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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the costs and benefits of the current funding regime for insolvency litigation between 26 February 2015 and 17 December 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the findings of the report by Professor Walton, published in December 2015, that the current insolvency litigation regime returns £480 million a year to creditors, i...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he had considered the interim findings of the report of Professor Walton on the insolvency litigation landscapes, published on 10 December 2015, before making the announcement on 17 December 2015 to end t...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons he ended the insolvency exemption from the 2012 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act on 17 December 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of back-to-work programmes for people with mental health problems; and if he will take steps to change programmes judged to be ineffective.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Government plans to publish the results of its consultation on the review of the BBC's Royal Charter.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons the Government took the decision to close the Manufacturing Advisory Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to publish statistics on national food bank usage.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were in open prisons (a) in the most recent period for which figures are available and (b) in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are employed in prisons in (a) the most recent period for which figures are available and (b) each of the last five years.