Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Government's press release, entitled Killer drivers to face life sentences, published on 4 December 2016, if she will take further steps to improve the enforcement of offences related to dangerous driving.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
On Monday 5 December we launched a consultation on offences and penalties relating to causing death and serious injury.
How police enforce the law is the responsibility of individual Chief Police Officers, taking into account the specific local problems and demands with which they are faced. When an apparent offence is reported or they observe an apparent offence, they will decide on the appropriate course of action.
Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release by the Trades Union Congress on employment tribunal claims, published on 4 November 2016, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the potential effect of employment tribunal fees on the number of people able to challenge employment discrimination in the workplace.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The Government is undertaking a post implementation review of the introduction of fees for proceedings in the Employment Tribunals. We expect to publish the conclusions of the review in due course.
Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations her Department has received on the effect of tribunal fees on (a) working people and (b) people who have been treated unfairly at work.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The Government is undertaking a post implementation review of the introduction of fees for proceedings in the Employment Tribunals. We expect to publish the conclusions of the review, including the representations we have received on the impact of fees, in due course.
Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been awarded to the UK from the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme for the period 2014 to 2020; what action grants have been so awarded; and to which Departments and under what headings any such funding has been awarded.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The information requested which relates to projects which have secured funding can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants1/closed-calls/index_en.htm. Funding is provided to projects themselves as opposed to countries or government departments; projects may list UK based bodies as an applicant or as a partner in the project.
Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in category (a) 1, (b) 2, and (c) 3 are being managed by multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) in England and Wales; and how many MAPPA-managed offenders there have been in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
This information is available in table 1 of the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements Annual Reports. These can be found at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mappa-annual-report-20010-11
Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of unlawful marketing of knives in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Penning
Knife crime has no place on our streets and the government continues to work with the police and partners, including retailers, to ensure that we reduce violence and knife crime. There are strict laws on sales of knives and on how knives can be marketed, which are enforced by the police and Trading Standards. Anyone who markets a knife in a way that indicates or suggests that is suitable for combat or is likely to encourage violent behaviour faces a prison sentence of up to four years.
There were no convictions for the offence of unlawful marketing of knives, in England and Wales, from 2010 to 2014 (the latest available), on a principal offence basis.
Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of causing death by dangerous driving have not been subject to automatic release in the last three years.
Answered by Mike Penning
The majority of people sentenced to immediate custody for the offence of causing death by dangerous driving are subject to the standard determinate sentence release provisions, with automatic release at the half-way point in accordance with the requirements of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Some offenders serving this type of sentence may be eligible to be considered for release on home detention curfew (HDC) before their automatic release date, but those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving are presumed unsuitable for HDC and can only be considered in exceptional circumstances.