Christina Rees MP

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding of Lord Justice Briggs in his report entitled, Civil Courts Structure: Interim Report, published in December 2015, that personal inj...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on (a) consulting on and (b) piloting future planned reforms of the civil courts structure.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many unrepresented defendants there were in the (a) magistrates' courts and (b) Crown courts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of unrepresented defendants were unrepresented because they (a) failed to meet the legal aid merits test, (b) failed to meet the legal aid means test and (c) chose to defend themselves in the late...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government has taken to provide guidance to unrepresented defendants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government has taken to monitor the proportion of defendants who are unrepresented.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the needs of (a) the old, (b) the very young, (c) people with difficulties with IT literacy, (d) people with difficulties with literacy and (c) other vulnerable groups a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how his Department plans to fund the investment in ICT required to modernise and digitalise the court service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the potential effect on Wales of plans to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is between a case being listed and it going to trial since 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time has been in a Crown Court between a case being listed and it going to trial since 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is between a case being listed in a county court and it going to trial since 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions court cases have been listed in the same time slot as another case since 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to paragraph 1.143 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, how the Government defines the term claims culture.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has conducted or commissioned on the relationship between the number of personal injury claims and the level of insurance premiums.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning claims management companies under his proposals to increase the small claims limit in personal injury cases to £5,000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many and which courts in England and Wales court counters have closed in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have libraries; and which organisations (a) run and (b) fund each such library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget is for prison libraries in (a) total and (b) each prison in 2015; and what the cost was in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, further to the Government response of October 2013 to his Department's consultation on arrangements concerning whiplash injuries in England and Wales, what plans his Department has (a) to maintain access to justi...