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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

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

894896

	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: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value was of severance packages for prison officers that took voluntary early departure and were subsequently re-recruited since after 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	139567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 10/05/2018 16:39:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894895

	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: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the severance package was for each prison officer who took voluntary early departure and was subsequently re-recruited by HM Prison and Probation Service in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	139566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2018 answer text <p>This level of information cannot be supplied due to the risk of identification of individuals. It is therefore exempt from disclosure under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA).</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 04/05/2018 16:07:38 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	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

894894

	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: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average severance package was for a prison officer taking voluntary early departure in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	139565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/08/2018 answer text <p>Due to the way in which the information is held by the pensions administrator, the average annual severance package for Band 3 to 5 officers taking Voluntary Exit or Voluntary Redundancy cannot be separately identified.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 17/08/2018 09:24:46 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

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

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

895007

	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	Family Proceedings: Legal Representation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many cases one or more parents appearing in court hearings on the custody of their children have been unrepresented in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	139569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available as data on the legal representation of parties is not broken down into different types of proceedings concerning children.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 08/05/2018 15:11:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon