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1717834

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date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ICT
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 13 May 2024 to Question 25013 on Ministry of Justice: ICT, for what reason his Department considers publishing the latest available figures on the number of red-rated systems it holds a security risk, in the context of the publication of the Central Digital & Data Office's guidance entitled, Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework on 29 September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	26215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>In response to question 25013, the department responded with a cautionary response to withhold releasing information on the red-rated systems due to potential security risks. However, upon revising our previous response we have concluded that we are able to release the requested figures.</p><p> </p><p>These figures are already in the public domain and can be found on slide 21 of the CDDO progress update below:</p><p><a href="https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2024-0230/Future.pdf" target="_blank">https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2024-0230/Future.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 17/05/2024 13:59:45 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1717859

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of trends in the number of convictions for violence against women in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 24/05/2024 13:50:55 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1717863

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parc Prison: Offensive Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) knives and (b) other similar weapons were taken off prisoners at HMP Parc in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	26108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>Data on finds for April 2023 onwards is subject to future publication. Data to March 2024 will be released on 25th July, in the 23/24 HMPPS Annual Digest.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of finds within prison custody, including finds of weapons, are published once per year on a financial year basis in the HMMPS Annual Digest: HMPPS Annual Digest, April 2022 to March 2023 - GOV.UK, specifically in tables 8.2b, 8.3 and 8.4 of this link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64c143b41e10bf000e17cf9e/8.__Finds.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64c143b41e10bf000e17cf9e/8.__Finds.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS continues to work extensively with G4S and is closely overseeing the prison to improve safety and reduce harm. All establishments are required to have a safety strategy in place, which includes actions to address violence. HMPPS remains committed to providing a safe, decent and secure environment for all committed to our care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/05/2024 10:59:25 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1717874

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Ipsos MORI
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 13 May 2024 to Question 25190 on Ministry of Justice: Ipsos MORI, what the deliverables are for contract reference 398437/1351727 contained in Annex F of that contract.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The supplier is contracted to conduct cognitive interviews, a pilot survey, and the finalised survey pursuant to the new survey design and agreed requirements.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 17/05/2024 14:00:25 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1717953

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	County Courts: Judgements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he is taking steps to help ensure that county court judgments (CCJs) against rogue traders are enforced; and what enforcement steps can be taken if such a CCJ cannot be delivered.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	26179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>This government recognises the importance of having effective routes available to enforce judgment debts. The civil courts offer different enforcement methods that a judgment creditor may apply for to recover money that a court has ordered is owed. These include warrants or writs of control, attachment of earnings, third party debt orders, and charging orders. These processes are individually designed to address different financial circumstances, and collectively aim to make it as difficult as possible for judgment debtors to avoid their responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the many methods of enforcement available, the courts cannot guarantee to obtain the payment of civil debt, particularly where a debtor goes to great lengths to evade payment or simply does not have the means to pay.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 17/05/2024 14:01:05 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1717957

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
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 7 March 2024 to Question 16213 on Probate, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing waiting times in relation to probate grants.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
uin	26095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>HMCTS remains focused on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness on all types of applications. Management information published by HMCTS shows the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate (following receipt of the documents required) reduced by 3 weeks in March 2024 compared to February 2024. The average timeliness in March was 9 weeks.</p><p>The first quarter of 2024 (January to March 2024) saw the highest quarterly number of grants issued on record.</p><p> </p><p>A full time series of Official Statistics back to Q3 2019 is published in the Family Court Statistics Quarterly <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a> and currently covers the period up to December 2023.</p><p>More recent management information published by HMCTS (which does not go through the same level of quality assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly) provides waiting time information up to March 2023 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmcts-management-information</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 17/05/2024 14:02:13 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1718003

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
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 the backlog in processing probate applications.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	26217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>HMCTS is focused on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness and the outstanding caseload on all types of applications. HMCTS has increased staffing levels, streamlined internal processes and continued to invest in further improving the digital service.</p><p> </p><p>More recent Management Information published by HMCTS shows the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate (following receipt of the documents required) reduced by 3 weeks in March 2024 compared to February 2024. The average timeliness for cases completing in March was 9 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics show that the average time (median) from application submission to grant issue for all grant types was 11.0 weeks in 2023 (mean average time was 13.9 weeks). From the document receipt to grant issue the median average time was 8.7 weeks (mean average time 12.0).</p><p> </p><p>Despite the probate service receiving record levels of applications during 2023 the open workable caseload (cases not waiting for more information from the applicant) has reduced by 30,500 cases since August 2023 and currently stands at 37, 406 in March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 26218 question first answered 22/05/2024 13:46:39 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1718006

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average processing time was for probate applications in the past 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	26218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>HMCTS is focused on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness and the outstanding caseload on all types of applications. HMCTS has increased staffing levels, streamlined internal processes and continued to invest in further improving the digital service.</p><p> </p><p>More recent Management Information published by HMCTS shows the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate (following receipt of the documents required) reduced by 3 weeks in March 2024 compared to February 2024. The average timeliness for cases completing in March was 9 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics show that the average time (median) from application submission to grant issue for all grant types was 11.0 weeks in 2023 (mean average time was 13.9 weeks). From the document receipt to grant issue the median average time was 8.7 weeks (mean average time 12.0).</p><p> </p><p>Despite the probate service receiving record levels of applications during 2023 the open workable caseload (cases not waiting for more information from the applicant) has reduced by 30,500 cases since August 2023 and currently stands at 37, 406 in March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 26217 question first answered 22/05/2024 13:46:39 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1718015

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Lewes Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons entitled Report on an announced inspection of HMP Lewes by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons 5–16 February 2024, published on 14 May 2024, what discussions he has had on conditions in HMP Lewes in the last six months; when did these discussions take place; and what estimate he has made of the amount of investment required to tackle rising levels of (a) violence, (b) self-harm, (c) drug misuse, (d) ageing infrastructure and (e) staffing shortfalls at the prison.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	26109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and senior officials continue to engage closely with leaders responsible for HMP Lewes in a variety of ways, not limited to in-person meetings and site visits.</p><p>The Prison Group Director for Kent, Surrey and Sussex frequently visits HMP Lewes, and his assessment of conditions at the prison informs consideration by Ministers and senior officials.</p><p>HMP Lewes is subject to estate-wide, nationally-led, security and safety improvement programmes. These include the installation of security features such as body scanners and other technology to stop illicit substances, weapons, and mobile telephones from entering prisons. Additionally, we have invested to incentivise drug-free living, and to continue work that is already under way in removing potential ligature points in cells.</p><p>A range of ongoing and planned projects to improve the infrastructure at HMP Lewes includes refurbishing showers, upgrading heating systems, replacing windows, and installing more decency features.</p><p>As these programmes and projects are funded from a variety of budgets, some of which are estate-wide, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of costs.</p><p>Our staffing position has greatly improved across the estate. At prisons where recruitment challenges remain, we will continue to offer an additional supplement to attract new Prison Officers.</p><p>More information is available in the Prisons White Paper, which can be accessed via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prisons-strategy-white-paper" target="_blank">Prisons Strategy White Paper - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/05/2024 08:00:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1718016

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Lewes Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in HMP Lewes were (a) released as street homeless and (b) released and recalled (i) once and (ii) multiple times in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	26110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data on street homelessness beyond 31 March 2023 as that data is a subset of data due for future publication and releasing it at this time would breach official statistics publication rules, as outlined in the Code of Practice for Statistics. Data for the latest six-month period, October 2022-March 2023, is available is provided in table 1 below.</p><p><strong>Table 1:</strong> <strong>Number not housed on the first night of release from HMP Lewes, with an accommodation status at release recorded as Homeless - Rough Sleeping by month of release,</strong><strong> October 2022 to March 2023</strong>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month of Release</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>53</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>1. These figures are drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent.</p><p>2. Data is consistent with metric CU150 Housed on the first night of custodial release, contained within the latest Performance Ratings publication, 2022-2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-ratings-2022-to-2023</p><p>3. In order to be counted in measure CU150, the release event must be found in both Prison-NOMIS and nDelius. Unmatched release events are excluded. (I.e., the figures provided might not include all cases).</p><p>4. Release events with a missing or obsolete status are treated as &quot;negative&quot; in this measure, as are release events with multiple statuses.</p><p>Data source: National Delius and Prison NOMIS</p><p>We are unable to provide data on releases and recall of offenders beyond 31 December 2023 as that data is a subset of data due for future publication and releasing it at this time would breach official statistics publication rules, as outlined in the Code of Practice for Statistics. Data for the latest six-month period, July 2023 - December 2023, is available is provided in table 2 below.</p><p><strong>Table 2:</strong> <strong>The number of first-time releases from HMP Lewes from July- December 2023, and subsequent recalls by 31 December 2023 </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month of </strong> <strong>release</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of </strong> <strong>releases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders </strong> <strong>recalled once</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders </strong> <strong>recalled more than once</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Offenders are counted once in each month of release. There could be a handful of offenders counted twice across different months where they were released for the first time on different sentences.</p><p>2. Recalls are counted from date of release up to 31 December 2023. Where further recalls have occurred beyond 31 December 2023, these recalls are not included.</p><p>3. Given releases in later months have a shorter time for recalls to occur, direct comparisons across months are biased. The months have different lengths of time for recalls to occur.</p><p>4. Disclosure control: An asterisk (*) has been used to suppress values of one or two. This is to prevent the disclosure of individual information. Further suppression may be applied where needed.</p><p>5. Data quality: The figures in these tables have 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><p>Data source: P-NOMIS and Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD)</p><p>We know that having a safe place to stay helps cut crime which is why we are investing in our transitional accommodation service so prison leavers can have a guaranteed 12 weeks of basic, temporary accommodation to provide a stable base on release.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/05/2024 08:01:39 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas