Written questions

1,054 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Asylum: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of asylum cases from applicants from Afghanistan (a) in progress and (b) awaiting trial in the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum).

19 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many meetings (a) he has and (b) Ministers of his Department have had with the operator of Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre since inspectors issued an Urgent Notification in respect of that Centre in Decembe

19 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Disciplinary Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have been (a) reprimanded, (b) dismissed and (c) convicted for being in possession of prohibited items including drugs while on duty in each of the last 10 years.

19 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted for committing an offence under section 5 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 in each of the last 10 years.

19 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Rape: Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons convicted of rape have received a sentence of less than (a) five, (b) seven and (c) 10 years imprisonment in each of the last 10 years.

19 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publishe the backlog of outstanding cases at the start of July for each year since 2010 in every Crown Court open in England and Wales.

19 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Convictions and Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide a breakdown of the most recent (a) rape and (b) sexual assault (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction statistics by the ethnicity of the alleged victim or victims.

6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Pets: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average fine given to an offender guilty of pet theft was in each of the last 10 years.

6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Pets: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders found guilty of the theft of a pet received a custodial sentence in each of the last 10 years.

6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Pets: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were sentenced to four years or more for the theft of a pet in each of the last 10 years.

6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Pets: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were convicted of pet theft in each of the last 10 years.

6 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Pets: Theft

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of pet thefts resulted in a prosecution being brought in each of the last 10 years.

28 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Email

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department permits (a) officials, (b) special advisors and (c) Ministers of his Department to access private email accounts from their office desktop computers, department-issued laptop computers or d

28 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has carried out a risk assessment of the secure holding of CCTV footage filmed within his Department.

28 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Email

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any departmental business has been conducted on private email addresses; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that full records are kept of that business.

15 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2020 to Question 101946 on Prisoners: Babies, how many pregnant women have entered the prison estate since the death of a baby in HMP Bronzefield in October 2019.

14 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has referred any Freedom of Information requests received by his Department to the central Cabinet Office Clearing House on Freedom of Information requests for advice on handling, in the la

7 Jun 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Government has allocated to legal aid in England and Wales in each financial year since 2010.

20 Apr 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Tees Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the backlog of outstanding cases was at (a) Teesside Magistrates' Court, (b) Teesside Combined Court and (c) Peterlee Magistrates' Court at the end of March in each year since 2010; and what the backlog of o

15 Apr 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Business Interests

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish details of any cases in which officials in his Department receive remuneration for paid work for organisations or companies outside of government.

24 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been transferred from the Magistrates' Court to the Crown Court in each of the last 10 years.

24 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many buildings currently used for Nightingale Courts will have their lease expire by June 2021.

24 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hearings were adjourned in (a) family, (b) criminal and (c) civil courts in each of the last three months.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Courts and Tribunals: Drug Seizures

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times illegal drugs were confiscated on the HM Courts & Tribunals Service estate in the last five years.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoner Escapes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners escaped from prisons in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoner Escapes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many escapes there were from (a) prisons and (b) young offender institutions in 2020; and from which prison or institution those escapes took place.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's five largest outsourcing contracts are by (a) name and (b) cost of each to the exchequer.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courts in England and Wales his Department plans to close in the next five years.

19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of Crown Court cases where victims have dropped out due to delays caused by the case backlog.

19 Feb 2021 · Home Office

Administrative Law Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her Department's submission to the The Independent Review of Administrative Law.

Source: official written-questions record.