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No direct research costs have been incurred since the Tribunals Service was launched in April 2006.
HM Prison Service and National Probation Service.
No direct research costs have been incurred by the HMPS and NPS as research is undertaken at NOMS HQ level.
Research and development expenditure can be identified in the relevant Department/Agency's resource accounts available on their internet site and via the Office of Public Sector Information.
Historic data are also collated by ONS and can be found at
Disabled
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of staff in (a) his Department and (b) the executive agencies for which he is responsible are disabled; and what the average salary in his (i) Department and (ii) executive agencies is of (A) full-time disabled staff, (B) full-time non-disabled staff, (C) part-time disabled staff and (D) part-time non-disabled staff. [220173]
Mr. Wills: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office (Mr. Watson) on 8 October 2008, Official Report, columns 651-57W.
Electoral Register: Commonwealth
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of Commonwealth citizens who are registered to vote and do not have leave to remain in the UK. [224333]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 6 October 2008]: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what estimate has been made of the number of Commonwealth citizens who are registered to vote and do not have leave to remain in the UK. (224333)
The Office for National Statistics publishes information collected by local authorities on the numbers of people on electoral rolls who are registered to vote in the United Kingdom. The data available from local authority electoral returns do not make it possible to distinguish those who are Commonwealth citizens, nor do they include information on eligibility to remain in the UK.
Family Law
John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the consequences for his Department's responsibilities of the European Court of Human Rights case X v Croatia, reported in July 2008. [224772]
Bridget Prentice: This case involved a mother who was divested of capacity to act under Croatian law. She played no part in the adoption proceedings. The European Court of Human Rights held that there was insufficient involvement of the mother in the decision-making process and it was this that breached her Article 8 rights. In England and Wales the parent is a party to the placement and adoption proceedings. A party, or an intended party, who lacks capacity (within the meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005) to conduct the proceedings must have a litigation friend to conduct proceedings on his or her behalf. This means that the person is represented in the proceedings.
Freedom of Information: Local Authorities
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on whether responses prepared by local authorities' freedom of information officers should be passed to council group leaders for approval or amendment. [225657]
Mr. Wills: The Freedom of Information Act 2000 does not require responses to freedom of information requests made to local authorities to be passed to council group leaders for approval or amendment and the Ministry of Justice has issued no guidance on this issue. It is the responsibility of each authority covered by the Freedom of Information Act to ensure that it complies with its statutory obligations and follows the section 45 code of practice when handling requests for information.
Legal Systems: Islam
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether there are any courts in England and Wales which incorporate elements of Sharia law in their work; and if he will make a statement. [225996]
Bridget Prentice: The legal system that operates the courts in England and Wales does not incorporate any elements of Sharia law.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State plans to reply to the letter to him from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 25 July 2008 (reference: 209717) on a court case. [225991]
Maria Eagle: I replied to the hon. Member on 9 October. I apologise for the delay.
Open Prisons: Prisoner Escapes
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners absconded from open prisons in each of the last five years, broken down by prison establishment. [225387]
Mr. Hanson: The following table shows the number of prisoners who have absconded from open prisons between April 2003 and March 2008 broken down by (a) prison and (b) year. The number of absconds last year was the lowest level since centralised recording began in 1995 and levels have continued to fall in the current year. Escapes too have been falling for over a decade with the current low levels having been sustained for some years now. This is despite considerable increases in population over the same period. It is my intention to continue this downward trend.
| Establishment name | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. The data are not subject to audit.
Figures on absconds and a range of other prison performance statistics are available at:
http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/abouttheservice/prison performance/performancestatistics/
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