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90256

registered interest
date	02/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Hearing Impaired
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 courtrooms do not have induction loops installed.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	207804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service operates a reasonable adjustments policy to provide access to information and services for customers with disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of court rooms with induction and infra-red hearing enhancement systems is currently being collected as part of the 2014 court room survey. I will write to my hon. Friend, as soon as the information is available.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 14:32:50 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

89413

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Convention on Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on reform of the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	207316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the Honourable member to the reply given on 1 September 2014, Parliament identifying number 206542.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 12:23:29 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

89747

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Right of Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many joint search warrants have been applied for by the police and another applicant and issued by the courts in England and Wales in the last five years; and who the other applicant was in each such case.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Garnier
uin	207544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>HMCTS does not collate this information centrally. Warrants of entry are issued by Magistrates’ courts and each Magistrates court that issues warrants maintains the data associated with it in a manual log. Courts are required to hold warrants issued for a period of three years. Only manual checks at every magistrates’ court could answer this request, and even then only for the last three years. This would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 15:29:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	337 label Biography information for Lord Garnier

89788

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	207264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Since May 2010, my Department has transposed five EU Directives into UK law.</p><p> </p><p>In the same period, two EU Regulations with application to the UK (either where the UK has exercised its Title V Justice and Home Affairs opt-in, or where no opt-in exists) have come into force and now apply. Two further Regulations in which the UK will participate have come into force, but do not yet apply.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 12:12:45 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89790

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Sunderland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 10 October 2013, Official Report, column 377W, on courts: Sunderland, what progress has been made on plans to rebuild Sunderland court.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	207412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>No decision has been made on the future use of the site which was proposed for the Sunderland Justice Centre. All significant estate decisions, including new investment proposals such as the Sunderland scheme, are assessed and considered through departmental governance processes to ensure that they offer value for money to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service continues to keep the use of its estate under review to ensure it meets operational requirements.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 14:25:43 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

89791

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Crawley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on building, refurbishment and maintenance in Crawley Magistrates' Court in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	207403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Completing large-scale refurbishment work at the Crawley Magistrates’ Court has resulted in greatly improved facilities for visitors and users of the building. The costs of building, refurbishment and maintenance at the Court since 2009-10 are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>£4.3k</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£300.9k</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£1,073.8k</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£2,731.7k</p></td><td><p> </p><p>£152.1k</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These costs include capital and resource costs related to the refurbishment of the property, maintenance of the land, building and equipment (including general maintenance and cleaning).</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service continues to keep the use of its estate under review to ensure it meets operational requirements.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 14:44:48 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

89797

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what timetable his Department plans to phase out use of telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, 0844 and 0843 in accordance with the Cabinet Office guidance on customer service lines published in December 2013 and (b) 03 and 08, where 03 is the primary number under a dual numbering system.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	207291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice is making good progress towards phasing out telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, 0844 and 0843 in accordance with the Cabinet Office guidance on customer lines published in December 2013 and (b) 03 and 08, where 03 is the primary number under a dual numbering system. The Department is widening engagement across the business to ensure a comprehensive solution within the Cabinet Office timelines, which allow until November 2014 for implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Further to my answer to the Hon. Member’s parliamentary question of 23 June 2014 (HC Deb, 23 June 2014, c11W), the Department has recently ordered the cancellation of 16 of the higher-rate numbers in the County Court Business Centre (CCBC) in Northampton, reducing the overall total of higher-rate numbers operated by the Department from 34 to 18.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 14:05:25 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

89828

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Dangerous Driving
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drivers charged with dangerous driving offences were made to surrender their licence as a condition of bail in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	207113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Bail conditions are recorded on HMCTS’ case management systems as a free text field. As each condition is a unique data entry and there is no common field that could be aggregated to enable central collation they cannot answer this question. The only way it could be answered would be to manually check every case where conditional bail has been granted at any point during the case and check both the conditions and the offence or offences. This would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 14:54:54 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

78934

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on levels of spending on legal aid in each EU member state; what assessment he has made of where the UK ranks in relation to other EU member states in respect of such spending; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Legal aid forms a vital part of our justice system and the Government strongly believes that access to justice is the hallmark of civil society.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent EU data allowing international comparisons of legal aid spend was collected in 2010 and published 2012 by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ). This can be found at: <a title="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/cepej/evaluation/2012/Rapport_en.pdf" href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/cepej/evaluation/2012/Rapport_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/cepej/evaluation/2012/Rapport_en.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This shows that the legal aid budget approved for England and Wales of 2.521m Euros, was the highest of any of the 41 countries assessed. For more detail, see table 2.1 in the publication.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The publication also shows the annual public budget allocated to legal aid per inhabitant, which controls for countries having different population sizes. This shows that in 2010, England and Wales was second highest of the 41 countries assessed, with 45.7 Euros of the public budget allocated to legal aid per inhabitant, compared to an average of 7.7 Euros for the other European countries. The country with the highest legal aid allocation per inhabitant was Northern Ireland with 53.5 Euros. For more detail, see figure 2.22 in the publication.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/09/2014 12:37:01 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78935

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	206661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The UK has never been fined in relation to a breach of European Law. However, the European Court of Justice ruled on 13 February 2014 (Case C-530/11) that the UK was in breach of its obligations under the Public Participation Directive to ensure the costs of going to court in respect of environmental matters are not prohibitively expensive. The Department is currently in discussion with the European Commission regarding the Court’s judgment.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 05/09/2014 15:38:42 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood