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Written questions by Slaughter.

Every parliamentary written question tabled by Andy Slaughter this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.

Department:All (119)Ministry of Justice (44)Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (31)Department of Health and Social Care (10)Home Office (8)Department for Business and Trade (8)Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (4)Treasury (3)Department for Culture, Media and Sport (3)Cabinet Office (3)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2)Ministry of Defence (2)Department for Transport (1)

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11 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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Whether her Department is taking steps to utilise supported accommodation rather than custody to reduce the impact of prison.

Reply

HMPPS offers a three-tier structure of temporary accommodation known as Community Accommodation Service (CAS), two tiers of which provide accommodation that can be used to support community orders, releases on Home Detention Curfew, and bail. CAS1 (also k...

11 Nov 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of supported accommodation rather than custody for (a) women and (b) their families.

Reply

HMPPS offers a three-tier structure of temporary accommodation known as Community Accommodation Service (CAS), two tiers of which provide accommodation that can be used to support community orders, releases on Home Detention Curfew, and bail. CAS1 (also k...

4 Nov 2024·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·Answered
Asked

Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his counterparts in (a) Kuwait, (b) Qatar and (c) Bahrain on their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Politi

Reply

His Majesty's Government continues to engage across a range of human rights priorities with Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. We remain committed to the promotion of universal freedoms and upholding human rights globally and encourage all countries to meet their...

9 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
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What steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS patients receive appropriate (a) screening and (b) treatment for malnutrition.

Reply

Malnutrition is a clinical condition affecting all ages, across all communities, and in all health and care settings. Most cases of malnutrition will be secondary to another health condition, which may impact on nutritional needs or a person’s ability to ...

9 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
Asked

If his Department will make an estimate of the potential savings to the public purse from increased levels of malnutrition (a) screening and (b) treatment.

Reply

Malnutrition is a clinical condition affecting all ages, across all communities, and in all health and care settings. Most cases of malnutrition will be secondary to another health condition, which may impact on nutritional needs or a person’s ability to ...

9 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
Asked

What role he plans integrated care systems will play in addressing malnutrition across their localities.

Reply

Malnutrition is a clinical condition affecting all ages, across all communities, and in all health and care settings. Most cases of malnutrition will be secondary to another health condition, which may impact on nutritional needs or a person’s ability to ...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

What her Department's timescale is for ensuring that reforms to operational systems resulting from HMCTS's transformation programme capture more detailed management information; and whether her Department plans t

Reply

As the Reform Programme concludes in March 2025 and new systems are implemented and embedded, they will - in most instances - ensure more detailed data is captured.Not only are reformed services making a difference directly to those who use them, they’re ...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

With reference to the statement on her Department’s webpage entitled Criminal court statistics, which Criminal court statistics quarterly publication was the first to require work to assure the quality of source

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

With reference to the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly for October to December 2023, published on 28 March 2024, if her Department will make an assessment of the accuracy of the estimate of the outstanding cas

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

With reference to the delayed publication of the criminal court statistics due to an issue affecting the accuracy of the data, what steps her Department is taking to (a) mitigate against potential inaccuracies in

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Whether the issue affecting the quality of the data for the Criminal Court Statistics affects data on the number of Crown Court cases disposed of each month.

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

Whether her Department’s data cleanse of the magistrates’ court data will (a) help with listing, (b) benefit other court processes and (c) improve the accuracy of the statistics.

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

If she will publish the Criminal Court Statistics datasets due to be published in (a) June, (b) September and (c) December 2024 by the end of 2024.

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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If she will publish a breakdown of the magistrates' court backlog showing the number of (a) Single Justice Procedure cases and (b) cases that have to go to a hearing.

Reply

In June and September 2024, the Ministry of Justice made the decision to cancel publication of the quarterly Official Accredited statistics on the criminal courts, following concerns about the quality of criminal court performance data.That initial work h...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

What her planned timetable is for publishing family court data series that are paused due to the roll out of Core Case Data.

Reply

The work required to amalgamate data on family public law cases across the legacy system and the reform system Core Case Data before publication has now been completed. Most of the family court statistics have been reinstated. However, selected data serie...

4 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
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What her planned timetable is for (a) completing the migration of the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber to new case management systems and (b) publishing complete datasets for that tribunal’s workload

Reply

A project to deploy a new case management system to multiple jurisdictions including all four chambers of the Upper Tribunal, including the Immigration and Asylum Chamber (UTIAC) was completed in May 2022.The planned timetable for publishing datasets base...

12 Sept 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
Asked

How many applications were received for compensation following a conviction being quashed in each year since 2018; what proportion of those applications were successful; and what the average compensation award wa

Reply

The Miscarriages of Justice Application Service (MOJAS) has published management information which provides an overview of all applications received and decisions made for miscarriage of justice between April 2016 and March 2024. The statistics cover appl...

30 Aug 2024·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·Answered
Asked

Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to update the guidance by his Department entitled Overseas Business Risk: Israel section, published on 16 June 2023, to include (a) reference to the publication and (b) an assessment of the implications of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice entitled Legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, published on 19 July 2024.

Reply

The UK has received the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the 'Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem'. The UK is considering the Opinion carefully before responding. The UK respects the independence of the ICJ.

25 Jul 2024·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·Answered
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Media and Sport, whether she has sought advice on whether witnesses at Part One of the Leveson Inquiry (a) lied to and (b) misled that Inquiry.

Reply

Part One of the Leveson Inquiry and the subsequent police investigations were chaired by judge, Lord Leveson, and was independent of Government.

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