Kieran Mullan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Legal Aid Agency: CybercrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to inform legal aid providers of the potential impact of the cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency; and what assessment she has made of the cyber attack on the provision of lega
Answer: To reach as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK. The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned members of the public to the National C...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Agency: CybercrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to inform members of the public affected by the cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency.
Answer: To reach as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK. The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned members of the public to the National C...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTrials: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of trials overran in 2024.
Answer: Official Statistics (Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly) show that in 2024, of the 31,158 trials in the Crown Courts, 665 trials were ineffective due to witness unavailability and 1,637 trials were ineffective due to defendant unavailability. These figur...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTrials: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for which the number of cases that have been declared ineffective as a result of poor case preparation has increased since 2021; and what steps she is taking to help
Answer: Official Statistics (Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly) show that in 2024, of the 31,158 trials in the Crown Courts, 665 trials were ineffective due to witness unavailability and 1,637 trials were ineffective due to defendant unavailability. These figur...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTrials: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47355More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to reduce the frequency of ineffective trials that occur as a result of (a) witness and (b) defendant unavailability.
Answer: Official Statistics (Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly) show that in 2024, of the 31,158 trials in the Crown Courts, 665 trials were ineffective due to witness unavailability and 1,637 trials were ineffective due to defendant unavailability. These figur...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTrials: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trials were deemed ineffective because of (a) witness and (b) defendant unavailability in 2024.
Answer: Official Statistics (Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly) show that in 2024, of the 31,158 trials in the Crown Courts, 665 trials were ineffective due to witness unavailability and 1,637 trials were ineffective due to defendant unavailability. These figur...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoner EscortsMinistry of JusticeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to support prisoner transport services in ensuring prisoners are able to get to court in time for their trial.
Answer: The Prisoner Escort and Custody Service (PECS), which is part of His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), provides Ministers with regular updates on performance against delivery targets. Over the 12 months to February 2025, PECS contractual m...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordAlcoholic Drinks: CrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24271More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many delays there have been in fitting sobriety tags longer than (a) one, (b) seven, (c) 14 and (d) 28 days in each of the last 12 months.
Answer: The table below illustrates the proportional duration of fitting alcohol orders by month of order start date, from November 2023 to October 2024. This includes both AAMR tag and AML tag.Up until May 2024, the electronic monitoring service was delivered by...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: ReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21437More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) recall and (b) reoffending rates are for offenders who have been released under the SDS40 scheme since September 2024.
Answer: The number of people who have been recalled or have reoffended following release under the early release measure (SDS40) forms a subset of prison releases data which is scheduled for future publication. In accordance with the requirements of the Code of P...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders released under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme have re-offended since September 2024; and how many were not tagged when re-offending despite it being a condition of the
Answer: The number of people who have reoffended following release under the early release measure (SDS40) forms a subset of prison releases data which is scheduled for future publication. In accordance with the requirements of the Code of Practice for Official S...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders released from prison under the standard determinate sentence (SDS40) release scheme were (a) released in error and (b) subsequently recalled since September 2024.
Answer: This Government inherited a criminal justice system on the brink of collapse and was therefore forced on 10 September 2024, to take the unavoidable step to move certain release points from 50% to 40%, with an initial tranche of eligible offenders released...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question HL2063 on Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging, how many SDS40 prisoners requiring electronic tags were released without those tags; and what the average n
Answer: 1,889 prisoners were released on day one of tranche 1 and 1,223 were released on day one of tranche 2 of SDS40 releases. All visits for the installation of tags for these offenders were completed by 4 November.To provide the number of people who did not h...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question HL2063 on Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging, for what reason all SDS40 releases were not tagged before leaving prison.
Answer: This Government inherited a criminal justice system on the brink of collapse, and as a result was forced to introduce the emergency SDS40 scheme which allows some individuals to be released 40% of the way through their custodial sentence rather than at 50...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20392More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question HL2063 on Prisoners' Release: Electronic Tagging, how many visits for tag installation for SDS40 releases did not result in the offender being tagged.
Answer: 1,889 prisoners were released on day one of tranche 1 and 1,223 were released on day one of tranche 2 of SDS40 releases. All visits for the installation of tags for these offenders were completed by 4 November.To provide the number of people who did not h...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCrime PreventionMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to publish the impact evaluation for the acquisitive crime project.
Answer: We will publish the first impact evaluation of the Acquisitive Crime project next year. This will evaluate the effectiveness of compulsory, global positioning system (GPS) location monitoring at deterring burglars, robbers and thieves from reoffending and...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners on RemandMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of (a) the total number and (b) the percentage of prisoners on remand of the total prison population in each of the next five years.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice published prison population projections for 2024-2029 on 5 December 2024, which are available here: Prison Population Projections: 2024 to 2029 - GOV.UK.These include the number of people projected to be remanded into custody from ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners on RemandMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners are on remand for (a) summary, (b) either way and (c) indictable offences, by (i) the date of custody and (ii) offence type.
Answer: The requested information has been provided in the attached data table. To note that the ‘date of custody’ represented in this data is ‘30 September 2024’ (i.e. the individuals were in the remand prison population on this date) - this is in line with the ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCourts: Opening HoursMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date she signed the concordat on court sitting days.
Answer: The former Lord Chancellor reached an agreement with the judiciary on the Concordat in June 2024. The former Lord Chancellor sent the initial Concordat proposal to the Lady Chief Justice and the Senior President of the Tribunals on 5th June. The Lady Chie...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders with convictions related to alcohol use have been subject to an alcohol monitoring tag (a) on release from prison and (b) as part of a community sentence in each year sin
Answer: The number of individuals subject to an alcohol monitoring tag on release from prison and as part of a community sentence can be found here: Electronic Monitoring Statistics Annual Publication, March 2024 - GOV.UK.We are unable to produce data on the prop...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) arrests, (b) charges and (c) convictions have been made using data from the Acquisitive Crime GPS tagging programme in each year since its introduction.
Answer: Between 12 April 2021 and 15 November 2024, there were 213 charges and 152 convictions using the data from the Acquisitive Crime project.The Department does not hold data on the dates of these charges and convictions or on the number of arrests, this data...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential barriers to successful prosecution using information from the Acquisitive Crime GPS tagging programme.
Answer: The effectiveness of the acquisitive crime project is currently subject to robust evaluation and conclusions will be made available following the publication of the upcoming process and impact evaluations. It is not possible to provide any information pri...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Acquisitive Crime GPS tagging programme.
Answer: The effectiveness of the acquisitive crime project is currently subject to robust evaluation and conclusions will be made available following the publication of the upcoming process and impact evaluations. It is not possible to provide any information pri...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice National ComputerMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Number of working-age individuals with a record on the PNC, published on 28 October 2024, what proportion of these records relate to individuals that (a) ar
Answer: The information requested is provided in the table attached. This table includes data on the:Proportion of the records on the Police National Computer (PNC) in each category specified, by offenders of working age.This analysis looks at the proportion of r...
Answered 19 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIndependent Sentencing ReviewMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has allocated funding for commissioning primary research to the Independent Sentencing Review.
Answer: This Government has delivered on a manifesto commitment to bring sentencing up to date and ensure the framework is consistent, by launching an Independent Review of Sentencing on 22 October 2024.The Review will be guided by the Terms of Reference publishe...
Answered 19 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordIndependent Sentencing ReviewMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will require the Chair of the Independent Sentencing Review to publish the evidence it receives on that review.
Answer: This Government has delivered on a manifesto commitment to bring sentencing up to date and ensure the framework is consistent, by launching an Independent Review of Sentencing on 22 October 2024.The Review will be guided by the Terms of Reference publishe...
Answered 19 Nov 2024
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