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810638

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the joint statement by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, and the Senior President of Tribunals, Transforming our justice system made in September 2016, how much funding the Government plans to allocate to the digital court reform programme; and if he will Minister publish the business case for that programme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to maintaining a world-leading legal system and is investing over £1bn to transform our courts and tribunals and deliver a modern, world-renowned justice system that is swifter and more accessible.</p><p> </p><p>Business cases are used for internal governance purposes within HMCTS and the wider Ministry and are shared with the HM Treasury to assist with funding discussions. The business case relating to court reform will not be released for external publication.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 14:59:35 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810639

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Video Conferencing
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 the commissioning research on the effectiveness of court hearings by video link in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>As part of HMCTS’ wider reform programme the various forms in which video links are used in hearings are kept under regular internal review to ensure they are working efficiently.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no external evaluation commissioned which encompasses all of the various forms of video links used in hearings. Specific projects, such as the ‘Process evaluation of pre-recorded cross-examination pilot (Section 28)’ have been undertaken by Ministry of Justice Analytical Services. This evaluation project cost a total of £54,520 spent between 2015 and 2016, and was published in September 2016.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 14:58:30 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810640

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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 proportion of the total work undertaken in magistrates' courts was presided over by (a) lay magistrates and (b) district judges in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>For each year since 2010 the data are set out in the following table[1]:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Judiciary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of all hearings (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>90.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>9.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>90.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>9.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>89.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>10.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>89.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>10.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>89.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>10.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>90.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>9.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>90.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>District Judges (MC)</p></td><td><p>9.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Magistrates and District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts) bring different but equally valuable skills to our justice system and the magistrates’ courts. We continue to work with magistrates to ensure they have as full a role as possible.</p><p>[1] ‘Provides the percentage of cases that have a hearing listed in the specific periods, and where a case is listed for hearing more than once in each period, it will be counted each time it is listed. It is possible for a single defendant to have more than one cases listed at the same time. The data is a report on all criminal cases (including terrorism, extradition and Single Justice Notice proceedings), along with civil and enforcement cases, but will exclude family cases heard by the magistrates’ courts judiciary in the Single Family Court. It is possible to have magistrates sitting with District Judges at the same session; where this occurs, the case will be counted under both categories.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 14:57:23 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810666

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse of the review to assess the frequency and outcome of applications to introduce a complainant’s sexual history under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, published on 14 December 2017 was.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	121011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>In addition to deploying policy resource, the Ministry of Justice paid the Crown Prosecution Service £11,243.00 to resource this review.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:04:39 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

810060

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parking Offences
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 the number of private parking prosecution cases outstanding (a) at Northampton County Court Business Centre and (b) UK-wide.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	120526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:02:42 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

810063

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Mediation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will establish a legal process by which a preliminary judgment is reached on the evidence presented at pre-trial mediation and reflected in the mediation settlement.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	120529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Any agreement reached through mediation is privileged, and any information exchanged between the mediating parties remains a private matter, unless a court orders otherwise. The Government is committed to encouraging parties to reach a resolution out of court as far as possible and it may undermine the mediation process to introduce changes to its confidential nature. Where parties apply to court with a consent order which follows on from a mediation agreement, the court already has the necessary scrutiny powers at its disposal.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:02:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

810078

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the the Written Statement of 28 February 2017, HCWS506, on Update on the Children and Social Work Bill, whether it is his policy that those same parents will be eligible for non-means and non-merits tested legal aid for opposing an adoption order and for legal representation at the adoption hearing.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	120544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is still considering the issue of legal aid eligibility for parents seeking to challenge these types of placement order.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 14:55:00 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

810222

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
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 19 December 2017 to Question 118802, whether his Department made an assessment of the effect of changes to the availability of the early legal help component of legal aid on the expenditure of other Government departments.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>As part of the pre-legislative consultation process which preceded the passage of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO), the Government produced an impact and equality assessment. On 30 October, the Government announced the commencement of its Post-Implementation Review of the legal aid changes made by LASPO.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:04:19 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810320

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Trials
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 13 December 2017 to Question 117911, how many of the cases selected by the CPS to assess the frequency and outcome of applications seeking to introduce into rape proceedings evidence of the complainant's sexual history under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 involved guilty pleas.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	120786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The audit case questionnaire completed by the individual CPS areas did not capture information with regards to plea.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:00:50 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

810340

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Acids
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 revised guidelines on sentencing people convicted of offences involving corrosive substances to be published.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	120806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The sentencing guidelines are issued by the independent Sentencing Council.</p><p> </p><p>The Council is currently developing new guidelines on offences relating to possession of offensive weapons and threats to use them, which include possession and threats involving corrosive substances<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 08/01/2018 15:00:22 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms