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My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service (Nick Hurd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:

I have today placed in the Library my proposals for the aggregate amount of grant to Local Policing Bodies in England and Wales for 2018/19, for the...

Member
Baroness Williams of Trafford (Conservative)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Date
19 December 2017
Reference
HLWS364
House
House of Lords

I have today placed in the Library my proposals for the aggregate amount of grant to Local Policing Bodies in England and Wales for 2018/19, for the approval of the House. Copies are also available in the Vote Office. The Welsh Government is also setting out today its proposals for...

Member
Nick Hurd (Conservative)
Department
Home Office
Type
Written statements
Date
19 December 2017
Reference
HCWS372
House
House of Commons
Deposited by
Ministry of Justice
Type
Deposited papers
Date
18 December 2017
Reference
DEP2017-0816
House
House of Commons

With permission, Mr Speaker, I will answer Question 19 together with Questions 20 and 24. We are investing £1 billion in the modernisation of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service. This summer, we launched the first online courts pilots, covering divorce, social security and civil money claims. In October, I visited the Manchester civil justice centre and saw some of that work first hand.

Answered by
David Lidington (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c885
House
House of Commons

Part of the problem with the courts system is that the lay person does not understand the jargon. Will my right hon. Friend examine how we can improve communication within the system so that the ordinary man on the street can understand what is going on in court proceedings?

Asked by
David Morris (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c885
House
House of Commons

I apologise to you, Mr Speaker, if there was a mess-up in communications with your office.

In response to my hon. Friend, as we test and pilot the online court proposals it is important to ensure that the process is stripped of legal jargon so that our constituents—men and women who may have no particular knowledge or experience of the technicalities of law—are able easily to understand, follow and use the process.

Answered by
David Lidington (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c885
House
House of Commons

As co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on public legal education and pro bono, I was wondering whether my right hon. Friend had made any assessment of how the online process will save many people who go to small claims courts from unnecessary stress and hassle when all they are often trying to do is resolve a simple money claim.

Asked by
Tom Tugendhat (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c885
House
House of Commons

Having tried out the small money claims process, my view is that it provides a user-friendly way for a consumer to seek redress from somebody against whom they have a claim. So far, more than 3,000 people have used the pilots that I have described, and they have received straightforward digital access to our courts.

Answered by
David Lidington (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c885
House
House of Commons

I wrote to the Government in October to ask about the impact of the closure of Oldham magistrates court and county court, but they said they do not collect data on non-attendance. How on earth can the Government know about the impact of closures if they do not collect that data?

Asked by
Jim McMahon (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c886
House
House of Commons

When a proposal is made to close any court centre there is a public consultation, which enables representations to be made and evidence to be looked at seriously. Such a consultation is always accompanied by an analysis of the travel times, both by car and by public transport, for people who use the court centre scheduled for closure to attend the proposed alternative. These things are considered in detail.

Answered by
David Lidington (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c886
House
House of Commons

In the context of court modernisation, will the Secretary of State look at making the courts more transparent, particularly by allowing defendants and those who have been sentenced to get court transcripts and copies of the judge’s direction to the jury? Especially in cases of potential miscarriage of justice, it can be incredibly difficult to get that information.

Asked by
Lucy Powell (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c886
House
House of Commons

I would like to take away and reflect on the serious points made by the hon. Lady. Obviously the conduct of a trial in court is a matter for the trial judge, but I will look seriously at the issue and write to her when I have had the chance to take advice on the matter.

Answered by
David Lidington (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
632 c886
House
House of Commons

What steps he is taking to modernise the court system.

Asked by
David Morris (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
902758; 632 cc885-6
House
House of Commons

What steps he is taking to modernise the court system.

Asked by
Tom Tugendhat (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
902759; 632 cc885-6
House
House of Commons

What steps he is taking to modernise the court system.

Asked by
Robert Courts (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
5 December 2017
Reference
902763; 632 cc885-6
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers; Select Committee oral evidence; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Treasury Committee
Date
4 December 2017
Reference
HC 614 2017-19
House
House of Commons
Type
House of Commons papers; Select Committee written evidence; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Treasury Committee
Date
29 November 2017
Reference
HC 614 2017-19
House
House of Commons

There was a general debate on HMRC Closures in Westminster Hall on Thursday 2 November 2017. The subject of the debate was nominated by the Backbench Business Committee. The debate was opened by Stuart McDonald MP.

Type
Commons Debate packs
Date
13 November 2017
Reference
CDP-2017-0209

Before I turn to the subject of the noble Baroness’s amendment, which is about information to consumers, let me go through again the business of linked travel arrangements, which I know is causing

some confusion—not least to us in the department. As I said to her when we discussed this...

Member
Lord Callanan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
25 October 2017
Reference
785 cc949-951
House
House of Lords

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, and the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, for their contributions and for the constructive way that they have approached the Bill. I am extremely grateful to them and I recognise the purpose of Amendment 1 —to ensure that ATOL protection covers flight-only bookings made...

Member
Lord Callanan (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
25 October 2017
Reference
785 cc946-7
House
House of Lords