Written questions
1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department closed in 2014; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of each of those sales.
5 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department closed in 2013; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of each of those sales.
5 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department closed in 2012; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of each of those sales.
5 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department closed in 2011; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of each of those sales.
5 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department closed in 2010; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of those sales.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts have closed since 1 January 2009; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value was of each of those sales.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Divorce
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken was for (a) the issue of a divorce petition and (b) the issue of divorce petition to decree nisi in each of the last two years.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Probate Service: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consultation with recognised trades unions his Department undertook on the proposal to use bulk scanning and printing services in the Probate Service before that contract had been signed with the supplier.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Probate Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in the Probate Service have applied to work in a Courts and Tribunal Service Centre in the last six months.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court cases have proceeded in the absence of a defendant in each of the last five years.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of court closures on the time taken for hearings to be listed.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Civil Service People Survey 2018, published in December 2018, what steps his Department is taking to address staff concerns on the HMCTS reform programme.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts and Probation: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has undertaken a review into the causes of the probation and courts IT systems failure in January 2019.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts and Probation: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of estimated cost to the public purse of the probation and courts IT systems failure in January 2019 has been recovered from IT suppliers.
1 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts and Probation: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the probation and courts IT systems failure that occurred in January 2019.
28 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department has closed since 1 January 2009; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value of each of those sales was.
27 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to prevent a further HM Courts and Tribunals IT systems failure.
27 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contingency plans his Department has put in place in the event of future probation and courts IT systems failure.
18 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Coroners: Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests were granted legal aid for civil representation; what the average amount awarded was for those cases; and how much funding was allocated for that representation in each year since 2013.
14 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 5 of the report of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons on the unannounced inspection of HMP Durham, published in February 2019, to which prison the modern scanning equipment that staff in HMP Dur
13 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts his Department has closed since 1 January 2010; on what dates those court buildings were sold; and what the value of each of those sales was.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 216363 on Pay, whether his Department has estimated the value of wages unlawfully unpaid for any periods of time.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 216363 on Pay, for what reason his Department does not hold estimates of the total value of wages unlawfully unpaid in the l
11 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Peterborough: Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annex A of the written evidence of the Chief Executive of the HM Prison and Probation Service of 21 December 2018 to the Justice Committee inquiry on HMP Birmingham, what the ratio of operationa
11 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annex A of the written evidence of the Chief Executive of the HM Prison and Probation Service of 21 December 2018 to the Justice Committee inquiry on HMP Birmingham, what the ratio of operationa
11 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Birmingham: Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Annex A of the written evidence of the Chief Executive of the HM Prison and Probation Service of 21 December 2018 to the Justice Committee inquiry on HMP Birmingham, what the ratio of operationa
4 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of court custody facilities have adequate healthcare provision.
4 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential fiscal effect of leaving the EU without a deal on his Department's operation and management of prisons.
1 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has estimated the value of wages unlawfully unpaid in the last year for which information is available by category of unlawfully unpaid wages.
31 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has (a) spent to date and (b) plans to spend in relation to prisons to prepare for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
Source: official written-questions record.