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58435

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to release statistics on the number of refusals by the Legal Aid Agency to pay legal aid in cases settled before the permission stage.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	199207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Legal Aid Agency records information on the outcome of each application for a discretionary payment in respect of remuneration for work on applications for permission for judicial review, where a case concludes before a decision on permission is taken by the court. The Government is considering the best way of publishing this information.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 12/06/2014 15:46:30 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

58436

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judicial Review
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 potential effect of the new judicial review regulations on people who are fighting eviction or the repossession of a house.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	199208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Judicial review is an important way of challenging decisions by public authorities and will remain so. The recently amended regulations do not prevent people receiving legal aid in judicial review cases.</p><p> </p><p>The Government's policy is that limited legal aid resources should be targeted at those judicial review cases where they are needed most, if the legal aid system is to command public confidence and credibility. We amended the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 to implement the proposal that legal aid providers should only be paid for work carried out on an application for permission if permission is given by the court, subject to a discretion to pay providers for work carried out on an application for permission in cases that conclude prior to a permission decision. The discretion is held by the Lord Chancellor but will be exercised by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) on behalf of the Lord Chancellor. The amendments took effect on 22 April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>An assessment of the impacts of this policy was published alongside the consultation response paper <em>Judicial Review: Proposals for Further Reform: the Government Response</em> and is available at <a title="blocked::https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review" href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review" target="_blank">https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/judicial-review</a>. It is important to reiterate that no change has been made to the availability of civil legal aid to individuals or to eligibility for legal aid for judicial review proceedings. Where a client is in receipt of legal aid, he or she will remain so for the life of the case (unless it is withdrawn for other reasons). We consider that there will remain sufficient providers who undertake judicial review work, taking on cases which they consider to be of merit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government plans to undertake a post-implementation review of the legal aid provisions within the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 within 3-5 years of implementation. The review will include an assessment of the impact of this change.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 12/06/2014 15:50:47 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

58456

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of failure to return a completed abortion notification form in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Mr David Amess
uin	199193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. However, not all offences are individually reported within the centrally held data. It is not possible to separately identify from this centrally held information convictions resulting from failure to return a completed abortion notification form. This information may be held by the individual courts in England and Wales and as such it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 11/06/2014 15:49:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

57638

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	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in (A) England and (B) York in each year since 1995.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	198527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The amount spent on (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid in (i) cash (i.e. net of operating receipts) and (ii) real terms in each of the last 20 years was provided by way of a written response on 18 June 2013 to the hon. Member for York Central's Parliamentary Question 160682.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency does not record the number of people who receive legal aid. Instead it records the number of ‘acts of assistance'. One individual may receive a number of separate acts of assistance, and one act of assistance can help more than one person. As the categorisation of legal aid has changed over the last 20 years, acts of assistance relating to representation in court cannot be accurately compared over time. The total acts of assistance relating to civil and criminal cases from 1995 onwards were provided by way of a written response on 18 June 2013 to the hon. Member for York Central's Parliamentary Question 160683.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to the breakdowns requested for England and York, to extract the information requested from the Legal Aid Agency's IT Systems would incur disproportionate cost.<br></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198528 question first answered 10/06/2014 12:10:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

57639

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	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people with cases before (a) civil and (b) criminal courts received legal aid in (i) England and (ii) York in each year since 1995.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	198528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The amount spent on (a) civil and (b) criminal legal aid in (i) cash (i.e. net of operating receipts) and (ii) real terms in each of the last 20 years was provided by way of a written response on 18 June 2013 to the hon. Member for York Central's Parliamentary Question 160682.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency does not record the number of people who receive legal aid. Instead it records the number of ‘acts of assistance'. One individual may receive a number of separate acts of assistance, and one act of assistance can help more than one person. As the categorisation of legal aid has changed over the last 20 years, acts of assistance relating to representation in court cannot be accurately compared over time. The total acts of assistance relating to civil and criminal cases from 1995 onwards were provided by way of a written response on 18 June 2013 to the hon. Member for York Central's Parliamentary Question 160683.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to the breakdowns requested for England and York, to extract the information requested from the Legal Aid Agency's IT Systems would incur disproportionate cost.<br></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198527 question first answered 10/06/2014 12:10:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

57676

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	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much public interest lawyers have received in legal aid for cases against the Department for Work and Pensions in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Mr Michael McCann
uin	198669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) cannot separately identify legal aid cases against the Department for Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office. Opponents are not systematically recorded against Legal Aid cases.</p><p> </p><p>The net payments to Public Interest Lawyers over the past ten tears were:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Net Payments</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2003-2004</p></td><td><p>£139,620.72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2004-2005</p></td><td><p>£158,282.52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2005-2006</p></td><td><p>£251,844.27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2006-2007</p></td><td><p>£299,667.99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2007-2008</p></td><td><p>£577,263.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2008-2009</p></td><td><p>£628,527.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2009-2010</p></td><td><p>£267,433.88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2010-2011</p></td><td><p>£439,268.02</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2011-2012</p></td><td><p>£331,238.85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2012-2013</p></td><td><p>£50,633.27</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These payments cover all work undertaken by the firm under legal aid. The payments made will be offset by recoupment on successful cases where the opponent has paid the costs.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198670 198671 198672 198673 198674 question first answered 11/06/2014 08:49:03 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3963 label Biography information for Mr Michael McCann

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

57938

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	Claims Management Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many claim management companies operated in each region since 2008.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	198901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>With rigorous new measures being brought in across the board, we are taking strong action to rein in the rogue firms operating in this sector.</p><p> </p><p>Continued action to remove licenses from companies with poor practices alongside forthcoming Claims Management Regulation reforms, proves just how much work is going on to get tough on companies that defy the rules and bombard the public with unwelcome calls and misleading information.</p><p> </p><p>We are changing the law to further toughen the regime, including introducing fines, and ensuring firms cannot buy in any contact details which have been gathered unlawfully.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claims management companies (CMCs) operating in each region between April 2008 and April 2014 were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Regional Analysis</strong></p></td><td><p>Apr-08</p></td><td><p>Apr-09</p></td><td><p>Apr-10</p></td><td><p>Apr-11</p></td><td><p>Apr-12</p></td><td><p>Apr-13</p></td><td><p>Apr-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>165</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>545</p></td><td><p>531</p></td><td><p>524</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>514</p></td><td><p>685</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>803</p></td><td><p>775</p></td><td><p>706</p></td><td><p>576</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overseas</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>294</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>370</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>267</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humbers</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>366</p></td><td><p>387</p></td><td><p>329</p></td><td><p>245</p></td><td><p>176</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198875 question first answered 09/06/2014 16:39:36 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

57941

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	Claims Management Services: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims management companies were operating in the Yorkshire and Humber region in each year from 2008 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	198875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>With rigorous new measures being brought in across the board, we are taking strong action to rein in the rogue firms operating in this sector.</p><p> </p><p>Continued action to remove licenses from companies with poor practices alongside forthcoming Claims Management Regulation reforms, proves just how much work is going on to get tough on companies that defy the rules and bombard the public with unwelcome calls and misleading information.</p><p> </p><p>We are changing the law to further toughen the regime, including introducing fines, and ensuring firms cannot buy in any contact details which have been gathered unlawfully.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claims management companies (CMCs) operating in each region between April 2008 and April 2014 were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Regional Analysis</strong></p></td><td><p>Apr-08</p></td><td><p>Apr-09</p></td><td><p>Apr-10</p></td><td><p>Apr-11</p></td><td><p>Apr-12</p></td><td><p>Apr-13</p></td><td><p>Apr-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>165</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>545</p></td><td><p>531</p></td><td><p>524</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>514</p></td><td><p>685</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>803</p></td><td><p>775</p></td><td><p>706</p></td><td><p>576</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overseas</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>294</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>370</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>267</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; Humbers</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>366</p></td><td><p>387</p></td><td><p>329</p></td><td><p>245</p></td><td><p>176</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198901 question first answered 09/06/2014 16:39:37 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

57955

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	Mortgages: Repossession Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mortgage possession claims were approved by the courts in each (a) region of England and (b) London borough in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	199139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice collects data on mortgage possession claims and these are published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The tables provided give figures on the number of mortgage claims in the County Courts from 2011-12 to 2013-14.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/06/2014 12:03:43 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas