Asked by: Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative - Spelthorne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals on legally binding pre-nuptial agreements; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Dominic Raab
We will consider nuptial agreements as part of our wider work in family justice reform to give support to couples when they have a family dispute.
Asked by: Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative - Spelthorne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what restrictions the Government has put in place to prevent threatening and intimidating behaviour on the part of bailiffs.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The Government is clear that aggressive enforcement action is not acceptable. In April 2014 reforms were introduced to protect people from threatening and intimidating behaviour by enforcement agents. The reforms introduced, amongst other things, safeguards to prevent the use of force against debtors, mandatory training and a certification process for enforcement agents to ensure that they are the right people for the job.
Asked by: Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative - Spelthorne)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what rights prisoners in HM Prison High Down Sutton have to association and exercise; and whether he has received representations that prisoners at that prison are being permitted less than half an hour to exercise per day.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
Prisoners at High Down have the same access to exercise and association as in all prisons in England and Wales. The details are set out in Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 58/2011 Physical Education for Prisoners. In addition, prisoners are entitled to association time outside of their cells that may include forms of exercise.
We have no record of any formal representations made by prisoners at HMP Highdown on the lack of opportunity to exercise