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	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many (1) prisoners, and (2) staff, were (a) suspected of having, (b) confirmed as having, (3) hospitalised as a result of, and (4) died from, COVID-19 in prisons in England, broken down by region.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Rochester
	uin	HL5099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The data requested can be found below and is correct as of Friday 19 June.</p><p>Please note, for the number of staff suspected of having Covid-19 the guidance was changed on 20 April so that symptomatic staff members could be identified separately. Before 20 April all staff members who were isolating under the PHE guidance were counted and those who were symptomatic could not be identified specifically. This may have slightly overestimated the number of symptomatic staff before 20 April. For some regions this data has been backdated so the total number of staff suspected of having Covid-19 is known.</p><p>On 24 April, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, announced the rollout of Covid-19 testing for all essential workers and symptomatic members of their household, including prison staff.</p><p>From 15 April, due to the sufficient availability of testing supplies all symptomatic prisoners were tested.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff suspected of having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff confirmed as having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff hospitalised as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff deaths as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region1</p></td><td><p>1,337</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region2</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td><td><p>178</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region3</p></td><td><p>1,973</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region4</p></td><td><p>845</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region5</p></td><td><p>1,015</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region6</p></td><td><p>2,417</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region7</p></td><td><p>2,482</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 11,195 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 898 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 67 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 8 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners suspected of having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners confirmed as having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners hospitalised as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoner deaths as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 1</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 2</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 3</p></td><td><p>725</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 4</p></td><td><p>455</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 5</p></td><td><p>252</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 6</p></td><td><p>513</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region 7</p></td><td><p>419</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 3,464 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 402 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 51 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 21 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Regions by prison group:</strong></p><p><strong>Region 1 – </strong>Cumbria and Lancashire; Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire</p><p><strong>Region 2 – </strong>Yorkshire; Tees and Wear</p><p><strong>Region 3 – </strong>North Midlands; West Midlands; East Midlands</p><p><strong>Region 4 – </strong>Avon and South Dorset; South Central; Devon and North Dorset</p><p><strong>Region 5 – </strong>Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk; Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk</p><p><strong>Region 6 – </strong>London; Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p><p><strong>Region 7 – </strong>Long Term and High Security Estate</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes </strong></p><p>- Staff suspected of having Covid-19 have been calculated as staff who are on sickness absence or showing symptoms. There may be other staff with suspected Covid-19 who are in the self-isolating category not included here.</p><p>- Prisoners suspected of having Covid-19 have been calculated as prisoners recorded as displaying symptoms.</p><p>- Some staff or prisoners may be counted twice if they have had two periods of symptoms.</p><p>- Confirmed staff cases are self-reported.</p><p>- Staff and prisoner hospitalisations have been calculated as those who have tested positive and have been hospitalised. The hospitalisation may not have been as a result of Covid-19 in some cases, and there may be other cases where Covid-19 has not been confirmed which are included here.</p><p>- These numbers include all historic cases, many of which are now closed.</p><p>- Data for staff deaths represents individuals that have been confirmed as having Covid-19, though it is not necessarily the cause of death.</p><p>- Data for prisoner deaths represents individuals where Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause.</p><p>- These tables include silver command regions 1 to 7 which cover prisons in England, but also include 2 STCs and 1 IRC.</p><p>- Staff figures contain both directly and non-directly employed staff.</p><p>- The symbol ~ denotes suppressed values of 4 or fewer to avoid the risk of identifying individuals.</p><p>- These figures have been drawn from the daily HMPPS Covid-19 reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has started publishing a weekly release of Covid-19 related statistics. This includes confirmed Covid-19 cases in prisoners and children in custody; and deaths among prisoners and children in custody where Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause.</p><p>The statistics release can be found here each Friday: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics</a></p><p>Please note, this publication provides statistics for prisons across England and Wales, the data in the tables above relates to prisons in England only.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 30/06/2020 16:54:24 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	4318 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Rochester

1315399

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Cammell Laird
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of holding a public inquiry into the 1984 imprisonment of 37 striking Cammell Laird workers.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
	uin	900162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2021 answer text <p>The appropriate route to challenge a conviction and/or sentence is by way of appeal.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone who has been convicted of a criminal offence in England, Wales or Northern Ireland can apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which can review and investigate possible miscarriages of justice. Where there is a real possibility that the conviction or sentence will not be upheld, the Commission can refer the case to the appropriate court.</p><p> </p><p>For the Commission to refer a case there normally needs to be significant new evidence or issue that might affect the safety of the conviction or sentence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/05/2021 15:05:05 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1341571

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates: Re-employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If he will take steps to invite all magistrates under the age of 75 who were automatically retired at the age of 70 to state whether or not they wish to rejoin the Bench.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
	uin	901954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>When the new judicial mandatory retirement age comes into force, there will be a transitional provision to enable retired magistrates to apply to return to the bench, subject to business need.</p><p> </p><p>We will be contacting recently retired magistrates later this year to invite them to express their interest in rejoining the bench.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 29/06/2021 16:37:17 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1240260

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many adults in prison have been actively engaged in self-study, and (2) how many adults in prison have completed accredited qualifications and assessments, in the last six months; and what plans they have to provide self-study education to adults in prison in the immediate future.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ramsbotham
	uin	HL8762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>Following the introduction of restrictions suspending the delivery of all face-to-face education in prisons due to Covid-19, we have worked with all Prison Education Framework (PEF) and Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) providers to support prisons via the remote production of various materials to provide in cell activity, distraction material and learning packs for as many prisoners as possible.</p><p>We have provisional data from the beginning of April 2020 which shows that the education providers have worked with HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to distribute approximately 871,000 learning packs. Of these, 361,000 were course specific packs and 510,000 were generic learning packs.</p><p>During the time that restrictions have applied we have had to adapt existing recording procedures for education delivery to meet these new restrictions and we need to carry out further work with providers to assess levels of engagement and achievement.</p><p>HMPPS managers continue to maintain routine dialogue with PEF provider staff locally around the development and delivery of additional support materials to meet new and emerging needs during these restrictions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 19/10/2020 15:45:36 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
	tabling member	3744 label Biography information for Lord Ramsbotham

1330989

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Equality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many prison service staff have attended intersectionality courses, (2) what is the cost of any such courses, and (3) how the courses help prison officers deal with prisoners.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>There are no courses on intersectionality but Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) had a package on intersectionality as part of its ‘Let’s Talk’ series.</p><p>Involvement in the ‘Let’s Talk’ series was not mandatory. As a result, HMPPS does not collect or hold data on the number of staff who have participated. All HMPPS diversity and inclusion training is developed internally as part of wider learning and development activity, and so no additional cost was incurred for any of the ‘Let’s Talk’ toolkit.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 22/06/2021 14:14:48 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1227979

	registered interest
	date	27/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many prison staff have been tested for COVID-19; and (2) how many prisoners in all prisons have been tested for COVID-19.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL7333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/08/2020 answer text <p>A testing programme is being conducted to help understand the spread of Coronavirus in prisons and how it is transmitted within individual establishments and across the wider estate began on Monday 20 July.</p><p><br>The testing study is taking place across 28 prisons in England and is being carried out in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Public Health England, Department of Health and Social Care and National Audit Office.</p><p><br>Every one of the 20,000 prisoners and 10,000 staff at the 28 sites will be invited to carry out an antigen test, consisting of mouth and nose swabs, to see if they currently have the virus. Participation is completely voluntary but we encourage as many as possible to carry out the test. The test will be repeated two more times with a gap of three weeks between each test.</p><p><br>This testing study follows a pilot of voluntary testing of both staff and prisoners at HMP Littlehey. This consisted of over 1,000 tests being undertaken and pleasingly no positive results were found.</p><p><br>This testing study runs for 9 to 12 weeks to allow all three testing rounds to be completed.</p><p><br>Currently, the establishments which have started undertaking this COVID-19 prevalence Testing Programme are: Bure, Coldingley, Drake Hall, Frankland, Gartree, High Down, Leeds, Lewes, New Hall, Norwich, Send, The Mount, Wandsworth and Wealstun.</p><p><br>As of 5pm 30th July 2020, there have been 2542 prisoner tests with four positive results. There have been 1571 staff tests with three positive results.</p><p>With HMPPS staff being able to self-refer for testing the complete number of staff who have been tested for COVID-19 is unknown by HMPPS. While the total number of tests carried out on prisoners since testing began is also unknown, the Ministry of Justice has started publishing a weekly release of Covid-19 related statistics, which includes confirmed COVID-19 cases in prisoners and children in custody. These statistics provide total numbers across England and Wales.</p><p>The statistics release can be found here each Friday: <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/08/2020 14:41:26 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1380047

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many, and (2) what proportion of, asylum appeals were successful due to the absence of a Home Office legal representative at the appeals tribunal.
	tabling member printed	Lord Brabazon of Tara
	uin	HL4185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2021 answer text <p>Information on Home Office attendance at Immigration &amp; Asylum Tribunal hearings is not collated centrally by HM Courts and Tribunals Service. Any decision to allow an Asylum appeal is made by a Judge based on the merits of each case.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 02/12/2021 17:28:57 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	3493 label Biography information for Lord Brabazon of Tara

1327242

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offender Assessment System: Life Imprisonment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many, and (2) what proportion of, people serving a life sentence have an up-to-date Offender Assessment System assessment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2021 answer text <p>The (1) total number and (2) proportion of life sentence prisoners currently in custody, who have an up to date Offender Assessment System (OASys) assessment, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of life sentence prisoners currently in Custody</p></td><td><p>Number with an OASys record able to be matched</p></td><td><p>Number of those identified within OASys with an up to date assessment</p></td><td><p>Percentage of those identified within OASys with an up to date assessment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7542</p></td><td><p>7464</p></td><td><p>6550</p></td><td><p>88%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes for all tables:</p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and OASys National Reporting System held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. This data was matched on PNC and Prison NOMIS ID. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>In order to determine whether an assessment was ‘up to date’, the policy and guidance under the HM Prison and Probation Service’s Offender Management in Custody Model has been applied.</p><p> </p><p>1) An initial OASys assessment must be completed within 16 weeks of a new life sentenced prisoner being received into custody. In the interim, where there is a Court OASys risk assessment prepared for sentencing purposes, that is deemed to be an up to date assessment.</p><p> </p><p>2) Following completion of an initial assessment, a review is required as a minimum every 3 years.</p><p> </p><p>Life sentence prisoners will often have reviews of their OASys assessment undertaken more frequently than once every three years due to parole hearings or other significant events.</p><p> </p><p>There are significant vacancies across the Prison Estate, which has an impact on the number of completed assessments. In order to address this, there are ongoing recruitment campaigns for prisons to employ additional probation officers and qualified probation officers and prison officers.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 08/06/2021 15:21:49 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1252969

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Remand in Custody: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many, and (2) what proportion of, women remanded in custody at (a) a magistrates' court, and (b) a Crown Court, did not subsequently receive an immediate custodial sentence in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL10421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>The number and proportion of women remanded in custody at each court who did not receive a custodial sentence in each of the last 5 years can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on remands and sentencing outcomes by sex and court, currently up to December 2019:</p><p> </p><p>Magistrates’ court remands:<br> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888658/remands-magistrates-court-tool-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888658/remands-magistrates-court-tool-2019.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Crown Court remands:<br> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888657/remands-crown-court-tool-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888657/remands-crown-court-tool-2019.xlsx</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 01/12/2020 16:38:00 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name PQ HL10421 table.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1382057

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Ethnic Groups
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many, and (2) what proportion, of incidents of the use of force in the children’s custodial estate were recorded in each of the last 10 years by the child’s ethnicity.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL4357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2021 answer text <p>Data on the use of force on children in the youth custodial estate is included in the aggregated annually published “Youth Justice Statistics” report which form part of the Youth justice statistics series.</p><p> </p><p>Table 8.6 in the supplementary tables of the 2019 to 2020 edition, published this January, gives data on Incidents of Restrictive Physical Intervention (RPI) sorted by ethnicity age and gender for years ending March between 2015 and 2020. The same table in the 2017 to 2018 edition covers the period from 2012 to 2018. The 2020 to 2021 edition is due to be published on 27 January 2022 and will include data for the year ending March 2021.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 08/12/2021 17:23:25 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar attachment 1 file name HL4357 - Lord Bradley - UoF in the youth estate by ethnicity - Data.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley