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999414

	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	Road Traffic Offences: Sentencing
	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 11 September 2017 to Question 7193, what progress he has made on the review of the maximum penalties for driving offences resulting in death and or serious injury.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	186150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The government response to the consultation on driving offences and penalties relating to causing death or serious injury was published on 16 October 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We will bring forward proposals for changes in the law as soon as parliamentary time allows. These proposals will take account of, and incorporate, all of government’s proposals for safer roads, including any arising from the Department of Transport’s review of cycle safety.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 05/11/2018 17:02:58 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

969109

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Injuries Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he has plans to remove the same roof rule from the criminal injuries compensations scheme.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	171270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>We are determined to make sure every victim gets the compensation to which they are entitled.</p><p>The Justice Secretary announced, in the cross-government victims strategy published yesterday [on 10 September], a full review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to ensure it reflects the changing nature of crime and can better support victims. The review will consider how the Scheme might better serve victims - especially victims of child sexual abuse – and take account of the interim findings and recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA.)</p><p>We also committed within the victims strategy to remove the pre-1979 ‘same roof rule’.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/09/2018 14:49:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

857795

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Brixton Prison: Christianity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason classes in Christian dogmatics were discontinued at HMP Brixton.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	131696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Other than one sessional chaplain (who resigned in October in order to take up a post in the police force), there have been no resignations or dismissals from the Chaplaincy Service at HMP Brixton during the last six months.</p><p> </p><p>Regular Christian classes are held throughout the week, including several Bible study classes. The Alpha course has not been provided at the prison for a number of years – records show the most recent session as having been held on 27 January 2010. Plans are in place, however, to restart the course.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of faith and the positive impact that it can have on the lives of offenders, which is why there are multi-faith chaplaincy teams in every prison.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 131692 question first answered 13/03/2018 17:38:56 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

857791

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Brixton Prison: Ministers of Religion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) resignations and (b) dismissals there have been from the Chaplaincy Service at HMP Brixton in each of the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	131692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Other than one sessional chaplain (who resigned in October in order to take up a post in the police force), there have been no resignations or dismissals from the Chaplaincy Service at HMP Brixton during the last six months.</p><p> </p><p>Regular Christian classes are held throughout the week, including several Bible study classes. The Alpha course has not been provided at the prison for a number of years – records show the most recent session as having been held on 27 January 2010. Plans are in place, however, to restart the course.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of faith and the positive impact that it can have on the lives of offenders, which is why there are multi-faith chaplaincy teams in every prison.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 131696 question first answered 13/03/2018 17:38:56 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

851776

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Brixton Prison: Church Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether services according to the rites of the Church of England are held at HMP Brixton; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	130539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Every prison establishment, including HMP Brixton, has an Anglican chaplain and offenders are able to attend services in accordance with the rites of the Church of England.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of faith and the positive impact that it can have on the lives of offenders, which is why there are multi-faith chaplaincy teams in every prison.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 05/03/2018 17:19:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

834423

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Residence Orders
	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 the (a) cost and (b) number of applications (i) made and (ii) granted for the enforcement of existing section 8 orders in the country courts; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	126042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold data on the specific costs of enforcement cases. Data modelling undertaken by the Department in 2014 estimated the average cost for issuing all types of private law Children proceedings to be £270 and was published in https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/court-fees-proposals-for-reform/supporting_documents/courtfeesconsultation.pdf</p><p>Information on the number of children who are the subject of applications and orders for enforcement in private law Children Act proceedings is published in Tables 3 and 4 of Family Court Statistics Quarterly available from www.gov.uk</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 05/02/2018 16:41:55 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

828865

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	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 adequacy of sanctions against parents with care who repeatedly breach access arrangements ordered by the family courts.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	124485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Where the family court is satisfied that breach of a child arrangements order has occurred and enforcement action is necessary to secure compliance, it may make an enforcement order requiring the person in breach to undertake unpaid work. The court may also order that person to pay financial compensation to another person who has suffered a financial loss due to the breach. These powers are in addition to the court’s general powers to treat non-compliance as a contempt of court, which is punishable by imprisonment or a fine.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that these powers provide suitable options for sanctions for the court to consider when breaches of child arrangements orders take place.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/01/2018 11:24:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

794097

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Solicitors: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to alter the arrangements for supervision of solicitors in response to the Ecohouse fraud; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	115185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>Legal services in England and Wales are independently regulated in accordance with the framework set out in the Legal Services Act 2007. Solicitors are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), which prosecutes solicitors and firms involved in dubious investment schemes, as it has done in this case. The SRA and others have issued a series of warnings for the public and the profession to be wary of questionable investment schemes.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 01/12/2017 10:53:28 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

1585844

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
	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 enable the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority to restore the full value of their grants in cases where a deduction has been made in respect of a compensation order but subsequently discharged.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	143676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>The government-funded Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 (the Scheme) exists to compensate for serious physical or psychological injury attributable to being a direct victim of a crime of violence. It provides an important avenue of redress for such victims and is part of the wider package of general and specialist support available to victims of crime.</p><p>The Scheme is a route of last resort and requires awards to be withheld or reduced if an applicant receives a compensation order made in criminal proceedings which the convicted offender is expected to pay. This reflects the long-standing legal principle of avoiding double compensation for the same injury and protects taxpayer funded compensation awards for those unable to access compensation or similar payments by other means. Under the Scheme, once a final award of compensation has been made, there are limited circumstances in which the application can be reconsidered, which are: (a) a person who has accepted an award subsequently dies as a result of the criminal injury giving rise to the award; or (b) there has been so material a change in the applicant’s medical condition resulting from the criminal injury, that allowing the original determination to stand would give rise to an injustice to them.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/02/2023 15:00:35 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

1353302

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probate: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to grant probate; and what plans he has to improve that service.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	44159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The most recently published information regarding combined waiting times for a grant of probate, on paper and digital cases, covers January 2021 to March 2021 and is published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021</a></p><p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, and as a result of HMCTS increasing resources to meet demand, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between four to six weeks.</p><p>HMCTS continues to invest in the improvement of the online Probate system which was developed as part of the wider HMCTS Reform Programme to further streamline ways of working resulting in a system that is simpler and easy to understand for applicants; is accessible; and more efficient and robust to run.</p><p>Further information regarding how HMCTS is collaborating with service users to enhance the service can be found at <a href="https://insidehmcts.blog.gov.uk/2021/08/06/collaborating-is-key-to-enhancing-probate-users-experience-of-using-myhmcts/" target="_blank">https://insidehmcts.blog.gov.uk/2021/08/06/collaborating-is-key-to-enhancing-probate-users-experience-of-using-myhmcts/</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/09/2021 16:00:23 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne