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389917

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Legal Representation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants in criminal proceedings in (a) police stations and (b) courts in each region of England and Wales have been unable to secure legal representation in each week since 1 July 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	6894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>In the vast majority of cases requiring a solicitor at the police station, a solicitor has been deployed within an hour. The Ministry of Justice does not retain details of detainees at police station who, having requested legal advice, do not then obtain it. There have always been a number of reasons why an individual might not receive advice, such as the detainee changing their mind or the police releasing the detainee before advice is provided.</p><p> </p><p>The courts are sitting as usual. The representation status and the number of adjournments in magistrates’ court proceedings, and the reasons for them, are not centrally recorded. For Crown Court cases, data on reasons for adjournments are centrally recorded, but a lack of legal representation is not included within the list of possible reasons for an adjournment. Further, representation status is centrally recorded, but the reasons why an individual might be unrepresented are not.</p><p> </p><p>Experimental data on the number of defendants dealt with in the Crown Court who are known to have had legal representation at their first hearing was published for the first time in the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly publication on 25 June 2015, covering the period 2010 and 2014. These statistics are available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a> <br></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 6895 6897 6898 question first answered 22/07/2015 15:25:23 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

389920

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Legal Representation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adjournments occurred because of lack of legal representation for defendants in criminal proceedings in each week since 1 July 2015; and what the duration of each such adjournment was.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	6897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>In the vast majority of cases requiring a solicitor at the police station, a solicitor has been deployed within an hour. The Ministry of Justice does not retain details of detainees at police station who, having requested legal advice, do not then obtain it. There have always been a number of reasons why an individual might not receive advice, such as the detainee changing their mind or the police releasing the detainee before advice is provided.</p><p> </p><p>The courts are sitting as usual. The representation status and the number of adjournments in magistrates’ court proceedings, and the reasons for them, are not centrally recorded. For Crown Court cases, data on reasons for adjournments are centrally recorded, but a lack of legal representation is not included within the list of possible reasons for an adjournment. Further, representation status is centrally recorded, but the reasons why an individual might be unrepresented are not.</p><p> </p><p>Experimental data on the number of defendants dealt with in the Crown Court who are known to have had legal representation at their first hearing was published for the first time in the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly publication on 25 June 2015, covering the period 2010 and 2014. These statistics are available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a> <br></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 6894 6895 6898 question first answered 22/07/2015 15:25:23 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

389921

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Legal Representation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adjournments occurred because of lack of legal representation for defendants in criminal proceedings in each week between 3 June 2015 and 1 July 2015; and what the duration of each such adjournment was.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	6898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>In the vast majority of cases requiring a solicitor at the police station, a solicitor has been deployed within an hour. The Ministry of Justice does not retain details of detainees at police station who, having requested legal advice, do not then obtain it. There have always been a number of reasons why an individual might not receive advice, such as the detainee changing their mind or the police releasing the detainee before advice is provided.</p><p> </p><p>The courts are sitting as usual. The representation status and the number of adjournments in magistrates’ court proceedings, and the reasons for them, are not centrally recorded. For Crown Court cases, data on reasons for adjournments are centrally recorded, but a lack of legal representation is not included within the list of possible reasons for an adjournment. Further, representation status is centrally recorded, but the reasons why an individual might be unrepresented are not.</p><p> </p><p>Experimental data on the number of defendants dealt with in the Crown Court who are known to have had legal representation at their first hearing was published for the first time in the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly publication on 25 June 2015, covering the period 2010 and 2014. These statistics are available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a> <br></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 6894 6895 6897 question first answered 22/07/2015 15:25:23 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner