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1148786

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the death of a baby in custody at Bronzefield women’s prison, what steps his Department is taking improve the care of pregnant women in custody.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The recent death of a baby at HMP/YOI Bronzefield is a tragic incident and the mother involved is receiving appropriate support.</p><p>There are currently eleven investigations underway, including an overarching investigation to be conducted by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO).</p><p>There are already a number of steps in place to ensure that pregnant women get appropriate support. These include:</p><ol><li><p>All pregnant women are provided with the local NHS Pregnancy free advice line number.</p></li><li><p>Fortnightly multi-disciplinary Maternity Boards for all pregnant women.</p></li><li><p>Ensuring local mid-midwifery services are fully engaged within the prison.</p></li><li><p>Ensuring appropriate Social Services support, including for those pregnant women who refuse to engage with ante-natal services.</p></li></ol><p>The Prison Group Director for the Women’s Estate has asked prisons to ensure that the above measures are in place at each prison.</p><p>An additional safeguard has been put in place. That is that welfare observations on pregnant women who are post 28 weeks will take place every hour during the night.</p><p>A Prison Service Instruction sets out the current policy on Mother and Baby Units (MBUs), and the Policy Guidance adjoining the Women’s Policy Framework 2018 contains comprehensive operational guidance on perinatal support to women in custody.</p><p>Before this tragic event took place, a review of the MBU policy was already underway and we are now expediting it.</p><p>To accompany the policy, a training course for managing pregnant women in custody and MBUs will continue to be available to prison staff supporting pregnant women, or women with children in MBUs.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/10/2019 16:44:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1148806

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals against a refusal of an application for Section 4 support for refused asylum seekers were successful in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	79
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/10/2019 14:22:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1148892

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many dynamic purchasing system contracts for education have been entered into by each prison since 1 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) contracts entered into since 1st April 2019 and the total value of DPS contracts entered into since 1st April 2019, by prison, is provided in the attached table.</p><p>As set out in the Education and Employment Strategy in May last year, significant changes to the delivery arrangements for prison education took full effect from April 2019. From that point, governors took control of their establishment’s education budget, determined the curriculum on offer and how it is structured and organised, and decided who their education providers will be.</p><p>Prison governors commission core and bespoke education provision through two new routes: the Prison Education Framework (PEF) and the prison education DPS. The DPS enables governors to commission innovative, specialist or one-off education provision for their establishment.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 212 question first answered 22/10/2019 16:46:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQs 211 212 - Contract information by Prison April 2019 (002).xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1148893

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of dynamic purchasing system contracts for education entered into by each prison since 1 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) contracts entered into since 1st April 2019 and the total value of DPS contracts entered into since 1st April 2019, by prison, is provided in the attached table.</p><p>As set out in the Education and Employment Strategy in May last year, significant changes to the delivery arrangements for prison education took full effect from April 2019. From that point, governors took control of their establishment’s education budget, determined the curriculum on offer and how it is structured and organised, and decided who their education providers will be.</p><p>Prison governors commission core and bespoke education provision through two new routes: the Prison Education Framework (PEF) and the prison education DPS. The DPS enables governors to commission innovative, specialist or one-off education provision for their establishment.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 211 question first answered 22/10/2019 16:46:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQs 211 212 - Contract information by Prison April 2019 (002).xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1148894

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of each Prison Education Framework contract entered into since 1 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Education and Employment Strategy (May 2018), significant changes to the delivery arrangements for prison education took full effect from April 2019. From that point, governors took control of their establishment’s education budget, determined the curriculum on offer and how it is structured and organised, and decided who their education providers will be.</p><p>Information on the total value of the contracts in the 17 Lots in the Prison Education Framework (PEF) contract, since 1 April 2019, is provided in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/10/2019 16:50:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 213 .xlsx title Table of contract values
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1148895

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Libraries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual budget was for library services for each prison in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Allocations to public sector prisons in England for prison libraries (for the financial year 2018-19) are provided in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/10/2019 16:50:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 214 - 1819 Library budget allocations (002).xls title Table
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1148896

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the education budget was for each prison in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Prison education allocations under the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) arrangements in England for each public sector prison for 2018-2019 are provided in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/10/2019 16:51:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 215 - 1819 OLASS 4 allocations (002).xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1148951

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Debts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will reduce the rate of interest charged by the Legal Aid Agency to individuals who owe that Agency money.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	330
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The rate in the statutory charge is currently set at 8%, which is the same as the Judgment Debt interest rate. The rate was reviewed in 2008/09. There are no current plans to reduce it.</p><p> </p><p>Where legally aided clients successfully gain or retain an asset as a result of the publicly funded legal assistance they receive, they should repay the cost of their legal aid.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 331 332 question first answered 17/10/2019 14:24:21 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1148952

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Debts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the rate of interest charged by the Legal Aid Agency to individuals who owe that Agency money has been set at 8 per cent.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The rate in the statutory charge is currently set at 8%, which is the same as the Judgment Debt interest rate. The rate was reviewed in 2008/09. There are no current plans to reduce it.</p><p> </p><p>Where legally aided clients successfully gain or retain an asset as a result of the publicly funded legal assistance they receive, they should repay the cost of their legal aid.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 330 332 question first answered 17/10/2019 14:24:21 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1148953

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Agency: Debts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on individuals who owe money to the Legal Aid Agency of the interest rate on those debts being set at eight per cent.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The rate in the statutory charge is currently set at 8%, which is the same as the Judgment Debt interest rate. The rate was reviewed in 2008/09. There are no current plans to reduce it.</p><p> </p><p>Where legally aided clients successfully gain or retain an asset as a result of the publicly funded legal assistance they receive, they should repay the cost of their legal aid.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 330 331 question first answered 17/10/2019 14:24:21 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle