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1135823

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the unemployment rate among former male inmates compared with the rate among the general male population.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	271362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>In May last year, we published our plans for reforming prison education and improving employment outcomes for ex-offenders in the Education and Employment Strategy. The strategy created a system in which each prisoner was set on a path to employment, with prison education and work geared towards employment on release from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>In line with this, we introduced new performance measures to record the rates of employment for prison leavers at six weeks post-release. The Department is scheduled to publish the statistical data for this on 25 July in an annex to Community Performance Statistics on Gov.uk, at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/07/2019 16:14:15 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1135826

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to support people leaving prison to move directly to employment on their release.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	271365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>One year ago, our Education and Employment Strategy set out plans to transform the way prisoners develop the skills they need to secure employment on release.</p><p> </p><p>Since then, we have introduced the New Futures Network (NFN), which brokers partnerships between prisons and employers in England and Wales. The Network places prisoners in jobs ahead of their release as well as facilitating Release On Temporary Licence (ROTL) placements, which offer continuity and can lead to immediate employment on release.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, our new ROTL framework aims to increase the number of people these opportunities are available to by allowing more prisoners to access ROTL sooner and for longer.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/07/2019 16:12:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1135881

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Synthetic Cannabinoids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidences there were of the use of synthetic cannabinoids in prisons in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	271590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Drug testing is an essential element of the HMPPS drug strategy and provides us with robust evidence on the prevalence of drug misuse. It can be used in support of security measures, to identify and signpost into drug treatment, monitor treatment compliance and act as an incentive to engage in treatment and drug free living.</p><p>HMPPS continues to explore new methodologies to develop our mandatory and voluntary drug testing frameworks enabling us to be responsive to the changing patterns of drug misuse in prisons. This includes the misuse of prescribed medication, and the dynamic market in psychoactive substances.</p><p>Data and information on drug testing is routinely published as part of the normal publication schedule which can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-hm-prison-and-probation-service-digest-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-hm-prison-and-probation-service-digest-2017-to-2018</a>. Data on drug tests in 2018-19 will be published in due course in line with the normal publication schedule.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/07/2019 16:16:23 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1135898

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number was of previous community orders issued to an offender sentenced to immediate custody in each year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	271592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on the highest number of previous community sentences received by an offender sentenced to immediate custody, covering the period 2007 – 2018, can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/07/2019 15:42:19 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name PQ 271592 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1135972

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Assaults on Police and Prison Officers: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a (a) custodial and (b) non-custodial sentence for assault of a (i) police officer and (ii) prison officer in each year since 2007, and what the average custodial sentence was for those offences.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	271618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of people who received a) custodial and b) non-custodial sentences for assault on a police officer or prison officer in each year since 2007, and the average custodial sentence lengths for these offences can be found in the accompanying table.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 04/07/2019 13:58:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name Copy of Neil O'Brien PQ 271618 response table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1135973

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of previous offences was that a convicted person committed for that same offence before receiving a sentence other than an immediate non-custodial sentence in each of the last three years for offences relating to (a) possession of a blade or point, (b) possession of an offensive weapon, (c) common assault, (d) assaulting a police officer, (e) sexual assault, (f) public order, (g) theft, (h) robbery, (i) burglary, (j) drugs, (k) criminal damage, (l) breach of anti social behaviour order, (m) fraud and (n) vehicle taking.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	271619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on the highest number of previous cautions and convictions an offender had for a specified offence type before receiving a custodial sentence, covering the period 2016 – 2018, can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/07/2019 16:09:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name PQ 271619 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1135976

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
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 May 2019 to Question 253599 on Glen Pava Prison and Wellingborough Prison: Contracts, on what date his Department plans to award the Prison Operator Framework; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	271526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>On the 5 June 2019 I wrote to the Justice Select Committee to provide an update on the modernisation of the prison estate. In that letter, which I will place a copy of in the House Library, I confirmed the six bidders (G4S Care and Custody Services UK Limited, Interserve Investments Limited, Management and Training Corporation Works Limited, Mitie Care &amp; Custody, Serco Limited, and Sodexo Limited) who had been accepted on to the Prison Operator Services Framework and who are now eligible to bid in future mini-competitions to operate individual prisons. We intend to launch the mini-competition for the first new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough in July 2019 and anticipate making the award to the successful operator in July 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to a mixed market of custodial services. The Prison Operator Framework will increase the diversity and resilience of the custodial services market in England and Wales, by creating a pool of prison operators who can provide high quality, value for money, custodial and maintenance services and enable us to effectively and efficiently manage a pipeline of competition over the next six years.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 271527 question first answered 09/07/2019 16:07:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1135977

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
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 May 2019 to Question 253599 on Glen Pava Prison and Wellingborough Prison: Contracts, on what date his Department plans to announce the result of the mini-competition for the operation of the prison at Wellingborough.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	271527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>On the 5 June 2019 I wrote to the Justice Select Committee to provide an update on the modernisation of the prison estate. In that letter, which I will place a copy of in the House Library, I confirmed the six bidders (G4S Care and Custody Services UK Limited, Interserve Investments Limited, Management and Training Corporation Works Limited, Mitie Care &amp; Custody, Serco Limited, and Sodexo Limited) who had been accepted on to the Prison Operator Services Framework and who are now eligible to bid in future mini-competitions to operate individual prisons. We intend to launch the mini-competition for the first new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough in July 2019 and anticipate making the award to the successful operator in July 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to a mixed market of custodial services. The Prison Operator Framework will increase the diversity and resilience of the custodial services market in England and Wales, by creating a pool of prison operators who can provide high quality, value for money, custodial and maintenance services and enable us to effectively and efficiently manage a pipeline of competition over the next six years.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 271526 question first answered 09/07/2019 16:07:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1135983

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total number of assaults on (a) prison officers, (b) prison educators, (c) prison instructors, (d) prison health-care staff and (e) other prison staff was across the prison estate in (i) 2012 (ii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	271532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government publishes quarterly statistics on violence in prison, and a more detailed annual breakdown, and both are available at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2018</a>. The total numbers of assaults on staff in 2012 and 2018 can be found in table 3.1 of <em>Assaults in prison custody 2000 to 2018</em>, and table 3.8 gives a breakdown into assaults on officers and assaults on other staff. I regret that the way this data is recorded means it is not possible to provide the further breakdown requested without incurring disproportionate cost.</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 are investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and 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 Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/07/2019 16:12:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1135985

registered interest
date	01/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Suspended Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what number and proportion of those who were given a suspended sentence in each of the last three years were required as part of that sentence to (a) do unpaid work, (b) be subject to a curfew, (c) undertake a treatment programme for alcohol or drug and (d) be subject to a rehabilitation activity requirement.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	271621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on the requirements attached to suspended sentence orders is not held centrally. Identifying the information held on record locally could only be done at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/07/2019 16:11:12 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien