The work of the Committee in the 2010-2015 Parliament - Justice Contents


Annexes


Annex 1: Members of the Committee during the Parliament
MemberNominated Discharged
Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith (Liberal Democrat, Berwick-upon-Tweed) (Chair) 08 06 10
Steve Brine (Conservative, Winchester) 05 12 11
Mr Robert Buckland (Conservative, South Swindon) 12 07 10

10 06 14

10 12 12

08 09 14

Rehman Chishti (Conservative, Gillingham and Rainham) 05 11 12
Christopher Chope (Conservative, Christchurch) 04 11 13
Jeremy Corbyn (Labour, Islington North) 16 05 11
John Cryer (Labour, Leyton and Wanstead) 24 02 14
Nick de Bois (Conservative, Enfield North) 01 11 11
Christopher Evans (Labour/Co-operative, Islwyn) 12 07 10 10 12 12
Mrs Helen Grant (Conservative, Maidstone and The Weald) 12 07 10 01 11 11
Ben Gummer (Conservative, Ipswich) 29 11 10 02 11 12
John Howell (Conservative, Henley) 08 09 14
Mrs Siân C James (Labour, Swansea East) 12 07 10 16 06 11
Gareth Johnson (Conservative, Dartford) 11 02 13 10 06 14
Jessica Lee (Conservative, Erewash) 12 07 10 29 11 10
Rt Hon Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid Cymru, Dwyfor Meirionnydd) 12 07 10
Seema Malhotra (Labour/Co-operative, Feltham and Heston) 06 02 12 25 11 13
Andy McDonald (Labour, Middlesbrough) 10 12 12
John McDonnell (Labour, Hayes and Harlington) 25 11 13
Robert Neill (Conservative, Bromley and Chislehurst) 05 11 12 11 02 13
Claire Perry (Conservative, Devizes) 12 07 10 05 12 11
Yasmin Qureshi (Labour, Bolton South East) 12 07 10
Mrs Linda Riordan (Labour/Co-operative, Halifax) 12 07 10 06 02 12
Anna Soubry (Conservative, Broxtowe) 12 07 10 29 11 10
Graham Stringer (Labour, Blackley and Broughton) 21 01 13 24 02 14
Elizabeth Truss (Conservative, South West Norfolk) 29 11 10 02 11 12
Karl Turner (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East) 12 07 10 21 01 13
Mike Weatherley (Conservative, Hove) 11 02 13 04 11 13

Annex 2: Committee Reports and Government responses

Session 2010-12
Report No Title Paper No
1 Revised Sentencing Guideline: Assault HC 637
2 Appointment of the Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission HC 770
3 Government's proposed reform of legal aid HC 681-I (Cm 8111)
4 Appointment of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales HC 1022
5 Appointment of HM Chief Inspector of

Probation

HC 1021
6 Operation of the Family Courts HC 518-I (Cm 8189)
7 Draft sentencing guidelines: drugs and burglary HC 1211
8 The role of the Probation Service HC 519-I (Cm 8176)
9 Referral fees and the theft of personal data: evidence from the Information Commissioner HC 1473(Cm 8240)
10 The proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board HC 1547 (Cm 8257)
11 Joint Enterprise HC 1597 (HC 1901)
12 Presumption of Death HC 1663 (Cm 8377)
Special Report NoTitle Paper No
1 Joint Enterprise: Government Response to the Committee's Eleventh Report of Session 2010-12 HC 1901

Session 2012-13
Report No Title Paper No
1 Post-legislative scrutiny of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
HC 96-I (Cm 8505)
2 The budget and structure of the Ministry of Justice HC 97-I (Cm 8433)
3 The Committee's opinion on the European Union Data Protection framework proposals HC 572 (Cm 8530)
4 Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Children and Families Bill HC 739 (Cm 8540)
5 Draft Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013 HC 927
6Interpreting and translation services and the Applied Language Solutions contract HC 645 (Cm 8600)
7Youth Justice HC 339 (Cm 8615)
8Scrutiny of the draft Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013 HC 965 (HC 1119)

(Future Oversight of Administrative Justice, AJTC's Response to the Justice Committee 8th Report of Session 2012-13, Scrutiny of the draft Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013)

9 The functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner HC 962
(HC 560, Session 2013-14)
Special Report No TitlePaper No
1 Scrutiny of the draft Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2012-13 HC 1119

Session 2013-14
Report NoTitle Paper No
1 Sexual Offences Guidelines: Consultation HC 93
2 Women offenders: after the Corston Report HC 92 (Cm 8279)
3 Transforming Legal Aid: evidence taken by the Committee HC 91
4 Environmental Offences Guideline: Consultation HC 604
5 Older prisoners HC 89 (Cm 8739)
6 Post-legislative Scrutiny of Part 2 (Encouraging or assisting crime) of the Serious Crime Act 2007 HC 639 (HC 918)
7 Appointment of HM Chief Inspector of Probation HC 640
8 Ministry of Justice measures in the JHA block opt-out HC 605 (HC 972)
9 Fraud, Bribery and Money Laundering Guideline: Consultation HC 804
10 Crown Dependencies: developments since 2010 HC 726 (Cm 8837)
11 Appointment of the Chair of the Office for Legal Complaints HC 916
12 Crime reduction policies: a co-ordinated approach? Interim report on the Government's Transforming Rehabilitation programme HC 1004
13 Serious Fraud Office Supplementary Estimate 2013-14 HC 1005
14 First Joint Report from the European Scrutiny, Home Affairs and Justice Committees of Session 2013-14: The Government's response to the Committees' Reports on the 2014 block opt-out decision HC 1177
Special Report No Title Paper No
1 The functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2012-13 HC 560
2 Post-legislative Scrutiny of Part 2 (Encouraging or assisting crime) of the Serious Crime Act 2007: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2013-14 HC 918
3 Ministry of Justice measures in the JHA block-opt: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2013-14 HC 972

Session 2014-15
Report NoTitle Paper No
1 Crime reduction policies: a co-ordinated approach? HC 307 (Cm 8918)
2 Theft Offences Guideline: Consultation HC 554
3 Mesothelioma Claims HC 308 (HC 849)
4 Joint enterprise: follow-up HC 310 (HC 1047)
5 Manorial Rights HC 657
6 Robbery Offences Guideline: Consultation HC 1066
7 Draft health and safety, corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene sentencing guidelines: Consultation HC 1099
8 Impact of changes to civil legal aid under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 HC 311
9 Prisons: planning and policies HC 309
10 The work of the Committee in the 2010-2015 Parliament HC 1123
11 Appointment of HM Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service HC 1117
12 Criminal Cases Review Commission HC 850
13 Women offenders: after the Corston Report: follow-up HC 1124
Special Report No TitlePaper No
1 Mesothelioma Claims: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2014-15 HC 849
2 Joint enterprise: follow-up: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2014-15 HC 1047

Annex 3: Debates on or associated with Committee reports
SessionDebated in Westminster Hall Subject of an Estimates Day debate Tagged on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House Launched as a Report
2010-12First Report, Session 2009-10, Cutting Crime: the case for justice re-investment, HC 94, 21.10.10 First Report, Session 2010-12, Revised Sentencing Guideline: Assault, HC 637, 2.2.12

Third Report, Session 2010-12, Government's proposed reform of legal aid,
HC 681, 29.6.11; 24.10.11; and 15.3.12

Seventh Report, Session 2010-12, Draft Sentencing Guidelines: Drugs and burglary,
HC 1211, 2.2.12

Oral evidence taken before the Justice Committee on 13 December 2011, The Annual Report of the Sentencing Council, HC 1711-i, 2.2.12

2012-13Sixth Report, Session 2010-12, Operation of the Family Courts,
HC 518-I, 24.5.12

First Report, Session 2012-13, Post-legislative Scrutiny of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, HC 96-I, 24.1.13

Second Report, Session 2012-13, The budget and structure of the Ministry of Justice, HC 97-I, 5.3.13 Twelfth Report, Session 2010-12, Presumption of Death, HC 1663, 2.11.12

Fourth Report, Session 2012-13, Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Children and Families Bill,
HC 739, 25.2.13

Seventh Report, Session 2012-13, Youth Justice, HC 339, 14.03.13, Floor of the House
2013-14Sixth Report, Session 2012-13, Interpreting and translation services and the Applied Language Solutions contract, HC 645, 20.6.13

Second Report, Session 2013-14, Women offenders: after the Corston Report, HC 92

Fifth Report, Session 2013-14, Older Prisoners,
HC 89 16.1.14

Thirteenth Report, Session 2013-14, Serious Fraud Office Supplementary Estimate 2013-14, HC 1005; 4 and 5.3.14

Fourteenth Report, Session 2013-14, The Government's response to the Committee's Reports on the 2014 block

opt-out decision,
HC 1177; 7.4.14

Oral evidence taken 11 June 2013: Transforming Legal Aid, HC 91; 27.6.13

Tenth Report, Session 2013-14, Crown Dependencies: developments since 2010,
HC 726, 16.1.14, Westminster Hall
2014-15Twelfth Report, Session 2013-14, Crime Reduction Policies: Interim Report, HC 1004

First Report, Session 2014-15, Crime reduction Policies: a co-ordinated approach,
HC 307 22.1.15

Annex 4: Expenditure by financial year
SessionCommittee expenses Publication costs Total
2010-12 £29,836 £94,029 £123,865
2012-13 £22,134 £97,050 £119,185
2013-14 £68,644 £45,713 £114,357
2014-15 *£11,305 **£

Committee expenses covers the cost for visits, witnesses and entertainment but not staff.
*Estimated ** Figures not yet available

Annex 5: Committee visits

Session 2010-12
Destination Inquiry / Other UK/OS/REP/ES
London Probation Trust,14 September 2010 Role of the Probation Service UK
Jersey, 16-17 September 2010 Dependency or Sovereignty? time to take stock conference UK
Military Corrective Training Centre, Colchester, 30 November 2010 Role of the Probation Service UK
Legal Services Council, 1 December 2010 UK
Brighton Town Hall, 24 May 2011 Role of the Probation Service UK/ES
HMP Doncaster, 11 July 2011 Role of the Probation Service UK
Brussels, 8-9 November 2011 EU's post-Lisbon JHA policy-making machinery and the EU's engagement on a range of JHA policy issues, and also the UK's opt-in/opt-out decisions UK (EU)
National Offender Management Service,
13 March 2012
UK
Guernsey, 15-16 March 2012 following up its previous work scrutinising the Government's management of its relationship with the Crown dependencies UK/REP
Denmark and Norway, 23-26 April 2012 Youth Justice / Budget and structure of the MoJ OS
Ministry of Justice, 17 January 2012 UK

Session 2012-13
Destination Inquiry/ Other UK/OS/EP/ES
YOI Hindley, 29 October 2012 Youth Justice UK
YOI Feltham, 27th November 2012 Older prisoners UK
Brussels, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 Interparliamentary Committee Meeting: Committee on Legal Affairs, The proposal for a Common European Sales Law: taking stock after a year UK/REP (EU)
Stormont Castle, Belfast, 4 December 2012 Youth Justice / Women Offenders UK/ES
Crown Prosecution Service, Reading, 22 January 2013 ongoing scrutiny of the work of the Crown Prosecution Service UK
HMP Styal & Adelaide House, 25 March 2013 Women Offenders UK
HMP Isle of Wight, 22 April 2013 Older prisoners UK
HMP Dartmoor, 29 April 2013 Older prisoners UK

Session 2013-14
Destination Inquiry/OtherUK/ OS / REP
Supreme Court, 11 June 2013 UK
Jersey, 23-24 June 2013 Crown Dependencies UK
Isle of Man, 26-27 June 2013 Crown Dependencies UK
Houston & Austin, Texas, 8-12 July 2013 Crime reduction policies: a coordinated approach OS
Guernsey, 3-5 September 2013 Crown Dependencies UK
Brussels, 21-22 November 2013 Conference: Assises de la Justice: What role for Justice in the European Union? UK/REP (EU)
Stockport, 10 February 2014 Crime reduction policies: a coordinated approach? UK
Athens (Rep Capacity), 16-17 February 2014 Meeting of the Chairpersons of the Committees on Justice and Home Affairs OS/REP
HMP Oakwood and HMP Featherstone, 28 April 2014 Prisons: planning and policies UK

Session 2014-15
Destination Inquiry/OtherUK/ OS / REP
National Archives, Kew, 1 July 2014 UK
Paris, 17 September 2014 Interparliamentary meeting on the EPPO and the protection of personal data OS/REP
Copenhagen & Berlin, 3-5 November 2014 Prisons: planning and policies OS
HMPs Belmarsh and Thameside, Woolwich, 18 November 2014 Prisons: planning and policies UK/ES

UK= United Kingdom   OS= Overseas  REP= Representative Capacity  ES= evidence session

Annex 6: Associated public bodies of the Ministry of Justice

Non Ministerial Departments

The National Archives

Executive Agencies

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

HM Courts & Tribunals Service

HM Courts & Tribunals Service

HM Prison Service

Legal Aid Agency

National Offender Management Service

Office of the Public Guardian

Executive non-departmental public bodies

Cafcass

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Information Commissioner's Office

Judicial Appointments Commission

Legal Services Board

Parole Board

Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

Advisory non-departmental public bodies

Advisory Committees on Justices of the Peace

The Advisory Council on National Records and Archives

Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

Civil Justice Council

Civil Procedure Rule Committee

Criminal Procedure Rule Committee

Family Justice Council

Family Procedure Rule Committee

Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody

Law Commission

Prison Service Pay Review Body

Sentencing Council for England and Wales

Tribunal Procedure Committee

Victims' Advisory Panel

Annex 7: Associated public bodies of the Attorney General's Office

Non-ministerial departments

Crown Prosecution Service

Government Legal Department

Serious Fraud Office

Treasury Solicitor's Department

Other

HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate

Annex 8: Ministerial appointments subject to pre-appointment scrutiny by the Justice Committee

Attorney General's Office

HM Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service

Ministry of Justice

Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission

Chair of the Office for Legal Complaints

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

HM Chief Inspector of Probation

Information Commissioner Prisons and Probation Ombudman



 
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