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1177957

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Homicide: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the total number of offenders convicted of homicide involving children were (a) men and (b) women in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Data on the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted of murder up to 31 December 2018, is published and available in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at:</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><p> </p><p>Detailed information on the age of the victim and broader circumstances may be held on individual court records but to identify such cases would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:36:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177958

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women received each sentencing outcome for each type of offence in each police force area in the most recent year for which information is available; and what the average custodial sentence length was for (i) men and (ii) women for each offence type in each police force area.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Information up to December 2018 on sentencing outcomes relating to specific offences and police force area is published in the “Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool” at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>To obtain the information requested, in the Pivot Table Fields:</p><ul><li>To view data for the latest year, drag ‘Year of Appearance’ to the Filters field and select “2018”;</li><li>To view data for males and females, drag ‘Sex’ into the Columns field; and</li><li>Drag ‘Offence Group’ and ‘Police Force Area’ into the Rows field.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The number of individuals who received each sentencing outcome, and the average custodial sentence length, for each offence type by police force area will then be shown in the table.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:41:46 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177959

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Squatting: Business Premises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of squatting in commercial premises since the introduction of the criminal provisions contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the trends in the level of squatting in commercial premises.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:44:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177960

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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, how many offenders released on licence following a life sentence have committed (a) homicide and (b) other offences in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Serious further offences are very rare. Fewer than 0.5% of offenders under statutory supervision are charged with a serious further offence.</p><p>An offender sentenced to life imprisonment is eligible for release on life licence only once he has completed the minimum term (tariff) specified by the Court at the point of sentence. It falls to the independent Parole Board to determine whether to release a life sentence prisoner who has completed his minimum term and the Board will direct release only where it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the purposes of public protection for the prisoner to remain confined.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not keep the figures requested in relation to (b) other offences and to obtain them would incur disproportionate cost. The Ministry of Justice does capture however,</p><p>the more serious further offences (SFOs) by means of the Probation SFO Review Procedures. In accordance with those Procedures, the National SFO Team in HM Prison and Probation Service is notified of an offender subject to statutory probation supervision appearing in court charged with a qualifying offence under Probation Instruction 2018 06</p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Accordingly, there are published statistics on convictions for an SFO on the part of an offender on life licence, arising from notifications to the National SFO Team between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2018. I have provided the link below. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 in October 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows these figures broken down by homicide and other serious offences for 2015- 2018 which is the most recent available data in the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Serious Further Offence (SFO) type </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed homicide</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed other serious further offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 - 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 - 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 - 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Data is taken from published data which captures serious further offending notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS up until 31/03/2018.</li><li>Data is derived from the date of SFO notification to HMPPS. The serious further offence could have been committed prior to the timeframe of the published data.</li><li>This figure only includes convictions for serious further offences by life sentence prisoners on supervision that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.</li><li>The data provided are provisional figures subject to change when any outstanding cases are concluded at court.</li><li>The data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where a Court has subsequently ruled that they were responsible.</li><li>Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>The data for homicide would include manslaughter and other serious further offences involving death. The figures for homicide in this answer all relate to convictions for murder.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>14 offenders have been sentenced to life in the last five years who had received one or more previous life sentence on a separate occasion.</p><p> </p><p>Section 21 of Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out the starting point for the sentencing Judge to impose a whole life tariff in cases where an offender has been previously convicted of murder.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 1215 question first answered 27/02/2020 15:34:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177961

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving a custodial sentence work outside prison.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>Between October 2018 and September 2019, 3,858 separate individuals serving a custodial sentence had at least one incidence of ‘Work Related’ release on temporary licence.</p><p> </p><p>All offenders must meet strict criteria and pass a thorough risk assessment before being considered for release on temporary licence (ROTL). Research published in 2018 indicates that ROTL helps to reduce re-offending. It helps offenders to build and maintain family ties and find work, which are a critical aspect of reducing the £18 billion annual cost to the taxpayer of reoffending.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2020 12:03:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177962

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Life Imprisonment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders sentenced to life in the last five years had received one or more previous life sentences on a separate sentencing occasion.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Serious further offences are very rare. Fewer than 0.5% of offenders under statutory supervision are charged with a serious further offence.</p><p>An offender sentenced to life imprisonment is eligible for release on life licence only once he has completed the minimum term (tariff) specified by the Court at the point of sentence. It falls to the independent Parole Board to determine whether to release a life sentence prisoner who has completed his minimum term and the Board will direct release only where it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the purposes of public protection for the prisoner to remain confined.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not keep the figures requested in relation to (b) other offences and to obtain them would incur disproportionate cost. The Ministry of Justice does capture however,</p><p>the more serious further offences (SFOs) by means of the Probation SFO Review Procedures. In accordance with those Procedures, the National SFO Team in HM Prison and Probation Service is notified of an offender subject to statutory probation supervision appearing in court charged with a qualifying offence under Probation Instruction 2018 06</p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Accordingly, there are published statistics on convictions for an SFO on the part of an offender on life licence, arising from notifications to the National SFO Team between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2018. I have provided the link below. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 in October 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows these figures broken down by homicide and other serious offences for 2015- 2018 which is the most recent available data in the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Serious Further Offence (SFO) type </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed homicide</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed other serious further offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 - 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 - 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 - 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Data is taken from published data which captures serious further offending notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS up until 31/03/2018.</li><li>Data is derived from the date of SFO notification to HMPPS. The serious further offence could have been committed prior to the timeframe of the published data.</li><li>This figure only includes convictions for serious further offences by life sentence prisoners on supervision that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.</li><li>The data provided are provisional figures subject to change when any outstanding cases are concluded at court.</li><li>The data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where a Court has subsequently ruled that they were responsible.</li><li>Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>The data for homicide would include manslaughter and other serious further offences involving death. The figures for homicide in this answer all relate to convictions for murder.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>14 offenders have been sentenced to life in the last five years who had received one or more previous life sentence on a separate occasion.</p><p> </p><p>Section 21 of Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out the starting point for the sentencing Judge to impose a whole life tariff in cases where an offender has been previously convicted of murder.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 1213 question first answered 27/02/2020 15:34:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177963

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent by HM Prisons (a) Leeds and (b) Wakefield on calculating the release date of prisoners in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many people are employed by each of those prisons to carry out those calculations.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The calculation of release dates for prisoners forms part of the overall role of a number of Offender Management Unit (OMU) prison staff. These staffing costs are not collated or broken down separately by function and, as a result, it is not possible to provide the figures requested.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2020 12:01:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177964

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Police Cautions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cautions were issued for indictable-only offences in each year since 2015; and to which types of offence those cautions related.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on cautions, proceedings, convictions and sentencing in England and Wales, up to December 2018. This information, relating to specific offences, can be found using the Outcomes by Offence data tool.</p><p> </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><p> </p><p>Filter by offence type to ’01 Indictable only’. Drag ‘offence group’ into the ‘Rows’ field (beneath ‘Values’).</p><p> </p><p>The number of cautions issued for indictable only offences for each offence group will be shown in rows 24 to 33.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:51:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177965

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the average number of hours in cells each day by (a) male and (b) female prisoners in the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not held. HMPPS does not currently collect or hold specific data on the amount of time prisoners spend out of their cell. We intend to develop a measure on time spent out of cell and are currently exploring options, including working with HMIP to understand the methodology used by the inspectorate to examine prisoner time out of cell during their inspections.</p><p> </p><p>We do, however, currently publish information relating to the activities undertaken by prisoners while in custody. This includes the number of prisoners that have completed Accredited Programmes in custody, the number of hours worked in prison industries, and the number of prisoners released from prison on a temporary licence. Examples of published data on prisoner activity can be found via the following links;</p><p><a href="https://data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/prison-reform" target="_blank">https://data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/prison-reform</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics#prison-performance-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics#prison-performance-statistics</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 28/02/2020 11:03:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177966

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the names are of all prisoners who have absconded from prison and currently not been returned; and if he will specify in each such case (a) the offence each absconder originally committed and (b) the length of custodial sentence they were serving when they absconded.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>Prisoners are classed as ‘absconders’ if they absent themselves from Prison Service custody without lawful authority and without having to overcome a physical security barrier such as a secure perimeter fence or by security escort staff.</p><p> </p><p>Data on absconders who were still at large was published in July 2019 and can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820252/01_Escapes_Absconds.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820252/01_Escapes_Absconds.xlsx</a></p><p>This shows that between April 2018 and March 2019 there are seven absconders known to have not been recaptured. We are not able to release the prisoner’s names as this is personal data, however please see their offence group and length of sentence served.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Offender </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Length of Sentence Served </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>04 Theft Offences</p></td><td><p>54 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>01 Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>IPP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>01 Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>45 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>01 Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>13 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>03 Robbery</p></td><td><p>Life</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>04 Theft Offences</p></td><td><p>IPP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>01 Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>3 years</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Public protection is our top priority. When a prisoner absconds, police are immediately notified and are responsible for locating the offender, with most absconders quickly recaptured and returned to custody.</p><p>Those who are recaptured face serious consequences, including being returned to closed prison conditions where they may serve up to two additional years on conviction. Prisoners subject to parole decisions will likely face even longer delays to their release.</p><p>Prisoners must be individually risk assessed and only those who are assessed as low risk and trustworthy and who are generally within two years of release may be categorised for open conditions. Those with an indeterminate sentence generally must have a recommendation from the Parole Board for allocation to open prison.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2020 11:58:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies