Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has any record of public contracts being awarded to suppliers on the UK Sanctions List between 1 January 2021 and 31 January 2023.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice has not awarded any contracts to entities (suppliers) on the UK Sanctions list between 01 January 2021 and 31 January 2023.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in 2022; and with which consultants the contracts were held.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The full spend data for calendar year 2022 is not yet available.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on external consultants in 2022.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The full spend data for the 2022 calendar year is not yet available.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to close its TikTok account.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice does not have, and never has had, an operational TikTok account. Two TikTok account names were acquired for security reasons to ensure another person/party is not able to use them posing as the Ministry of Justice. The accounts have never been used and so there are no current plans to close them. They have zero followers, follow zero accounts, have zero likes and have not shared any content. Staff do not access them.
The account names are:
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many suppliers his Department has excluded from procurement on the grounds of (a) fraud, (b) corruption and (c) other grounds under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 from 2015 to 2022.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. To obtain the information a manual search through individual records would be required as this is not recorded centrally on departmental systems.
The grounds for the exclusion of bidders from public procurement procedures are set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. These rules set out the circumstances in which bidders must, or may, be excluded from a public procurement process.
The Procurement Bill brought forward by this Conservative Government, currently being considered by Parliament, expands the scope of misconduct which can lead to exclusion. We are also increasing the time period within which misconduct can lead to exclusion from 3 years to 5; bringing subsidiary companies into scope of exclusion; and making the rules clearer so that contracting authorities can undertake exclusions with more confidence.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2023 to Question 146991 on Employment Tribunals Service, whether data on mean age at disposal has been collected since March 2021.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This data is not currently available and HMCTS is working to incorporate data from new systems as part of our reform Management Information programme of work.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2023 to Question 133625 on Employment Tribunals Service, what the mean age at disposal of (a) single claims and (b) multiple claimant cases was in the latest quarter for which information is available.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The mean age of disposals for single and multiples claims is published and can be found via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021.
The data is only available up to March 2021.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2023 to Question 133625 on Employment Tribunals Service, what was the mean age at disposal of (a) single claims and (b) multiple claimant cases in the latest quarter for which data is available.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The mean age of disposals for single and multiples claims is published and can be found on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021. The data is only available up to March 2021.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the average time between a claimant receiving their employment tribunal claim and their first hearing each year from 2010 to 2022.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The average time between a claimant receiving their employment tribunal claim and their first hearing each year from 2010 to March 2021 can be found in the table below. We do not hold the information for 2022. Waiting times have risen from 2019 due to the pandemic.
Employment Tribunal, Average Waiting Time (in Weeks) from Receipt to First Hearing for the Period January 2010 to March 20211
Calendar Year | Average Waiting Time (weeks) |
January to December 2008 | 31 |
January to December 2009 | 27 |
January to December 2010 | 30 |
January to December 2011 | 30 |
January to December 2012 | 31 |
January to December 2013 | 27 |
January to December 2014 | 36 |
January to December 2015 | 30 |
January to December 2016 | 29 |
January to December 2017 | 30 |
January to December 2018 | 32 |
January to December 2019 | 38 |
January to December 2020 | 46 |
January to March 2021 | 49 |
1 Data to March 2021 extracted from legacy database in line with published statistics.
The data includes both single and multiple claims and is based on first hearings within the stated period.
The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as this data was run on a different date, specifically for this request.
Data is taken from a live management information system and can change over time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.
Asked by: Angela Rayner (Labour - Ashton-under-Lyne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of employment tribunal claims were disposed of in each year between 2010 and 2022.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The number of receipts, disposals and outstanding employment tribunal claims between 2010 and 2022 can be found on Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).