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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Redundancy
Thursday 1st December 2022

Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to introduce a voluntary exit programme for civil servants in his Department.

Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Ministry of Justice currently has no live voluntary exit schemes. Voluntary exit schemes are a commonly used workforce management process available to departments based on their specific workforce needs.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Location
Tuesday 1st November 2022

Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what payments were made to civil servants in his Department for relocation costs to government offices outside London in 2021.

Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

We are achieving our Places for Growth targets through recruiting roles in London (as they become vacant) to our national office network. Therefore, there have been no relocation costs for civil servants into offices outside of London as individuals have not been moved. Instead as roles become vacant through natural attrition, roles are advertised and filled nationally.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Social Media
Thursday 3rd March 2022

Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department manage ministerial social media accounts as (a) their primary responsibility and (b) part of their role.

Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

We are now in a digital age, where social media and digital communications are an essential part of government, helping inform the public directly about matters which may affect their lives or interests.

In addition to the Civil Service Code, the Government Communications Service offers propriety in digital and social media guidance and is available to discuss questions relating to social media when working with ministers.

The Ministry of Justice employs an in-house social media team to use digital channels and create content to communicate departmental policies online. It is often appropriate for content relating to Government policies, guidance and announcements, created by civil servants, to be amplified or posted on other channels including ministers' own social media accounts where this helps drive wider engagement from the public.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Social Media
Thursday 3rd March 2022

Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on producing social media videos and graphics for use on ministerial social media accounts since January 2020.

Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

We are now in a digital age, where social media and digital communications are an essential part of government, helping inform the public directly about matters which may affect their lives or interests.

In addition to the Civil Service Code, the Government Communications Service offers propriety in digital and social media guidance and is available to discuss questions relating to social media when working with ministers.

The Ministry of Justice employs an in-house social media team to use digital channels and create content to communicate departmental policies online. It is often appropriate for content relating to Government policies, guidance and announcements, created by civil servants, to be amplified or posted on other channels including ministers' own social media accounts where this helps drive wider engagement from the public.


Written Question
Succession
Friday 28th January 2022

Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what protections are in place to prevent a convicted domestic abuser inheriting from the death of their spousal victim in the absence of an individual will.

Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

The law at the moment does not automatically change inheritance rights for any conviction other than preventing those guilty of unlawful killings from being beneficiaries (the ‘forfeiture rule’). The rationale is that people would take steps such as divorce or making a will to prevent abusers benefitting from their estate once the abusive relationship has ended.

The Government is currently giving consideration to this issue, and I understand that my colleague Lord Wolfson is soon to meet the honourable member on the matter.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Freedom of Information
Thursday 17th June 2021

Asked by: Florence Eshalomi (Labour (Co-op) - Vauxhall)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department operates a red, amber and green rating system for categorising Freedom of Information requests according to their presentational sensitivity.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Ministry of Justice does not operate a red, amber and green rating system for categorising Freedom of Information requests in terms of sensitivity. It does, however, use a process by which requests are assessed according to their complexity and sensitivity of the subject matter. On that basis, requests are assigned as either a “trigger” or a “non-trigger” request. If a request is complex and or concerns a sensitive topic it will be a “trigger” request. Responses to such requests will attract extra levels of compliance check by officials and may include contextual lines to explain any information being disclosed.

The Information Commissioner’s Office’s guidance requires public authorities to be requester and motive blind. This means that responses provided are not influenced by whom has submitted a request, or by the motive that may have prompted it. Any information being disclosed under the terms of the Act will be the same, no matter whom the requester.

The Ministry of Justice consistently receives some of the highest volumes of Freedom of Information requests compared to other Government Departments and has sustained performance above the ICO timeliness target of 90% for 43 consecutive months.