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1146758

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Supreme Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the President of the Supreme Court.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	291537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>As is customary, the Lord Chancellor had an introductory meeting with the President of the Supreme Court soon after his appointment, and as is usually the case, will meet the President several times throughout the year. Departmental officials also regularly meet Supreme Court officials.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/10/2019 16:12:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1146759

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Ministers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the guidance issued to Ministers on relations with the judiciary.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	291538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Section 3(1) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 requires that all Ministers of the Crown must uphold the continued independence of the judiciary. Paragraph 16 of the introduction and Chapter 6 of the Cabinet Manual make clear that the judiciary is independent of both the government of the day and Parliament. All ministers have access to legal advice in relation to their statutory duties, including advice where appropriate from Law Officers.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor has taken an Oath to respect the rule of law and defend the independence of the judiciary, which means that if required he will remind Ministerial colleagues of the importance of judicial independence and the rule of law. I am confident that my Ministerial colleagues understand their duties in this regard.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:37:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1019521

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that access to justice is maintained after the implementation period of the Withdrawal Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	198178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The ability of individuals to resolve their legal problems is vital to the rule of law and the government will continue its commitment to maintain access to justice.</p><p> </p><p>The Political Declaration establishes the parameters of an ambitious, broad and flexible future partnership between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). This includes a commitment to explore options for a new agreement on family judicial cooperation. It also sets out the ambition for a future security partnership, which will provide for comprehensive, close, balanced and reciprocal law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.</p><p> </p><p>We have also reached agreement with the EU on how existing civil and criminal judicial cooperation cases will be brought to their conclusion in the event that we are unable to reach an agreement on a satisfactory future relationship at the end of the implementation period.</p><ul><li>On civil, we have broadly agreed with the EU that if proceedings are started ahead of the end of the implementation period, they will be concluded under the existing EU rules and that subsequent judgments in those proceedings will also be enforced.</li></ul><ul><li>On criminal, any request for judicial cooperation before the end of the Implementation Period, under the EU measures that remain in force during the IP, will proceed until it is concluded under the applicable EU rules. This applies both to requests accepted by the UK and those requests made by the UK to remaining member states.</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/12/2018 12:28:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

994137

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders are in prison in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland; and how many foreign national offenders are held in each prison in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	183243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>As at 30 September 2018, 8,577 foreign national offenders were detained in prisons in England and 227 were held in prisons in Wales.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of the foreign prisoner population in England and Wales by prison is available using the following link (Table 1.8):</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/750700/population-q2-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/750700/population-q2-2018.ods</a></p><p> </p><p>More than 44,000 foreign national offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010, and in the last financial year almost 6,000 were removed from prisons, immigration removal centres, and the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of foreign national offenders held in Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for their respective governments.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 31/10/2018 14:33:47 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

931496

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long the average custodial sentence is for people found illegally carrying a knife.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	157640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The average custodial sentence length for possession of an article with a blade or point can be found in table 3 of the document “Knife and offensive weapon sentencing quarterly: January to March 2018, main tables” at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-january-to-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-and-offensive-weapon-sentencing-january-to-march-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 04/07/2018 16:35:54 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

931497

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average age is of people given a custodial sentence for carrying a knife.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	157641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>In the year ending March 2018, the average age of an offender being sent to immediate custody for possession of an article with a blade or point was 30 years old.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/07/2018 15:31:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

931008

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders are being held in prisons in Leicestershire.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	157040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2018 (the latest published data), 37 Foreign National Offenders were held at HM Prison Leicester and 107 were held at HM Prison Gartree.</p><p> </p><p>We are absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the UK and continue to work closely with international governments to increase the number of prisoners deported. Since 2010, over 42,000 Foreign National Offenders have been removed from the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/07/2018 15:24:16 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

919294

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who received a custodial sentence in the last five years for carrying a knife had been previously cautioned.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	151065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Between 2013 and 2017 there were 17,277 offenders who received a custodial sentence on their most recent sentencing occasion for carrying a knife.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 17,277, 413 had previously received a caution for carrying a knife prior to receiving a custodial sentence for carrying a knife on their latest sentencing occasion.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 12/06/2018 16:40:32 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

874780

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Repatriation
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 effect on prison transfer arrangements with the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	135081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them. More than 40,000 foreign national offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010, with a record number of over 6,300 removed in 2016/17.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A range of removal mechanisms exist which enable foreign offenders to be returned to their home countries, and we are working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Home Office as we consider our future criminal justice arrangements with the EU, with the aim of carrying on our close working relationship.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/04/2018 12:56:15 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

867019

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders there are in UK prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	133137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>As at 31 December 2017 (latest published figures) there were 9,012 foreign national prisoners held in prisons in England and Wales, with a further 328 held in the HMPPS operated Immigration Removal Centre.</p><p> </p><p>Any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them. More than 40,000 foreign national offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010, and in the last financial year a record number of over 6,300 were removed.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/03/2018 16:12:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz