Monthly Archives: July 2008

Family Law-Written

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of family court cases involved a CAFCASS representative in the last period for which figures are available. [220761] Kevin Brennan: The information requested is not available. Separate statistics are collected by the Ministry of Justice and CAFCASS; proportions cannot be [...]

Parole Board-Written

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of cases the Parole Board will deal with in each of the next 10 years. [220764] Mr. Hanson: The Parole Board’s caseload projections for the period 2008-09 to 2009-10 are listed in the following table. Longer term [...]

Supreme Court: Costs-Written

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his most recent estimate is of the (a) capital and (b) annual running costs of the Supreme Court. [220768] Mr. Straw: Following my announcement of 3 July on unforeseen building repair costs, the estimated cost of delivering a Supreme Court for the United Kingdom [...]

Court fees-Oral

Mr. Henry Bellingham (North-West Norfolk) (Con): We are talking about a staggering increase in court fees of 2,900 per cent. Is the Minister aware that in London, where a pilot study was carried out, there has been a 40 per cent. drop in the number of cases? In Kent, there has been an 80 per [...]

Armed Forces: Pay-Written

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what proportion of salary payments for personnel in all three services were paid on time in the last two years; [215422] (2) how many RAF employees (a) received a salary payment late and (b) missed a salary payment as a result of errors in [...]

Unitary Norfolk Council Proposed

  Proposals have been made by The Boundary Committee for England to replace West Norfolk Council with a countywide authority for Norfolk. This proposal is part of a large-scale review of Local Government organisation.   A new super authority would be created in substitution for all existing borough and district authorities. This single authority would [...]