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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220904/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>There is guidance on Mesher Orders within the Family Justice Council\u2019s <em>Guidance on \u201cFinancial Needs\u201d on Divorce<\/em> (April 2018 \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition.). This was produced following the Law Commission\u2019s recommendation in 2014 that the Family Justice Council prepare guidance on \u201cfinancial needs\u201d on divorce. The Department has not had recent discussions with the Family Justice Council or other stakeholders about Mesher Orders.<\/p><p>During the passage of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill through Parliament, the Government committed to set up a Lord Chancellor\u2019s working group to conduct a review of the law of financial provision on divorce. This review will be led by the evidence, which is yet to be gathered, on whether there are problems with the current law and, if so, how these might be addressed. The Ministry of Justice is now considering terms of reference and membership of the working group. The Government will seek to ensure that the working group has a balance of members from across different professions.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) the Family Justice Council and (b) other stakeholders on the use of Mesher Orders in divorce cases.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4839", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jane Hunt"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221040", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221040/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Ministers meet the Chairman of the Sentencing Council regularly to discuss a range of issues related to sentencing. The Sentencing Council meets on a monthly basis to discuss matters relating to sentencing and guidelines and a representative of the Lord Chancellor attends those meetings. Officials in the MoJ also meet regularly with members of the Office of the Sentencing Council and discuss a wide range of issues.<\/p><p>The Sentencing Council has published a definitive guideline for child cruelty offences, which came into force on 1 January 2019.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) he, (b) Ministers of his Department and (c) officials of his Department have met with representatives of the Sentencing Council to discuss sentencing for child cruelty offences in the last 18 months.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4462", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Tom Tugendhat"}
      }
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Tom Tugendhat"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221189", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221189/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>It is vital for prison leavers to access those services that would meet their individual needs during the pandemic.<\/p><p>The financial support given by HMPPS to prison leavers comprises the following elements:<\/p><ul><li>A Discharge Grant (the Grant) of £46, which is paid directly to eligible prisoners on release. An eligible prisoner is essentially one who is sentenced and serves more than 14 days in custody;<\/li><li>A Discretionary Payment (DP) of up to £50 that Governors may pay a genuine accommodation provider to help the individual secure a release address; and<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>A travel warrant or fares paid upon release to their destination within the UK (including the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland), which are issued regardless of the prisoner\u2019s eligibility for a Grant.<\/li><\/ul><p>The Grant, however, is entirely separate from the subsistence grant, which is payable to those who are eligible for release under the End of Custody Temporary Release (ECTR) scheme only. The purpose of these grants is to help prison leavers on release, so that they are supported while accessing other legal sources of income such as applying for benefits.<\/p><p>The higher rate of the Subsistence Grant is set at £80 to reflect the more limited amount of time prisoners have had to prepare for their release under the ECTR scheme.<\/p><p>We have invested an additional £22m per annum over the remaining life of the CRC contracts to deliver an enhanced Through the Gate resettlement service to people leaving prison to prepare them for release. The enhanced service includes the requirement that CRCs complete specific, tailored, tasks to help prisoners to secure and maintain settled accommodation, gain employment and manage debt and their financial affairs. During the Covid period most of this support is being provided remotely after CRCs invested in greater use of mobile technology to maintain levels of contact with offenders in the community in a safe and efficient manner. After a prison sentence, service users are supervised and supported by Probation Officers in the Community.<\/p><p>A further £8.5m has been secured to support individuals at risk of homelessness on their release from prison for up to eight weeks of targeted support, together with the necessary help required to ensure individuals move on into permanent accommodation. This scheme was originally due to run until 26<sup>th<\/sup> June; however, we have recently undertaken our first review and, following this, have extended the scheme until 31 July. This is an exceptional measure reflecting the current challenges.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) financial and (b) social support the Government is providing to prisoners who are being released from prison during the covid-19 outbreak.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4698", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Janet Daby"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Janet Daby"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221206", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221206/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>HMCTS have comprehensively assessed risk to staff and users and are ensuring the safety of anyone who comes into our buildings by applying published court and tribunal coronavirus safety controls. These have been endorsed by Public Health England and Public Health Wales. Additionally, a process for checking compliance at each site is in place, with controls reviewed and monitored at each court and tribunal building.<\/p><p>Following the recent publication of additional PHE guidance, \u2018Beyond the Data\u2019 HMCTS are conducting specific recorded conversations for any individuals of BAME ethnicities, colleagues who are over 70 or male colleagues of working age. This has formed part of the current return to work process and will require individuals to self-identify as being from one of the specified groups. For individuals who are already in the workplace, this has formed part of their 4 weekly Keeping in Touch conversation with their line manager. The tool is being used with Line managers to capture and record what additional support or interventions are being considered to ensure colleagues feel comfortable and safe in the workplace. HMCTS HR will continually review the tool and its suitability, in line with central Civil Service Employee Policy guidance.<\/p><p>Our priority is to keep all court users safe and we staff for their service during this unprecedented public health emergency.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of undertaking equality impact assessments for staff returning to work with HM Courts and Tribunal Service which take into account an employee's protected characteristics.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4769", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Daisy Cooper"}
      }
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Daisy Cooper"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221225", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1221225/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>HMCTS have comprehensively assessed risk to staff and users and are ensuring the safety of anyone who comes into our buildings by applying published court and tribunal coronavirus safety controls. These have been endorsed by Public Health England and Public Health Wales. Additionally, a process for checking compliance at each site is in place, with controls reviewed and monitored at each court and tribunal building.<\/p><p>Following the recent publication of additional PHE guidance, \u2018Beyond the Data\u2019 HMCTS are conducting specific recorded conversations for any individuals of BAME ethnicities, colleagues who are over 70 or male colleagues of working age. This has formed part of the current return to work process and will require individuals to self-identify as being from one of the specified groups. For individuals who are already in the workplace, this has formed part of their 4 weekly Keeping in Touch conversation with their line manager. The tool is being used with Line managers to capture and record what additional support or interventions are being considered to ensure colleagues feel comfortable and safe in the workplace. HMCTS HR will continually review the tool and its suitability, in line with central Civil Service Employee Policy guidance.<\/p><p>Our priority is to keep all court users safe and we staff for their service during this unprecedented public health emergency.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has undertaken an equality impact assessment of the risk assessment tool for bringing staff back into work at HM Courts and Tribunal Service.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4769", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Daisy Cooper"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Daisy Cooper"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220606", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220606/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>We have now published our court recovery plan, setting out how we are recovering the operations of our courts and tribunals after the pandemic and a more detailed criminal court recovery plan will follow. We are continuing to increase capacity.<\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-and-tribunal-recovery-update-in-response-to-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-and-tribunal-recovery-update-in-response-to-coronavirus<\/a><\/p><p>We have no plans to remove the right to a trial by jury, something which I am deeply committed to.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4503", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Philp"}
        }
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      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Juries: Coronavirus"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to suspend temporarily the right to trial by jury to tackle the backlog of cases as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and whether his Department would be required to conduct an impact assessment before introducing that suspension.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4521", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Dwyfor Meirionnydd"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Liz Saville Roberts"}
      ], "uin" : "68742"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220608", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220608/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The legal profession in England and Wales is independent of Government. Statutory responsibility for encouraging an independent, strong, diverse and effective legal profession sits with the approved regulators, overseen by the oversight regulator, the Legal Services Board (LSB). Ministry of Justice Ministers encourage the sector to ensure it more closely represents the diverse society it serves through ongoing engagement with the regulators and the legal profession.<\/p><p>In 2017 the LSB published revised guidance for legal services regulators for encouraging a diverse workforce, and introduced new transparency duties at firm and chambers level to monitor and publish diversity statistics. In 2019 the LSB published a summary of the progress of regulators against four diversity outcomes, which showed positive examples of a new approach to diversity, but also areas where further action is required.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4481", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alex Chalk"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department is doing to tackle the diversity gap in the upper levels of the legal profession.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/473", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick"}
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      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Preston"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Sir Mark Hendrick"}
      ], "uin" : "68670"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220682", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220682/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In criminal trials, including of offences of historical sexual abuse, rules of evidence do not permit the Crown to call evidence of the good character of a prosecution witness in order to bolster their credibility. The law assumes victims to be truthful and credible, and restricts the ways in which their veracity and credibility can be challenged by the defence; evidence of a victim\u2019s good character is therefore not relevant to what is in issue, and is not admissible.<\/p><p>Defendants also are assumed to be of good character unless there is evidence to the contrary. Where the prosecution does rely on bad character evidence against the defendant (and there are fewer restrictions on the admissibility of evidence of a defendant\u2019s alleged bad character than there are in relation to a witness\u2019 bad character), then character evidence might be relevant to contradict it.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's policy in on the use of character witnesses during trials for (a) victims and (b) perpetrators of historical sexual abuse.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4277", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck"}
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      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Shields"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220317", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220317/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on convictions at offence level up to December 2019. The number of convictions for offences under section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 at all courts can be found in the \u2018Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool\u2019, available here:<\/p><p><a href=\"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888344/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888344/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx<\/a><\/p><p>In the pivot table, filter the Offence code field to the following Home Office offence codes:<\/p><p><strong>07804 <\/strong>Non-British citizen, by means including deception, obtaining or seeking leave to enter or remain in the UK or postponement, avoidance or revocation of enforcement action against him<\/p><p><strong>19401<\/strong> Non-citizen entering UK in breach of a deportation order<\/p><p><strong>19402<\/strong> Non-citizen entering UK without leave<\/p><p><strong>19403<\/strong> Non-citizen having only a limited leave remaining in UK beyond the time limit.<\/p><p><strong>19404<\/strong> Non-citizen failing to observe conditions of leave<\/p><p><strong>19405<\/strong> Non-citizen entering United Kingdom as a member of a crew of a ship or aircraft and who is required to leave on the ship or aircraft remaining in the United Kingdom beyond the time allowed<\/p><p><strong>19406<\/strong> Non-citizen failing to comply with requirements to report to a medical officer or to submit to a test or examination required by such an officer<\/p><p><strong>19407<\/strong> Non-citizen failing to observe any restrictions as to residence or to reporting to police or an immigration officer<\/p><p><strong>19408<\/strong> Non-citizen disembarking in the United Kingdom from a ship or aircraft after being placed on board with a view to removal from United Kingdom<\/p><p><strong>19409<\/strong> Non-citizen embarking in contravention of a restriction imposed by Order in Council<\/p><p>Convictions can be found in row 32 of the pivot table. If an offence code does not appear in the drop-down box then there were no prosecutions or convictions for that particular offence in the time period covered by the table.<\/p><p>The figures given in the pivot table relate to defendants for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4503", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Chris Philp"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there were in Magistrates' and Crown courts for all the offences mentioned in section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1219750/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Staff are aware that they can report H&amp;S concerns to their line managers, or a H&amp;S qualified practitioner present at each establishment. The Ministry of Justice has whistle blowing procedures in place for employees who wish to raise any concerns, including the endangering of an individual\u2019s health and safety. The current H&amp;S reporting system also provides a reliable local and national reporting and recording tool that allows staff to voice their concerns and for H&amp;S teams to monitor and take action where necessary. We therefore do not have any current plans to initiate a specific whistleblowing hotline or campaign.<\/p><p>All staff receive a full H&amp;S induction upon commencement of their roles, which includes an introduction and explanation of the reporting and investigation process and local or notifications and contingencies are published by Governors advising staff of risks and to implement controls as necessary.<\/p><p>HMPPS operates both national and local health and safety committees across probation and custody in line with the legal requirements for consultation on health and safety matters and maintains active engagement with health and safety representatives. Such committees are held at least quarterly and attendance by staff and union representatives is actively encouraged. This is in addition to an extensive range of informal consultation and liaison both nationally and locally.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a prison whistleblowing hotline to enable staff to confidentially report health and safety concerns (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will introduce such a hotline.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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