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90183

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Independent Monitoring Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff are employed by the Secretariat of the Independent Monitoring Board.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	207790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The Secretariat for the Independent Monitoring Boards employs 14 staff, all full time. One member of staff has previously been employed by the police.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 207726 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:46:07 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

90187

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Independent Monitoring Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff of the Secretariat of the Independent Monitoring Board have previously been employed by the police.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	207726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The Secretariat for the Independent Monitoring Boards employs 14 staff, all full time. One member of staff has previously been employed by the police.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 207790 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:46:07 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

89793

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions since May 2010 a Rule 43 ruling has been used in coronial verdicts.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	207456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice had responsibility for reports made under rule 43 of the Coroners Rules 1984 (as amended) until 31 March 2013 when responsibility was transferred to the Chief Coroner. In coroner reform legislation implemented on 25 July 2013 Rule 43 reports were superseded by reports to prevent future deaths. As set out in the table below, a total of 1,952 reports made under rule 43 of the Coroners Rules 1984 (as amended) and reports to prevent future deaths were issued by coroners between 1 April 2010 and 25 July 2014.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of reports made from 17 July 2008 (when the 1984 Rules were amended) to 31 March 2013 is available at: <a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/coroners-burial-cremation/coroners/rule-43" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov.uk/coroners-burial-cremation/coroners/rule-43</a>. A summary of reports made from 1 April to 30 September 2013 is available at <a href="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/office-chief-coroner/summary-of-reports-to-pfds/" target="_blank">http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/office-chief-coroner/summary-of-reports-to-pfds/</a>, which is the website where the Chief Coroner will in due course publish information on the number of reports issued since 30 September 2013.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reporting period </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of reports issued</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2010 – 30 September 2010</p></td><td><p>175</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 October 2010 – 31 March 2011</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2011 – 30 September 2011</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 October 2011 – 31 March 2012</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2012 – 30 September 2012</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 October 2012 – 31 March 2013</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2013 – 30 September 2013</p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>244</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 October 2013 to 25 July 2014 (not yet published by the Chief Coroner’s office)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,952</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 03/09/2014 16:27:59 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

58222

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Buses: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions coroners have attributed motor accidents involving fatalities to the age and deterioration of tyres on coaches since 1994.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	198902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice collects data from coroners on the deaths reported to them for the annual Coroners Statistics bulletin.</p><p>The bulletin is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coroners-statistics-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coroners-statistics-2013</a></p><p>The statistical information is collected in summary form and does not include data at the level of detail requested.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/06/2014 09:42:52 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

48016

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to the (a) public purse and (b) prison service is of processing a complaint by a prisoner against a prison officer.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	196053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not available centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

48017

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many child sex offenders were in prison in each year since 2003.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	196054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>From the data held centrally, it is not possible to separately identify those offenders convicted of sexual offences against children, because the prisoner offence details held centrally do not include information on the age of the victim. Such offenders are included with other sexual offences.</p><p> </p><p>In order to provide data relating to child sex offenders in prison, it would be necessary to manually examine the individual prison records of over 10,900 sex offenders in prison as at 31 December 2013 - this could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

48018

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints were made by imprisoned child sex offenders against (a) prison officers and (b) prison staff in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	196055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not available centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

42815

registered interest
date	12/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals convicted of (a) murder or (b) attempted murder in each of the last 10 years have been released with exclusion zones forming a part of their licence arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	191826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, it is not possible to answer these questions without carrying out a manual search through all relevant individual offender files, at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Conditions such as an exclusion zone may be applied to an offender's licence where it is necessary to manage the risk that the individual offender poses following release into the community - and where it is proportionate to that risk. Where qualifying victims have exercised their statutory right to make representations about the offender's licence conditions, the exclusion zone set will take into account those representations. In each case, the supervising officer proposes conditions as appropriate and requests these from the appropriate authority, which applies it to the licence on behalf of the Secretary of State. In the case of determinate sentence prisoners, the authority is the prison governor; in the case of indeterminate sentence prisoners, or others whose release is on the direction of the Parole Board, the authority is the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>These conditions must be kept under review, and are intended to be flexible to the possible resettlement needs of an offender in the community and any new risks that arise.</p><p> </p><p>An exclusion zone will rarely be absolute, as it is recognised that there may be exceptional reasons why the offender needs to enter the exclusion zone. Thus, where an exclusion zone is included in the offender's licence, it will usually be open to the supervising officer to grant the offender permission to enter the exclusion zone, for a temporary period and for a specific purpose.</p><p> </p><p>As this is a purely localised decision, there is no national record of the number of occasions such permission has been given. It is, therefore, not possible to answer the questions regarding how many times an offender has been granted permission to enter the exclusion zone applied to his licence.</p><p> </p><p>Data from the last 10 years is not available in the required electronic format to answer the question relating to numbers of offenders with exclusion zones included in their licence. To provide such information would again require a manual interrogation of offenders' records and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191781 191795 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

42820

registered interest
date	12/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions an individual on licence for an attempted murder conviction has been granted permission to enter an exclusion zone which has been formed as part of their licence arrangement in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	191781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, it is not possible to answer these questions without carrying out a manual search through all relevant individual offender files, at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Conditions such as an exclusion zone may be applied to an offender's licence where it is necessary to manage the risk that the individual offender poses following release into the community - and where it is proportionate to that risk. Where qualifying victims have exercised their statutory right to make representations about the offender's licence conditions, the exclusion zone set will take into account those representations. In each case, the supervising officer proposes conditions as appropriate and requests these from the appropriate authority, which applies it to the licence on behalf of the Secretary of State. In the case of determinate sentence prisoners, the authority is the prison governor; in the case of indeterminate sentence prisoners, or others whose release is on the direction of the Parole Board, the authority is the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>These conditions must be kept under review, and are intended to be flexible to the possible resettlement needs of an offender in the community and any new risks that arise.</p><p> </p><p>An exclusion zone will rarely be absolute, as it is recognised that there may be exceptional reasons why the offender needs to enter the exclusion zone. Thus, where an exclusion zone is included in the offender's licence, it will usually be open to the supervising officer to grant the offender permission to enter the exclusion zone, for a temporary period and for a specific purpose.</p><p> </p><p>As this is a purely localised decision, there is no national record of the number of occasions such permission has been given. It is, therefore, not possible to answer the questions regarding how many times an offender has been granted permission to enter the exclusion zone applied to his licence.</p><p> </p><p>Data from the last 10 years is not available in the required electronic format to answer the question relating to numbers of offenders with exclusion zones included in their licence. To provide such information would again require a manual interrogation of offenders' records and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191795 191826 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

42821

registered interest
date	12/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a convicted attempted murderer released on licence has been allowed to enter an exclusion zone formed as part of their licence arrangement within one week of their release in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	191795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, it is not possible to answer these questions without carrying out a manual search through all relevant individual offender files, at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Conditions such as an exclusion zone may be applied to an offender's licence where it is necessary to manage the risk that the individual offender poses following release into the community - and where it is proportionate to that risk. Where qualifying victims have exercised their statutory right to make representations about the offender's licence conditions, the exclusion zone set will take into account those representations. In each case, the supervising officer proposes conditions as appropriate and requests these from the appropriate authority, which applies it to the licence on behalf of the Secretary of State. In the case of determinate sentence prisoners, the authority is the prison governor; in the case of indeterminate sentence prisoners, or others whose release is on the direction of the Parole Board, the authority is the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>These conditions must be kept under review, and are intended to be flexible to the possible resettlement needs of an offender in the community and any new risks that arise.</p><p> </p><p>An exclusion zone will rarely be absolute, as it is recognised that there may be exceptional reasons why the offender needs to enter the exclusion zone. Thus, where an exclusion zone is included in the offender's licence, it will usually be open to the supervising officer to grant the offender permission to enter the exclusion zone, for a temporary period and for a specific purpose.</p><p> </p><p>As this is a purely localised decision, there is no national record of the number of occasions such permission has been given. It is, therefore, not possible to answer the questions regarding how many times an offender has been granted permission to enter the exclusion zone applied to his licence.</p><p> </p><p>Data from the last 10 years is not available in the required electronic format to answer the question relating to numbers of offenders with exclusion zones included in their licence. To provide such information would again require a manual interrogation of offenders' records and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191781 191826 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram