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1173389

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Dangerous Driving: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make each category of careless and inconsiderate driving an offence that carries a custodial sentence.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	8274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The government has committed to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs to life imprisonment, and create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/01/2020 16:05:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1173410

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what statistics his Department holds on hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	8478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information regarding prosecutions, convictions and sentencing for hate crime offences specifically defined in legislation, i.e. ‘racially or religiously aggravated’ offences. The court outcomes for these offences can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p>(using the pivot table, filter by ‘Offence’ for offences starting with ‘racially or religiously aggravated…’ and select all that appear).</p><p> </p><p>Other hate crime offences are prosecuted under the specific offence in legislation that they fall under and the ‘hate’ element is an aggravating factor in that crime rather than the offence itself but these cannot be separately identified in the data.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:56:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1173423

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether the average time from first listing of a case to trial in a Crown court is (a) increasing and (b) decreasing; and whether the length of that period is assessed in each Crown court in England.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	8203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Data on time from first listing to completion is published in the Criminal Court Statistics: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a>. This includes the Crown Court Case Timeliness Tool, which provides first listing to completion statistics for each Crown Court.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 8207 question first answered 30/01/2020 16:07:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1173435

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of listed cases are listed as floaters each month.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	8204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Listing is a judicial matter and approaches vary from court to court. There is not a comprehensive data set available that would provide an answer to this question.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/01/2020 15:58:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1173437

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between the first appearance of a case in the Crown Court to the commencement of the trial in (a) Southwark Crown Court, (b) Lancaster Crown Court and (c) Brighton Crown Court in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	8205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not available due to disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/01/2020 15:59:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1173438

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of cases were heard in more than one Crown Court in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	8206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not available due to disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/01/2020 16:08:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1173482

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what methodology HM Courts and Tribunals Service uses for comparing the length of time taken at each court between the first listing of a case and the first hearing; and if he will publish that data.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	8207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Data on time from first listing to completion is published in the Criminal Court Statistics: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a>. This includes the Crown Court Case Timeliness Tool, which provides first listing to completion statistics for each Crown Court.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 8203 question first answered 30/01/2020 16:07:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1173558

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escorts: Contracts
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 collate data on the number of prisoners not produced in court by companies operating prisoner escort contracts.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	8373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The next generation of Prisoner Escort and Custody Services (PECS) contracts will commence in August this year. Under these contracts data specifically related to any contractor failure to produce prisoners in court will be collated.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/02/2020 16:11:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1173559

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escorts: Contracts
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 collate data on the number of court days lost as a result of prisoners not being produced in court by companies operating prisoner escort contracts.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	8374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>HMCTS does record data on the number of trials that are ineffective in both Crown and Magistrate’s Courts as a result of a defendant not being produced by prisoner escort custody services. These statistics are published in Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly publication on gov.uk and the latest data is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>There is currently no requirement or plans for HMCTS to collate data on the number of court days lost as a result of prisoners not being produced in court by companies operating prisoner escort contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/02/2020 16:12:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1173178

registered interest
date	24/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Police Cautions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that people offered a caution in a police station understand the implications of accepting one in respect of future Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	7591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>Ministry of Justice guidance sets out clear expectations in terms of police explaining the implications of accepting a caution.</p><p> </p><p>Ministry of Justice guidance on Simple Cautions for Adult Offenders can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simple-cautions-guidance-for-police-and-prosecutors" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simple-cautions-guidance-for-police-and-prosecutors</a></p><p>Section 3 of the guidance states police officers must ensure the offender understands the implications of accepting a simple caution, and consents to receiving the disposal before it can be administered. The implications which must be explained are set out in paragraphs 62-76 of the guidance. This includes the significance of the admission of guilt and the retention and disclosure of criminal record information for future legal proceedings or criminal record checks. Guidance also states police officers should ensure offenders are given the opportunity to receive free and independent legal advice before accepting a simple caution.</p><p> </p><p>Similar points are made in the Ministry of Justice Guidance for Conditional Cautions for Adult Offenders (also in Section 3 of the guidance) which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-adult-conditional-cautions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-adult-conditional-cautions</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Ministry of Justice and Youth Justice Board published guidance on Youth Out of Court Disposals, which includes relevant guidance in Section 5.22-23 and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/438139/out-court-disposal-guide.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/438139/out-court-disposal-guide.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 29/01/2020 11:46:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn