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1179218

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
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 cases have been listed for mention in each of the last 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	18552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of cases which have been listed for mention in the Crown court over the last 18 months:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>April 2018 - September 2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-18</p></td><td><p>4588</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-18</p></td><td><p>4423</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-18</p></td><td><p>4442</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-18</p></td><td><p>4562</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-18</p></td><td><p>4352</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>4318</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-18</p></td><td><p>4874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18</p></td><td><p>4801</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18</p></td><td><p>3517</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>4601</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>4228</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>4529</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>4254</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>4565</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-19</p></td><td><p>4198</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-19</p></td><td><p>4710</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-19</p></td><td><p>4212</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-19</p></td><td><p>4298</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p><strong>1. These data has been extracted from the Crown Court Xhibit database, and run until September-19 in line with published data.</strong></p><p><strong>2. Xhibit is a live system and data can change over time.</strong></p><p><strong>3. The hearing codes used to extract these data are those recorded by the court listing officer and reflect the hearing type as shown on the daily list. </strong></p><p><strong>4. If a case has two or more hearings within the same month it has only been counted once. Should the hearings be on different months they have been counted in each month.</strong></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2020 17:51:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1177796

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Debts: VAT
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 6 February 2020 to Question 9643 on Debts: VAT, when his Department plans to publish guidance on the circumstances and manner in which a cost equivalent to VAT may be recovered from the debtor under the Taking Control of Goods (Fees) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>As Chris Philip set out in his Answer of 6 February 2020 to Question 9643, the Ministry of Justice intends to publish guidance on the circumstances and manner in which a cost equivalent to VAT may be recovered from a debtor under the Taking Control of Goods legislation, as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/02/2020 16:06:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1177797

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Debts: VAT
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 29 October 2019 to Question HL133 on Taking Control of Goods (Fees) Regulations 2014, what his policy is on debtors being charged VAT.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Creditors are the recipients of High Court enforcement services, which are subject to VAT. Therefore, creditors are liable for VAT on the fees charged by High Court Enforcement Officers. Creditors who are VAT registered are in turn able to recover VAT from HMRC, subject to the normal rules.</p><p>However, there are circumstances under the Taking Control of Goods legislation, where this cost may be recovered from a debtor as part of enforcement costs. The Ministry of Justice is currently clarifying the circumstances and manner in which a cost equivalent to VAT may be recovered from a debtor and intends to publish guidance on this as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 24/02/2020 17:03:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1177351

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what risk assessments took place to ensure that workplaces were suitable and safe for the introduction of digital working in court rooms using the (a) Digital Markup Service and (b) common platform.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	14653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>I am answering these questions together.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s Health and Safety policy requires that a trained general risk assessor inspects each court room on a quarterly basis to ensure it is compliant with health and safety standards, and to report any non-compliance so that remedial work can be undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Where Display Screen Equipment is used, including courtrooms across the estate into which we are continuing to introduce digital ways of working as part of our Reform Programme, the policy requires that workstations must comply with the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (as amended).</p><p> </p><p>Accordingly, the designated Senior Person on Site at all of our court and tribunal buildings is required to ensure that each workstation is routinely assessed; any non-compliance is reported and remedied; and any risk is appropriately mitigated.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collate centrally details of the numbers of courtroom assessments that have taken place over particular periods. Instead, the HMCTS Corporate Safety &amp; Security team seeks and receives regular assurance from senior managers about compliance with these and wider requirements.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 14655 question first answered 18/02/2020 13:47:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1177352

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
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: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days off sick HM Courts & Tribunals staff took in each month of (a) 2018 and (b) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	14654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>We have provided the number of working days lost due to sickness, however, this figure does not take into consideration those who work part time, so we have also included the Working Days Lost by Full Time Equivalent (FTE), which takes this into account and is a more accurate reflection.</p><p> </p><p>As well as short absences, this includes those on long term sickness and any other unplanned, unavoidable leave such as family bereavements etc.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the sick leave per calendar year for 2018 and 2019.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jan-18</p></td><td><p>Feb-18</p></td><td><p>Mar-18</p></td><td><p>Apr-18</p></td><td><p>May-18</p></td><td><p>Jun-18</p></td><td><p>Jul-18</p></td><td><p>Aug-18</p></td><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>Oct-18</p></td><td><p>Nov-18</p></td><td><p>Dec-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working Days Lost</p></td><td><p>15150</p></td><td><p>12935</p></td><td><p>12673</p></td><td><p>10920</p></td><td><p>10846</p></td><td><p>9612</p></td><td><p>10228</p></td><td><p>10283</p></td><td><p>9666</p></td><td><p>12330</p></td><td><p>12381</p></td><td><p>11245</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WDs Lost x FTE</p></td><td><p>13064.17</p></td><td><p>11127.27</p></td><td><p>10974.75</p></td><td><p>9387.96</p></td><td><p>9403.47</p></td><td><p>8342.48</p></td><td><p>8959.86</p></td><td><p>8980.13</p></td><td><p>8268.19</p></td><td><p>10559.87</p></td><td><p>10639.77</p></td><td><p>9663.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>Jun-19</p></td><td><p>Jul-19</p></td><td><p>Aug-19</p></td><td><p>Sep-19</p></td><td><p>Oct-19</p></td><td><p>Nov-19</p></td><td><p>Dec-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working Days Lost</p></td><td><p>13226</p></td><td><p>11099</p></td><td><p>10817</p></td><td><p>9976</p></td><td><p>9669</p></td><td><p>9719</p></td><td><p>11019</p></td><td><p>9705</p></td><td><p>10519</p></td><td><p>10280</p></td><td><p>12163</p></td><td><p>11942</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WDs Lost x FTE</p></td><td><p>11409.74</p></td><td><p>9601.479</p></td><td><p>9222.949</p></td><td><p>8589.958</p></td><td><p>8256.505</p></td><td><p>8337.592</p></td><td><p>9493.536</p></td><td><p>8485.607</p></td><td><p>9050.386</p></td><td><p>8814.963</p></td><td><p>10446.83</p></td><td><p>10336.58</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/02/2020 14:52:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1177353

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court rooms have been assessed for (a) general health and safety standards and (b) their suitability for digital working in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	14655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>I am answering these questions together.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service’s Health and Safety policy requires that a trained general risk assessor inspects each court room on a quarterly basis to ensure it is compliant with health and safety standards, and to report any non-compliance so that remedial work can be undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Where Display Screen Equipment is used, including courtrooms across the estate into which we are continuing to introduce digital ways of working as part of our Reform Programme, the policy requires that workstations must comply with the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (as amended).</p><p> </p><p>Accordingly, the designated Senior Person on Site at all of our court and tribunal buildings is required to ensure that each workstation is routinely assessed; any non-compliance is reported and remedied; and any risk is appropriately mitigated.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collate centrally details of the numbers of courtroom assessments that have taken place over particular periods. Instead, the HMCTS Corporate Safety &amp; Security team seeks and receives regular assurance from senior managers about compliance with these and wider requirements.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 14653 question first answered 18/02/2020 13:47:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1176496

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing speeding fines linked to the income of the offender.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	12919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>Courts are required by statute to take into account the financial circumstances of the offender, insofar as these can be assessed, when setting a fine for any offence including speeding offences. Guidelines issued by the independent Sentencing Council require the court to assess the seriousness of a speeding offence based upon the speed of the vehicle in relation to the speed limit of the road. Once the seriousness is established a fine amount is set which relates to the income of the offender.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant sentencing guideline is set out below:</p><p>https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/speeding-revised-2017/</p><p> </p><p>Where an individual fails to provide information about their financial circumstances, the court may assess the fine amount as it sees fit and, the sentencing guideline provides for the court to fall back on an average earnings figure.</p><p> </p><p>Full details on fines can be found here:</p><p>https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/explanatory-material/magistrates-court/item/fines-and-financial-orders/approach-to-the-assessment-of-fines-2/1-approach-to-the-assessment-of-fines-introduction/</p><p> </p><p>In simple cases the police have the power to offer a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN), which consists of a fixed non-means-tested fine, and penalty points. The Department for Transport is responsible for fixing the penalty levels for speeding related FPNs. FPNs do not take means into account as they are designed to operate as a simple on-the-spot process. Individuals may refuse a FPN, in which case the matter may be taken before a court.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/02/2020 10:14:46 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

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

1174932

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	Trials
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 is between the listing of a case to a first hearing for non-custody trials in each court circuit in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	10345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/02/2020 10:53:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi