in YOIs is held by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). However, the way the data is collected and reported means that the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/01/2016 17:35:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

446035

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Medway Secure Training Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are currently held at Medway Secure Training College.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	23210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>The current population of Medway Secure Training Centre is 48.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/01/2016 12:44:14 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

446036

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Medway Secure Training Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many beds are (a) funded for and (b) provided by the Youth Justice Board at Medway Secure Training College.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	23211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>The Youth Justice Board funds all 76 beds at Medway Secure Training Centre. The beds are provided by the contractor, G4S.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/01/2016 10:43:19 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

446037

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Medway Secure Training Centre: G4S
	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 whether G4S is currently in breach of its contract for services at Medway Secure Training College.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	23202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>An investigation into the allegations reported at Medway Secure Training College is underway by Kent Police and Local Authority.</p><br /><p>We are currently considering how to proceed including looking at whether the contract was breached. Decisions will be announced in the normal way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/01/2016 10:38:50 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens