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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 20 Mar 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) courts—which clearly led to this considerable court backlog. - Speech Link
2: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) courts’ sentencing powers to take pressure off the Crown courts. - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) The lack of a judge is only one reason that courts stand empty. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 22 Apr 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) The reports are used to give the courts more context of the offending behaviour in a given case, and - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Member for Hartlepool (Mr Brash) wants to see as well, is equality before the law. - Speech Link
3: Diane Abbott (Lab - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) There are also some senior probation officers and magistrates. - Speech Link
4: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) Its backtrack was quietly communicated to judges and magistrates several hours after courts had already - Speech Link
5: Peter Bedford (Con - Mid Leicestershire) However, it is not happening just in the courts. - Speech Link


Deposited Papers

Nov. 12 2008

Source Page: Table showing empty property, what the (a) address, (b) occupying organisation and (c) floor area of each part of the Government civil estate that is currently occupied. 186 p.
Document: DEP2008-2688.xls (Excel)

Found: Courts ServiceHMCS - LONDON (CRIME - NORTH & WEST)HENDON MAGISTRATES COURT19THE HYDELONDON655.0HM Courts


Deposited Papers

Jan. 28 2009

Source Page: Table showing property on the e-PIMS database, broken down by address, and by whether the floor-space is used or vacant, together with a description of the vacant space. 753 p.
Document: DEP2009-0259.xls (Excel)

Found: MAGISTRATES' COURT (VICTORIA LAW COURTS)MAGISTRATES' COURTCORPORATION STREETBIRMINGHAMWEST MIDLANDSB4


Deposited Papers

Sep. 16 2010

Source Page: Table showing property on the e-PIMS database, broken down by region, Department name, address, and vacant floor area.
Document: DEP2010-1742.xls (Excel)

Found: Courts ServiceHMCS - SOUTH EAST (BEDFORDSHIRE, HERTFORDSHIRE & ESSEX)HATFIELD MAGISTRATES COURTCOMET


Commons Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
2nd reading - Mon 10 Mar 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We are introducing new respect orders that the police and courts can use to ban repeat offenders from - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Would he care to apologise to the people of Hartlepool for that disgraceful record? - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) magistrates court only. - Speech Link
4: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool Riverside) The Tories’ controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, the Public Order Act 2023 and - Speech Link
5: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) I must therefore turn my attention to the impact of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 24 Apr 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Shaun Davies (Lab - Telford) On a recent visit with the courts Minister, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Finchley and Golders - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend in thanking all the magistrates—as he says, they are volunteers, and they are the backbone of - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Residents of the Throston ward in Hartlepool, in common with communities right across the borough, tell - Speech Link


Deposited Papers
Ministry of Justice

Dec. 31 2007

Source Page: Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales 2005: supplementary tables. 123 p.
Document: DEP2007-0427.pdf (PDF)

Found: ' Courts Act 1980, and hospital and guardianship orders without c onviction(2)Magistrates' courts only


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 10 Sep 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Had we not done so, we faced courts unable to hold trials, police unable to make arrests and a total - Speech Link
2: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool Walton) It also requires probation to work well, otherwise magistrates are limited in their choices. - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) As of 22 August, 576 individuals have been brought before the courts. - Speech Link
4: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) I am afraid there are currently no plans to reopen Hartlepool magistrates court, but I would be happy - Speech Link
5: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) year, and we continue to hear criminal cases at Nightingale courts. - Speech Link


Deposited Papers
Ministry of Justice

Jun. 11 2008

Source Page: Public Law Family Fees: response to consultation. 42 p.
Document: DEP2008-1497.pdf (PDF)

Found: ™ courts enabling them to pay court fees incurred periodically in bulk.