Criminal Courts Review (Hansard, 4 February 2002)

§ Mr. Boswell
To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many internet users have attempted to access the Public Record Office online site for the 1901 census; and if she will make a statement. [31308]

§ Ms Rosie Winterton
The Public Record Office website and the 1901 census website are two distinct services. The former is attracting an increased number of users and continues to work normally. For an estimate of the number of users attempting to access the 1901 census website, I refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave the hon. Member for Solihull (Mr. Taylor) on 28 January 2002,Official Report, column 89W.

§ Mr. Garnier
To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what the results were of the evaluation undertaken by the Review of the Criminal Courts Regional Discussion Events which have taken place to date. [R] [30799]

§ Mr. Wills
At each event delegates were handed an evaluation form. The results of the answers are as follows: 93 per cent. of delegates who returned their evaluation forms believed that these events had value, 3 per cent. felt they did not and 4 per cent. abstained. 72 per cent. of these delegates felt they had enough opportunity to air their views, 24 per cent. did not and 4 per cent. abstained. 80 per cent. of delegates responding believed that the format of the event was effective, 13 per cent. felt that it was not and 7 per cent. abstained from answering. 86 per cent. of delegates who returned their forms would attend another event such as this, 11 per cent. felt they would not and 3 per cent. failed to answer. The number of returned forms varied at each event, for example, only seven forms were returned at Cambridge whereas at Birmingham 101 were returned.

§ Mr. Garnier
To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many people(a) attended, (b) registered but did not attend and (c) were refused registration at each of the Review of the Criminal Courts Regional Discussion Events which have taken place to date. [R] [30800]

§ Mr. Wills
The numbers of those who attended and those who registered but did not attend are included in the table. Registration was refused only where the number booked had reached the capacity of the room. Because of the large non-attendance rate at London, "over booking" was allowed for the events in Cardiff and Manchester.

Attended Did not attend Capacity of room

Newcastle 95 13 150

Cambridge 55 5 130

London 171 129 300

Exeter 59 25 120

Birmingham 144 33 180

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Attended Did not attend Capacity of room

Manchester 130 67 180

Bradford 104 56 180

Cardiff 90 28 110

Total 848 356

	Attended	Did not attend	Capacity of room
Newcastle	95	13	150
Cambridge	55	5	130
London	171	129	300
Exeter	59	25	120
Birmingham	144	33	180