Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how funds received by HM Courts and Tribunals Service through the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme have been spent in each year since 2017.
Answered by Mike Freer
Confiscation orders are the principal means by which the Government carries out its policy to deprive criminals of the proceeds of their crime. They are used with the intent to disrupt and deter criminality. Receipts from confiscation orders, excluding any compensation amounts, are paid to the Home Office by agreement with HM Treasury. The Home Office remains the lead department on confiscation orders, and each financial year distributes a proportion of the funds it collected to partner agencies (including the Ministry of Justice). This funding is provided by the Home Office to respective partner agencies with a primary purpose of investing in asset recovery capabilities.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to authorise the publication of GRECO's report on the UK's compliance with its recommendations made in the 5th Evaluation on preventing corruption and promoting integrity in top executive functions of government.
Answered by Alex Chalk
We will be authorising publication of our GRECO Fifth Round compliance report in due course, in line with established process.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department plans to undertake to implement the Law Commission's recommendations on reforming the misconduct in public office offence.
Answered by Alex Chalk
It is vital that those who hold public office are held to the highest standards and if they abuse these positions it should be clear what punishments they could face. We welcome the Law Commission’s report into Misconduct in Public Office and will respond in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he will publish the responses to the call for evidence on corporate liability for economic crime, which closed on 31 March 2017.
Answered by Alex Chalk
The Government is considering the case for reforming the law on corporate criminal liability for economic crime and expect to publish a response to the Call for Evidence shortly.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will task the Law Commission with reviewing corporate liability for economic crime.
Answered by Alex Chalk
The Government is considering the case for reforming the law on corporate criminal liability for economic crime and expect to publish a response to the Call for Evidence shortly.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made in establishing what reforms to corporate liability for economic crime are necessary.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
This is a complex area of the law and the public consultation produced a range of competing views, which the Department has been analysing carefully with teams across Government since the Call for Evidence closed. The Government’s response is expected to issue in 2019.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times her Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
Answered by Phillip Lee
It has not been possible to answer this question in the time allowed. I will write to the right honourable member in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish a list of all secondees to her Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what the role was of each of those secondees.
Answered by Phillip Lee
Ministry of Justice records show that there were no secondments to the Department from (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a list of all public appointments made by his Department between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
Under the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies April 2012, government departments are required to publicise successful appointments.
Asked by: Baroness Hodge of Barking (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham were accessing civil legal aid in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The information requested is not held by the Legal Aid Agency.