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1243529

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will provide an estimate of the volume of the reduction of illegal drugs smuggled into prisons he expects to be delivered through the implementation of the National Prison Drugs Strategy.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	103441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>By its very nature, drug trafficking is intended to be a clandestine activity. It is therefore not possible to estimate a volume reduction in drugs being smuggled into prisons. However, we are taking a number of steps to strengthen our prisons’ defences against this type of criminality.</p><p>To support the ‘reducing supply’ strand of the National Prison Drugs Strategy, we are taking decisive action to improve security. This will make it much harder for illicit items to be smuggled in by prisoners, staff and visitors; strengthen staff resilience to corruption; and target organised criminals who exploit prisons as a lucrative illicit market. This package of measures is being funded through the £100m investment to tackle crime behind bars, announced by the Prime Minister last summer. This is funding tough new measures including X-ray body scanners to detect items smuggled inside prisoners’ bodies. Our ability to tackle drugs supply is also supported by efforts to reduce demand for drugs. This is why the National Drugs Strategy takes a three-pronged approach and focusses on tackling supply, reducing demand and building recovery from substance misuse.</p><p>A planned evaluation of the £100m investment will consider the wider benefits and outcomes for the safety and security of prisons as measures of success. It will use a range of both quantitative and qualitative measures to assess whether delivery of the investment has successfully reduced drug trafficking into prisons through the targeted supply routes.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/10/2020 15:39:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1243551

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Justice: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to manage the delivery of youth court hearings during a second wave of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	103580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>In consultation with Public Health England, and Public Health Wales, HMCTS has put in place arrangements for social distancing and mitigation of the risks associated with the pandemic. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/915493/HMCTS401_recovery_overview_for_crime_WEB.pdf" target="_blank">COVID-19: Update on the HMCTS response for Criminal Courts in England and Wales</a>.</p><p>These arrangements have, since July, enabled youth courts to conclude more cases every week than have been received, with the safety of all those involved in these hearings being paramount.</p><p>We do not currently envisage that it will be necessary to revert to any contingency listing arrangements during a second wave of covid-19. The position will be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/10/2020 15:34:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1243562

registered interest
date	14/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Rehabilitation Orders
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 number of interventions mandated by Youth Rehabilitation Orders that are being delivered.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	103581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>Youth Rehabilitation Orders (YROs) can be imposed in any case where the mandatory referral order conditions do not apply. It provides the court with a menu of 18 requirements to choose from (such as education, activity or curfew requirements).</p><p> </p><p>Youth Offending Teams supervise young people serving a community sentence and figures on the delivery of requirements that have been given to children who received a YRO are not held centrally. Youth Justice Statistics are published annually, including the number of requirements that have been given to children who received a YRO. In the year ending March 2019 this was as follows:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Types of requirements given to children receiving a Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO), year ending March 2019<sup>(1)</sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Requirement</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of requirements</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Share</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supervision</p></td><td><p>3,655</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Activity</p></td><td><p>2,138</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Electronic Monitoring</p></td><td><p>1,556</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Curfew</p></td><td><p>1,478</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Programme</p></td><td><p>930</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unpaid Work</p></td><td><p>434</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prohibited Activity</p></td><td><p>418</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attendance Centre</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exclusion</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Education</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Residence</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Authority Residence</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug Treatment</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug Testing</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mental Health Treatment</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Intoxicating Substance Treatment</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11,525</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>100%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(1) In the year ending March 2019 according to Youth Justice Application Framework (YJJAF) there were 5,075 YROs given to 3,883 children. These YROs had 11,525 requirements attached to them. For 1,240 of 5,075 YROs given no requirement type was recorded.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Youth Justice statistics: 2018 to 2019 supplementary tables, Chapter 5 – Sentencing of Children, Table 5.7 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/10/2020 15:31:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1242796

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Evictions: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his section 1.21 of his guidance for landlords and tenants entitled Will bailiffs enforce evictions across the Christmas period, for which categories of cases evictions will be permitted to proceed during the period covered by the winter truce.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	102870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced that evictions should not be carried out in England and Wales in the run up to and over Christmas and the New Year, from 11 December until 11 January, except in the most serious circumstances, such as cases involving anti-social behaviour or domestic abuse. This will ensure vulnerable tenants are not forced from their homes at a time when public and local authorities may be dealing with the usual level of increased demand for services during this time. A short list of the categories of cases which will be exempted from this “winter pause” will be issued well in advance of the Christmas period.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 16/10/2020 11:34:06 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1243059

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 21 of the report entitled Childhood in the time of Covid, published by the Children's Commissioner in September 2020, what steps he is taking to reverse the decline in advocacy referrals by people in the youth custodial estate.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	102884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>Ensuring the wellbeing of children in custody is of the upmost importance, especially during a period of unprecedented challenge. The Youth Custody Service (YCS) is committed to working with Barnardo’s to deliver an advocacy model that best meets the needs of children and young people, while taking account of the need to reduce the risk of spreading the Covid-19 virus. As an on-demand service, it is important that children are aware of the service and how to access provision. As such, there has been regular communication and information to children to advise them of service delivery during the COVID-19 period, with further communications shared with Governors and Directors detailing the revised service and protocols which include a safeguarding protocol.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure the distinct needs of children in custody are met, the YCS, working with colleagues from NHS England &amp; NHS Improvement, has developed a set of youth-specific Exceptional Delivery Models (EDMs), with priority given to education and physical education, visits and advocacy. The advocacy EDM was implemented across all under 18 Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) and Secure Training Centres across July and August.</p><p> </p><p>The YCS discusses referral trends directly with the provider to ensure there is a consistent service, and will continue to do so. Since the return of advocates to sites, internal data indicates referrals to the service have increased. Advocates continue to check in with every wing. They are able to have direct contact with young people in their rooms using the in-room telephony service where available, and arrange to meet face-to-face as required. Regular review meetings have continued to take place between Governors and Directors and Barnardo’s.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/10/2020 11:29:17 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1243108

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Offending Teams: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to improve digital communication between (a) youth offending teams and (b) young people and their families during the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	102885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for the delivery of Youth Offending Team (YOT) provision.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Youth Justice Board has oversight of Youth Offending Teams and has taken steps, in light of Covid-19, to support YOTs to improve digital communication with young people and their families. It has amended the terms and conditions in the Youth Justice Grant for 2020/21 to provide for capital spend, allowing flexibility for Youth Offending Teams to use funds, as appropriate, from their annual grant to provide children under their supervision access to suitable equipment to facilitate regular virtual engagement.</p><p> </p><p>Practitioners have also developed innovative ways of providing positive interventions, using technology wherever possible. Similarly, many referral order panels have been conducted virtually. Face to face contacts, maintaining physical distance, have been used if the risk is deemed justified. Youth Offending Teams are working with highly vulnerable children and are working to use digital technology to make a positive change.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/10/2020 11:32:27 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1242471

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
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 victims are notified that their offender's sentence is being reconsidered; and whether the victim has a right to consultation on that sentence.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	102087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>Under the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (the Code), police Witness Care Units must inform victims if there is an appeal against the offender’s sentence. Whilst sentencing is a matter for the courts, in determining an appeal against a sentence, the court will always take into account any Victim Personal Statement (which explains the impact the offence had on the victim) that was provided to the sentencing court.</p><p> </p><p>Also, under the Code victims of serious violent and sexual offences where the offender receives a custodial sentence of 12 months or more are eligible to join the Victim Contact Scheme. Victims who do so will be provided with information about key stages in the offender’s sentence, including, for those cases where release falls to the Parole Board (the Board), the timing of the Parole review, and if the offender is released, or moved to open conditions.</p><p> </p><p>In eligible cases, where the Board directs an offender be released<strong>, </strong>victims may request that the Secretary of State (SoS) apply to the Board for reconsideration of release. Such a request must be made within 21-calendar days of the issuing of the Board’s decision. The SoS will only apply to the Board where there is evidence that the decision taken was either irrational or procedurally unfair.</p><p> </p><p>Anybody who submits a request to the SoS will be provided with a full response from the Public Protection Casework Section (PPCS) of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service regardless of the outcome.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 15/10/2020 12:51:34 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1242548

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which agency makes the decision to transfer an offender to an open prison; what consultation takes place with (a) other agencies and (b) victims prior to that decision; and what risk assessments are undertaken on the effect of that transfer.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	102088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The decision as to whether to transfer a prisoner to open conditions is a categorisation one for the Secretary of State, taken by officials under approved delegated authority on his behalf. Access to open prison conditions is not a right or an automatic progression but is based on a detailed assessment of risk.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of indeterminate sentence prisoners, the decision to approve a prisoner for transfer to open conditions is generally taken in response to a recommendation from the independent Parole Board. Before making such a recommendation, the Parole Board will undertake a full and thorough risk assessment. As part of the risk assessment, the Parole Board will consider a number of detailed reports prepared by qualified probation and prison staff, who will in their reports in turn take account of any other agencies involved in the case under the statutory Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>As there is such a comprehensive assessment of the prisoner’s risk, officials will accept a recommendation from the Parole Board, except where the recommendation goes against the recommendations of the report writers without explaining why or is based on inaccurate information. A recommendation may also be rejected if the Secretary of State considers that there is not a wholly persuasive case for transferring the prisoner to open conditions at the current time.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of determinate sentenced prisoners, only those prisoners who are assessed as low risk and are within three years of their earliest date of release may generally be considered for open conditions. Prisoners are assessed at the appropriate time by the prison in which they are located.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who have elected to receive the Probation Victim Contact Scheme are entitled to be told when a prisoner is being considered for open conditions and the outcome.</p><p> </p><p>This ensures that, once a prisoner is in an open prison, victims may make requests about licence conditions if the offender is considered for release on temporary licence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/10/2020 12:54:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1241700

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people resident in Birmingham at the point of their original sentencing are serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection; and as a proportion of that number, what the (a) ethnicity and (b) diagnosed (i) mental and (ii) physical health conditions are of those prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	100926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold centrally a record of those IPP prisoners who were residing in Birmingham at the point they were sentenced to their IPP.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does hold the number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) and (a) their ethnicity in England and Wales, and I have provided the proportions as requested in the table below.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold centrally a record of the diagnosed mental and physical condition of serving IPP prisoners.</p><p>Every prison in England and Wales must adhere to the Equality Act 2010. This includes support for those with mental and physical health conditions, such as the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled persons, in accordance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p><p>Since April 2018, a National Partnership Agreement on Prison Healthcare has been in place, to deliver safe, decent, effective healthcare for offenders.</p><p>Our primary responsibility is to protect the public. Prisoners serving IPP sentences will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>IPP prisoners continue to have a high chance of a positive outcome from Parole Board hearings. In 2019/20 72% of Parole Board hearings resulted in either a recommendation for a transfer to an open prison or release. As of 30 June 2020, the number of unreleased IPP prisoners who have completed their minimum tariff was 1,856. This is down from 2,136 on 30 June 2019.</p><p>Proportion of IPPs in prison by ethnicity as at 30 June 2020</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p>Proportion of IPP prisoners</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>78%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian / Asian British</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black / Black British</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chinese / Other</p></td><td><p>less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Stated/Missing</p></td><td><p>less than 1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Data sources and quality</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>The figures in this table has been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 100927 question first answered 13/10/2020 16:43:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1241701

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England and Wales are subject to Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences; and as a proportion of that number, what the (a) ethnicity and (b) diagnosed (i) mental and (ii) physical health conditions are of those prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	100927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold centrally a record of those IPP prisoners who were residing in Birmingham at the point they were sentenced to their IPP.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does hold the number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) and (a) their ethnicity in England and Wales, and I have provided the proportions as requested in the table below.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold centrally a record of the diagnosed mental and physical condition of serving IPP prisoners.</p><p>Every prison in England and Wales must adhere to the Equality Act 2010. This includes support for those with mental and physical health conditions, such as the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled persons, in accordance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p><p>Since April 2018, a National Partnership Agreement on Prison Healthcare has been in place, to deliver safe, decent, effective healthcare for offenders.</p><p>Our primary responsibility is to protect the public. Prisoners serving IPP sentences will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>IPP prisoners continue to have a high chance of a positive outcome from Parole Board hearings. In 2019/20 72% of Parole Board hearings resulted in either a recommendation for a transfer to an open prison or release. As of 30 June 2020, the number of unreleased IPP prisoners who have completed their minimum tariff was 1,856. This is down from 2,136 on 30 June 2019.</p><p>Proportion of IPPs in prison by ethnicity as at 30 June 2020</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p>Proportion of IPP prisoners</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>78%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian / Asian British</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black / Black British</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chinese / Other</p></td><td><p>less than 1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Stated/Missing</p></td><td><p>less than 1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Data sources and quality</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>The figures in this table has been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 100926 question first answered 13/10/2020 16:43:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood