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93009

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Wrexham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what financial penalties would be incurred by the cancellation of the contract with Lend Lease for the construction of HM Prison Wrexham.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	210200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Lend Lease won a competition for the Design and Construction of the New Prison at Wrexham, North Wales. The Design and Construction arrangements under the Partnering Agreement with Lend Lease are divided into three separate contracts. The first contract is for the design development of the prison, the second is for pre-commencement enabling works and the third contract is for the construction of the prison. To date the first two of these contracts have been entered into and the aim is to sign the construction contract in January 2015. The forms of contract used do not include 'penalties' for early termination of the contractor's employment, however, they do require the MoJ to pay the total amount properly due to the constructor for the value of all materials, goods, equipment and any other constructor’s reasonable costs incurred prior to the cancellation of the contract, including the costs of properly protecting and securing the site following the notice of termination. The cost of early termination of any of these contracts is therefore dependant upon the timing of the issue of a termination notice.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 18/11/2014 17:46:45 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

424984

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training was provided to the people who assessed bids for legal aid duty solicitor contracts in administering and assessing such contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	14004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>13 temporary staff were employed through the Brook Street Agency and a Crown Commercial Services Recruitment framework and were selected by the Legal Aid Agency and interviewed by permanent members of staff to ensure their suitability. These individuals made up 19% of the overall assessment team. In addition contracts were entered into with legal practices to provide additional resource.</p><br /><p>The key criteria for employment were analytical skills and the ability to conduct a qualitative assessment. A legal or procurement background was considered an advantage but not essential, given that they would be supervised by permanent staff from the Legal Aid Agency.</p><br /><p>The procurement was undertaken in line with the Public Contract Regulations and applicant organisations were required to pass a number of stages of assessment in order to be considered suitable to hold a duty provider contract. The criteria against which organisations were assessed is set out in the Information For Applicants which govern this procurement process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 14001 14002 14003 14005 question first answered 06/11/2015 10:46:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

424985

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Procurement
	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 efficacy of the procurement process for legal aid duty solicitor contracts; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	14005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>13 temporary staff were employed through the Brook Street Agency and a Crown Commercial Services Recruitment framework and were selected by the Legal Aid Agency and interviewed by permanent members of staff to ensure their suitability. These individuals made up 19% of the overall assessment team. In addition contracts were entered into with legal practices to provide additional resource.</p><br /><p>The key criteria for employment were analytical skills and the ability to conduct a qualitative assessment. A legal or procurement background was considered an advantage but not essential, given that they would be supervised by permanent staff from the Legal Aid Agency.</p><br /><p>The procurement was undertaken in line with the Public Contract Regulations and applicant organisations were required to pass a number of stages of assessment in order to be considered suitable to hold a duty provider contract. The criteria against which organisations were assessed is set out in the Information For Applicants which govern this procurement process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 14001 14002 14003 14004 question first answered 06/11/2015 10:46:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

424986

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what weighting was given to the (a) disciplinary records of and (b) number of signatures of ongoing complaints against bidders in the procurement process for legal aid duty solicitor contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	14003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>13 temporary staff were employed through the Brook Street Agency and a Crown Commercial Services Recruitment framework and were selected by the Legal Aid Agency and interviewed by permanent members of staff to ensure their suitability. These individuals made up 19% of the overall assessment team. In addition contracts were entered into with legal practices to provide additional resource.</p><br /><p>The key criteria for employment were analytical skills and the ability to conduct a qualitative assessment. A legal or procurement background was considered an advantage but not essential, given that they would be supervised by permanent staff from the Legal Aid Agency.</p><br /><p>The procurement was undertaken in line with the Public Contract Regulations and applicant organisations were required to pass a number of stages of assessment in order to be considered suitable to hold a duty provider contract. The criteria against which organisations were assessed is set out in the Information For Applicants which govern this procurement process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 14001 14002 14004 14005 question first answered 06/11/2015 10:46:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

424987

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many temporary agency staff were recruited by the Legal Aid Agency to work on the procurement process for crime duty provider contracts; and what proportion of staff assessing the bids for such contracts were external staff.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	14001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>13 temporary staff were employed through the Brook Street Agency and a Crown Commercial Services Recruitment framework and were selected by the Legal Aid Agency and interviewed by permanent members of staff to ensure their suitability. These individuals made up 19% of the overall assessment team. In addition contracts were entered into with legal practices to provide additional resource.</p><br /><p>The key criteria for employment were analytical skills and the ability to conduct a qualitative assessment. A legal or procurement background was considered an advantage but not essential, given that they would be supervised by permanent staff from the Legal Aid Agency.</p><br /><p>The procurement was undertaken in line with the Public Contract Regulations and applicant organisations were required to pass a number of stages of assessment in order to be considered suitable to hold a duty provider contract. The criteria against which organisations were assessed is set out in the Information For Applicants which govern this procurement process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 14002 14003 14004 14005 question first answered 06/11/2015 10:46:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

424988

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of staff assigned to work on the procurement process for crime duty provider contracts had no previous experience of working on public sector procurement.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	14002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>13 temporary staff were employed through the Brook Street Agency and a Crown Commercial Services Recruitment framework and were selected by the Legal Aid Agency and interviewed by permanent members of staff to ensure their suitability. These individuals made up 19% of the overall assessment team. In addition contracts were entered into with legal practices to provide additional resource.</p><br /><p>The key criteria for employment were analytical skills and the ability to conduct a qualitative assessment. A legal or procurement background was considered an advantage but not essential, given that they would be supervised by permanent staff from the Legal Aid Agency.</p><br /><p>The procurement was undertaken in line with the Public Contract Regulations and applicant organisations were required to pass a number of stages of assessment in order to be considered suitable to hold a duty provider contract. The criteria against which organisations were assessed is set out in the Information For Applicants which govern this procurement process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 14001 14003 14004 14005 question first answered 06/11/2015 10:46:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1285178

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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, if he will publish a list of (a) criminal legal aid providers and (b) civil legal aid providers as of March 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	151693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2021 answer text <p>A list of current contracted legal aid providers is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directory-of-legal-aid-providers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directory-of-legal-aid-providers</a>.</p><p>As at March 2020, there were 1,500 firms who held a civil legal aid contract, and 1,150 who held a criminal legal aid contract.</p><p>The details of those providers are attached.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 22/02/2021 12:22:27 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name PQ 151693 answer v4.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

731177

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Hull Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are serving public protection sentences at HM Prison Hull.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	50
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2017, the number of prisoners serving sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) in HM Prison Hull was 53.</p><p> </p><p>The independent Parole Board will direct the release of an IPP prisoner who has completed his minimum term (tariff) only where it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the prisoner to be detained in custody on the grounds of public protection.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 26/06/2017 15:43:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1233350

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Companies
	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 effect of the reduction of standard monthly payments to criminal legal aid firms on those firms.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	88297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>At present, 17% of all crime accounts are paid under the Standard Monthly Payment (‘SMP’) model. The remainder have opted for Variable Monthly Payments, which pays the actual value of the claim submitted each month. Firms can elect to be paid by either model, according to which may be most advantageous to them. SMPs relate to Controlled Work services only, and therefore reflect a proportion of a provider’s total revenue.</p><p>The number of those accounts paid via SMP which have seen a reduction in payments since July 2020 represents 6% of all crime accounts. Where a reduction is necessary, this takes effect following the Legal Aid Agency notifying providers of this in advance. Firms facing financial hardship can discuss payment options further with their LAA Contract Manager.</p><p>The LAA has implemented several changes to maintain cashflow to firms and to allow firms to be paid more quickly – through these changes we can inject up to £51 million per year into criminal legal aid. We have begun a review into how criminal lawyers are compensated for their work: <a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/criminal-legal-aid/criminal-legal-aid-review/" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/criminal-legal-aid/criminal-legal-aid-review/</a>.</p><p>In addition to the support schemes offered by the government, we have continued to pay providers on time and introduced a number of measures to speed up payments to providers. All of the measures taken by the LAA are set out on our gov.uk page: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-legal-aid-agency-contingency-response#financial-relief-page" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-legal-aid-agency-contingency-response#financial-relief-page.</a></p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 15/09/2020 16:51:18 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1464434

	registered interest
	date	19/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: 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 criminal legal aid firms have been added to the Legal Aid Agency’s list of providers willing to accept instructions for advocacy services at different locations since 11 April 2022; and what data his Department holds on number of trials in the Crown Court that have been adjourned or postponed due to the unavailability of a defence advocate.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	5390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>At the point the Crown Court Representation Helpline was launched on 20 April, there were 19 contacts registered. The helpline does not require higher court advocates to be registered individually. Therefore, some of the registered contacts may have multiple higher court advocates available to provide advocacy services in the Crown Court. The number of registered contacts is subject to fluctuation.</p><p>The Crown Court Representation Helpline is in place to make the process of identifying higher court advocates easier for providers who may be impacted by barristers declining to accept returns in defence cases as part of national Criminal Bar Association disruptive action. Providers are not limited to instructing higher court advocates registered with the helpline. The <a href="https://publicdefenderservice.org.uk/" target="_blank">Public Defender Service</a> may also be able to provide advocacy support where cases have been impacted by the no returns action.</p><p>The Department publishes data on volumes and the reasons why trials do not go ahead as part of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2021" target="_blank">Criminal court statistics quarterly</a>. The latest statistics cover the period October to December 2021. In line with the timetable for the publication of official statistics into the public domain we are unable to provide data for more recent months at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 25/05/2022 09:39:53 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner