Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff left his Department in each year since 2015.
Answered by Mike Freer
The table below shows the headcount of leavers in the 12 month period to 31 December for each year since 2015.
Headcount of leavers for MOJ (including HMPPS) in the 12 months to 31 December, from 2015 to 2023
Includes MOJ HQ, HMPPS, HMCTS, OPG, LAA, and CICA
| Headcount of Leavers |
12 months to 31 December 2023 | 11,303 |
12 months to 31 December 2022 | 12,285 |
12 months to 31 December 2021 | 10,488 |
12 months to 31 December 2020 | 7184 |
12 months to 31 December 2019 | 8456 |
12 months to 31 December 2018 | 7360 |
12 months to 31 December 2017 | 6432 |
12 months to 31 December 2016 | 6927 |
12 months to 31 December 2015 | 6329 |
Notes
Includes leavers from MoJ HQ, HMPPS, HMCTS, LAA, OPG, and CICA.
Internal transfers between HMPPS and the other MoJ agencies, and vice versa, will be included in these figures but all other internal transfers are excluded.
Number of leavers will be proportional to the size of the overall business, and therefore these figures should be considered within this context.
A number of calendar years within this period will have been affected by COVID-19.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many single justice procedure notices have been issued by the Television Licensing Authority in each year since 2015.
Answered by Mike Freer
The requirement to hold, and pay for, a television license is set out in the Communications Act 2003 and the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004. Under the Communications Act 2003, the BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the TV licensing system.
The BBC prosecutes most TV license evasion cases using the Single Justice Procedure (SJP). The SJP is a more proportionate way of dealing with straightforward, uncontested, summary-only non-imprisonable offences which almost exclusively result in a financial penalty.
The data we hold shows the number of defendants prosecuted by the Television Licensing Authority and dealt with via SJP for TV license evasion cases each year since 2015. This can be found in the table below:
Television Licence Evasion | |||||||||
Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Defendants dealt with | 0 | 67,473 | 136,793 | 126,571 | 121,020 | 53,227 | 48,495 | 43,504 | 33,460 |
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many conveyancers are registered with the Council for Licensed Conveyancers.
Answered by Mike Freer
The latest figures provided by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) on 8 January 2024 show that there are currently 1804 individual conveyancers who are registered with the CLC.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Judicial Appointments Commission spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Legal Aid Agency spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Law Commission spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Judicial Office spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Official Solicitor and Public Trustee spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Mike Freer
On 02 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a value for money audit of all Equality, Diversity and Inclusion spending in the Civil Service.
The audit will dovetail with the public sector productivity review, aiming at delivering a leaner, more efficient government. The audit forms part of our drive to improve productivity across the public sector by driving down waste and improving performance.
The findings and actions of the audit will be announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn.