Written questions
2,337 written questions tabled, most recent first.
13 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Public Defenders: Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trials have been undertaken by Public Defenders in every year since 2001.
13 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Public Defender Service: Operating Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, the annual cost to the public purse of the Public Defender Service in each year since 2001.
9 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the finding in the report of the National Audit Office on Electronic monitoring – a progress update, HC 62 of Session 2022-23, published on 8 June 2022, that HMPPS is not providing stakeholders
9 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total spend to date is on (a) the Common Platform and (b) external management consultants on work relating to the Commons Platform.
9 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department and HM Courts and Tribunals Service will make an announcement on the next phase of delivery for the Common Platform.
9 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Bill of Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9th June 2022 to Question 13141 on Bill of Rights, whether he intends to publish a draft Bill of Rights before the House rises for summer recess in July 2022.
9 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the cost of (a) heating and (b) electricity for (i) magistrates' courts and (ii) crown courts in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what modelling his Department has undertaken on possible reductions to the number of officials working at (a) his Department and (b) associated public bodies.
8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number and (b) cost of agency staff working in HM Courts and Tribunals Service was in each of the last five years.
8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to publish a strategy on his Department's role in the delivery of net zero by 2050.
8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what were the cost to the public purse of (a) heating and (b) electricity for prisons in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
8 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Criminal Legal Aid Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a timeline for his Department's implementation of the recommendations of Sir Christopher Bellamy's Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid.
7 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) potential merits and (b) risks of introducing unique identifiers for people in the justice system.
7 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been allocated to improvements in his Department's data infrastructure in 2022-23.
7 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans HMCTS has to further update on progress against recommendations from Dr Natalie Byrom's 2019 report on data and academic engagement.
7 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department is taking steps to standardise listing data across courts in England and Wales.
7 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of offenders with community sentences that were permitted to complete unpaid work from home in each of the last three years.
6 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement of 5 June 2022, Offenders to face toughest test yet for open prison moves, whether he plans to publish an annual summary of his decision making through the new process.
6 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release entitled Offenders to face toughest test yet for open prison moves, published by his department on 5 June 2022, whether he has made an estimate of the number of potential moves
6 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Bill of Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to submit the proposed Bill of Rights for pre-legislative scrutiny.
6 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Parole
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the parole system.
26 May 2022 · Home Office
Violent and Sex Offender Register
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people on the sex offenders register who have changed their name by deed poll in the last three years.
26 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Rape: Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of subsequent offences committed by defendants on bail while awaiting trial for rape in each police force area in each year since 2017.
26 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Theft: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions for theft offences there have been in each police force area in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
26 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Robbery: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions for robbery offences there have been in (a) Crown and (b) Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales by (i) individual court and (ii) region for each of the last five years for which figures ar
26 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Solicitors: Sanctions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to support the Solicitors Regulation Authority in ensuring compliance of solicitors' firms with the Government's sanctions regime.
25 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Theft: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures for the number of convictions for theft offences in (a) Crown and (b) Magistrates Courts in England and Wales, by (i) individual court and (ii) region for each of the last five years fo
25 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Fraud: Remand in Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish figures on the (a) number of offenders who were held on remand awaiting trial for fraud and (b) length of time those offenders were held on remand for, in each prison in England and Wales in ea
25 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 29 of the National Audit Office's report entitled Children in custody: secure training centres and secure schools, published on 28 April 2022, whether it remains the case that children are
25 May 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of hours of unpaid work completed at home as part of community sentences in the last three years for which data is available.
Source: official written-questions record.