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Written Question
Secure Schools
Monday 16th October 2023

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many secure schools for youth offenders have been opened since 2010.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

The first Secure School is due to open in Spring 2024.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Islam
Thursday 24th October 2019

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff in his Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

Table 1 - MoJ Muslim1 staff by ethnicity1 and grade, as at 30 June 2019

Grade

Asian or Asian British

Black or Black British

Mixed or Mixed British

White

Other

Unknown2

Total

SCS

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Band A

31

~

~

~

~

~

37

Band B

95

~

~

~

~

~

114

Band C

140

12

5

4

7

13

181

Band D

209

10

7

6

5

13

250

Band E

729

54

14

24

38

38

897

Band F

77

16

3

4

8

4

112

NPS (No Equivalent) and unknown

198

19

14

10

6

13

260

Total

1479

116

46

56

71

83

1851

Note

  1. Ethnicity and religion are self-declared optional fields.
  2. Includes "Prefer not to say", and non-responses.
  3. ~ denotes values of 2 or fewer, suppressed for reasons of data protection, or values suppressed for reasons of secondary suppression to prevent disclosure in cases where totals would reveal suppressed values.

Written Question
Employment: Discrimination
Monday 20th November 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims of (a) age, (b) disability, (c) race, (d) religion or belief, (e) sex and (f) sexual orientation discrimination were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful at hearing in each year from 2012-13 to 2016-17.

Answered by Dominic Raab

The tables below show the number of Employment Tribunal claims disposed of at hearing, by outcome, for each financial year from April 2012 to March 2017, where the main jurisdiction was a discrimination complaint1.

Financial Year April 2012 - March 2013

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

16

112

Disability discrimination

100

374

Race discrimination

54

426

Religion or belief discrimination

10

31

Sex discrimination

104

284

Sexual orientation discrimination

9

25

Financial Year April 2013 - March 2014

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

11

75

Disability discrimination

100

401

Race discrimination

74

381

Religion or belief discrimination

3

21

Sex discrimination

95

248

Sexual orientation discrimination

5

25

Financial Year April 2014 - March 2015

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

4

57

Disability discrimination

87

226

Race discrimination

43

230

Religion or belief discrimination

0

22

Sex discrimination

58

103

Sexual orientation discrimination

4

6

Financial Year April 2015 - March 2016

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

6

40

Disability discrimination

67

177

Race discrimination

29

163

Religion or belief discrimination

3

6

Sex discrimination

28

75

Sexual orientation discrimination

3

6

Financial Year April 2016 - March 2017

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

9

44

Disability discrimination

69

179

Race discrimination

23

133

Religion or belief discrimination

7

5

Sex discrimination

32

55

Sexual orientation discrimination

2

7

1 A claim can be brought under one or more different jurisdictions, for example under Age discrimination and Equal pay. The table shows the number of claims disposed at hearing where the main jurisdiction is a discrimination jurisdiction.

2 Includes "Unsuccessful at hearing" formerly "Dismissed at hearing - Otherwise" and "Dismissed at a preliminary hearing" formerly Dismissed at hearing - Out of scope".

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.


Written Question
Road Traffic Offences: Sentencing
Thursday 29th June 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish feedback from the consultation into driving offences and penalties relating to causing death or serious injury that closed on 1 February 2017.

Answered by Dominic Raab

The consultation on driving offences and penalties issued by the previous government closed on 1 February. The government is now considering the consultation responses. Any announcement will be made in due course.


Written Question
Marriage: Humanism
Tuesday 31st January 2017

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to section 14 of the Marriage (Same Sex) Couples Act 2013, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of legalising humanist marriages; and whether the Government has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to legalise such marriages.

Answered by Oliver Heald

Assessments of the likely equality impacts and of the potential economic costs and benefits of provision for marriages by non-religious belief organisations, including humanist marriages, were published on gov.uk in June 2014 in the consultation paper on such provision.

The Law Commission has published its report on initial scoping work to identify the issues for potential reform of the law concerning how and where people can get married in England and Wales. The Government is carefully considering the report and will respond in due course.


Written Question
Forced Marriage Protection Orders
Tuesday 10th May 2016

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many forced marriage protection orders were issued in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Statistics on Forced Marriage Protection Orders are published by the Ministry of Justice and are available as part of the Family Courts Statistics Quarterly series at

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly.