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114896

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212599, how many officials in his Department have undergone Crown and Magistrates' Court Witness Liaison Oficer Awareness training in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>All operational court staff in customer service roles are in a position to interact with vulnerable and intimidated witnesses. Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service is committed to ensuring that court staff have the appropriate training and skills to support vulnerable victims and witnesses in court. From April 2015, it will become a mandatory requirement for court staff that come into direct contact with victims and witnesses to have a specific job objective on the care of victims.</p><p>These training courses are delivered within HMCTS regions depending on locally identified business needs. HMCTS does not collect information centrally on the number of court staff who have undertaken them since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 213603 213606 question first answered 10/11/2014 17:36:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

114898

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212599, how many officials in his Department have undergone Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses Awareness training in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>All operational court staff in customer service roles are in a position to interact with vulnerable and intimidated witnesses. Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service is committed to ensuring that court staff have the appropriate training and skills to support vulnerable victims and witnesses in court. From April 2015, it will become a mandatory requirement for court staff that come into direct contact with victims and witnesses to have a specific job objective on the care of victims.</p><p>These training courses are delivered within HMCTS regions depending on locally identified business needs. HMCTS does not collect information centrally on the number of court staff who have undertaken them since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 213603 213605 question first answered 10/11/2014 17:36:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

114900

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014, to Question 212599, what estimate he has made of the number of court staff who interact with vulnerable and intimidated witnesses.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>All operational court staff in customer service roles are in a position to interact with vulnerable and intimidated witnesses. Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service is committed to ensuring that court staff have the appropriate training and skills to support vulnerable victims and witnesses in court. From April 2015, it will become a mandatory requirement for court staff that come into direct contact with victims and witnesses to have a specific job objective on the care of victims.</p><p>These training courses are delivered within HMCTS regions depending on locally identified business needs. HMCTS does not collect information centrally on the number of court staff who have undertaken them since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 213605 213606 question first answered 10/11/2014 17:36:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

114902

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps he has taken to prevent drug use in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	213628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. These include drug detection dogs, procedures to tackle visitors and others who seek to smuggle drugs and phones into prisons, and mobile phone detection technology. NOMS has rolled out a networked IT intelligence system and provided prisons with short range portable mobile phone blockers which will help prisons prevent prisoners using mobile phones, which are often associated with drug supply.</p><p> </p><p>The success of NOMS drug strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse - as measured by the random mandatory drug testing programme - which has declined by 17.0 percentage points over the past 17 years. Positive rates were 24.4% in 1996/7 and 7.4% in 2013/14, despite the fact that prisoners are being tested for a greater range of drugs.</p><p> </p><p>The government recently introduced an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to expand prisons' powers to test prisoners for non-controlled drugs. If agreed and enacted, this would allow prison staff to conduct mandatory drug tests on prisoners for non-controlled drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and medicines, if the required tests were available.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/11/2014 17:48:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

114903

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Robbery
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 convicted of grave robbery in each year since January 2011.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	213613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Grave robbing is an appalling offence, though instances are fortunately rare. The theft of items from graves is a heartless and callous crime which can have a devastating impact on bereaved relatives and friends. If the offenders responsible are detected they can expect to feel the full force of the law.</p><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. Offences of grave robbery are reported as part of a wider group of offences and cannot be separately identified from other offences under the Theft Act. This detailed information is not reported to Justice Statistics Analytical Services due to its size and complexity and as such, it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 17/11/2014 15:24:27 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

114905

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Capita
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions Capita Group plc has tendered for contracts let by his Department in each year since May 2010; how many such tenders have been successful; how much his Department and its predecessors paid to Capita Group plc for the execution of contracts in each such year; how many contracts which terminate after 2015 Capita Group plc hold with his Department; and what the monetary value is of all outstanding contracts between his Department and Capita Group plc.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	213485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We are unable to answer the first part of your question as doing so would incur disproportionate costs. To provide this information would entail identifying and contacting all individuals responsible for the operational and commercial management of contracts relating to Capita Group plc to find out how many occasions Capita Group plc has tendered for contracts let by his Department in each year since May 2010.</p><p>I will write to the honourable member in due course to answer the rest of the question.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/11/2014 17:42:53 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

114906

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the change in the number of people employed at magistrates' courts has been in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	213482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The table provides the total reduction of staff by FTE since 2010<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Total reduction of staff by FTE in magistrates’ court</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>2010-2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>461.79</p></td><td><p>743.45</p></td><td><p>383.84</p></td><td><p>310.30</p></td><td><p>1,899.38</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The reduction in HM Courts and Tribunals staff in magistrates’ courts over the period shown has been driven by the falling workload in the magistrates’ court and by efficiency savings made by the Courts Service.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 18/11/2014 18:11:16 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

114908

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many external consultants work in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	213486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice currently has 34 Live Contracts to provide the Provision of Consultancy. As the Contracts are awarded to Companies on a project basis, the Ministry of Justice cannot establish the exact number working at a specific point in time. The number and seniority of consultants will vary depending on the stage in the project.</p><p> </p><p>To establish the exact number of consultants we would need to interrogate both the files and Companies to obtain the information required and then review and collate that information. By doing so we would incur disproportionate costs in answering this question.</p><p> </p><p>Temporary staff and consultants are only used to fill business critical posts and provide essential services where they can provide a fast, flexible and efficient way to obtain necessary skills that are not currently available in-house.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 10/11/2014 17:46:29 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

114910

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the collection rate was for fines levied by each local criminal justice board in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	213487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to encourage payment of impositions and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the proportion of the value of financial impositions (made between April 2013 to March 2014) that had been collected, cancelled or remained outstanding as at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2014. Financial impositions include fines, prosecution costs, compensation and victim surcharge.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Accounting Division Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Collected Against Impositions in Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cancelled Impositions in Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Outstanding at the end of the Period</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Avon and Somerset</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon and Cornwall</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dyfed Powys</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire &amp; IOW</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>53%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The ‘percentage outstanding’ is based upon the value of accounts outstanding at the end of the period; it includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans. The ‘accounts cancelled’ percentage comprises both administrative and legal cancellations.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/11/2014 17:49:28 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

114913

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Alternatives to Prosecution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences and under what circumstances police officers of Staffordshire Police, West Yorkshire Police and Leicestershire Police will be required to seek permission of the Crown Prosecution Service before issuing the community resolutions and suspended prosecutions being piloted in those areas.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	213567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We plan to put an end to the cautions culture and to replace the conditional caution with the suspended prosecution. Before doing so, Staffordshire Police, West Yorkshire Police and Leicestershire Police are piloting a new, two-tier framework for out of court disposals based on the conditional caution and the community resolution.</p><p> </p><p>Police officers in these areas, as in other parts of England and Wales, may in exceptional circumstances administer a conditional caution for an indictable only offence and must seek the permission of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) before doing so. There is no requirement for police officers to seek the approval of the CPS before administering a community resolution.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/11/2014 17:52:07 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry