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1105232

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of funding for a national network of support services for women in the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	237018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The Female Offender Strategy sets out our vision of fewer women entering the justice system and serving short custodial sentences, and better conditions for those women in custody. Support for women to help them address the often complex needs that underlie their offending is essential to delivering the vision of the female offender strategy. This is why, across government, we are investing £5 million of funding over two years in community provision for women. This funding will help to sustain and enhance existing services, and will create new services where there is currently a gap.</p><p> </p><p>Services such as women’s centres receive funding from a range of sources. We will look at the scope to increase the sustainability of the sector as we take forward implementation of our strategy.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/04/2019 16:21:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1079600

registered interest
date	01/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Charitable Donations
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 potential effect of increased probate fees on levels of charitable giving.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	227377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>Fixed sum charitable donations will be unaffected by the increased probate fees; the changes will only affect those estates where the deceased has left an entire estate, or a percentage of their residuary estate to charity. No estate will ever pay more than 0.5% of its value in probate fees.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/03/2019 17:21:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1062109

registered interest
date	15/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the proposed reforms to probate fees were not brought to the House in the form of primary legislation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	222003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The proposed changes to probate fees do not require primary legislation, as the power to introduce these changes is provided under section 92 of the Courts Act 2003 and section 180 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. These powers expressly enable the Lord Chancellor to charge fees for anything dealt with by the courts, including the Probate Service, and at a level that exceeds the cost of that for which the fee is charged.</p><p> </p><p>These powers are exercisable by the Lord Chancellor by way of secondary legislation in the form of a statutory instrument, subject to the affirmative procedure. Any income raised must be spent on funding an efficient and effective courts and tribunal service.</p><p> </p><p>Our plans to raise the threshold from £5,000 to £50,000 will lift around 25,000 additional estates annually out of paying fees altogether and more than half of estates in England and Wales will pay no probate fee at all. Of those who do pay, around 60% will pay £250 – close to the current fee level – and around 80% of estates will pay £750 or less. No one will pay more than 0.5% of the total estate value and all fees are recoverable from the estate.</p><p> </p><p>Any income raised must be spent on funding an efficient and effective courts and tribunal service. This allows the Government to subsidise other parts of the system that do not recover their costs in fees, including domestic violence proceedings in the family court and tribunal cases before the First-tier Tribunal concerning mental health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2019 17:36:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1062110

registered interest
date	15/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people in England and Wales in each household income band will pay (a) more or (b) less under the Government's proposed reforms to probate fees.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	222004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The proposed probate fees do not relate to household income, but to the value of the estate passing under the grant of representation. Therefore, no assessment has been made relating to household income.</p><p> </p><p>Our plans to raise the threshold from £5,000 to £50,000 will lift around 25,000 additional estates annually out of paying fees altogether and more than half of estates in England and Wales will pay no probate fee at all. Of those who do pay, around 60% will pay £250 – close to the current fee level – and around 80% of estates will pay £750 or less. No one will pay more than 0.5% of the total estate value and all fees are recoverable from the estate.</p><p> </p><p>Any income raised must be spent on funding an efficient and effective courts and tribunal service. This allows the Government to subsidise other parts of the system that do not recover their costs in fees, including domestic violence proceedings in the family court and tribunal cases before the First-tier Tribunal concerning mental health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2019 17:37:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045998

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which service providers are contracted to carry out third party cleaning contracts for his (a) Department and (b) executive agencies; if he will list all of the services delivered by third party contractors to his (i) Department and (ii) executive agencies; and how many people working for those third party contractors are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.y the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	211160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Cleaning services in the MoJ are typically undertaken by outsourced providers as part of large Facilities Management (FM) service contracts. Providers to the MoJ HQ and probation estate are OCS and Sodexo, to the court and tribunal estate are G4S and Mitie, and to the prison estate Amey, Gov Facilities Services Ltd (GFSL) and Mitie. Rates of pay for cleaners are determined by their respective employers and not held by the Ministry of Justice. All outsourced providers are required to pay as a minimum, either the National Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p>A list of all services delivered by third party contractors to the Department is not held in a centralised location, the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2019 13:15:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045702

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of staff in his Department including those employed in executive agencies and non-ministerial Departments declared a disability in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	210484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>As at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2018, 9% of MoJ Staff were declared disabled. This is calculated as the number of staff who have declared themselves as disabled divided by all those who made a declaration (excluding those who answered Prefer Not to Say and those whose status is not known). This includes MoJ HQ, LAA, CICA, OPG, HMCTS and HMPPS. This information will be included in the Workforce Monitoring Report which is due to be published on 31 January.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/01/2019 17:47:01 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1020235

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prostitution: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted under section 51A (soliciting) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in each year between 1988 and 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	199484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The number of people prosecuted under section 51A of the Sexual Offences Axes 2003 for the years 2010 to 2017 can be viewed in the table.</p><p> </p><p>Data is provided from 2010 onwards as section 51A was inserted into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 by the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and as such did not come into effect until 1 April 2010. Therefore, 2010 is the earliest year for which data is available.</p><p> </p><p>National Statistics on court outcomes for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This data relates to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When an offender has been dealt with for two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/12/2018 17:54:10 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 199484 table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1015181

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Begging and Vagrancy: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted under section 1 of the Vagrancy Act 1898 between 1970 and 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify from centrally held data the number of defendants prosecuted under section 1 of the Vagrancy Act 1898, as there is no data available under this specific Act. The Act was repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/12/2018 16:37:16 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

882640

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for (i) his Department and (ii) agencies of his Department are paid less than the living wage, as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	135702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>In line with the Government’s commitment given in the budget, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will continue to ensure staff are paid at or above the statutory National Living Wage which is currently £7.83 per hour.</p><p> </p><p>As of 31 December 2017, 8.7% of employees within the Ministry of Justice and its agencies excluding Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) on which there is reliable data were paid below the ‘Real’ Living Wage (RLW) as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.”</p><p> </p><p>As of 31 December 2017, 1.1% of direct employees in HMPPS were paid below the RLW.</p><p> </p><p>As of April 2018, 24.6% of agency and outsourced staff within the Ministry of Justice are paid less than the RLW.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 25/04/2018 09:33:01 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee previous answer version 53592 answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

862283

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Public Health Funerals
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 potential merits of introducing (a) national minimum standards and (b) eligibility criteria to the administration of public health funerals.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	132702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not made such an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 19/03/2018 16:11:49 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead