Written questions

1,113 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Muslims: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Integrated Communities Action Plan published in February 2019, whether his Department has facilitated meetings between the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been adjourned due to a lack of translation or interpreting services in each week since the start of 2019 in all criminal courts.

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) court rooms and (b) courts were sitting on each day from January 1 2019 to 20 October 2019 in all criminal courts.

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Judiciary

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days (a) recorders and (b) judges have sat in each of the last 12 months.

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases have been adjourned in (a) magistrates courts and (b) crown courts in each of the last 12 months.

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on consultancies by (a) his Department and (b) HMCTS in each of the last 12 months.

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of adjournments is per case in (a) all cases heard in the criminal courts and (b) cases relating to (i) murder, (ii) rape (iii) sexual assault, (iv) burglary and (v) crimes against the per

24 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Justice: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been spent on projects aimed at (a) improving data on racial disparities within the justice system, (b) improving judicial diversity, (c) conducting academic research on methods for reducing

14 Oct 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

China: Forced Labour

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to reports that forced labour linked to mass detentions in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been used to produce cotton for export, if his Department will take

4 Oct 2019 · Attorney General

Trials

To ask the Attorney General, what the average time taken was from referral to finalisation in each year from 2009-10 to 2011-12 where the CPS made a decision to charge and where a trial outcome was recorded in England.

4 Oct 2019 · Attorney General

Trials

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2019 to Question 290946, what the average time taken was from referral to finalisation in each year from 2008-09 to 2018-19 where the CPS made a decision to charge and where a trial outcome

2 Oct 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Media: Muslims

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Integrated Communities Action Plan published in February 2019, whether his Department has facilitated meetings between the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group

30 Sep 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling: Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support research into the effects of gambling-like mechanics in video games on (a) young and (b) vulnerable players of those games.

26 Sep 2019 · Attorney General

Fraud: Confiscation Orders

To ask the Attorney General, what the total value is of all assets confiscated by the Serious Fraud Office in each of the last 10 years.

26 Sep 2019 · Attorney General

Fraud: Prosecutions

To ask the Attorney General, how many Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) the Serious Fraud Office has entered into in each of the last 10 years.

26 Sep 2019 · Attorney General

Unexplained Wealth Orders

To ask the Attorney General, how many unexplained wealth orders the Serious Fraud Office has (a) applied for and (b) been granted in each of the last 10 financial years.

26 Sep 2019 · Attorney General

Fraud: Prosecutions

To ask the Attorney General, how many cases have been prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office in each of the last ten years.

26 Sep 2019 · Treasury

Self-assessment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many enquiries have been conducted on the tax returns of self-assessment taxpayers excluding trusts, partnerships, charities in each financial year since 2008-09.

25 Sep 2019 · Attorney General

Trials

To ask the Attorney General, what the average amount of time was, in each of the last eight years, between a case's first referral to the CPS and the conclusions of that case, for all cases which reached a trial in England.

25 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Trials: Legal Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legislation or guidelines determine who should pay the cost of counsel when a court case is adjourned the night before that trial is scheduled to take place.

2 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Translation Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding was allocated to each provider of translation services in each financial year since 2010-11.

2 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 4 of the document entitled HM Courts & Tribunals Service Citizen User Experience Research, published in June 2018, which states that some groups were excluded: immigration tribunals, crimin

2 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723, whether his Department collects information on user satisfaction of translation services.

2 Sep 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723 on translation services, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in expenditure between the 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years.

25 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Probate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was between the application for and the granting of probate in each of the last 10 years for which HM Courts and Tribunals Service keeps records.

25 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Probate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was between the application for and the granting of probate in each of the last 24 months for which HM Courts and Tribunals Service keeps records.

25 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department has collected on satisfaction with IT systems that are used by staff in the criminal justice system; and what research his Department has undertaken on staff user experience of the

25 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Magistrates' Courts: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for how long the Digital Markup system was in place for legal advisers and court associates in magistrates courts; what the cost was of implementing and running that system; and when the Common Platform system wi

24 Jul 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Overtime

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of overtime for staff responding to IT problems in January 2019; and whether his Department has changed IT suppliers as a result of those problems.

19 Jul 2019 · Home Office

Asylum: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of granting Uighur asylum seekers the automatic right to remain in the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.