Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving sentences for imprisonment for public protection have completed the tariff period set by their original sentence.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The information requested is available on gov.uk.
Public protection remains our key priority; however, the recent HMIP report rightly highlights concerns around the management of IPP prisoners.
We have set up a new unit within the Ministry of Justice to improve progression for all IPP prisoners and are working with the Parole Board to improve the efficiency of the parole process.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2016 to Question 51088, on employment Tribunals Service: fees and charges, when Ministers of her Department were first provided with a draft copy of the review.
Answered by Oliver Heald
We receive advice regularly on progress of the review and we will publish its conclusions when completed.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2016 to Question 51088, on Employment Tribunals Service: fees and charges, how much time her Department has allocated to full and careful consideration of the relevant evidence.
Answered by Oliver Heald
We do not hold the information which would enable us to calculate the time that has been spent on the review since it was launched.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2016 to Question 49615, on Employment Tribunals Service: fees and charges, if she will provide further information on the progress made by the review; and how her Department defines the term in due course.
Answered by Oliver Heald
It is important to ensure that full and careful consideration is given to all of the relevant evidence. We will publish the conclusions of the review when that exercise has been completed and the findings collectively agreed by Ministers in the normal way.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 January 2016 to Question 21876, what progress her Department has made on its review of the effect of the introduction of tribunal fees; and if she will issue a fixed date for the publication of that review.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The review is making good progress and I expect to announce its conclusions in due course.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people paid (a) issue fees and (b) hearing fees in equal pay cases in each year since 2010.
Answered by Oliver Heald
Information on Employment Tribunal fees is published in the Tribunals and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly on gov.uk.
Data on how many people have paid fees in equal pay cases is not held centrally.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the provisions preventing squatting in residential buildings to non-residential premises.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the offence of squatting in the way suggested.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2016 to Question 33501, on equal pay tribunals, how many (a) men and (b) women were involved in the two large multiple claims referred to in that answer; and against whom those claims were brought.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The two large multiple cases consisted of 11,585 men and 3,475 women, plus one claimant who did not state their gender. We are not able to provide further information about these cases as they have not yet been listed for hearing.
The table below shows the number of equal pay claims accepted by the Employment Tribunal for each calendar year since 2010:
Calendar Year | Gender |
|
| Female | Male |
2010 | 29,754 | 4,083 |
2011 | 24,049 | 3,647 |
2012 | 15,697 | 4,340 |
2013 | 18,398 | 5,039 |
2014 | 6,052 | 1,509 |
2015 | 6,423 | 13,312 |
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2016 to Question 33501, on equal pay tribunals, how many individual equal pay claims have been brought against employers by (a) men and (b) women in each year between 2010 and 2015.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The two large multiple cases consisted of 11,585 men and 3,475 women, plus one claimant who did not state their gender. We are not able to provide further information about these cases as they have not yet been listed for hearing.
The table below shows the number of equal pay claims accepted by the Employment Tribunal for each calendar year since 2010:
Calendar Year | Gender |
|
| Female | Male |
2010 | 29,754 | 4,083 |
2011 | 24,049 | 3,647 |
2012 | 15,697 | 4,340 |
2013 | 18,398 | 5,039 |
2014 | 6,052 | 1,509 |
2015 | 6,423 | 13,312 |
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March to Question 31122, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the (a) decrease in the number of women and (b) increase in the number of men bringing equal pay tribunal cases against their employers.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The apparent increase in the number of complaints to the Employment Tribunals of equal pay made by men in 2015 was principally due to two large multiple claims issued during the year, involving mainly male claimants. Multiple claims are inherently more variable than single claims and comparisons which include multiple claims can be misleading about the trends in Tribunal caseloads.
We are undertaking a review of the impact of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals. This will include an assessment of the impact of fees on the volumes of Employment Tribunal claims including in relation to gender and other protected characteristics.