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1174823

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many personal independence payment appeals were upheld at tribunal in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>Information about the outcomes of Personal Independence Payment<sup>1</sup> (PIP) appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>For the period July – September 2019, the latest period for which data are available, the proportion of successful PIP appeal tribunals upheld without the appellant or their representative attending was 37%<sup>2</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on benefits can be overturned on appeal for a variety of reasons. For instance, further evidence, including oral testimony, may be provided at the hearing. HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service cannot comment on decisions made by independent tribunal judiciary.</p><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>PIP (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes PIP Claims (Reassessments).</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Appeals cleared at a tribunal hearing will include cases cleared at both oral (parties to the proceeding are afforded the opportunity to attend) hearings and paper cases, it may also include some withdrawals, does not include adjournments.</p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10400 question first answered 07/02/2020 10:55:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1174824

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of successful personal independence payment appeal tribunals were upheld without the claimant or their representative attending.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>Information about the outcomes of Personal Independence Payment<sup>1</sup> (PIP) appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>For the period July – September 2019, the latest period for which data are available, the proportion of successful PIP appeal tribunals upheld without the appellant or their representative attending was 37%<sup>2</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on benefits can be overturned on appeal for a variety of reasons. For instance, further evidence, including oral testimony, may be provided at the hearing. HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service cannot comment on decisions made by independent tribunal judiciary.</p><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>PIP (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes PIP Claims (Reassessments).</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Appeals cleared at a tribunal hearing will include cases cleared at both oral (parties to the proceeding are afforded the opportunity to attend) hearings and paper cases, it may also include some withdrawals, does not include adjournments.</p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10399 question first answered 07/02/2020 10:55:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1174847

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that judges are adequately trained on how to deal effectively with cases involving sexual assault and rape.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	10472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>Judicial training is the responsibility of the Lord Chief Justice under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 section 7 2(b) and is exercised by the Judicial College. Since 2002, all judges who hear criminal cases involving serious sexual offences are required to attend specialist training provided by the Judicial College. Listing, which is a judicial function, ensures that cases are allocated to those who are authorised and trained. The Judicial College is also exploring with the senior judiciary what additional training should be made available to judges who may have to hear cases involving allegations of rape and serious sexual assault within family proceedings.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/02/2020 16:24:06 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1174903

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women making a claim at employment tribunal were pregnant in (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2017 and (d) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Morgan
uin	10458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not hold data on the number of claimants who were pregnant at the time of making their claim to the Employment Tribunal.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:52:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1174920

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each month of (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	10343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of days sat in the Crown Court for each month of (a) 2017, (b) 2018, and (c) 2019 are set out in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p>Sitting days are based on the number of cases we expect the court to hear and, with fewer cases making it to the Crown Court, were reduced accordingly.The number of outstanding Crown Court cases has reduced by almost 40% since 2014.</p><p>We keep sitting days under constant review and in November allocated an extra 850 days to the Crown Court for this financial year to ease immediate pressure on the court.We have allocated a minimum of 87,000 to inform listing decisions in the first half of 2020/21 which is an increase of 4,700 on last year’s allocation.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>The attached HMCTS data covers the number of days in which a Crown Court room was sat by any number of judges.</li></ul><ul><li>In some circumstances, judges will ‘share’ a courtroom to conduct judicial business; in most instances this will involve a returning judge for sentencing purposes only. These figures may therefore differ from the number of <em>judicial sitting days</em> at Crown Court as published in MoJ official statistics (which can, for example, also include days sat in chambers).</li></ul><p>The information for 2019 covers January to March, as the National Statistics on judge sitting days for 2019 are due to be released in June 2020. Access to statistics before their publication is strictly controlled, with rules and principles on pre-release access set out in the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 16:09:32 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ10343.xlsx title Table for 10343
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174921

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Crown court sitting days there were in each of the court circuits in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	10344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of days sat in the Crown Court for each of the court circuits in England and Wales in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019 are set out in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p>Sitting days are based on the number of cases we expect the court to hear and, with fewer cases making it to the Crown Court, were reduced accordingly. The number of outstanding Crown Court cases has reduced by almost 40% since 2014.</p><p>We keep sitting days under constant review and in November allocated an extra 850 days to the Crown Court to ease immediate pressure on the court. We have allocated a minimum of 87,000 to inform listing decisions in the first half of 2020/21 which is an increase of 4,700 on last year’s allocation.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The attached HMCTS data covers the number of days in which a Crown Court room was sat by any number of judges.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>In some circumstances, judges will ‘share’ a courtroom to conduct judicial business; in most instances this will involve a returning judge for sentencing purposes only. These figures may therefore differ from the number of <em>judicial sitting days</em> at Crown Court as published in MoJ official statistics (which can, for example, also include days sat in chambers).</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>The information for 2019 covers January to March, as the National Statistics on judge sitting days for 2019 are due to be released in June 2020. Access to statistics before their publication is strictly controlled, with rules and principles on pre-release access set out in the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 15:53:29 question first ministerially corrected 05/02/2020 10:16:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ10344.xlsx title Table for 10344 previous answer version 4799 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174194

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wills
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Law Commission plans to publish a response to its consultation on wills, which closed on 10 November 2017.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	9607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Law Commission remains committed to completing its work on wills, the timetable for which remains under review. The next step will be publication of its final report rather than a response to the consultation undertaken in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/02/2020 18:00:18 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1174274

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) shortest and (b) longest wait for an appointment to be heard at a Special Education Needs Tribunal was in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
uin	9667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The table below shows the (a) shortest wait and (b) longest wait.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(a) shortest wait</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) longest wait ¹</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p>29 days</p></td><td><p>552 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p>21 days</p></td><td><p>771 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17 ²</strong></p></td><td><p>24 days</p></td><td><p>1,014 days³</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>¹ The Tribunal lists all cases at approximately 12 - 14 weeks from the date of registration of the appeal into the Tribunal.</p><p>² Years are broken down into school years from 1 September to 31 August the following year.</p><p>³ This figure is the result of a Permission to Appeal being lodged. When this happens, timescales continue to tick and this until the appeal is resolved and this is reflected in the higher than usual waiting time.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/02/2020 10:52:32 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

1174289

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from cases first being listed in the Crown court to first hearing dates for each court centre.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	9634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>At court house level, HM Courts and Tribunals Service conducts comparative assessments of the time from offence to charge, charge to first listing, first listing to completion. These are published national statistics and the latest data can be found within the Criminal Court Case Timeliness Tool at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/02/2020 14:35:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174291

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was between a three day trial being listed and the first hearing of that case at (a) Hove Crown Court and (b) Southwark Court Court in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	9635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/02/2020 16:23:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi