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1505109

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the extent of the (a) financial and (b) psychological impact on people who experience difficulties in accessing (i) legal support and (ii) the civil justice system.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	47529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2022 answer text <p>We understand the importance of access to justice and that unmet legal needs can increase financial and psychological pressures for people. We are also interested in improving our understanding of the state of legal need further, and we will be running a Legal Problem and Resolution Survey beginning this financial year. This nationally representative survey of 10,000 adults living in households in England and Wales will gather data on the prevalence of legal need, people’s willingness to engage with the courts and tribunals and factors that encourage or deter people from doing so.</p><p>We are also already committed to helping people to resolve their legal problems as early as possible, which is why the MoJ spends approximately £760 million a year on civil legal aid, and why, since 2014, we have channelled over £20 million in grants through not-for-profit organisations who provide specialist legal advice.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/09/2022 16:53:51 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1241773

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department (a) has taken and (b) is planning to take to ensure courts and tribunals remain open in the event that an individual on the premises tests positive for covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	100999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>HMCTS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and welfare of all members of its staff, and takes its duty of care towards members of the judiciary, contractors and to court and tribunal users extremely seriously. In the event of any person testing positive for Covid-19, prompt action is taken, in line with public health guidance, to minimise the risk of further transmission within our buildings and maximise our ability to keep the site open and operational.</p><p>Since the start of the pandemic, HMCTS has increased its cleaning regime significantly with additional cleaners regularly cleaning frequently touched areas throughout the day, and to undertake deep cleans where an individual either shows symptoms or has tested positive.</p><p>Detailed guidance is available to all staff and is subject to continuous review to ensure it remains consistent with advice from Public Health organisations and HM government.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/10/2020 16:12:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1241774

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department (a) has taken and (b) is planning to take to ensure courts and tribunals can continue to work in the event that there is a local outbreak of covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	101000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>HMCTS is committed to ensuring the health and safety of everyone working in and using the courts and tribunals; and to ensuring access to the justice system is maintained despite the public health crisis. Since the start of the pandemic, it has taken a number of steps to ensure that courts and tribunals can remain operational, including in the event of a local outbreak.</p><p>Steps being taken include significantly increasing the cleaning regime, with additional cleaners brought in to sanitise frequently touched surfaces, making hand wash and sanitiser available to anyone within the buildings, and using visible queues to ensure that people adhere to social distancing. HMCTS has also introduced measures including plexiglass screens and the requirement (unless exempt) to wear face coverings in all public areas of courts and tribunals across England and Wales.</p><p>Court and tribunal staff are following central government guidance and a significant number continue to work from home. Those whose roles require them to work in a physical office are working in risk assessed Covid-secure conditions. But HMCTS and the judiciary are working hard to ensure access to justice can be facilitated in new and innovative ways, too. The number of hearings being held virtually has increased substantially throughout the pandemic, helping to reduce the number of people required to work in or attend physical buildings.</p><p>Dealing with local outbreaks must be managed on a case by case basis, working with local health officials and following public health guidance to ensure the most effective measures to control and limit transmission of the virus.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/10/2020 16:16:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1203331

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the finding of the recent report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, entitled Inclusive justice: a system designed for all, that there are gaps in the collection, monitoring and analysis of disability data for defendants, what steps his Department is taking to tackle those gaps.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	59215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>HMCTS welcomes the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on Inclusive Justice which brings the opportunity to review the report recommendations alongside the work already being progressed for supporting vulnerable defendants.</p><p>Under the HMCTS Reform Programme new systems are being developed to improve accuracy and consistency of data across the Magistrates’ and Crown Court jurisdictions, including data on disability.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/06/2020 14:15:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1271424

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what budget provisions he has made for the implementation of the recommendations in the report entitled Digital Justice: HMCTS data strategy and delivering access to justice.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	130060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>HMCTS published a full response and progress update in October 2020 to Dr Byrom’s report Digital Justice: HMCTS data strategy and delivering access to justice. The response is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hmcts-response-and-progress-update-on-dr-natalie-byrom-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hmcts-response-and-progress-update-on-dr-natalie-byrom-report</a> and details HMCTS response and progress made to date on each of the 29 recommendations.</p><p>Delivery of HMCTS response is funded in part through existing budgets including the Reform programme, and in part through funding from Administrative Data Research UK.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/01/2021 14:35:43 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1251519

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administrative Law Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will ensure that submissions to the Independent Review of Administrative Law are published.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	114864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2020 answer text <p>The Independent Panel for Administrative Law is currently cataloguing and analysing the responses to the call for evidence which is crucial for their ongoing deliberations. As the panel is independent, it remains a matter for the panel to determine how it intends to treat the evidence received in its report. Once the Government receives the panel’s report, the Government will then determine when and how it responds including publication and the underlying evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 19/11/2020 16:41:22 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1344216

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Agriculture
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his oral contribution of 17 June 2021, Official Report, column 437, if he will provide details of the meeting with representatives of the ornamentals sector referred to in that oral contribution.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	28184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>On 16 June 2021, as part of his sector engagement activities, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs met with stakeholders from the edible and non-edible horticulture sector, to discuss labour issues and the effectiveness of the current Seasonal Workers Pilot.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 12/07/2021 13:53:29 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1653908

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a compensation scheme for farming businesses adversely impacted by species reintroductions.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	194767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>As we look to deliver on our statutory environmental targets, including to halt the decline of species abundance by 2030, we are expanding our environmental land management schemes to incentivise farmers and land managers to provide environmental goods and services alongside food production. Paying for actions that make space for nature and encouraging the restoration of habitat will help to deliver environmental benefits as well as improve the interaction between species that may have been reintroduced and farming operations.</p><p> </p><p>Where the release of a species may impact on local land managers and businesses, a licence application would need to outline how these impacts would be mitigated as well as demonstrate sufficient funding to do so.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 04/09/2023 08:29:15 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1653907

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Land Use
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of rewilding agricultural production on food security.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	194766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>Wilding or rewilding is the restoration of ecosystems to the point where they are more regulated by natural processes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is supporting a number of initiatives to create wilder landscapes across England, as part of a broader approach to nature recovery. However, rewilding is not appropriate in all situations, and we must balance priorities including food production.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to assess how land use change, including the restoration of natural processes, can contribute to net-zero, food security and supporting the farming sector.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 04/09/2023 08:37:11 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1416561

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the increase in alcohol consumption during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	111569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>In England, the Department continues to promote the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ recommendations of not regularly exceeding 14 units a week through online platforms, local authorities’ public health duties and encouraging alcoholic drink producers to reflect the guidelines on labelling. The Department is also working with industry to create more consumer choice and availability in the low and no alcohol sector to moderate drinking habits within the guidelines.</p><p>The Better Health and One You adult health campaigns have provided information and advice to help adults consume less alcohol during the pandemic. Better Health continues to offer tips and online tools to help people drink less including the Drinks Tracker app, ‘How Are You’ health quiz, Better Health website and email programme. We also provide the Drinkline service and webchat.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 31/01/2022 14:57:48 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 47186 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham