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| Date | Type | Title |
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| Feb. 25 | Oral Questions | Oral Answers to Questions |
| Feb. 25 | Topical Questions | Topical Questions |
| Jul. 24 | Urgent Questions | Feltham A Young Offenders Institution |
| Mar. 24 | Written Statements | UK’s National Preventive Mechanism: Annual Report |
| Mar. 18 | Westminster Hall | Prison Staff: Health and Safety |
| May. 01 | Adjournment Debate | Children’s Funeral Fund |
| Title | Last Event | Next Event Date | Last Updated | |
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| Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [HL] 2019-19 | 1st reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 15 October, 2019 | 30 Oct 2019, 9:17 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes | ||||
| Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill 2019-19 | 1st reading: House of Commons (no debate) | 15 Oct 2019, 10:14 a.m. | ||
| A has been called and Parliament is no longer sitting. The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before . This means the Bill will make no further progress. To require the Parole Board to take into account any failure by a prisoner serving a sentence for unlawful killing or for taking or making an indecent image of a child to disclose information about the victim. | ||||
| Sentencing Bill [HL] 2019-21 | 1st reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 5 March, 2020 | 18 Mar 2020, 8:10 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to consolidate certain enactments relating to sentencing. | ||||
| Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill 2019-20 | 2nd reading: House of Commons 11 February, 2020 | 12 Feb 2020, 11:14 a.m. | ||
| To require the Parole Board to take into account any failure by a prisoner serving a sentence for unlawful killing or for taking or making an indecent image of a child to disclose information about the victim. | ||||
| Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [HL] 2019-21 | 2nd reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 17 March, 2020 | 3 Apr 2020, 5:05 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to implement the Hague Conventions of 1996, 2005 and 2007 and to provide for the implementation of other international agreements on private international law. | ||||
| Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] 2017-19 to 2019 | Report stage (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 16 October, 2019 | 9 Sep 2019, 3:56 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law | ||||
| Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill 2017-19 | Committee Debate: 2nd sitting: House of Commons 2 July, 2019 (1) (2) | 10 Sep 2019, 5:14 p.m. | ||
| The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to Make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes. | ||||
| Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] 2019-20 | 2nd reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 11 February, 2020 |
Committee stage: House of Lords 25 Feb 2020 |
12 Feb 2020, 9:26 a.m. | |
| A bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law | ||||
| Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [HL] 2019-20 | 2nd reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 5 February, 2020 |
Committee stage: House of Lords 3 Mar 2020 |
12 Feb 2020, 9:55 p.m. | |
| A bill to make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes | ||||
| Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] 2017-19 to 2019-19 | Report stage (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 16 October, 2019 | 23 Oct 2019, 3:14 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law | ||||
| Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill [HL] 2019-21 | 1st reading: House of Commons (no debate) | 25 Mar 2020, 12:20 p.m. | ||
| A bill to make in relation to marriage and civil partnership in England and Wales provision about divorce, dissolution and separation; and for connected purposes | ||||
| Sentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL] 2019-21 | 2nd reading: House of Commons (no debate) | 19 Mar 2020, 4:59 p.m. | ||
| A bill to give effect to Law Commission recommendations relating to commencement of enactments relating to sentencing law and to make provision for pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing law | ||||
| Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill 2019-21 | 1st reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 3 March, 2020 |
2nd reading: House of Lords 28 Apr 2020 |
26 Mar 2020, 3:09 p.m. | |
| To require the Parole Board to take into account any failure by a prisoner serving a sentence for unlawful killing or for taking or making an indecent image of a child to disclose information about the victim. | ||||
| Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill [HL] 2017-19 | Committee Debate: 1st sitting: House of Commons 23 July, 2019 (1) (2) | 26 Sep 2019, 3:15 p.m. | ||
| The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to provide for online procedures in civil and family courts in England and Wales in the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and in employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal | ||||
| Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill 2019-20 | 1st reading (Minutes of Proceedings): House of Lords 13 February, 2020 |
2nd reading: House of Lords 24 Feb 2020 |
14 Feb 2020, 8:52 a.m. | |
| A Bill to make provision about the release on licence of offenders convicted of terrorist offences or offences with a terrorist connection; and for connected purposes. | ||||
| Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Act 2018 | Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings) 20 December, 2018 | 21 Dec 2018, 10:51 a.m. | ||
| A Bill to make provision about the judiciary and the functions of the staff of courts and tribunals | ||||
| Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019 | Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings) 12 February, 2019 | 14 Feb 2019, 12:39 p.m. | ||
| To make certain acts of voyeurism an offence, and for connected purposes. | ||||
| Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020 | Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceedings) 26 February, 2020 | 3 Mar 2020, 3:50 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to make provision about the release on licence of offenders convicted of terrorist offences or offences with a terrorist connection; and for connected purposes. | ||||
| Civil Liability Act 2018 | Royal Assent (Minutes of Proceddings) 20 December, 2018 | 25 Sep 2019, 5:53 p.m. | ||
| A Bill to make provision about whiplash claims and the personal injury discount rate. | ||||
| Current Signatures | Final Signatures | Title | Petition Deadline |
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167,506 Petition Closed |
Violet-Grace’s Law - Life sentences for Death by Dangerous Driving Gov Responded - 25 Feb 2019 Debated on - 8 Jul 2019 |
15 Aug 2019 closed 7 months, 3 weeks ago |
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The men who killed our daughter drove a stolen a car at 83 mph in a 30 mph zone. They killed our 4-year-old daughter Violet-Grace and severely injured her nan, who has life-changing injuries. They will serve less time in prison than Violet was alive. I don’t want other families to suffer like this. |
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115,723 Petition Closed |
People found with a knife to get 10 years and using a knife 25 years in prison. Gov Responded - 14 Mar 2019 Debated on - 25 Mar 2019 |
3 Jun 2019 closed 10 months, 1 week ago |
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People are scared of the amount of knife crime with apparently very little deterent to stop people carrying knifes. |
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Ministry of Justice Select Committee Home Page
Select Committees are a formally established cross-party group of backbench MPs tasked with holding a Government department to account.
At any time there will be number of ongoing investigations into the work of the Department, or issues which fall within the oversight of the Department. Witnesses can be summoned from within the Government and outside to assist in these inquiries, and the Select Committee will occasionally publish formal reports of their findings.
| Date | Title | Type |
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| Apr. 06 | Government response to IICSA’s Accountability and Reparations Report | Policy and Engagement |
| Apr. 06 | Victim Surcharge circular: April 2020 | News and Communications |
| Apr. 04 | Measures announced to protect NHS from coronavirus risk in prisons | News and Communications |
Written Questions are submitted by Members of Parliament and the House of Lords to receive information or updates from a Department.
Departments are required to respond in a timely fashion and provide a response or requested information. Written Questions can compel detailed and specific information to be produced, and are frequently used as the source of news stories about the work of a Department.
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| 6 Apr 2020, 4:58 p.m. | Tribunals: Personal Independence Payment | Baroness Thomas of Winchester |
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Question To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to address the reported backlog of Personal Independence Payments tribunal claims. Answer (Lord Keen of Elie) HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has been working with the Tribunal’s judiciary both to appoint additional judges and panel members and to list more Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals into each tribunal session. Case-management “triage” sessions have also been introduced, with the aim of reducing the time taken for appeals to reach final determination. In addition, HMCTS has recently launched a new digital service with a view to enabling speedier processing of appeals. All these measures have the aim of increasing the capacity of the Tribunal and reducing the time taken to deal with PIP appeals. The number of PIP appeals outstanding in the latest period for which data are available shows a decrease of 13% when compared to the same period in 2018. |
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