§ Mr. FabricantTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list the cost of all research undertaken by his Department since May 1997, excluding the cost of green papers and other public consultation documents drafted by his officials; and if he will list in each case the organisations which undertook that research. [52696]
§ Mr. HoonThe information requested is listed in the following tables.
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LCD Research projects completed or due to complete in 1998 Project title Cost (£) Date completed Researcher details Contracting For Legal Services with Different Cost Rules 6,200 March 1998 Gwyn Bevan London School of Economics and Political Science Professor Paul Fenn University of Nottingham Dr. Neil Rickman University of Surrey Costing Fast Track Procedures Through Hypothetical Case Studies 96,000 March 1998 Tamara Goriely, Farah Butt, Professor Avrom Sherr Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Review Papers on Marriage causes, and ways of preventing marital breakdown 79,150 March 1998 One plus one ADR in the Court of Appeal—Preliminary Work 5,000 March 1998 Professor Hazel Genn University College London Economic Impact of Law on Ancillary Relief 4,000 April 1998 Professor Antony Dnes University of Hertfordshire The Central London County Court Pilot Mediation Scheme—Evaluation Report 23,615 May 1998 Professor Hazel Genn University College London Effect On Magistrates Of Learning That The Defendant Has A Previous Conviction 33,940 May 1998 Dr. Sally Lloyd-Bostock University of Birmingham Criminal Justice Reform and the Organisation of Criminal Defence Services 15,200 June 1998 Professor Lee Bridges University of Warwick Toward a Civil Justice Audit 32,168 June 1998 Professor Joanna Shapland University of Sheffield Study of the services to litigants in person provided by the Citizens' Advice Bureau in the Royal Courts of Justice 10,693 June 1998 Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson Consultants in Management, IT and the Law Court Customer Needs 4,200 July 1998 Sarah Beinart (Independant consultant) Empirical Analysis of Standard Fees in Magistrates' Courts 6,000 July 1998 Professor Paul Fenn University of Nottingham Review of the law relating to profits from crime 7,500 July 1998 Professor Gareth Jones Trinity College, Cambridge University Government Policies and Lawyers' Roles 11,075 September 1998 Phillip Lewis Wolfson College, Oxford University Ancillary Relief Pilot Scheme 206,703 September 1998 KPMG Applicability to other tribunals and court jurisdictions of organisational principles/practices of the London Parking Appeals Service 22,787 October 1998 Dr. John Raine University of Birmingham Economic Impact of the Quality of Legal Machinery 2,500 October 1998 Dr. Alice Belcher University of Dundee Fast Track Simulation Pilot 31,386 December1998 John Peysner Nottingham Trent University Information Meeting pilots a monitoring, evaluation, consultation and spatial mapping exercise 692,876 —since May 1997 1998 University of Newcastle Safeguarding Children's Welfare After Divorce 78,080 —since May 1997 1998 University of Wales Total 1,369,073
Combined research costs May 1997–98 £ May-December 1997 86,493 January-December 1998 1,369,073 Grand Total 1,455,566 In addition, £18,853 has been contributed to a study entitled 'Baseline Customer Research' commissioned by the Legal Services Ombudsman. The study is being run by Customer Management Consultancy Ltd and is due to complete in March 1999.