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1138850

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Homelessness
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 effect of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 on the (a) effectiveness of joint-working between criminal justice agencies and local authorities and (b) homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	277248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>Everyone leaving custody should have a safe and suitable home to go to on release; having somewhere to live gives people a stable platform from which to access health services, hold down a job and reduces the likelihood of them reoffending.</p><p>Ministry of Justice officials are working closely with officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to monitor the referrals being made and to facilitate joint working between local authorities and prison and probation providers.</p><p>Overcoming the many barriers offenders face to securing suitable accommodation is something that Ministry of Justice cannot do in isolation. While statutory responsibility for housing (including planning) and homelessness lies with local authorities in England, and with the Welsh Assembly in Wales, we are committed to working with other departments to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 14:46:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138852

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many referrals have been made by (a) prison and (b) probation services to local authorities under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 duty to refer since October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	277250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>Everyone leaving custody should have a safe and suitable home to go to on release; having somewhere to live gives people a stable platform from which to access health services, hold down a job and reduces the likelihood of them reoffending. While statutory responsibility for housing (including planning) and homelessness lies with local authorities in England, and with the Welsh Assembly in Wales, we are committed to working with other departments to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p> </p><p>There has been a gradual flow of referrals from prisons and probation providers since the commencement of the ‘Duty to Refer’ on 1 October 2018. Between 1 October and 30 June: 926 referrals made by probation staff were recorded on the probation operational database, NDELIUS; 613 referrals made by prison staff were recorded on the prison operational database, P-NOMIS.</p><p> </p><p>Over the coming months we will be re-promoting the duty ten months on from commencement, while reviewing the guidance issued to reflect lessons learnt.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 16:26:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138853

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department takes to (a) monitor, (b) investigate, (c) learn lessons for prevention from and (d) respond at a (i) local and (ii) national level to deaths of offenders in the community on post custody supervision.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	277251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths of offenders under supervision are the subject of an internal review by the relevant probation provider, which must consider from the circumstances whether any areas of probation practice could be improved. This includes the deaths of those being supervised after release from custody. Probation providers report annually to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service on the numbers of deaths and their causes, and share learning points from the reviews that they have conducted. A small number of deaths under post-release supervision, including those that occur in Approved Premises, are independently investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders who died under supervision increased from 704 in 2010/11 to 955 in 2017/18. The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) was introduced on 1 February 2015 and resulted in an increase in the number of offenders on post-release supervision. While the total number of deaths under supervision has continued to increase, the number of deaths post-release fell by 8% in the last year, from 401 in 2016/17 to 367 in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy identifies people in contact with the criminal justice system as a high-risk group, and we recognise that the time following release from prison can be a particularly high-risk period for suicide and for deaths from other causes. The primary role of probation is to protect the public and prevent re-offending, and people under supervision in the community are not in the care of HM Prison and Probation Service in the way that they are when in custody. While probation staff do everything they can to help offenders find access to vital services including healthcare, housing, and treatment for drug and alcohol problems, they do not have sole responsibility for caring for them. We are conducting a review of post-release deaths, which aims to identify what further actions may be appropriate to prevent them, while recognising that a range of other organisations share responsibility for their wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing an extra £22m in ‘through-the-gate’ assistance for offenders, to help them find the support they need on issues such as housing, healthcare and employment, and they have the same access to these services as any other person in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of deaths under post-release supervision during 2017/18, broken down by time elapsed since release and by cause of death, is in the attached table. The figures are taken from probation providers’ annual reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing them, but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 277252 277253 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 277251-53 Bambos Charalambous MP figures.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138854

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Death
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 implications for his policies of the rise in deaths of people on post-custody supervision since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	277252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths of offenders under supervision are the subject of an internal review by the relevant probation provider, which must consider from the circumstances whether any areas of probation practice could be improved. This includes the deaths of those being supervised after release from custody. Probation providers report annually to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service on the numbers of deaths and their causes, and share learning points from the reviews that they have conducted. A small number of deaths under post-release supervision, including those that occur in Approved Premises, are independently investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders who died under supervision increased from 704 in 2010/11 to 955 in 2017/18. The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) was introduced on 1 February 2015 and resulted in an increase in the number of offenders on post-release supervision. While the total number of deaths under supervision has continued to increase, the number of deaths post-release fell by 8% in the last year, from 401 in 2016/17 to 367 in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy identifies people in contact with the criminal justice system as a high-risk group, and we recognise that the time following release from prison can be a particularly high-risk period for suicide and for deaths from other causes. The primary role of probation is to protect the public and prevent re-offending, and people under supervision in the community are not in the care of HM Prison and Probation Service in the way that they are when in custody. While probation staff do everything they can to help offenders find access to vital services including healthcare, housing, and treatment for drug and alcohol problems, they do not have sole responsibility for caring for them. We are conducting a review of post-release deaths, which aims to identify what further actions may be appropriate to prevent them, while recognising that a range of other organisations share responsibility for their wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing an extra £22m in ‘through-the-gate’ assistance for offenders, to help them find the support they need on issues such as housing, healthcare and employment, and they have the same access to these services as any other person in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of deaths under post-release supervision during 2017/18, broken down by time elapsed since release and by cause of death, is in the attached table. The figures are taken from probation providers’ annual reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing them, but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 277251 277253 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 277251-53 Bambos Charalambous MP figures.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138855

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people died whilst under post-release supervision in 2017-18; and what the (a) number of days between release from prison and date of death and (b) cause of death was in each of those cases.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	277253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths of offenders under supervision are the subject of an internal review by the relevant probation provider, which must consider from the circumstances whether any areas of probation practice could be improved. This includes the deaths of those being supervised after release from custody. Probation providers report annually to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service on the numbers of deaths and their causes, and share learning points from the reviews that they have conducted. A small number of deaths under post-release supervision, including those that occur in Approved Premises, are independently investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders who died under supervision increased from 704 in 2010/11 to 955 in 2017/18. The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) was introduced on 1 February 2015 and resulted in an increase in the number of offenders on post-release supervision. While the total number of deaths under supervision has continued to increase, the number of deaths post-release fell by 8% in the last year, from 401 in 2016/17 to 367 in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy identifies people in contact with the criminal justice system as a high-risk group, and we recognise that the time following release from prison can be a particularly high-risk period for suicide and for deaths from other causes. The primary role of probation is to protect the public and prevent re-offending, and people under supervision in the community are not in the care of HM Prison and Probation Service in the way that they are when in custody. While probation staff do everything they can to help offenders find access to vital services including healthcare, housing, and treatment for drug and alcohol problems, they do not have sole responsibility for caring for them. We are conducting a review of post-release deaths, which aims to identify what further actions may be appropriate to prevent them, while recognising that a range of other organisations share responsibility for their wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing an extra £22m in ‘through-the-gate’ assistance for offenders, to help them find the support they need on issues such as housing, healthcare and employment, and they have the same access to these services as any other person in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of deaths under post-release supervision during 2017/18, broken down by time elapsed since release and by cause of death, is in the attached table. The figures are taken from probation providers’ annual reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing them, but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 277251 277252 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 277251-53 Bambos Charalambous MP figures.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138972

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the of Answer 9 July 2019 to Question 273431 on Courts: Sales, which organisation was responsible for providing each of the valuations.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	277221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The table below provides a list of the organisations who provided HM Courts and Tribunals Service with valuations for courts listed in the answer to Question 273431.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Valuation provider</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bow County Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brecon Law Court</p></td><td><p>GVA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgend Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caerphilly Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carmarthen Law Courts (The Guildhall)</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dolgellau Mags &amp; Crown Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feltham Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grantham Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead Magistrates’ Court (North Anglesey)</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool, Dale Street Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>GVA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llangefni County Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath And Port Talbot County Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northallerton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontypridd Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>GVA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rhyl County Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond Upon Thames Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Solihull Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>GVA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tottenham (Enfield) Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>JLL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woolwich County Court</p></td><td><p>Valuation Office Agency</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and when communities have reasonable access to alternative courts.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/07/2019 11:28:01 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1138973

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Custody: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of hours per week was that a (a) child and (b) young adult aged 19 to 21 in custody spent playing sport in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	277222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The requested information cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison &amp; Probation Service is committed to ensuring that young people in custody are given the opportunity to take part in sport. In October last year, together with a number of leading football organisations, it launched the Twinning Project, in which 40 English Football League and Premier League clubs are working together with prison establishments to help reduce re-offending. The form this work will take will vary depending on the needs of the establishment and the club, but will range from professional coaching qualifications to refereeing and employability skills. There are also plans to extend this approach to include other sports, such as Rugby League.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/07/2019 15:53:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1138974

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful prosecutions following a request made under the European Arrest Warrant there have been in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	277223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of prosecutions and convictions following a request made under the European Arrest Warrant is not centrally held in the court proceedings database. Identifying these cases would require a manual search of court records, which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:44:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1138976

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Secure Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of places available in Secure Children's Home was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	277225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year ending</strong></td><td><strong>Average Number of Justice Beds Available</strong></td></tr><tr><td>March 2018</td><td>117</td></tr><tr><td>March 2017</td><td>118</td></tr><tr><td>March 2016</td><td>133</td></tr><tr><td>March 2015</td><td>139</td></tr><tr><td>March 2014</td><td>162</td></tr><tr><td>March 2013</td><td>166</td></tr><tr><td>March 2012</td><td>183</td></tr><tr><td>March 2011</td><td>192</td></tr><tr><td>March 2010</td><td>198</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/07/2019 16:56:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1139031

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court: Bradford
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 10 July 2019 to Question 273758 on Courts, what the average length of time was between first court appearance and trial in Bradford Crown Court in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	277304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Please find attached table providing:</p><p>- Average (mean and median) number of days from first listing at the magistrates’ court to main hearing at the Crown Court, for completed Crown Court trial cases at Bradford Crown Court, 2014-2018</p><p>Table - Average number of days first listing to main hearing, for completed Crown Court trial cases in England and Wales, 2014 to 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Year</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Number of defendants with completed cases</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>First listing to trial start date (number of days)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,347</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,212</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,181</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1,071</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>940</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em></p><p><em>(1) </em><em>Trial is identified based on the “case type” variable (e.g. case_type =T), this is recorded at the point of receipt into the Crown Court and it is possible that not all cases went on to trial.</em></p><p><em>(2) </em><em>Includes cases with an offence to completion time greater than 10 years but excludes a small number of cases with identified data quality issues and breaches. </em></p><p><em>(3) </em><em>Includes all criminal cases which have received a verdict and concluded in the specified time period in the Crown Court. </em></p><p><em>(4) </em><em>Statistics are sources from linked magistrates’ courts and Crown Court administrative data systems - with a match rate of around 95%.</em></p><p><em>(5) </em><em>Only one offence is counted for each defendant in the case. If there is more than one offence per defendant that complete on the same day, a set of validation rules applies to select one offence only and these relate to the longest duration, seriousness and the lowest sequence number of the offence.</em></p><p><em>(6) </em><em>Around 95% of defendants have a main hearing date.</em></p><p><em>(7) </em><em>A median value of 0 indicates that the case had a first listing and was completed on the same day. </em></p><p><em>(8) </em><em>Committal proceedings were abolished nationally on 28 May 2013. Triable either-way cases are now sent rather than committed. </em></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:22:14 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies