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The Ministry of Justice does not collect information centrally on Litigants in Person, or on who is cross examining witnesses in family court cases.<\/del><\/p>

The Government takes the issue of domestic violence extremely seriously. A number of recent measures have been taken to strengthen and clarify the family court\u2019s response to issues of domestic violence.<\/ins><\/p>

Where criminal and civil proceedings<\/a> are taking place at the same time, prosecutors will ensure that the court has the appropriate information to enable them to make other orders that prioritise the safety of victims, children and young people.<\/ins><\/p>

Guidance to the family court makes clear that if domestic violence is alleged, the court must take this is into account when making decisions about contact with a child and the welfare of the child is of paramount importance.<\/ins><\/p>


Her Majesty\u2019s Courts & Tribunal Services (HMCTS) are constantly looking for ways to improve the service that they offer to victims and witnesses. This includes making the appropriate links between family court proceedings and the criminal justice system.<\/ins><\/p>
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As the Secretary of State stated to the House on 8 September, we have been made aware of widespread concern about the operation of the Criminal Courts Charge, but it is important to stress that the Charge is levied or taken from the offender only after other impositions<\/ins>fines<\/del> have been paid. It is important to note that statutory protections are in place so that the payment of the Charge in due course should be linked to the offender's means. Within the Bill there was a duty placed on the Lord Chancellor to carry out a review of the Criminal Courts Charge, three years after the implementation of the Charge.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-10-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "true", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/421454/answer/previousversion/25299", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-10-22T16:50:53.663Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ], "questionFirstMinisteriallyCorrected" : [{"_value" : "2015-10-23T11:04:35.973Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-10-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Criminal Proceedings: Fees and Charges"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the Criminal Court Charge.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4445", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ben Howlett"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bath"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Ben Howlett"} ], "uin" : "11877"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/420547", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/420547/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

This Government will fully consult on our proposals before introducing legislation for a British Bill of Rights. Further details, including on timing,<\/del> will be announced in due course.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-10-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "true", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/420547/answer/previousversion/25719", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4183", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Faulks"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Faulks"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-10-26T16:36:18.01Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ], "questionFirstMinisteriallyCorrected" : [{"_value" : "2015-10-26T17:54:15.087Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-10-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Bill of Rights"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government when they intend to publish proposals for a British Bill of Rights.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2758", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Falconer of Thoroton"} ], "uin" : "HL2522"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387882", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387882/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

As of the 7th<\/sup> July, the following contracts the Department, including HM Courts and Tribunals Service currently have out to tender are,<\/ins><\/p>

<\/p>

PQ 5623<\/p>

1. Professional Services, Evaluation of Sentencing Council Guidelines.<\/p>

<\/p>

2. HMP Holloway Fire Safety Improvements.<\/p>

<\/p>

3. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of three Risk assessments at<\/p>

HMP Swaleside, East Sutton Park and Stanford Hill.<\/p>

<\/p>

4. Operational Goods, Supply of Portable Mobile Phone Detection Equipment.<\/p>

<\/p>

5. Reducing Reoffending, Retender of Provision for 1 forensic psychology risk assessment at<\/p>

HMP Leyhill,<\/p>

<\/p>

6. HMP Wandsworth Demolition of Laundry.<\/p>

<\/p>

7. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of sixteen forensic psychology risk assessments at HMP Frankland.<\/p>

<\/p>

8. Compliance and Enforcement Service, (Court Fines).<\/p>

<\/p>

9. Transforming Youth Custody \u2013 Secure Training Centre.<\/p>

<\/p>

10. Criminal Justice System \u2013 Efficiencies.<\/p>

<\/p>

11. Professional Services \u2013 To implement a specialist financial services framework.<\/p>

<\/p>

PQ 5624<\/p>

<\/p>

I can confirm that Synnex Concentrix has been announced as the preferred bidder for court enforcements.<\/p>

<\/p>

At this point, we are unable to disclose which suppliers have been involved in the other competitions listed above due to procurement competition rules and regulations.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-07-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "true", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387882/answer/previousversion/18838", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-07-30T11:43:01.99Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ], "questionFirstMinisteriallyCorrected" : [{"_value" : "2015-07-31T10:08:18.713Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-07-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Procurement"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts his Department and HM Courts and Tribunals Service currently have out to tender.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/304", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Birmingham, Hall Green"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Roger Godsiff"} ], "uin" : "5623"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387883", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387883/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

As of the 7th<\/sup> July, the following contracts the Department, including HM Courts and Tribunals Service currently have out to tender are,<\/ins><\/p>

PQ 5623<\/p>

1. Professional Services, Evaluation of Sentencing Council Guidelines.<\/p>

<\/p>

2. HMP Holloway Fire Safety Improvements.<\/p>

<\/p>

3. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of three Risk assessments at<\/p>

HMP Swaleside, East Sutton Park and Stanford Hill.<\/p>

<\/p>

4. Operational Goods, Supply of Portable Mobile Phone Detection Equipment.<\/p>

<\/p>

5. Reducing Reoffending, Retender of Provision for 1 forensic psychology risk assessment at<\/p>

HMP Leyhill,<\/p>

<\/p>

6. HMP Wandsworth Demolition of Laundry.<\/p>

<\/p>

7. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of sixteen forensic psychology risk assessments at HMP Frankland.<\/p>

<\/p>

8. Compliance and Enforcement Service, (Court Fines).<\/p>

<\/p>

9. Transforming Youth Custody \u2013 Secure Training Centre.<\/p>

<\/p>

10. Criminal Justice System \u2013 Efficiencies.<\/p>

<\/p>

11. Professional Services \u2013 To implement a specialist financial services framework.<\/p>

<\/p>

PQ 5624<\/p>

<\/p>

I can confirm that Synnex Concentrix has been announced as the preferred bidder for court enforcements.<\/p>

<\/p>

At this point, we are unable to disclose which suppliers have been involved in the other competitions listed above due to procurement competition rules and regulations.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-07-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "true", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387883/answer/previousversion/18840", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1496", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Shailesh Vara"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Cambridgeshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-07-30T11:43:02.1Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ], "questionFirstMinisteriallyCorrected" : [{"_value" : "2015-07-31T10:18:51.98Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-07-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Concentrix"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which contracts placed out to tender by (a) his Department and (b) HM Courts and Tribunals Service have been bid on by Synnex Concentrix.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/304", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Birmingham, Hall Green"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Roger Godsiff"} ], "uin" : "5624"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387885", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387885/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

Just Solutions international (JSi) was established in the previous parliament as the internal commercial brand of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).<\/p>

<\/p>

Given our ambitious justice reform programme and the need to focus departmental resources on domestic priorities, the Justice Secretary has decided that JSi should cease to operate. NOMS will therefore not pursue any new projects with international partners through JSi.<\/p>

<\/p>

One project led by NOMS through JSi is sufficiently far advanced that the Government has decided withdrawing at this late stage would be detrimental to HMG\u2019s wider interests. Under the JSi brand, NOMS submitted an initial bid to the Saudi Arabian authorities in August 2014, and a final bid in April 2015,<\/ins><\/strong> to conduct a training needs analysis for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia prison service staff, via ELM, an executive agency of the Saudi Ministry of Finance. Following the submission of a final bid in April 2015, NOMS is now liable for financial penalties should the bid be withdrawn.<\/del> NOMS\u2019s bid was signed off through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) process, and was supported by UKTI and the British Embassy in Riyadh.<\/p>

<\/p>

NOMS will therefore honour this outstanding bid and enter into a contract subject to the final decisions of ELM. All work relating to this project will be completed within 6 months of starting.<\/p>

<\/p>

My Department will continue to promote the rule of law, good governance and judicial reform internationally, working with FCO, DFID and other Government Departments as required. In future, any support will be provided on a cost recovery rather than a commercial basis.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1453", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Selous"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Bedfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Selous"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-09-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "true", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/387885/answer/previousversion/20239", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1453", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Selous"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Bedfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Selous"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-09-09T16:58:56.497Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ], "questionFirstMinisteriallyCorrected" : [{"_value" : "2015-09-16T14:38:57.487Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Justice"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-07-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Just Solutions International"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the future of Just Solutions International.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4407", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nigel Huddleston"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Mid Worcestershire"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Nigel Huddleston"} ], "uin" : "5660"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 6, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }