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1488770

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date	13/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the full list of Ministerial responsibilities within his Department.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	35960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>Departmental responsibilities for MoJ Ministers have all been published on the department’s gov.uk pages. These can be found via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice</a>.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 18/07/2022 16:00:13 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1488822

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Pilot Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the speech entitled Lord Chancellor’s Speech: White Paper Launch - A Smarter Approach to Sentencing, published on 16 September 2020, whether his Department has implemented the pilots for the problem-solving courts.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	35961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government committed to piloting up to five Problem Solving Courts pilots in the Sentencing White Paper published in September 2020, and legislated in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act 2022 to provide the legislative framework to enable the pilots to operate.</p><p>The Government announced on Sunday 17<sup>th</sup> July the location of two PSCs which will focus on offenders with substance misuse issues, at Liverpool and Teesside Crown Courts. A PSC for female offenders with complex needs will be in Birmingham Magistrates Court. These pilots are planned to launch from April 2023.</p><p>We are considering a range of locations for the remaining PSCs in order to ensure that they are situated in the best possible areas to provide the broadest range of support services to help manage offenders in the community.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 18/07/2022 15:59:21 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1488956

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Devolution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) publications have been produced by and (b) formal meetings held involving the Justice Devolution Team within his Department since January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	36043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Justice Devolution Team has not issued any publications since January 2020. Since January 2020, the Justice Devolution Team has engaged with stakeholders from across the MoJ and has been involved in formal meetings with: the Lord Chancellor and junior Ministers on a regular basis; the MoJ’s Non-Executive Director with responsibility for devolution; and the MoJ’s Executive Committee and senior MoJ officials. In addition, the Justice Devolution Team also regularly engage with officials in the Devolved Governments in a number of forums and this remains an ongoing priority.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 18/07/2022 16:00:53 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1487657

registered interest
date	08/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Literacy and Numeracy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve the (a) literacy and (b) numeracy of people in prison.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Prisons Strategy White Paper sets out the government’s ambition to equip all prisoners with the literacy and numeracy skills they need to get jobs on release. To support this, HMPPS has introduced new performance measures for English and maths, and we are holding Governors and providers to account for progress.</p><p>The delivery of face-to-face education was constrained by the pandemic but the numbers of enrolments on literacy and numeracy courses are now back up to, and in some cases exceeding pre-pandemic levels.</p><p>The joint report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Ofsted on <em>Prison education: a review of reading education in prisons</em> highlighted the need to improve literacy education in prisons. To address its recommendations, we are reviewing the current mechanisms for assessing and recording the levels of prisoners’ reading, improving the curriculum guidance given to governors to ensure they prioritise the teaching of reading, and reviewing teacher capability to ensure that all providers have staff who are properly qualified to teach reading.</p><p>To improve support for prisoners with additional learning needs we have started to recruit new support managers for prisoners with conditions such as learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injury or ADHD</p><p> </p><p>We are also planning to develop a Literacy Innovation Scheme to encourage new providers to work with us to trial new approaches to teaching reading with the aim of driving up quality and improving outcomes across the estate.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 18/07/2022 16:24:01 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1485903

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include within the Bill of Rights Bill provision for women across the UK to have access to safe abortion.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The position on abortion is settled in UK law and it is rightfully decided by Parliament. It is an issue of conscience, and the Government has no current plans to introduce this issue into the Bill of Rights. We should be mindful of finding ourselves in the US position, where the issue is litigated through the courts, rather than settled as it is here by Parliament. Health Services across the UK are responsible for providing access to safe and legal abortion within the framework of the law.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 18/07/2022 15:19:37 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1485950

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Gambling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were subject to a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) as part of a (1) community, or (2) suspended, sentence order due to a serious gambling addiction for each year since their introduction in 2005.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL1454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>Offenders with a gambling addiction may be suitable for a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) as part of a community or suspended sentence order where mental health has been identified as an underlying factor.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the factors underlying the use of MHTRs is collected on the primary presenting need such as anxiety or depression. As problem gambling is not identified as a primary presenting need the data requested is not currently available</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 18/07/2022 15:21:15 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans