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225222

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit companies selling an individual's personal information to third parties.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
uin	226259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has no plans to ban companies from selling personal data to third parties. The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) does not prohibit disclosures of personal data to third parties, but it regulates the circumstances in which this can be done. As a minimum, companies should tell individuals what they are going to do with their personal data and with whom this will be shared.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where organisations do not comply with the DPA the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has a range of powers to take action, including the power to serve a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of up to £500,000. In the most serious cases, section 55 of the DPA makes it an offence for a person to knowingly or recklessly obtain, disclose or procure the disclosure of personal data without the consent of the data controller. The offence is punishable by an unlimited fine for cases heard in the Crown Court and a fine of a maximum of £5,000 for cases heard in the magistrates’ courts.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/03/2015 15:50:52 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

225240

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Mother and Baby Units
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women with home postcodes in Wales who have children and are held in English prisons (a) have applied to be placed in mother and baby units in English prisons, (b) were successful in their application and (c) were refused in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Ten women with home postcodes in Wales applied for a place in a Mother and Baby Unit in the last six months. Of those, six applications were successful, two applications were withdrawn and two have yet to be considered by an Admissions Board.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:09:48 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225241

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) Welsh language library books and (b) other facilities there are for women in English prisons whose home postcode is in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Prison library providers make sure that the range of reading and reference material available in each library reflects the diverse needs of the prisoners held. Prison Service Instruction 02/2015, published in February 2015, has an expectation that the language needs of prisoners should be met where this is reasonably possible. The number of books available in any given language will be proportionate to the population's requirement.</p><p> </p><p>An inter-library loan request service, facilitated by the librarian or library assistant, enables prisoners to request books in the same way as library users in the community. Welsh speakers can ask for Welsh language books to be provided via this service.</p><p> </p><p>Information about what particular Welsh language library books are stocked in female prisons in England is not held centrally and will need to be collated through enquiries at these prisons. At HMP Eastwood Park, which holds the largest number of women with home postcodes in Wales, and also at HMP Styal, I have enquired about the availability of Welsh language books and seen Welsh language books in both libraries. I will write to the hon Member when we have been able to obtain any additional information about Welsh language books in other women’s prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Women prisoners whose home postcode is in Wales have the same access to facilities as all other women prisoners, to support their appropriate rehabilitation and their resettlement back to Welsh communities. This includes the provision of Welsh language services, under the Welsh Language Scheme, for prisoners whose preferred language is Welsh.</p><p> </p><p>There are strong links between HMP Eastwood Park and the National Offender Management Service in Wales. A number of initiatives provide resettlement support to Welsh women prisoners there. These include the Integrated Offender Management Cymru: Women's Pathfinder project, which is seeking to design and deliver a women-specific, integrated, whole-system approach to working with those who come into contact with the criminal justice system in Wales and which includes other relevant female prisons.</p><p> </p><p>HMP Styal, which holds women whose home is in North Wales, also has strong links with Wales. As a member of the Women’s Pathfinder Project Board along with HMP Eastwood Park, Styal is involved in the development of the project, which is due to be piloted in North Wales from April 2015 and which will link directly with the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The new arrangements for transforming rehabilitation are expected to strengthen the links between women offenders whose homes are in Wales, and all the prisons in which they serve their sentence.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:28:42 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225242

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women who have home postcodes in Wales were (a) remanded in and (b) sent to English prisons in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The following table shows the number of remanded and sentenced female prisoners who have a reported address in Wales on four dates in 2014.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of remanded and sentenced female prisoners who have a reported address in Wales in 2014</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Status</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>June 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>254</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>September 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>December 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>257</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on offenders is provided by them on reception in prison and recorded on a central IT system. Reported addresses can include a home address, an address to which offenders intend to return on discharge or the address of their next of kin. No address has been reported and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders and therefore these figures are excluded from the answer.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:50:33 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225243

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff of English prisons are Welsh speakers.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many staff of the National Offender Management Service speak Welsh is not held centrally and to collate this information to answer this question would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/03/2015 14:32:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225244

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of Welsh female prisoners held in English prisons in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not separate annual costs of imprisoning Welsh women prisoners held in England prisons. NOMS does not analyse cost by prisoner nationality and costs recorded on the NOMS central accounting system do not allow identification of costs attributable to individual prisoners.</p><p>However, the Department routinely publishes average costs for each prisoner and prison place based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison.. This includes the women’s custodial estate and is available in summary form for the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales, on an annual basis after the end of each financial year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The most recently published figures for financial year 2013-14 is published alongside the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts and available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p><p>You may wish to note detailed costs of custody for women prisoners can be found at the above link within the file named: costs per place and cost for each prisoner 2013-14 - supplementary information. A copy of this is also placed in the House library.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department is committed to delivering prison capacity changes designed to modernise the prison estate and, where possible, reduce prison costs, whilst maintaining a high quality service.</p><p>From the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14 there was a real terms reduction of 17% in the overall average cost for each prisoner, with a reduction of 5% achieved during the last financial year 2013-14.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/03/2015 16:28:18 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

224767

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the amount (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on procurement was paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (i) directly and (ii) through the supply chain in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	226064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>On 25 February the Government published on GOV.UK departmental spend data with small and medium-sized enterprises, directly and through the supply chain, for 2013-4:<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014<br><br>For 2014-14, 37.4% of Ministry of Justice business went to SMEs, exceeding our aspiration of 25%.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/03/2015 17:29:23 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224768

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Buildings
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 March 2015 to Question 225118, what the stages of the court reform programme are; and when his Department plans to finalise the resource allocation for each such stage.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	226123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The stages of the Reform Programme will be subject to ongoing refinement through to summer 2015. The resource allocation for each stage will be developed as this planning progresses.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/03/2015 15:40:04 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

224769

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2015 to Question 214860, what the individual offences committed were in the violence against the person category referred to in the tables.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	226031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Absconds and escapes have reached record lows under this Government and temporary release (ROTL) failures have dropped over the past 12 months during which we have taken significant steps to strengthen the ROTL regime. Between July and September 2014 (the latest period for which data are available), there were a total of 61 recorded temporary release failures, 33% lower than the same quarter in 2013. In April-June 2014, there were 40% fewer failures compared to the previous year.</p><p>The table attached shows the number of prisoners with a principal offence of violence against the person who were in open prisons on 30 May 2014 and who had previously absconded, escaped or breached temporary release conditions, broken down by offence. The data in the table is derived from a one-off exercise to look in detail at those prisoners who were in open conditions on 30 May, which was conducted as part of the review of temporary release. It should be noted that the definition of “open prison” for the purposes of this exercise included some prisons operating both open and closed conditions on the same site to ensure that all prisoners with a previous abscond, escape or serious ROTL failure were identified and assessed. It is therefore possible that a number of prisoners included in the total were actually in closed conditions at the relevant time.</p><p>Temporary release and open conditions can be valuable tools in the resettlement of prisoners in the community but never at the expense of public safety. We conducted a fundamental review of the policy and practice of release on temporary licence (ROTL) after serious failures in 2013. We have already made significant changes, including the introduction in May 2014 of a ban on transfer to open prison or ROTL for any prisoner who escapes, abscond, fails to return from ROTL or commits an offence whilst on ROTL during their current sentence.</p><p>This change in policy for eligibility for open conditions was not applied retrospectively. However, any prisoners who were assessed to present an unacceptable risk in such conditions in light of their previous non-compliance were returned to closed prisons.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/03/2015 14:38:30 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous attachment 1 file name 226031 - Prisoners in open prisons.xls title Prisoners in open prisons on temporary licence
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

224770

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for remissions relating to fees for employment tribunal proceedings have been (a) made and (b) awarded in each month since July 2013.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	225985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>My answer given on 15 October 2014, which can be viewed at</p><p>http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-07-15/206019, records the number of fee remission awards in each month from July 2013 to June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics are due to be published on 12 March 2015 which will include the number of remission applications made and awarded for the employment tribunals on a quarterly basis from July 2013 to September 2014.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 09/03/2015 16:05:25 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn