Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions for offences under the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 there have been in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Information on assaults on NHS workers cannot be separately identified from wider assault on emergency worker offences. The information may be held on court record but to be able to identify cases in which an NHS worker specifically was assaulted would require examining individual court transcripts which would be of disproportionate cost.
Information on the number of convictions for the specific offence up to the end of 2020 can be found in our Outcomes by Offence data tool here:
As the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 came into force in November 2018, the 2018 data does not cover the full year.
Improvements to our data processes currently underway have identified a number of convictions at Crown Court for this offence that have been excluded from the data tool linked above. We estimate this will add around a further 1650 convictions over the period since the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 was commenced. The number of convictions presented in the tool can therefore be considered to undercount by around 1650 over the three year period, and will be updated in May 2022.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions for offences under the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 involving an NHS worker there have been in each of the last three years.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Information on assaults on NHS workers cannot be separately identified from wider assault on emergency worker offences. The information may be held on court record but to be able to identify cases in which an NHS worker specifically was assaulted would require examining individual court transcripts which would be of disproportionate cost.
Information on the number of convictions for the specific offence up to the end of 2020 can be found in our Outcomes by Offence data tool here:
As the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 came into force in November 2018, the 2018 data does not cover the full year.
Improvements to our data processes currently underway have identified a number of convictions at Crown Court for this offence that have been excluded from the data tool linked above. We estimate this will add around a further 1650 convictions over the period since the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 was commenced. The number of convictions presented in the tool can therefore be considered to undercount by around 1650 over the three year period, and will be updated in May 2022.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases are awaiting trial at Barkingside Magistrates Court; and what estimate he has made of the current average waiting time for a case to reach the court.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Barkingside Magistrates’ Court is in the North East London Local Justice Area, and all trials for that area are listed at Romford Magistrates’ Court. There are currently 109 motoring cases and 395 non motoring cases awaiting summary trial at Romford Magistrates’ Court, along with 53 Youth case trials.
The average waiting time for a case between charge and first listing at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court is 17 days for bail cases with an anticipated guilty plea, 29 days for bail cases with an anticipated not guilty plea. Where the police do not bail the defendant, the case will be listed before the next sitting of the court.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for Leave to Remove were in each year since 2004; and how many of those applications were made by parents intending to return to a country in the EEA.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Statistics are only published for numbers of children affected by leave to remove applications and orders under section 13 of the Children Act 1989. Specific issue applications and child arrangements applications relating to leave to remove applications are not identified separately in the statistics collected. Information could only be obtained from individual case files at disproportionate cost.
Information on the intended destination of the proposed removal is not collected.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of children (a) removed from and (b) allowed to remain in the jurisdiction of England and Wales under Leave to Remove applications in each year since 2004.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Leave to remove orders can be made under section 13 of the Children Act 1989 where there is a child arrangements order for the child to live with a named person.
Where there is no such child arrangements order, the court can determine an application for leave to remove under section 8 of the 1989 Act by way of a specific issue order or by making a child arrangements order.
Information on what parents decide to do after a leave to remove order has been made is not collected.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of CAFCASS reports that were requested for Leave to Remove applications in each year since 2004.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The written consent of all persons with parental responsibility must be obtained in order to remove a child from the United Kingdom. Where a child arrangements order requires a child to live with a named person, and consent for removal is not given, the court can be asked for permission under section 13 of the Children Act 1989. Where there is no such child arrangements order in force, the court can be asked to decide about the child’s removal through a specific issue order made under section 8 of the 1989 Act.
In either situation, the court may ask Cafcass to prepare a Section 7 welfare report about the child’s welfare needs and family circumstances. Cafcass does not record data on the number of Section 7 reports requested by the court by reference to the type of application made. This information could only be obtained from analysis of individual case files at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of Hague Convention on Child Abduction cases in England and Wales in each year since 2004; how many children were ordered to remain in England and Wales as a result of those cases; and how many children were allowed to leave the country as a result of those cases.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The statistics currently available on the number of cases under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction for the years 2014 to 2016 are at
at tabs 4.2 and 4.3. There are no currently verified statistics for the years 2004-2013 or after 2016. A case can involve more than one child. The known decisions of the court in these cases on return or non-return are as shown in the table. Information on how many children were the subject of return orders or non-return orders could only be obtained by analysis of individual case files at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has received representations on the performance of the Inner North London Coroner's Office with reference to (a) ensuring appropriate burial arrangements for Jewish and Muslim people and (b) otherwise; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Phillip Lee
Coroners are independent judicial office holders. As such, it would be inappropriate for Ministers to comment on the reported actions of the Inner North London Senior Coroner.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he last met senior Metropolitan police officers from the London Borough of Redbridge.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The Secretary of State visited the London Borough of Redbridge on 19 January to take part in political campaigning. The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on this visit, due to its political nature.
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will outline the itinerary of his visit to the London Borough of Redbridge that took place on 19 January 2018.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The Secretary of State visited the London Borough of Redbridge on 19 January to take part in political campaigning. The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on this visit, due to its political nature.