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999388

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the ministerial responsibilities of Edward Argar are not listed on the relevant Ministry of Justice web page.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	186404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>An administrative oversight led to the responsibilities of Justice Minister Edward Argar not being displayed on his Gov.UK profile page. His responsibilities are in line with those of his predecessor and the webpage has now been updated to show this.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/11/2018 16:51:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997582

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that progress is made on implementing the recommendations made to the UK in 2017 under the Universal Periodic Review process on children's rights and the elimination of child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	185684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government remains a strong advocate of the United Nations Human Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review of the human rights record of all United Nations Member States. The Government also remains fully committed to children’s rights and the continued compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.</p><p>At the end of August 2017, we responded to the recommendations received from other Member States during the dialogue last May under the Universal Periodic Review. That response, including in relation to children’s rights, is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/third-universal-periodic-review-uk-response-to-the-recommendations</p><p>In the same response, the Government committed to follow up the recommendations by preparing a mid-term report on all recommendations in 2019. Over the coming months, the department will continue to work with civil society organisations on the preparation of this report.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/11/2018 17:08:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997770

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	185775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>All MoJ employees are paid at least the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p>7866 staff employed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ HQ, HMCTS, LAA, OPD and CICA) and 6,398 by HMPPS are paid at a rate below £10.25 per hour.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/11/2018 13:33:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

997199

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the provisions of the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 will come into force.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	184995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the reply given on 3 September by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Justice (Lucy Frazer QC) to the question asked by the Right Honourable Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Harriet Harman) [PQ 166048]</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/11/2018 17:11:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997236

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Funerals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions in each of the last five years children held in custody have been refused permission for escorted leave to attend the funeral of a family member.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	185003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/11/2018 13:39:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997241

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wills
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the Law Commission to submit its report on wills.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	184914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Under the 13th Programme of Law Reform, the Law Commission expected to complete its project on the law of wills in 2019. It is currently reviewing that timetable in the light of its wider programme of work.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/11/2018 17:01:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

997274

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on promoted content on (a) Twitter, (b) Facebook and (c) Instagram in each month since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	185024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Digital advertising is a cost-effective way for the government to recruit prison officers, help people find out about the courts process and all the other important information the public needs to be aware of.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has spent £171,635.80 on promoted activity with these platforms over the period of 1 June 2017 to 30 September 2018. There may be some spend in certain months which will carry over into the following month. This spend was with Facebook and was to support a number of recruitment campaigns across HMPPS. There was no spend with Twitter or Instagram over this period.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that we passed our target to recruit an additional 2,500 prison officers by the end of 2018, seven months early, and have now recruited over 3,500 new staff since that commitment was made in October 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Detail of the monthly spend is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Spend</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-17</p></td><td><p>£19,219.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-17</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-17</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-17</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-17</p></td><td><p>£4,600.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-17</p></td><td><p>£360.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-17</p></td><td><p>£2,254.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-18</p></td><td><p>£3,694.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-18</p></td><td><p>£4,654.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-18</p></td><td><p>£14,854.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-18</p></td><td><p>£71,799.36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-18</p></td><td><p>£35,824.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-18</p></td><td><p>£6,094.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-18</p></td><td><p>£13,834.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-18</p></td><td><p>£5,854.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>£7,811.88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£171,635.80</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/11/2018 15:22:05 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

997398

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Office of the Public Guardian: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff are (a) employed directly by, (b) seconded to and (c) work under contract in the Office of the Public Guardian.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	185156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Public Guardian employs the following staff (as of 30<sup>th</sup> October 2018):</p><p>a) 1281 permanent civil service staff (1199.23 full time equivalent)</p><p>b) 213 agency staff (199.91 FTE)</p><p>4 contractors/interims</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/11/2018 14:23:27 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

995609

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department’s policies of the findings of a report by Inquest entitled Still Dying on the inside: examining deaths in women's prisons, published in May 2018, that 93 women have died in custody in England and Wales since March 2007; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	184397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>We are very aware of the number of women who have tragically died in our custody, and we welcome the Inquest report that rightly draws attention to the figures and to the risks this population presents. I look forward to meeting Inquest soon to discuss the recommendations in their report. Our published statistics show that the 93 deaths from 2007 to 2017 to which the report refers include 41 from natural causes, 39 that were apparently self-inflicted and 13 other deaths, including 6 that have yet to be classified. The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to keep staff and prisoners safe, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in our prisons. This is why we have established a prison safety programme through which we are taking forward a comprehensive set of actions to improve safety in custody. This includes a workstream on women offenders, which has drawn on helpful reports from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman and the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody to identify and take forward focused work in women’s prisons. These are in addition to the measures that we are taking across the estate, which include rolling out revised and improved training for staff in assessing and managing the risk of suicide and self-harm amongst prisoners (which has already reached more than 17,000 staff); improving support for prisoners in their early days in custody; revising the ACCT case management process for those identified as being at risk; and renewing our partnership with the Samaritans by confirming a further three years' grant funding for their valuable Listeners Scheme. On 27 June we published our strategy for female offenders, which sets out our vision and plan to improve outcomes for women both in the community and in custody. We want to see:<ul><li>fewer women coming into the criminal justice system;</li><li>fewer women in custody, especially on short-term sentences, and a greater proportion of women successfully managed in the community; and</li><li>better conditions for those in custody.</li></ul>A key theme in the strategy is the need for a joined-up approach to addressing female offenders’ often complex needs. We know that we will make progress in meeting these needs only by adopting a partnership approach at both national and local level. We hope to publish our National Concordat on Female Offenders by the end of the year. This will be a cross-governmental statement of intent and commitment to improve the outcomes for female offenders in a holistic, whole-systems approach.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/10/2018 17:18:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

994515

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	183824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>The MoJ does not collect data on the citizenship of MoJ employees. There is no requirement to record the nationality of staff employed by the department.</p><p> </p><p>While staff are not required to declare, self-declared national identity (British, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh or Other) is recorded as part of the diversity questionnaire. All staff are encouraged to complete on our HR management system.</p><p> </p><p>All Government Departments are bound by EU and UK requirements concerning right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Documentary evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks. The recruitment processes of Civil Service organisations are subject to audit by the Civil Service Commissioner. Management of such information is delegated to departments. There is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/11/2018 11:22:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake