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1662877

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date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of retention rates of magistrates.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	200731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice actively monitors overall recruitment and attrition rates for the magistracy as part of the collation and publication of the Judicial Diversity Statistics. To preserve judicial independence, leadership of the magistracy is a matter for the judiciary. The Judicial Office conducts a leaving survey for those who are resigning from the magistracy, which it reviews annually.</p><p>Since 2019/ 2020, the number of leavers each year from the magistracy has decreased annually from a level of 1440 leavers in 2019/20 (10.9% of the magistracy) to 743 leavers in 2022/23 (5.6% of the magistracy). Since March 2022 797 magistrates over the age of 70 have also chosen to be reinstated following the increase of the judicial mandatory retirement age to 75.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/10/2023 16:14:45 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1662925

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Dismissal and Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff (a) retired and (b) were dismissed at HM Prison Wandsworth in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	200779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>The quarterly HMPPS workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, including leavers by reason for leaving. The latest publication covers data for up to the period 30 June 2023.</p><p>In the 12 months to 30 June 2023, 8 staff have retired and 10 staff have been dismissed from HMP Wandsworth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/10/2023 15:38:10 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1662928

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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, whether his Department has plans to (a) review the effectiveness of substance free living units and (b) make an assessment of the potential merits of extending those units across all prison estates.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	200782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>As part of the ambitious cross-Government Drug Strategy, we are rolling out a range of interventions to support prisoners off drugs and into recovery. This includes expanding the number of Incentivised Substance-Free Living Units where prisoners commit to remaining free of illicit drugs, with regular drug testing and incentives. We now have over 60 of these wings across the estate, and are aiming to reach up to 100 by March 2025. This will dramatically expand the number of prisoners who have access to these wings. Alongside this we are working to evaluate ISFLs to improve our understanding of the impact they are having and the experience of prisoners on these wings.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/10/2023 15:44:50 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1662954

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Concrete
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any court buildings have been identified as having reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC); and whether his Department plans to fund emergency mitigation works to any courts in which RAAC is identified.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	200808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 26 September 2023 to Question 199292:</p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-09-13/199292" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-09-13/199292</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 18/10/2023 15:20:20 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1663018

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Tribunals: Standards
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 reduce waiting times for tribunal hearings.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	200872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Tribunals within the Ministry of Justice are administered by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and incorporate a wide range of administrative and civil &amp; commercial jurisdictions. The largest jurisdictions are responsible for appeals in Employment, Immigration &amp; Asylum and Social Security &amp; Child Support matters.</p><p>HMCTS aims to hear tribunal cases as quickly as possible and we are introducing online digital services in our larger tribunals to enable faster processing of cases and improve the customer experience. HMCTS is also recruiting additional Judges where required together with Legal Officers who will actively manage cases; and creating virtual regions in the Employment and Immigration &amp; Asylum tribunals to hear remote cases from any region and provide additional capacity.</p><p>If an expedited hearing is requested, a Judge or Legal Officer will make a decision on that issue, taking all the circumstances into account.</p><p>Tribunal statistics are published by MoJ on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#tribunal-statistics-quarterly.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/10/2023 16:17:17 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1663040

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the education services provided in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	200894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>On 28 September, we announced the new Prisoner Education Service to improve the literacy, numeracy and vocational skills of prisoners. This will support positive employment outcomes and reduce reoffending, and we have already seen the number of prisoners in work following release more than doubling between 2021 and 2023.</p><p> </p><p>We have rigorous assessments of the quality and effectiveness of the education offer in prisons. These include: tracking employment on release, attendance of prisoners in education sessions as well as provider performance.</p><p> </p><p>The Prison Service is continuing to forge a closer working relationship with Ofsted, who have been delivering education sessions to prison leaders to ensure greater collaboration and clear expectations for prison education.  This includes tracking OFSTED recommendations to ensure sites make progress against them. In the past 6 months 4 prisons have received a ‘Good’ rating from OFSTED, the most in any single year since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>All prisoners are assessed on entry, and a personal learning plan is created to meet their educational needs. This is now electronically stored so that it can move with prisoners when transferred. Prisoners who require basic maths and literacy skills are identified and offered the appropriate support.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/10/2023 15:51:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1663041

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: literacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of literacy-based education provision in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	200895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>On 28 September, we announced a new Prisoner Education Service to improve the literacy, numeracy and vocational skills of prisoners. We are embedding literacy in workshops and vocational training, and we are implementing the Literacy Innovation Fund by piloting two specialist reading and literacy projects across fifteen prisons to help prisoners with the lowest reading levels.  This is alongside other Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) projects such as Shannon Trust and Leaders are Readers.</p><p>Functional Skills in literacy are subject to ambitious contractual targets with providers financially penalised if they do not meet them. Achievement against literacy functional skills has improved year on year since the end of Covid.</p><p>Whole prison reading strategies, recognised as good practice by HMIP, have been developed in all prisons, and reading leads are ensuring that literacy is at the heart of each prison's education provision. Prisoners’ reading levels are assessed on entry so that Personal Learning Plans are in place and the right support for reading is available to them.</p><p>Each prison has a library which holds essential legal texts, promotes reading for pleasure and often offer a range of reading activities.  We are improving the delivery of library services and have recently updated and upgraded library contracts, including an uplift in funding.</p><p>Prisons have continued to rollout Storybooks Dads and Mums, which helps over 5,000 prisoners a year record bedtime stories for their children, and rolled out new technology, including laptops for prisoners to take part in online courses with the Open University.</p><p>In addition, new contracts for education providers in 2025 will have robust targets on maths, English and vocational qualifications, and quality of delivery.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/10/2023 15:42:30 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1663042

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average number and proportion of hours spent by prisoners per (a) week and (b) month in (i) education-based classes and (ii) workshops in prison as of 13 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	200896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>Because of the way in which data on education in prison are collected, it is not possible to provide a direct answer to the question posed, but prisons put on education classes and workshops 4.5 days a week, for approximately 5 - 6 hours a day, with local variations in place.</p><p>While staff shortages can have some impact on education delivery, we are increasingly using technology and blended learning to increase the flexible delivery of education outside of the classroom. Attendance to education is higher now than it was before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 200897 question first answered 24/10/2023 08:16:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1663043

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of shortages of prison staff on the provision of education in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	200897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>Because of the way in which data on education in prison are collected, it is not possible to provide a direct answer to the question posed, but prisons put on education classes and workshops 4.5 days a week, for approximately 5 - 6 hours a day, with local variations in place.</p><p>While staff shortages can have some impact on education delivery, we are increasingly using technology and blended learning to increase the flexible delivery of education outside of the classroom. Attendance to education is higher now than it was before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 200896 question first answered 24/10/2023 08:16:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1663044

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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, whether on-site survey work was carried out on the prison estate to (a) assess and (b) improve security in prisons between March 2020 and June 2021.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	200898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>On-site survey work was carried out on the prison estate during the period March 2020 to June 2021 to assess and improve security, including to ensure adequate security at prison sites under consideration for installation of temporary accommodation during the Covid pandemic.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/10/2023 08:17:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury