Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish the findings of their review of employment tribunal fees; who conducted that review; what resources were afforded to that review; and when they were made aware of the findings of that review.
Answered by Lord Faulks
On 11 June we announced the start of the post-implementation review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals. The Review is being undertaken within the Ministry of Justice.
The review is ongoing and will be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission has received since its creation that subsequently succeeded on appeal.
Answered by Lord Faulks
Since its creation in 1997 the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had referred 619 cases, to the relevant court, by 31 March 2016. As at 31 March 2016 596 of the referrals had been heard by the court. 406 Appeals have been allowed, 178 have been dismissed and 12 have been abandoned.
This information can also be located in the published CCRC annual report.
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission has received in each year since its creation.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The information requested regarding the number of applications the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has received since its creation, is highlighted in the table below. This information can also be located in the published CCRC annual report.
Since its creation in 1997, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has had 20,367 applications. This figure excludes 279 applications that were transferred from the Home Office when the CCRC started operating in 1997. This is broken down as:
Year | Total Applications |
1997/8 | 1,103 |
1998/9 | 1,037 |
1999/0 | 777 |
2000/1 | 800 |
2001/2 | 834 |
2002/3 | 932 |
2003/4 | 885 |
2004/5 | 955 |
2005/6 | 1011 |
2006/7 | 1051 |
2007/8 | 984 |
2008/9 | 919 |
2009/10 | 932 |
2010/11 | 933 |
2011/12 | 1040 |
2012/13 | 1625 |
2013/14 | 1470 |
2014/15 | 1599 |
2015/16 | 1480 |
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what budget has been allocated to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in each year since its creation.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The information requested regarding the budget that has been allocated to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) since its creation, is highlighted in the table below. This information can also be located in the published CCRC annual report.
Prior to 2007/8 budgets were allocated by the Home Office, as the sponsor department.
For this reason, the MoJ only holds the information from the date that the sponsorship function transferred to MoJ. Since 2007/8, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has had the following net levels of funding:
Year | Total Funding £ Ms |
2007/8 | 6.701 |
2008/9 | 6.661 |
2009/10 | 6.560 |
2010/11 | 6.324 |
2011/12 | 5.920 |
2012/13 | 5.277 |
2013/14 | 5.178 |
2014/15 | 5.178 |
2015/16 | 5.178 |
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours on average a young offender in prison spent playing competitive sport in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Faulks
National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not require establishments to report the average time young offenders (18-20 year olds) spend playing competitive sport. Figures for the average hours of PE for 18-20 year olds in Young Offender Institutions for the years 2010/11 and 2011/12 are provided in the table below. These have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Table: Average hours per young offender per week spent in physical education - YOIs (18-20 year olds)
Year | 2010/11 | 2011/12 |
YOI (18-20) average hours per prisoner per week spent in physical education | 3.4 | 3.3 |
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many staff were employed in an offender management role in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The National Offender Management Service delivers offender management services through both the National Probation Service (NPS) and Public Sector Prisons (PSP). Information on the numbers employed since 2010 is given below.
On the 1 June 2014, the probation delivery model changed with the 35 Probation Trusts being dissolved and the inception of a new National Probation Service (NPS) within NOMS plus the creation of 21 new privately owned Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs). As a result of the changes the NPS directly manages offenders who pose the highest risk in both custody and community with the remainder of offenders in the community being managed by the CRCs.
Full Time Equivalent Staff Employed in Offender Management Roles in Probation Areas/Trusts 2010 to 2014
Date | Probation Areas / Trusts |
31-Mar-101 | - |
31-Mar-11 | 9,580 |
31-Mar-12 | 9,270 |
31-Mar-132 | 9,900 |
31-Mar-14 | 9,660 |
Staff Employed in Offender Management Roles in National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), 31 March and 31 December 2015
Date | NPS | CRCs3 |
31-Mar-15 | - | - |
31-Dec-15 | 4,860 | - |
3. CRCs became private companies in February 2015 and are therefore responsible for the management of their own staffing levels. However, information on the staffing of CRCs was collected until they transferred to the private sector. At 31 December 2014 there was a full-time equivalent of 4,810 staff working within the Offender Management function in CRCs.
Public Sector Prison Service Staff Employed in Offender Management, 2014 to 20154
Date | Public Sector Prisons4 |
31-Mar-14 | 1,770 |
31-Mar-15 | 1,620 |
31-Dec-15 | 1,600 |
Note to All Tables:
All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours of purposeful activity were recorded on average by prisoners in each month in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Faulks
Purposeful activity and time unlocked were two of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) performance indicators of safety and decency in prisons up to 2011/12. The indicators were discontinued at the start of 2012/13.
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April 2010 | 24.3 |
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May 2010 | 24.2 |
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June 2010 | 24.9 |
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July 2010 | 24.9 |
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August 2010 | 24.4 |
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September 2010 | 25.0 |
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October 2010 | 25.1 |
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November 2010 | 24.7 |
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December 2010 | 23.1 |
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January 2011 | 25.1 |
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February 2011 | 25.2 |
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March 2011 | 25.5 |
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April 2011 | 23.9 |
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May 2011 | 24.7 |
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June 2011 | 25.4 |
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July 2011 | 25.5 |
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August 2011 | 24.5 |
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September 2011 | 25.1 |
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October 2011 | 25.0 |
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November 2011 | 25.0 |
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December 2011 | 23.1 |
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January 2012 | 24.4 |
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February 2012 | 24.7 |
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March 2012 | 24.9 |
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Figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was spent by the Ministry of Justice on (1) focus groups, and (2) opinion polling, in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many offenders have been sentenced and imprisoned in the UK after having been returned to the UK under a European Arrest Warrant.
Answered by Lord Faulks
This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The National Crime Agency publishes statistics on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant. These can be found on their website.
Asked by: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the average length of sentence of offenders sentenced after having been returned to the UK under a European Arrest Warrant.
Answered by Lord Faulks
This information is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The National Crime Agency publishes statistics on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant. These can be found on their website.