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Actions completed last month

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1.6.i Develop a scheme to generate reparation and rehabilitation funds through work in prisons
1.6.ii Identify, develop and introduce new opportunities with private business for work by prisoners
1.8.i Design arrangements to recover the costs of remanding young people to secure accommodation from local authorities
1.8.iii Publish plans for the long term future of the youth secure estate
2.2.iii Introduce legislation
2.3.i Develop guidance around new provisions and Rehabilitation of Offenders Act regime more widely so that people, including employers, are clear as to when convictions may be concealed and when they must be disclosed
2.6.iii Improve standards in prisons in high volume FNO countries by using government funding to improve our ability to return time-serving prisoners
2.6.v Increase voluntary repatriation prior to conviction by developing the use of conditional cautions, requiring departure from the UK and no return for a specified period as an alternative to prosecution for FNOs with no right to be in the UK
3.3.ii Review sanctions for defence disclosure failures
3.3.iii Consult on new sanctions to tackle serious economic crime committed by companies, develop final policy proposals and introduce second session legislation
3.12.i Increase small claims track limit to £10,000 and implement reform to orders for sale and charging orders
3.13.i Implement reforms for civil litigation funding and costs as set out in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, including banning referral fees in personal injury cases
3.14.ii Review fixed recoverable costs available within the procedure, and implement reforms
4.9.i Implement legislative and non-legislative provisions, working with Home Office, Attorney General’s Office and the enforcement authorities
3.4.i Develop and implement secondary legislation to enact relevant provision of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
3.4.ii Develop revised guidance for legal aid practitioners
3.10.i Introduce legislation to introduce a single family court
4.1.i Legislate to enable court broadcasting in criminal proceedings, in the second session of Parliament
4.2.i Legislate to reform judicial appointments to improve diversity, for introduction in the second session of Parliament
4.6.i Legislate through a Defamation Bill in the second session of Parliament
4.8.i Introduce legislation
4.10.ii Explore additional measures to ensure that existing laws and procedures can be more effectively enforced to protect non-residential property owners, working with other government departments and the enforcement agencies
3.12.ii Legislate to establish a single county court, in the second session of Parliament
4.7.ii Support the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, as necessary, to deliver a focused package of growth related repeals as part of their second session Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
3.15.iii Identify a comprehensive set of principles to fee setting and the system of remissions (a subsidy provided to those who are unable to pay court fees) for the new organisation
3.15.iv Support the passage of legislation to introduce a data sharing clause with DWP and HMRC, for introduction in the second session of Parliament
3.15.vi Introduce direct lodgement to the Social Security and Child Support tribunal

Actions to be completed this month

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2.3.ii Commence Bill provisions
4.7.i Lead on a review of existing legislation, supported by other government departments, to identify unnecessary laws and options for repeal

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