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1659846

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation Protection Orders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many female genital mutilation protection orders were issued in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, and (4) 2022.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
	uin	HL10037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>Data on the number of female genital mutilation protection orders issued for the period 2019-2022 is routinely published and can be found in the Family Court Statistics Quarterly series available on gov.uk.</p><p>The data for the period requested is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>136</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 21/09/2023 16:34:11 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1659847

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecutions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether there have been any more female genital prosecutions in the UK since the first conviction in February 2019.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jenkin of Kennington
	uin	HL10038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions and convictions for female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Outcomes by Offence data tool using the following HO code:</p><ul><li>00852 - Offences under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003<br></li></ul><p>Since the first conviction in February 2019, there was one prosecution in 2022, and no convictions for the offence of FGM.</p><p>The data tool can be accessed via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022" target="_blank">Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 21/09/2023 16:35:04 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	4229 label Biography information for Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

1660754

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Policy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which Minister in their Department is responsible for overseeing work on long-term strategic challenges; and how many officials in their Department (a) undertake horizon scanning work and (b) focus on delivering long-term priorities.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	199614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The Liaison Committee recently launched an inquiry into select committee scrutiny of strategic thinking across Whitehall. The Government will be providing written evidence to this in due course.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is responsible for oversight of all ministerial portfolios and Ministry of Justice strategy. An overview of ministerial portfolios for the Ministry of Justice is here: Ministry of Justice - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>). Addressing long-term issues is part of the work of the Department across all our policy areas.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 21/09/2023 16:07:45 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1660451

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Sentences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of increasing the length of prison sentences for people convicted of a crime who decline to attend their sentencing hearing on prison capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	199418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>Offenders should be brought before the court to face the consequences of their crimes.  That is why on 30 August 2023, the Government announced its intention to introduce a new court order requiring an offender to attend their sentencing hearing. It will be for judges to decide whether to make such an order. Serious offenders convicted of an offence which carries a maximum of life imprisonment, who breach such an order, will face an additional penalty of up to 2 years’ imprisonment. A full impact assessment will be published once the measures are introduced, which will be as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/09/2023 11:34:41 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1660210

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners on Remand: Risk Assessment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how frequently HM Prison and Probation Service conducts risk assessments for prisoners held on remand for (a) terror-related and (b) national security-related offences.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	199160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>HM Prison and Probation Service conducts certain risk assessments for all prisoners held on remand, such as a cell sharing risk assessment. Specific escape risk assessments are triggered where intelligence/information is received that suggests a prisoner poses a risk of potential escape.</p><p>There is a multi-agency, end-to-end case management process to manage the risk posed by terrorist offenders specifically.</p><p>Individuals charged with offences connected to terrorism are automatically considered for Category A conditions. When a prisoner is on remand for a terrorist offence, they will also have an initial assessment applied, which identifies the level at which the terrorist risk should be managed. The assessment will be repeated every six months for all prisoners on remand for terrorist offences. Subsequent assessments and interventions are deployed following sentencing.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/09/2023 13:00:29 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1660149

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Maximum Security Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any prisoners have been moved to higher security prisons since the escape of a prisoner from HMP Wandsworth.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	199105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>As a precautionary measure, HMPPS has moved a number of prisoners out of HMP Wandsworth following the escape of a prisoner from that establishment into prisons with an equal or higher security classification</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/09/2023 12:49:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1660460

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Parents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of children in England and Wales who had a parent in prison on 13 September 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	199340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice’s most comprehensive estimate suggests over the course of a year, approximately 200,000 children may be affected by a parent being in or going to prison. However, this estimate is based on 2009 survey data.</p><p> </p><p>The Prisons Strategy White Paper includes a commitment to improve the quality of the data collected on children impacted by parental imprisonment. We will deliver this commitment through our Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) Programme. BOLD is a cross government project which will link data to enable better evidenced and more joined up cross government services. Through BOLD, we will explore data sharing to improve our understanding of the number of children with parents in prison.</p><p> </p><p>Changes have also been made to the Basic Custody Screening Tool to enable us to collect data on entry to prison about how many primary carers are in custody and how many children under the age of 18 are affected by their imprisonment. The learning from the data collected will be incorporated into findings from the BOLD programme, which will be delivered by March 2024.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/09/2023 11:28:01 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1660596

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drug Seizures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drug seizures took place in prisons from March (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 in each institution.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	199322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>In the 12 months to March 2023, the number of incidents where drugs were found in prisons decreased to 14,724 from 17,700 in the previous 12-month period, a decrease of 17%.</p><p>The accompanying table contains data on all drug finds in each prison across the 2021-22 and 2022-23 period.</p><p>This fall follows action by this Government. Our £100m Security Investment Programme to reduce crime and prevent drugs entering prisons completed in March 2022. This funded a range of security measures, including X-ray body scanners across the entire closed male estate. Since July 2020, these have resulted in over 10,000 positive scans, many finding multiple contraband items, preventing drugs and mobile phones and other illicit items from entering prisons. We are going further this year with £25m investment to restrict drug supply into prisons, including installing x-ray baggage scanners at 42 high priority sites, and enhancing our mobile blocking technology.</p><p>Alongside this, the Ministry of Justice is investing £120m over the next three years to get more offenders engaged in treatment, and support them towards abstinence. With this investment, we will enhance testing regimes in prison, expand the use of Drug Recovery Wings where prisoners commit to remain drug-free and undergo regular voluntary drug tests, support prisoners to engage with community treatment ahead of their release and increase the use of intensive drug rehabilitation requirements for those on community sentences.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/09/2023 14:09:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds attachment 1 file name 2023-09-21 PQ 199322 Table.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1660608

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the target was for the number of random mandatory drug tests to be carried out by HM Prison and Probation Service staff in the year to March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	199327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>Between start March 2022 and end March 2023, the national Key Performance Indicator target of expected random mandatory tests to be completed was 54,138 based on an overall prison population ranging from 79,698 in March 2022 to 83,918 in March 2023.</p><p>All random mandatory drug testing (rMDT) was paused in March 2020 following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Low levels of testing resumed from September 2020 in line with establishments’ position within the National Framework for managing COVID-19 before formal performance expectations around rMDT volumes were re-instated in April 2022. As set out in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2022-23 publication, rMDT levels did not return to the pre-pandemic levels in 2022-23. The levels of testing delivered varies across the estate from month to month and was impacted by the level of regime being operated by prisons, in line with staffing resource and other operational pressures.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/09/2023 11:24:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1660610

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many random mandatory drug tests were carried out by HM Prison and Probation Service from March 2022-2023 by institution.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	199328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>Between March 2022 and March 2023, a total of 41,308 random mandatory drug tests were carried out by HM Prison and Probation Service in 122 prison establishments. Please see the accompanying table.</p><p> </p><p>All random mandatory drug testing (rMDT) was paused in March 2020 following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Low levels of testing resumed from September 2020 in line with establishments’ position within the National Framework for managing COVID-19 before formal performance expectations around rMDT volumes were re-instated in April 2022. As set out in the HMPPS Annual Digest 2022-23 publication, rMDT levels did not return to the pre-pandemic levels in 2022-23. The levels of testing delivered varies across the estate from month to month and was impacted by the level of regime being operated by prisons, in line with staffing resource and other operational pressures.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/09/2023 11:26:26 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds attachment 1 file name 2023-09-21 PQ 199328 Table (1).xlsx title Table
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden