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1452001

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the possibility of extending legal recognition to humanist marriages in premises approved for civil marriages and civil partnerships in advance of the outcome of the Law Commission review of marriage law; and, if any such assessment concluded that such an extension was not possible, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Desai
uin	HL7014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>In 2014, the Government published a consultation paper and response assessing the potential merits of provision for non-religious belief marriages. This concluded that the matter was complex, and that by allowing Humanists to solemnise marriages in unrestricted locations, the Government would create a provision for Humanists that would not be available to all groups.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure we are considering the implications of changing the law on marriage for all groups, we invited the Law Commission to undertake a review which is currently underway and is expected to report in July of this year. By looking at the law comprehensively, the Law Commission will seek to put forward proposals that would ensure that, insofar as possible, groups and couples are all subject to the same rules and the same level of regulation. That reform is not possible by only authorising Humanist weddings, even on a temporary basis pending the Law Commission report.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will carefully consider the Law Commission’s recommendations when the final report is published in July, and it is right for us to wait for the outcome of the report before amending marriage law any further.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 30/03/2022 16:26:24 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	2699 label Biography information for Lord Desai

1452026

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend legal recognition to humanist weddings; and why they did not do so at the same time as extending legal recognition to outdoor weddings.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL7039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>In 2014, the Government published a consultation paper and response assessing the potential merits of provision for non-religious belief marriages. This concluded that the matter was complex, and that by allowing Humanists to solemnise marriages in unrestricted locations, the Government would create a provision for Humanists that would not be available to all groups.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure we are considering the implications of changing the law on marriage for all groups, we invited the Law Commission to undertake a review which is currently underway and is expected to report in July of this year. By looking at the law comprehensively, the Law Commission will seek to put forward proposals that would ensure that, insofar as possible, groups and couples are all subject to the same rules and the same level of regulation. That reform is not possible by only authorising Humanist weddings, even on a temporary basis pending the Law Commission report.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will carefully consider the Law Commission’s recommendations when the final report is published in July, and it is right for us to wait for the outcome of the report before amending marriage law any further.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 30/03/2022 16:28:51 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

1440651

registered interest
date	14/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of delays in granting probate on the wills of deceased persons in (1) England, and (2) Wales, due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and what steps they are taking to clear the backlog of cases caused by such delays.
tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
uin	HL6960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The administration of probate applications is dealt with as a national service, covering England and Wales.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, from July 2019 to September 2021, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p>Information for the period up to December 2021 will be published on 31 March.</p><p>More recent management information published by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), which does not go through the same level of quality assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly, provides waiting time information up to December 2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/hmcts-management-information-december-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/hmcts-management-information-december-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 is between five and seven weeks.</p><p>The improvement of the online probate system remains a priority for HMCTS, to ensure more applications can be issued first time and resources can be focused on reducing waiting times. HMCTS continues to collaborate with its users to enhance the service and the latest information on this can be found at: <a href="https://insidehmcts.blog.gov.uk/2022/02/28/working-together-to-avoid-delays-to-probate-applications/" target="_blank">https://insidehmcts.blog.gov.uk/2022/02/28/working-together-to-avoid-delays-to-probate-applications/</a> .</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 28/03/2022 16:18:16 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

1440241

registered interest
date	11/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many recalls of those with an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have subsequently resulted in (1) no further action taken, (2) charges dropped, and (3) the individual being found not guilty.
tabling member printed	Lord Blunkett
uin	HL6906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>This information is not readily available. To answer the question, a manual check would be needed of each instance of an offender serving an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence on licence being recalled to custody, where the reason given includes further charges (approximately 1,900). This could be completed only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>An offender on an IPP licence is recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions in a way which indicates escalating risk, such that the supervising officer determines that they can no longer be safely managed in the community.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 16:57:27 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

1439951

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women aged (1) 18 to 24, and (2) 25 years or older, are currently held in each female prison establishment.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL6863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>These figures are routinely published as part of the OMSQ Prison Population Data Tool (published as part of Offender Management Statistics Quarterly): https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly.</p><p>As of 31 December 2021 (latest available published data), the population of each female prison, split by requested age categories, was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18-24</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>25+</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASKHAM GRANGE</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p><strong>82</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BRONZEFIELD</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>411</p></td><td><p><strong>473</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DOWNVIEW</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p><strong>241</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DRAKE HALL</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p><strong>292</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EAST SUTTON PARK</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p><strong>67</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EASTWOOD PARK</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>318</p></td><td><p><strong>348</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FOSTON HALL</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p><strong>249</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LOW NEWTON</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>218</p></td><td><p><strong>239</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NEW HALL</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>299</p></td><td><p><strong>333</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PETERBOROUGH FEMALE</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>282</p></td><td><p><strong>324</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEND</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p><strong>189</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STYAL</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>333</p></td><td><p><strong>374</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>314</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,897</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,211</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 17:53:58 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1439952

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many incidents of physical restraint took place in the female prison estate on women aged (1) 18 to 24, and (2) 25 years or older, in each year since 2018.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL6864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The requested data on use of force incidents is available for the 12 month periods ending March 2019 to March 2021. This is detailed in the attached Excel spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p>Every use of physical force is reviewed, and prison officers receive appropriate training to ensure that it is only used when necessary, reasonable and proportionate.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 18:00:41 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar attachment 1 file name 2022-03-24 HL6864 For release.xlsx title HL6864_table
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1439953

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Telephones
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of cells in (1) the female prison estate, and (2) the male prison estate, have in-cell telephony; and what proportion of cells in each prison have that facility.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL6865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>I refer the right reverend Prelate to the answer given to PQ HL5474 on 1 February 2022 and HL5473 on 1 February 2022.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 17:54:04 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1439954

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Location
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wolfson of Tredegar on 2 February (HL5530) concerning the average distance from home for prisoners in female and male prisons, what is the reason for the discrepancy between the figures provided and the figure in table 5.1a of the Female Offender Strategy supporting data tables.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Gloucester
uin	HL6866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The reason for the difference between figures provided in the response to HL5530 and table 5.1a of the Female Offender Strategy supporting data tables is a change in methodology.</p><p> </p><p>The figures provided in table 5.1a were calculated using travelling distance (i.e. the distance of a road journey between 2 destinations). From 2019, the methodology used to extract information on prisoners’ distance from home changed to the straight-line distance approach used in the answer to HL5530 and other similar questions.</p><p> </p><p>Straight-line modelling is the most consistent calculation method. Attempts to model based on travelling distance are subject to significant temporal and geographical variation (e.g. inner city travel time).</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 17:53:03 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	4540 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

1439968

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, what progress they have made in developing a report about the extent to which individuals are protected from domestic abuse when using contact centres in England, as set out in section 83 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL6880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is on track to publish a report about the extent to which individuals, when they are using contact centres in England, are protected from the risk of domestic abuse or, in the case of children, other harm. This will be delivered by April 2023 as set out in section 83 of the Domestic Abuse Act.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 15:44:59 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

1439969

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Contact Centres
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they are giving to the National Association of Child Contact Centres; and whether the grant will be for a (1) two year, or (2) three year, period.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL6881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>Whilst the Government has no overall responsibility for funding child contact centre provision, we are supportive of the work of the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) and have provided grant funding since 2013. The formal process of awarding any grant to NACCC from April 2022 has not yet been completed, so we are unable to confirm the amount and period for any future grant.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 24/03/2022 17:52:43 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering