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48634

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have met (i) G4S, (ii) Serco, (iii) Sodexo and (iv) any other private provider to discuss secure colleges in the last 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	196626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>All meetings with external organisations up until October 2013 are published by the Cabinet Office on the gov.uk website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</strong></a>).</p><p> </p><p>Details of meetings from October 2013 onwards will be published shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

48636

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times he has discussed secure colleges with the (a) Secretary of State for Health and (b) Secretary of State for Education in the last 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	196627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Justice Secretary and I are in regular contact with our counterparts at the Department for Health and Department of Education. Our officials are also working together closely to develop our plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

48322

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inmates committed suicide in prison between 2010 and 2013.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	196326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of self-inflicted deaths in each year is published in the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin. The latest bulletin was published on 24 April and can be found at</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics.</p><p> </p><p>We are working hard to manage the levels of self-harm in prison and are carefully investigating the rise in self-inflicted deaths.</p><p> </p><p>We are providing further resources and support to prisons to help support their safer custody work.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

48327

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence contrary to sections 126 to 129 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders found guilty of offences under Sections 127 and 128 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales, from 2008 to 2012 (latest data available) can be viewed in the table. There have been no findings of guilt recorded under Section 129 in this time period.</p><p> </p><p>Court proceedings data for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014</p><p> </p><p>Data for offences under Section 126 of the Mental Health Act 1983 cannot be separately analysed from other offences under other statutes. This information is held by the individual courts in England and Wales but could only be separately identified at disproportionate cost</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name 196450 (table).xls title Table 1
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

48351

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many packages of books delivered to HM Prison Manchester were found to contain drugs in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	196235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Prisons employ a range of measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of drugs into prisons. This is particularly the case at HMP Manchester which is a High Security prison. Over the last 5 years there have been 53 recorded attempts to smuggle drugs into Manchester by post – all were in letters.</p><p> </p><p>In common with many other prisons, HMP Manchester does not allow books to be sent direct to prisoners in packages because of the ease with which illicit items may be concealed. As such there have been no recorded incidents of drugs been sent in packages of books over the last 5 years. Prisoners may order books through the prison from approved suppliers and can borrow books from the prison library.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

48358

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of an offence contrary to section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 in relation to goods prohibited to be imported under section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876 in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Information held centrally by the Ministry of Justice on the Court Proceedings Database does not include the circumstances behind each case beyond the description provided in the statute. It is not possible to separately identify from this centrally held information offences under Section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 relating to prohibited goods under Section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876 from offences of prohibited goods relating to other statutes. This detailed information may be held on the court record but due to the size and complexity is not reported centrally to the MoJ. As such, the information requested can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

48026

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the UK Government has agreed to provide the government of Nigeria in financial support as part of the prisoner transfer agreement with the country signed on 9 January 2014; and what the benefits for the UK are of that agreement.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	196094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>We are currently in discussion about supporting further projects that will assist Nigeria to improve their prisons and build the capacity they need to receive prisoners from the UK under the compulsory prisoner transfer agreement we signed in January this year. To date the cross-Government Migration Fund has funded refurbishment works at Kiri Kiri women's prison in Lagos, and supported a project aimed at increasing access to justice for remand prisoners to tackle the issue of congestion within the Nigerian prison estate.</p><p> </p><p>The prisoner transfer process is just one mechanism for removing foreign national offenders (FNOs). All FNOs sentenced to custody are referred to the Home Office to be considered for deportation at the earliest possible opportunity. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government with nearly 2,000 FNOs removed in 2013. Under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS) which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 243 FNOs (at April 23<sup>rd</sup> 2014).</p><p> </p><p>Whereas this Government has begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

47666

registered interest
date	08/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations he has received from organisations concerned about the inclusion of books in the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect the inclusion of books in that scheme will have on prisoner rehabilitation.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	195779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>There have always been controls on the sending of parcels into prisons, and allowing parcels to be sent in unrestricted would be operationally unmanageable and would lead to a significant risk of drugs and other illicit items being smuggled into prisons.</p><p> </p><p>We have always recognised the importance of reading and literature in the rehabilitative process, and the positive effects this has on prisoners' welfare. The National Offender Management Service works closely with schemes such as the Shannon Trust reading network, which includes peer mentoring to improve reading levels.</p><p> </p><p>The Howard League for Penal Reform, English PEN and Liberty have made representations concerning prisoner access to books. There have been no changes in the availability of books in prisons. Every prison has a library, to which every prisoner has access. Up to 12 books may be held by prisoners in their cell at any one time and additional volumes may be stored locally at the prison.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

47673

registered interest
date	08/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long it took to merge Avon and Somerset Probation Services.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	195830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Avon and Somerset Probation Trust, which was established on 1 April 2010, replaced the Avon and Somerset Probation Board, which had been created on 1 April 2001 following the merger of the two separate probation committees for Avon and for Somerset.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

47313

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners borrowed books from (a) HM Prison Belmarsh and (b) HM Prison Brixton in (i) January and (ii) February 2014; and what proportion of the prison population in each prison this represents.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	195425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information is not held centrally by the Ministry of Justice and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 5947 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett