Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on the number of offenders sentenced to more than four years’ custody for sexual offences against children, broken down by whether the victim was (a) their own child and (b) another child in each year since 2017.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentences for sexual offences, including average custodial sentence lengths, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK
It is not possible to identify those who have a parental responsibility status. This information may be held in court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish data on (a) the parental responsibility status of offenders sentenced for sexual offences against children under 13 and (b) the number of such offenders who were sentenced to more than four years in custody in each year since 2017.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentences for sexual offences, including average custodial sentence lengths, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK
It is not possible to identify those who have a parental responsibility status. This information may be held in court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds information on whether offenders sentenced for sexual offences against children under 13 are the parents of minor children; and if he will make it his policy to publish such data.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentences for sexual offences, including average custodial sentence lengths, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK
It is not possible to identify those who have a parental responsibility status. This information may be held in court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders with parental responsibility for a minor child have received a custodial sentence of over four years in each year since 2017 for a sexual offence against (a) their own child and (b) any child.
Answered by Jake Richards - Assistant Whip
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on sentences for sexual offences, including average custodial sentence lengths, in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK
It is not possible to identify those who have a parental responsibility status. This information may be held in court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of employment tribunals in relation to fire and rehire practices that have found in favour of employees in (a) 2021, (b) 2022, (c) 2023 and (d) 2024.
Answered by Mike Freer
Fire and rehire claims are usually recorded under an unfair dismissal coding. From 01 January 2021 to date, there are more than 17,000 unfair dismissal judgments on the Employment Tribunal decisions register. To provide the information requested it would be at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of employment tribunal cases concerning fire and rehire practices in (a) 2021, (b) 2022, (c) 2023 and (d) 2024.
Answered by Mike Freer
It is not possible to provide the information requested without checking each claim at a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the average driving ban given to someone convicted of (a) causing death by dangerous driving, (b) causing death by carless driving and (c) failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Ministry of Justice holds data on driving bans issued for individuals sentenced for specific driving offences, on a principal disposal basis. This is publicly available and can be viewed in the Outcomes by Offence tool: 2022.
In the data tool, navigate to the ‘Sentence outcomes’ tab. Inside the PivotTable Fields box, remove ‘Average Custodial Sentence Length’ and ‘Average Fine’ out of the values box, and leave ‘Sentenced’ remaining. To view the length of driving bans issued, drag ‘Period of disqualification (MOT)’ into the ‘rows’ box. For outcomes relating to the specific offences requested, in the ‘HO offence code’ filter, select the below codes:
(a) 00404 – Causing death by dangerous driving (MOT)
(b) 00408 – Causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving (MOT)
(c) 80501 – Failing to stop after an accident (MOT)
The pivot table will now present the total sentenced and length of driving ban issued, at all courts from 2010 to 2022.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the funding arrangements for this year's grants for child contact centres.
Answered by Mike Freer
The Government values the work of child contact centres and acknowledges the important role they play in providing neutral places for contact between children and their family members.
The arrangements for this small value grant funding are changing this year. The Ministry of Justice is appointing the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) as the administrators of the grant for this financial year. We are working with NACCC to formalise this arrangement and information will be communicated to contact centres soon.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason some child contact centres have had their grants reduced by ten per cent.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Government values the work of child contact centres and acknowledges the important role they play in providing neutral places for contact between children and their family members.
Until April this year, the Ministry of Justice provided small value grants, via Cafcass, to support the running of child contact centres. The Ministry of Justice is in the final stages of agreeing the funding arrangements for this year’s grants and information will be made publicly available once this process is complete. Decisions on allocations of grant funding to induvial centres will be determined once the new administration arrangements are in place.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on setting the levels of funding for children's contact centres; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Government values the work of child contact centres and acknowledges the important role they play in providing neutral places for contact between children and their family members.
Until April this year, the Ministry of Justice provided small value grants, via Cafcass, to support the running of child contact centres. The Ministry of Justice is in the final stages of agreeing the funding arrangements for this year’s grants and information will be made publicly available once this process is complete. Decisions on allocations of grant funding to induvial centres will be determined once the new administration arrangements are in place.