Results 4421–4440 of 4903 for speaker:Lucy Frazer

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Ministry of Justice: EU Law (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: Holding answer received on 12 January 2018 The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill will retain EU law as it applies in the UK on exit day. We expect between 800 and 1000 statutory instruments will be required across Government to correct this retained EU law to ensure the statue book functions appropriately outside the EU. All Departments are engaged in the process. Once we leave the...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Offences against Children (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: Holding answer received on 11 January 2018 The protection of children remains a priority for this Government and we keep this important area of the law under review. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is currently developing proposals to extend the definition of a ‘position of trust’ in the Sexual Offences Act 2003, to bring into that definition sports...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The full refund scheme was rolled out on 15 November. Anyone who paid a fee can now apply for a refund. Provisional management information on the number of refunds paid, and their value, was published on the 18 January 2018 on the gov.uk website, which showed that by 18 December we had made 2,151 refunds worth £1.8 million.

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Children: Maintenance (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: Where the family court is satisfied that breach of a child arrangements order has occurred and enforcement action is necessary to secure compliance, it may make an enforcement order requiring the person in breach to undertake unpaid work. The court may also order that person to pay financial compensation to another person who has suffered a financial loss due to the breach. These powers are...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Internet: Regulation (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: Legislation that can be used to prosecute offensive online communications includes the Protection from Harassment Act 1997; the Malicious Communications Act 1988; and the Communications Act 2003. The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 made changes to the relevant offences in these last two Acts which aims to ensure that people who commit them are prosecuted and properly punished. Not all...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Legal Aid Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The information is already available in the Legal Aid Agency’s published National Statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistic s-july-to-september-2017 (table 8.1). However please note that we do not have a separate category for “complex” cases, and that our figures relate to number of grants and not the number of individuals assisted (as one person can...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Legal Aid Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: This information is published by the Ministry of Justice in its Annual Report and Accounts, the most recent version of which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm ent_data/file/630239/moj-annual-report-2016-17.pdf This is the total Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL) and is taken from page 148 of the MoJ Annual Report and Accounts.

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Legal Aid Scheme (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: This information could only be obtained at disproportionate costs. The Legal Aid Agency assesses each application on its own individual circumstances against the relevant statutory criteria.

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Social Security Benefits: Appeals (30 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the Tribunal is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics. (a) The information required is set out in the table below. Year Personal Independence Payment 1 Appeals in Leeds Venues 2 1 October 2016 – 30 September 2017 3 57% in Favour 4 SSCS appeals are normally registered to the venue nearest to...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Courts: ICT (29 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The Department has allocated responsibility for oversight of the PWC contract to four key individuals in addition a number of professionals from its Commercial, Commissioning, Financial and Operational workstreams overseeing the PwC delivery partner contract on behalf of the Senior Business Owner. This provides the department with a broad range of expertise to focus on particular areas of the...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Employment Tribunals Service: East of England (26 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The information regarding lay members is held on a local live database known as “Ethos”, which holds no historic data. It is therefore not possible to provide data from 2012 to 2017. There are currently 110 lay members for the South East Region, of which 42 are assigned to the eastern part of the Region (which comprises Norwich, Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds Employment Tribunals). Whilst...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (26 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The former Lord Chancellor previously announced the beginning of a Post-Implementation Review of the legal aid changes made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). As the former Lord Chancellor stated we are keen to hear from a range of interested parties and experts as part of the review process. I am currently considering the most effective approach.

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Courts: ICT (26 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The contract awarded to PwC includes their plans to deliver against the 6 initial work packages. A redacted version will be published on Contracts Finder which will provide further details, by the end of January. Throughout the life of the contract, agreed delivery plans will be submitted for each new work package commissioned.

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Legal Ombudsman (26 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: Part 6 of the Legal Services Act (2007) establishes the Office for Legal Complaints (OLC), which administers the Legal Ombudsman Scheme. It is overseen by the Legal Services Board, established by the same Act, and the Ministry of Justice as its sponsor Department.

Joint Enterprise (25 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments. I would like to start the debate by commending the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) for securing this debate on an issue that is close to her constituency and to her heart. I also want to thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell), my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst...

Joint Enterprise (25 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: My hon. Friend is prescient; I was about to go on to the broader points that were made during the debate. He made that point in his own speech, and he has raised it in the Select Committee as well. As a new Minister, I am happy to consider that in due course. Some other, broader points were made. My right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield mentioned disclosure, which I know the...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges (25 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The Government has collected £32m in Employment Tribunal fees since 2013. We immediately stopped charging fees following the Supreme Court’s judgment in July 2017, and the refund scheme was launched on 15 November 2017.

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges (25 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The number of people who paid Employment Tribunal fees is not recorded centrally. However, statistics on the instances in which a fee is charged (for single and multiple claims) are published in the ‘Tribunals and Gender Recognitions Statistics Quarterly,’ available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statisti cs. The full refund scheme was rolled...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges (25 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The full Employment Tribunals Refund scheme was launched on 15 November 2017. Provisional Management information on the number of refunds paid, and their value, was published on the 18 January 2018 on the gov.uk website, which showed as at 18 December we have made 2,151 refunds worth £1.8 million. We will continue to keep the volume of applications we receive under review, and are...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Immigration: Appeals (25 Jan 2018)

Lucy Frazer: The number of appeals allowed in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) over the last three years is: 2014/2015 – 26,394; 2015/2016 – 20,539 and 2016/2017 – 23,275. Timescales from receipt to disposal of an appeal are not routinely broken down by outcome and could not be provided in the time available.


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