Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
In the central Ministry of Justice communications team, there are a total of 96.2 Full Time Equivalent Government Communication Service professionals.
Of this total, 38.4 work in the media discipline which covers press and media responsibilities.
This is the latest available data from June 2024.
The salary bands for Ministry of Justice roles following the pay award in July 2024 are:
Grade | Minimum (£) | Maximum (£) |
AO | 24,202 | 28,485 |
EO | 28,312 | 34,361 |
HEO | 34,140 | 42,019 |
SEO | 41,463 | 52,040 |
G7 | 56,532 | 69,338 |
G6 | 68,967 | 83,585 |
SCS1 | 76,000 | 117,800 |
SCS2 | 98,000 | 162,500 |
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many post legislative reviews (a) their Department or (b) their predecessor Department has undertaken on (i) primary and (ii) secondary legislation in each of the last five years.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
(i) In 2017 the Ministry of Justice submitted one Post-Legislative Memorandum to the Justice Select Committee. It has not submitted any other Memoranda in the last 5 years. In addition, as part of the Department’s routine work, officials and Ministers regularly consider how best to make improvements to the justice system, and this includes looking at how recent legislation has performed.
(ii) The number of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on secondary legislation in each of the last five years is not held within the Department.
This information is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structures in the past decade.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of the (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by (i) their Department or (ii) their predecessor Department has undergone a post legislative review in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
(i) In the last 10 years the Ministry of Justice has carried out post-legislative scrutiny of one of 17 Acts that have received Royal Assent since 2012 – the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. In addition, as part of the Department’s routine work, officials and Ministers regularly consider how best to make improvements to the justice system, and this includes looking at how recent legislation has performed.
(ii) The number of post legislative reviews the Department has undertaken on secondary legislation in the last 10 years is not held within the Department.
This information is only held for internal administrative reasons and may not be exhaustive, for example, due to machinery of government changes to departmental structures in the past decade.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many pieces of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation his Department has sponsored in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
This information is not held centrally within the department. However, the amount of primary and secondary legislation sponsored by Government departments could be calculated using publicly available information.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many visa appeals have been decided in each month of the last two years.
Answered by Phillip Lee
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not record the information requested.
Information on the number of Immigration and Asylum appeal decisions is published quarterly, broken down into the case categories used by HMCTS to administer appeals:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many visa appeals decided for those who have no recourse to public funds took more than six months to be decided in each month of the last two years.
Answered by Phillip Lee
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not record the information requested.
Information on the number of Immigration and Asylum appeal decisions is published quarterly, broken down into the case categories used by HMCTS to administer appeals:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many visa appeals took more than six months to be decided in each month of the last two years .
Answered by Phillip Lee
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not record the information requested.
Information on the number of Immigration and Asylum appeal decisions is published quarterly, broken down into the case categories used by HMCTS to administer appeals:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many visa appeals have been decided for those who have no recourse to public funds in each month of the last two years.
Answered by Phillip Lee
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not record the information requested.
Information on the number of Immigration and Asylum appeal decisions is published quarterly, broken down into the case categories used by HMCTS to administer appeals:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that there is provision in the agreement for the UK's withdrawal from the mechanism for the return of abducted children included in the Brussels II (a) Regulation to continue to apply after the UK's exit from the EU.
Answered by Oliver Heald
Civil judicial cooperation, including on family law, is an important issue which is being considered as part of the UK's preparations for EU exit negotiations.
As part of the negotiations with the EU, the Government will consider what other mechanisms are necessary for civil judicial cooperation with Member States after exit.