Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many hearings before magistrates' courts in (a) London and (b) England have been postponed because of a failure to notify witnesses of their requirement to attend on the due date in each of the last five years.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many creditors to his Department owed more than £10,000 remained unpaid for more than (a) 30 days, (b) 45 days, (c) 60 days, (d) 75 days and (e) more than 90 days in each of the last three years.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the cost per day of electronically monitoring an individual using (a) global positioning system technology and (b) radio frequency technology; and if he will make a statement.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will take steps to ensure that those convicted of criminal damage on or against public transport are (a) liable for the cost of repairs and (b) responsible for aiding the repairs as part of any sentence; and if he will make a statement.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much funding (a) his Department and (b) each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible has allocated to the London borough of Enfield local authority in each of the last five years.
Nick de Bois: I am grateful to a fellow member of the Justice Select Committee for giving way. He has just suggested that we try to have a sensible debate about this matter. Focusing on privateers is completely erroneous. For example, he knows well the St Giles Trust, a registered charity that does superb work on reforming and rehabilitating people. He must surely agree that this must not become a debate...
Nick de Bois: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his work in leading our Select Committee on this subject. Is he concerned, as I am, that we found the practice of restorative justice to be a postcode lottery around the country? Although we recommended that Ofsted may have a role to play when looking at care homes, we need a sense of urgency from the Government to advise on strategy in areas that are...
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much the legal aid used by foreign national offenders to prevent deportation via the automatic deportation criteria has cost since those criteria's inception; and if he will make a statement.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what considerations are made when incarcerating a Category A prisoner in any category of prison other than a Category A prison; and if he will make a statement.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent estimate he has made of the number and proportion of prisoners using (a) cannabis, (b) psilocybe mushrooms, (c) phencyclidine, (d) opium, (e) morphine diacetate, (f) MDMA, (g) morphine, (h) methamphetamine, (i) methadone, (j) lysergic acid diethylamide, (k) hydrocodone and (l) cocaine.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he is taking to reduce (a) the availability of drugs in prison and (b) the number of prisoners who develop a drug addiction while in prison; and if he will make a statement.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners were convicted of drug-related offences while already serving a prison sentence in each of the last five years.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) Category A, (b) Category B, (c) Category C and (d) Category D prisoners are currently incarcerated in each prison in England and Wales.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many Category A prisoners are currently classified as (a) Standard Risk, (b) High Risk and (c) Exceptional Risk in each prison in England and Wales.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people aged (a) 18 or younger and (b) over 18 (i) have been prosecuted for and (ii) have received a custodial sentence for an offence of (A) murder, (B) attempted murder, (C) wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and (D) wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent in each of the last five years.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many individuals have (a) been prosecuted for and (b) subsequently received a custodial sentence for an offence of carrying a bladed or pointed article in a public place in England and Wales in each of the last seven years.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 30 October 2012, Official Report, column 125W, on drugs: misuse, if he will take steps to universally define the term drug dealer in (a) his Department and (b) its associated public bodies; and if he will make a statement.
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many individuals convicted of the unlawful importation of (a) Class A, (b) Class B and (c) Class C drugs received (i) an absolute discharge, (ii) a conditional discharge, (iii) a fine, (iv) a community rehabilitation order, (v) a supervision order, (vi) an attendance centre order, (vii) a curfew order, (viii) a reparation order, (ix) a...
Nick de Bois: I thank the shadow Minister for his confidence, but I fear it will be a very long time before that happens. I came to this debate for the same reason I sought election to the Select Committee on Justice, which was that, with no legal training or legal background whatever, I felt I could occasionally take the perspective of an ordinary citizen. It is with that in mind that I want to focus on...
Nick de Bois: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent representations he has received on the length of sentences given to convicted Class A drug dealers; and if he will make a statement.