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1122314

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What his policy is on the provision of legal aid for inquests.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	910441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>We published our review of legal aid for inquests on 7 February. The evidence confirmed the inquest process should remain about fact finding and establishing the truth rather than apportioning blame.</p><p> </p><p>We are working on raising the awareness of legal aid for representation at inquests by publishing new guidance for bereaved people. Legal aid for inquests is available through the Exceptional Case Funding scheme, and we are working to simplify the application process for this.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring bereaved families are properly supported and able to participate in the inquest process. We believe families should be at the heart of the coronial process.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/04/2019 16:28:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1122315

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress his Department has made on tackling mobile phone use in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Lewes
tabling member printed	Maria Caulfield
uin	910442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Our strategy to tackling the security threat posed by mobile phones is threefold:</p><ul><li>we must prevent them from getting into our prisons in the first place by expanding airport-style security, including metal detectors and X-ray scanners;</li><li>we must find and stop those phones from working through using portable detection poles and the latest detection and signal-blocking technologies;</li><li>we must also exploit the data held on those phones. We have delivered new kits at 30 prisons to allow staff to download data from illicit phones quickly.</li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/04/2019 16:36:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield

1122316

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Divorce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to consider the views of the public before proposing changes to divorce laws.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	910443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Hostility and conflict between parents leave their mark on children and damage their life chances.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we intend to remove the need for blame when people divorce. A YouGov poll published the same day as our response to the consultation indicated 73% support for doing so.</p><p> </p><p>We held a full public consultation last year to test our detailed proposals. We have reflected on the experience and insight that people brought from all perspectives.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/04/2019 16:31:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1122317

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes in courts staffing and courts closures on access to justice.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	910445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Any decision to close a court is not taken lightly, but in circumstances where 41% of our courts operated in 2016-17 at half their available capacity and where we are investing £1 billion in courts and bringing them up to date, the Ministry of Justice has to think carefully about where our court resources are most effectively and efficiently spent.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/04/2019 16:35:26 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

1122318

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the private probation system.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	910447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Transforming Rehabilitation opened up probation to a diverse range of providers and extended support and supervision to an additional 40,000 offenders leaving prison.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS is performing well in supervising higher-risk offenders. But I have been clear that the performance of CRCs needs to improve.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we are ending contracts early, investing more money in Through the Gate services and continuing to consult partners and experts on how to achieve the right balance between public, private and voluntary delivery of services.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/04/2019 16:37:39 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1122319

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress his Department has made on recruiting 2,500 new prison officers.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	910449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>We have met our target to recruit an additional 2,500 prison officers ahead of schedule; at the end of December 2018 we had a net increase of 4,767 FTE Band 3 to 5 prison officers since we began at the end of October 2016.</p><p> </p><p>It is the highest number of officers in post since 31 March 2012.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/04/2019 16:39:06 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1122320

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
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	What steps the Government is taking to reduce reoffending rates for violent crimes.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	910450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Reoffending is costing society approximately £15bn per year. It is only through a concerted effort across Government that we will be able to reduce reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>That is why we set up the Reducing Reoffending Board to identify how the Government can work more collaboratively in addressing the drivers of reoffending, and to consider innovative ways of addressing these drivers.</p><p> </p><p>We are looking particularly closely at what we can do to strengthen probation, which is responsible for managing and supporting offenders in the community to turn away from crime. I want to see a wider range of rehabilitative programmes on offer, so that offenders can be directed towards programmes that are targeted to their behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>For instance, we have found that our general offending behaviour programme can reduce violent reoffending by 17 percentage points.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/04/2019 16:42:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1122383

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Debts: Judgements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many judgments in cases related to debt courts have made in each of the last 10 years broken down by (a) the age group of defendants and (b) the specific debt-related offence.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	246568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested about the number of court judgments related to debt in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the age group of defendants, is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested about the number of court judgments related to debt in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the specific debt, could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/04/2019 09:59:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1122489

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Security
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 3 April 2019 to Question 237103 on Prisons: Security, what the timetable is for the installation of X-ray body scanners at the remaining nine prisons in the 10 Prisons Project and the long-term and high-security estate.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	246552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The X-ray body scanner installation programme for the remaining establishments, including the 10 Prisons Project and High Security Estate, is underway, having commenced in early April 2019. All of the prisons included in the programme will have their scanners installed by the end of June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The prisons included in this programme have specifically been selected as having an identified need for the detection technology to help address their current threats to prison safety and security. Following an operational trial in HMP Belmarsh, the decision was taken to provide the remaining prisons within the High Security Estate with a scanner to help mitigate the risk of contraband being trafficked into the prisons, by prisoners, via internal secretion. HMP Holme House has also been allocated a scanner given their status as drug-recovery prison and their role in exploring new technologies which may benefit prison safety and security more widely.</p><p> </p><p>The 10 prisons in the 10 Prisons Project were selected across three regions in the prison estate as some of our most challenging establishments, particularly in respect of drugs and violence. We are working closely with them to understand how adaptable different approaches, including x-ray scanners, are to types of different prison environment so that we can share best practice and seek to replicate elsewhere what works.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 246555 question first answered 01/05/2019 10:04:58 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1122490

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Security
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 3 April 2019 to Question 237103 on Prisons: Security, (a) what the cost was and (b) who funded the installation of the X-ray body scanners at (i) Altcourse, (ii) Belmarsh, (iii) Doncaster, (iv) Forest Bank, (v) Holme House, (vi) Leeds, (vii) Northumberland, and (viii) Peterborough prisons.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	246553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>I am unfortunately unable to disclose any financial information in relation to the provision of these scanners within the prison estate as it is commercially sensitive. The Ministry of Justice is currently engaged in a procurement exercise to enable future purchase of this equipment and any declaration of cost and values may prejudice the outcome of this exercise.</p><p> </p><p>I am able to confirm, however, that the Ministry of Justice funded the purchase and installation of the scanners for all public sector prisons but did not contribute to the cost of purchase or install of the equipment for any of the privately-managed prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 246554 question first answered 01/05/2019 09:54:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts