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79542

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	date	23/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	False Imprisonment
	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 Faulks on 24 June (WA 144), what was the overall cost for the last three years of legal aid claims in respect of false imprisonment; and into which categories they record such costs as falling.
	tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The table below shows the total amounts claimed against closed false imprisonment matters from the 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 financial years. These matters cover domestic false imprisonment, and both legal and illegal immigration false imprisonment matters.</p><p>The claim values represent the total amounts paid against cases closing in the respective period, and as such, some of the expenditure against these cases may have been incurred in earlier periods. The costs are recorded as falling in the category Actions Against the Police.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Claim Value</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£191,556.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£134,999.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£517,980.45</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The increase in claim value in 2013/14 compared to previous years is largely due to one case which started in 2002, for which a final bill was submitted in January 2014. This case, known as Austin and Saxby, was a test case on behalf of a much larger group of individuals relating to protests on May Day 2002. They claimed that they had been unlawfully subjected to the procedure known as kettling by the Metropolitan Police. The case went to the House of Lords (Supreme Court) where they lost and the law was eventually clarified.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 01/09/2014 13:37:17 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

79529

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Statutory Instruments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments from the Ministry of Justice have been laid this calendar year; of those, what percentage corrected errors in a previous instrument (including drafts of affirmative instruments that had to be superseded by correcting drafts); and what steps that Department is taking to reduce the need for correcting instruments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice laid 80 statutory instruments between the start of the calendar year and 25 July 2014. The Ministry of Justice does not keep records of which statutory instruments corrected errors in previous instruments. However, it estimates that 3 instruments (less than 4% of the total) were expressed to be correcting errors made in, in consequence of a defect in, or in substitution of, a previous instrument and were as a result issued free of charge to known recipients of the original instrument.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is strongly committed to improving the quality of statutory instrument drafting. In addition to providing training to relevant staff and adopting rigorous checking process (including a requirement that all instruments are subject to a second and third pair of eyes check by a lawyer who has not drafted the instrument), a new post of Statutory Instrument Co-ordinator has been established within the Legal Directorate to co-ordinate the sharing of best practice. The Ministry of Justice will also be participating in work being led by the Treasury Solicitor and First Parliamentary Counsel to enhance further the quality, consistency and effectiveness of statutory instruments across Government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 11/08/2014 10:51:24 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad