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1167368

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is responsible for digitisation in his Department; and what mechanisms the person with responsibility for digitisation uses to champion digitisation.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	7669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for digital and technology within the department is held by the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) who acts as functional lead for Digital, Data and Technology profession. Updates on digital and technology are provided on a semi-regular basis to the department’s Executive Committee.</p><p> </p><p>The CDIO regularly attends boards and committee meetings across department agencies, and meets with Chief Executives to ensure that digital and technology needs are met.</p><p> </p><p>Due to its unique constitutional position. HM Courts and Tribunal Service has its own DDAT function.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1167379

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of adjournments is per case in all cases heard in the criminal courts in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	7674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested about the average number of adjournments per case in all cases heard in the criminal courts each year since 2010 could only be provided at disproportionate cost</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:44:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167442

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) magistrates, (b) crown and (c) family courts which are scheduled to be sold are (i) still hearing cases and (ii) shut but yet to be sold.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	7677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The number of criminal or family courts that are currently operational and are scheduled to be disposed are as follows;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Magistrates’ courts</p></td><td><p>Crown courts</p></td><td><p>Family courts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of criminal or family courts that are closed but are not yet disposed are as follows;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Magistrates’ courts</p></td><td><p>Crown courts</p></td><td><p>Family courts</p></td><td><p>Crown and county courts (combined courts)</p></td><td><p>Magistrates’ and family courts (combined Courts)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The decision to close any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and only when effective access to justice can be maintained. Courts that have closed were either underused, dilapidated or too close to one another.</p><p>Since 2015/16 HMCTS has raised approximately £129m from the sale of surplus buildings to reinvest in the wider reform programme.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:30:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1167465

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Tactical Response Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the National Tactical Response Group has been called to each prison in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) has been called to each prison in each year since 2010 is provided in the attached document.</p><p> </p><p>The NTRG provides additional support staff or resources to prisons to help them deal with a variety of incidents. The overwhelming majority of call outs are for non-violent incidents, including where they attended as a precaution and when the situation was resolved locally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not tolerate violence or disruptive behaviour in our prisons. We’ve recruited around 4,300 additional officers since October 2016 and are spending an extra £100 million on airport-style security, x-ray scanners and phone-blocking technology. This is part of the Government’s new £2.75bn investment to modernise and maintain our prisons, create 10,000 additional places, and step up security to stop the flow of drugs and mobile phones.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to ensuring our prison officers have the tools they need to do the job safely with body worn cameras, ‘police-style’ handcuffs and restraints, and PAVA incapacitant spray.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 05/11/2019 12:25:32 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name NTRG deployment 2010-2018.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167466

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the most recent estimate is of the cost of outstanding repairs at each prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>This Government is investing an additional £156million in 2020/21 to improve the conditions of existing prisons across the estate – targeting the most pressing maintenance concerns including boilers, fire safety and serveries. This underpins our commitment to a system that is decent, safe and secure.</p><p> </p><p>Currently the priority maintenance backlog totals approximately £900m. This is most up to date estimate we have of the costs associated with the maintenance backlog, inclusive of resource costs.</p><p> </p><p>A figure for each individual establishment is not available and would represent disproportionate cost to obtain.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:31:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167467

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2019 to Question 944 on Reoffenders, how many offenders under statutory supervision have been convicted under each category of serious offence in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>We have interpreted the request to mean the number of offenders convicted of a Serious Further Offence (SFO) broken down by conviction offence type. The information you ask for is routinely published and therefore available in the public domain, and I have provided the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences</a>. We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 next year.</p><p> </p><p>Not all charges for an SFO will result in a conviction. In any year, in about 50% of cases either the charges are dropped before trial, or the offender is acquitted following trial or the offender is convicted of a less serious offence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 15:45:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167471

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of unpaid work have been handed down by the courts as part of community orders in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	7785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and would require a manual search of court records which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p>The number of community sentences issued can be found in our outcomes by offence tool:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:37:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167031

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults against other prisoners and (i) assaults and (ii) serious assaults against staff there were at (A) HMP Dartmoor, (B) HMP Dartmoor comparator prisons, (C) all category C prisons and (D) all prisons per 1,000 prisoners in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	7120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows all the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since October 2016 and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We have announced an extra £100 million for security, on top of £70 million we were already spending to make prisons safer, more secure and decent. This is part of the Government’s new £2.75bn investment to modernise and maintain our prisons, create 10,000 additional places, and step up security to stop the flow of drugs and mobile phones. We are equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug detection dogs and dedicated search teams, to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:32:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 7120 Grahame Morris data.xlsx title Table
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1167032

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Length of Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of band 3 to 5 prison officers have experience of less than (a) six months, (b) one year, (c) three years and (d) five years at (i) HMP Dartmoor, (ii) HMP Dartmoor comparator prisons, (iii) all category C prisons and (iv) all prisons.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	7121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The number and proportion of band 3-5 prison officers by length of service as at 30<sup>th</sup> June 2019 for HMP Dartmoor, HMPS Dartmoor comparator prisons, category C prisons and all prisons, is provided in table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p>The huge number of officers we’ve recently recruited inevitably means there are more staff – and more leavers - with under one year’s experience. But we are working hard to retain staff, including by giving them the biggest pay award in a decade last year.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number (full time equivalent) and proportion of band 3-5 officers<sup>1</sup> in post, by length of service<sup>2</sup> in HMP Dartmoor, HMP Dartmoor comparator prisons<sup>3</sup>, all male category C prisons, all public sector prisons<sup>4</sup>, as at 30 June 2019</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Full time equivalent</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Length of service<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>HMP Dartmoor</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>HMP Dartmoor comparator prisons<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Male Category C prisons</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>All Public Sector prisons<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than 6 months</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2.8%</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>3.6%</p></td><td><p>380</p></td><td><p>5.9%</p></td><td><p>1,274</p></td><td><p>5.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0 to 1 year</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>11.8%</p></td><td><p>972</p></td><td><p>15.2%</p></td><td><p>3,407</p></td><td><p>15.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0 to 3 years</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>33.2%</p></td><td><p>342</p></td><td><p>34.3%</p></td><td><p>2,823</p></td><td><p>44.1%</p></td><td><p>9,343</p></td><td><p>42.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0 to 5 years</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>46.0%</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>40.6%</p></td><td><p>3,417</p></td><td><p>53.4%</p></td><td><p>11,373</p></td><td><p>51.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Band 3-5 Officers includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officers (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officers, and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p>2. The length of service is calculated from the most recent hire date.</p><p>3. Comparator prisons include Usk/Prescoed, Bure, Stafford, Channings Wood, Huntercombe, Warren Hill, Maidstone. Ashfield is not included in these figures as it is a private prison.</p><p>4. Includes staff who were employed in HM prisons only and does not include those based in HMPPS HQ, such as officers who are on detached duty with no fixed location, POELT trainers, or staff redeploying from closing establishments who are allocated to an area office in the HR database before being reallocated to a prison in the database.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:37:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1167033

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Prisons and Probation at the Justice Select Committee on 22 October 2019, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policy to maintain Victorian prisons of the closure of HMP Dartmoor.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	7122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The planned closure of HMP Dartmoor in 2023 was announced in 2013. This remains our plan.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to discuss with the Duchy of Cornwall whether there is a viable role for Dartmoor in our prison estate plans, which we keep under constant review.</p><p> </p><p>We have received £156m additional funding for next year to undertake essential maintenance across the whole prison estate, to ensure we have the prison places we need to manage incoming demand.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 17:24:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris