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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"What has been the cost in wasted court time, particularly in family proceedings where people have not been properly prepared for their proceedings, as a result of cuts to legal aid?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

"Does the Minister envisage the girls and younger boys being educated completely separately from the older boys?..."
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Written Question

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Monday 31st March 2014

Asked by: John Leech (Liberal Democrat - Manchester, Withington)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the people imprisoned in 2012 for non-payment of fines relating to television licence evasion had other unpaid fines for other offences; and how many outstanding fines on average such people had.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

It is not possible to identify from Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals systems the original offences of people sent to prison for non payment of fines or how many other fines they may have had. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost as identifying this would require a manual search of all closed and live fine accounts.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 20 Jun 2013
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"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mr Pritchard. This issue is of particular interest to me, not because I am on the Justice Committee or because I am a former Home Secretary or anything like that, but simply because it was brought to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 20 Jun 2013
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"Does the Minister accept that the vast majority of interpreters who currently refuse to work for Capita have made it clear that they will continue to refuse to do so?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 20 Jun 2013
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"Will the Minister confirm how many other potential operators were left in the process at the end? My understanding is that only one was left. Everyone else had been ruled out as being incapable of fulfilling the contract...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Apr 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"The decision to hold the FA cup final at 5.15 pm to allow more football fans to watch the game after their teams have played earlier in the day means that City and Wigan fans will struggle to get back by train. Does the Minister agree that the solution for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Jan 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Given the impossible task that clubs face to keep some fans seated at football matches, is it not time to carry out an assessment of whether it would in fact be safer for grounds to introduce safe standing areas rather than people continuing to stand in areas that are not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Dec 2012
Leveson Inquiry

"I am grateful for the opportunity to speak about such an important issue as the future of press regulation. However, I am disappointed that following the publication of the Leveson report, the media have sought to render the debate as an attack on free speech rather than an attempt to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Dec 2012
Leveson Inquiry

"I am not for one second suggesting the newspaper should be punished. I am merely suggesting that it is rather ironic for a newspaper publisher bleating about free speech not to allow an opinion to be published in its newspaper, in what is supposed to be an opinion piece by …..."
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