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57875

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many calls were made on higher-rate telephone numbers to (a) magistrates' courts, (b) county courts and county court money claims centres in England in 2012-13 and 2013-14; and what the average duration was of calls to such numbers.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	198816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the replies given to him on 12 May 2014, Official Report, Columns 413-414W (for volume and average duration of calls), and on 10 April 2014, Official Report Columns 396-397W (for a note on money claims centres).</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/06/2014 12:05:15 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

223046

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: 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 he has made of the likely effect of the proposed increase in court fees for bringing money claims over the value of £10,000 on the ability of people on low incomes to make such claims.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	224889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>90% of money claims are for sums of less than £10,000 and will therefore be unaffected by these plans.</p><p>In order to protect access to justice, a system of fee waivers is available to those unable to afford court fees. Eligibility is based on an individual’s ability to pay, and the scheme is targeted towards those in households on low incomes who are in receipt of certain state benefits. Applicants will also be subject to an assessment of the value of their disposable capital assets with a higher threshold applying to those aged 61 or over.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/03/2015 17:10:10 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

92887

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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many maintenance orders made in Spain for enforcement in the UK have not been enforced in the last five years; and for what periods such orders apply.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	210179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect this information.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 20/10/2014 09:22:47 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

48862

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
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 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 396W, on courts, how many calls were made to higher rate telephone numbers for (a) magistrates' courts, (b) county courts and (c) the county court bulk centre in Northampton in each year since 2009; what the average duration was of calls to the higher-rate telephone numbers in each case in the most recent period for which figures are available; how much revenue was generated from such calls; which individual numbers are used for more than one court; and how many courts are covered by each of these numbers.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	196914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on volumes and durations for calls to higher-rate telephone numbers for magistrates' courts, county courts and the county court bulk centre in Northampton in each year since 2009 is not systematically collected by the service providers, and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Between November 2013 to March 2014 the percentage of higher rate calls dropped significantly from 41% to 30% with the increasing use of 0300 numbers. This figure is set to drop even further as 19 higher rate numbers to the county court bulk centre are currently being replaced by 0300 numbers.</p><p> </p><p>During this period 137,763 calls to higher rate numbers were answered at the county court bulk centre with an average duration of 4 minutes 14 seconds. This figure represents 35% of all calls with the remainder being 0300 numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has received no revenue from higher rate telephone numbers for the period under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following individual numbers are used for more than one court:</p><p>0844 892 4000 is used by Basildon, Bury St Edmonds, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Kings Lyn, Norwich, Peterborough, Southend County Courts, and by Basildon, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Southend Magistrates' Courts.</p><p> </p><p>0844 892 0550 is used by Bedford, Luton, Hertford, St Albans, Watford County Courts.</p><p> </p><p>0845 300 4239 is used by Aylesbury, Banbury, Bicester, East Berkshire (Bracknell), East Berkshire (Maidenhead), East Berkshire (Slough), High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Oxford and South Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire (Newbury) Magistrates' Courts.</p><p> </p><p>0845 200 2078 is used by Chester, South Cheshire (Crewe), Liverpool and Knowsley, Macclesfield, Runcorn (Halton), Sefton, St Helens, Warrington, Wirral Magistrates' Courts.</p><p> </p><p>0845 601 0485 is used by Harrogate, Northallerton, Shipton, York Magistrates' Courts.</p><p> </p><p>0845 310 0575 is used by Cambridge, Peterborough Magistrates' Courts.</p><p> </p><p>The following Magistrates' Courts have higher-rate numbers which are not shared:</p><p>Leamington Spa (0845 521 2300)</p><p>Nottingham (0845 408 3500)</p><p> </p><p>Pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014 (191689), 19 higher rate numbers to the County Court Bulk Centre in Northampton are in the process of being replaced by 0300 numbers. The higher-rate number for Central London Combined Court Centre has been discontinued. Taking into account these further reductions in higher-rate numbers, the percentage fall in higher-rate numbers since 2009 is 79% compared to the 55% previously stated.</p><p>Magistrates' Courts' and County Courts use a total of ten higher-rate numbers, sharing them for queries about fines, family matters, etc. Twenty-one of the Magistrates' Courts' using higher rate numbers offer alternative 0300 numbers.</p><p>As stated in previous answers to parliamentary questions, the Department's approach is not to use higher rate numbers and instead, wherever possible, to assign 0300 numbers, for which the tariff is similar to calling an 01 or 02 (geographic) number, whether the caller is using a fixed line or a mobile phone —see: <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131120/text/131120w0001.htm#131120113000070" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131120/text/131120w0001.htm#131120113000070</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130322/text/130322w0001.htm#13032267000050" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130322/text/130322w0001.htm#13032267000050</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 8218 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

92054

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) direct employees, (b) outsourced workers and (c) workers in agencies which report to his Department are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>As of 1 August 2014 out of 68732 direct employees, 324 direct employees are paid less than the rate defined by the ‘Living Wage Foundation’. This calculation is based upon the UK living wage as of 4 November 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The direct employees included form part of the core Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and its agencies National Offender Management Service (NOMS), HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), Legal Aid Agency (LAA) and Office of the Public Guardian (OPG).</p><p> </p><p>Pay rate decisions made on 1 August2014 mean that no permanent employee on core departmental terms and conditions are paid below the living wage rate. 11 permanent employees individuals on legacy terms &amp; conditions following Machinery of Government changes remain below living wage levels,. These employees have been offered the option to move onto MoJ terms and conditions.</p><p> </p><p>In NOMS, the number of direct employees who are paid below living wage levels currently stands at 313.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Number below living wage</p></td><td><p>On Strength Headcount</p></td><td><p>Proportion of staff employed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(i) Department</p></td><td><p>Includes HQ, NOMS, HMCTS OPG and LAA</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>68732</p></td><td><p>0.47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(ii) Agencies</p></td><td><p>Core MoJ</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>22982</p></td><td><p>0.05%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>NOMS</p></td><td><p>313</p></td><td><p>45750</p></td><td><p>0.68%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on contractors paid less than the rate defined by the ‘Living Wage Foundation’ as a living wage is not recorded centrally. We would need to approach all of our contractors and or their agencies and get them to provide the information. This could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 21/10/2014 12:55:59 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

173224

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much of his Department's budget was allocated to (a) the Wirral and (b) Birkenhead in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	220424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not record data at the level of detail requested.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 19/01/2015 16:46:46 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

175133

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Court of Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to review the powers of the Court of Protection; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	221546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has no plans to review the powers of the Court of Protection.<br><br>However, the department is currently changing the Court of Protection Rules. This will give the Court more flexibility to help it manage its caseload more efficiently.<br><br>The department and judiciary have been clear that there needs to be more openness in the Court of Protection, which deals with some of the most vulnerable people in society. The President of the Family Division's guidelines mean that more judgements are published than ever before. <br><br>The President and I will continue to push for ever greater transparency, where it is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 26/01/2015 14:16:48 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead