Written questions
1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 119037, how many Category B prisoners were held in Category C prisons in each of the last five years.
21 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Video Conferencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people who have appeared in court for their (a) first appearance, (b) remand hearing, (c) bail hearing, (d) case management and (e) sentencing have done so by video link in the last 12 months.
21 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have appeared in court (a) via video link and (b) in person by (i) age, (ii) ethnicity and (iii) gender in the last 12 months.
21 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Magistrates' Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the total work undertaken in magistrates' courts was presided over by (a) lay magistrates and (b) district judges in each year since 2010.
21 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Video Conferencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on the commissioning research on the effectiveness of court hearings by video link in each year since 2010.
21 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the joint statement by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, and the Senior President of Tribunals, Transforming our justice system made in September 2016, how much funding the Government plans
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118802, whether his Department made an assessment of the effect of changes to the availability of the early legal help component of legal aid on the expendit
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118802, what other institutions referred to in that answer will provide data for the Post-Implementation Review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment o
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118989 on community orders, whether his Department has conducted research on the reasons for the decline in the number of community sentences cited in the an
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
National Tactical Response Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 119056, if he will publish quarterly figures for the number of call outs for the National Tactical Response Group.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions wings of privately-owned prisons have been closed due to insufficient staff levels in the 12 months.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions wings of publicly-owned prisons have been closed due to insufficient staff levels in the last 12 months.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish all HMPPS investigations conducted into incidents of concerted indiscipline since 2010.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Long Lartin
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish the HMPPS investigation into the concerted indiscipline at HMP Long Lartin on 11 October 2017.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2017 to Question 115581, if he will publish the recent internal review into the probation system with commercially sensitive sections redacted.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Community Rehabilitation Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload per caseworker has been for each Community Rehabilitation Company in the last twelve months.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid from the public purse in compensation to prison staff as a result of injuries suffered in a violent attack on the prison estate in 2017.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of people losing custody of children following their recall to prison in each of the last three years.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women who were being held on remand died in prison in 2017.
20 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women died in prison in 2017.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, Pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 119536, what the total expenditure was in 2017 prices on (a) public and private prisons across the whole estate, (b) public prisons and (c) private prisons in eac
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 119247, if he will publish all data held by the Government on detached duty.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 119247, what categories of information the Government collects on detached duty.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Community Rehabilitation Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December to Question 118432, how many times a Contract Management Team has notified a Community Rehabilitation Company that its staffing level is insufficient.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many formal complaints there have been related to interpreter services in each year since that service was contracted out; and what the main reason was in each of those years for such complaints.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of unfulfilled or cancelled cases in each year since the contracting out of interpreter services to all courts in (a) England and Wales and (b) each region.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, since the contract out of services to provide interpreters to all courts what the estimated number of unfulfilled or cancelled cases was in each year in (a) England and Wales and (b) each region.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual value is of the private contract to provide interpreters to courts in England and Wales; and how much is spend on each region on that contract.
19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate has he made of the number of unfilled cases since the contract to provide interpreters to all courts was contracted out; and if he will make a statement?
14 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Custodial Treatment: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118434, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of private providers managing custodial sentences in each year since 2010.
Source: official written-questions record.