Written questions

1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Amey

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2018 to Question 125374, how many times his Department raised concerns under the Defect provisions, as set out in the NEC3 standard form of the contract, to Amey relating to t

7 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Amey

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2018 to Question 125374, how many times his Department issued Early Warning Notices to Amey relating to that company's delivery of contracts for prison maintenance in (a) 2016

7 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Cases Review Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload of a caseworker at the Criminal Cases Review Commission has been in each year since 2010.

7 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how the decision will be made on assessing whether a child defendant has the ability to effectively participate in court proceedings via a video link rather than in person; and what adjustments are made for a chi

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Capita

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines Capita has paid under any contract with the Ministry of Justice in each year since 2010; and why each of those fines was imposed.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Carillion

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines Carillion has paid under contract with the his Department in each year since 2010; and for what reason each of those fines was imposed.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: G4S

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines G4S has paid under contracts with his Department in each year since 2010; and for what reason each of those fines was imposed.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Public Opinion

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent by his Department on (a) focus groups and (b) opinion polling in each year since 2010.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Convictions: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission has received that subsequently succeeded on appeal since its creation.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Convictions: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission has received in each year since 2010.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Cases Review Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget of the Criminal Cases Review Commission was in each year since 2010; and what the budget of that organisation is for 2017-18.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Judgements: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of the Government's appeals which were heard in the case of R (on the application of P and Others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 321; and

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that parents and carers are informed when a child defendant appears in court by video link; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure parents and carers atten

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of a child defendant appearing in court via live video link on the ability of youth offending teams to fulfil (a) duty to conduct post-hearing safeguarding ch

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of appearing in court via live video link on a child defendant's (a) ability to participate effectively in court proceedings, (b) propensity to plead g

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many child defendants with (a) speech and language difficulties (b) cognitive difficulties and (c) other vulnerabilities have been produced in court by video link in each year since 2010.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders institutions and secure training centres in England and Wales have live link facilities to allow children to take part in court proceedings over video from their custodial setting.

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Video Conferencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants aged between 10 and 17 year's old have appeared in court via live video link in each year since 2010; and how many of those video link appearances were for (a) case management, (b) remand hear

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts for consultancy services (a) his Department and (b) his Department's arms length bodies have agreed in each year since 2010; and for each such contract (i) what the value of that contract is, (ii)

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contracts worth more than £1 million his Department signed in each year since 2010; with which companies such contracts have been signed; for what purpose those contracts were signed; what the (a) annual

6 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118773, on Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges, what progress his Department is making on its consideration of the Supreme Court's ruling on 26 Ju

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mandatory drug tests have been performed in each prison in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Amey

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on how many companies Amey has subcontracted elements of its prison maintenance work to; and for each of those subcontracts what information his Department holds on (a) to wh

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) his Department and (b) his Department's arms length bodies have spent on consultants in each year since 2010.

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the recidivism rates for female prisoners who received (a) custodial prison sentences and (b) community supervision orders was by offence category as used in his Department's offender management statistics i

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

HMP Birmingham: Civil Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2018 to Question 123578, for what reason his Department does not intend to publish the report into the riot at HMP Birmingham in December 2016.

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison Service: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies were contracted by his Department to provide training for prison staff in each of the last five years; and how much his Department has paid to each of those companies for such training.

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Approved Premises

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has published a probation hostel policy statement as recommended by HM Inspectorate of Probation in July 2017.

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Approved Premises

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of beds available in probation hostels.

5 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Approved Premises

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many beds have been available for use in probation hostels in each year since 2010.

Source: official written-questions record.