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1702490

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ZK Analytics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the contract agreed by his Department with ZK Analytics Limited on 18 March 2024, procurement reference 23425, if he will publish the deliverables specified in Annex F of that contract.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	22713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>A redacted copy of Annex F – Deliverables will be uploaded to Contracts Finder within the next 10 days.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 24/04/2024 07:15:54 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1702526

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Convictions: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of cases referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission for appeal were successful in each year since 2019.
	tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
	tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
	uin	22830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The number and proportion of successful cases referred by the CCRC and heard by appeal courts each year since 2019/20 is:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of successful referrals</p></td><td><p>Proportion of successful referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>58.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>88%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>88%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>89%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023/24</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>79%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024/25 (year to date)</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 24/04/2024 13:10:32 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1702527

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Miscarriages of Justice: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help support victims of historic miscarriages of justice to appeal their convictions.
	tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
	tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
	uin	22831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>Where the normal time limit for appeals through the courts has passed and where an individual believes they have been wrongly convicted of a crime in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, including in historic cases, they can apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which is an independent public body funded by the Ministry of Justice. The CCRC can investigate and where it considers that there is a real possibility that the conviction would not be upheld were the reference to be made, can refer cases back to the courts.</p><p>There is no time limit on any application and the service is free.</p><p>To ensure that the appeals system is working effectively, the Government has asked the Law Commission to conduct an independent and wide-ranging Review of the appeals system. The Review will consider the issues raised by the Westminster Commission (2021) on miscarriages of justice, which includes the tests used by the CCRC and the Court of Appeal, and the government will then consider the review’s findings, and any recommendations for change in the law, very carefully.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 24/04/2024 13:12:20 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1702144

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Lewes Prison: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what investigation HM Prison and Probation Service has carried out into the causes of the hospitalisation of (a) prison staff and (b) prisoners at HMP Lewes on 28 March 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	22577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>On 28 March, following a Maundy Thursday service and meal in the prison chapel at HMP Lewes, two people who were present collapsed and were taken to hospital. After others who had attended the service also reported feeling unwell, the 32 prisoners and six staff who had attended were checked by paramedics. In total, six people required hospital treatment. The police are conducting an investigation into the incident. His Majesty’s Prison &amp; Probation Service is continuing to engage with them and to obtain regular updates on the investigation.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:27:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1702157

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is his policy to invest all additional revenue from court and tribunal fees into the Courts and Tribunals Service to help tackle the civil case backlog.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	22557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Additional income raised from court and tribunal fees will make a significant contribution to vital work taking place across the Department to facilitate an effective and efficient justice system. This includes our continuous efforts to improve HMCTS service performance and reduce court backlogs.</p><p>Fees generated £727 million in income for the Ministry of Justice in 2022/23 out of the total c.£2.3 billion that it cost to run HMCTS. The recent round of fee uplifts is expected to raise another £30 million – £37 million a year in additional income.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/04/2024 14:08:21 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1701729

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report by Lay Observers entitled 2022-23 Annual Report, published on 10 April 2024, and the response from the Minister of State published on the same date, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing the report's recommendations on ensuring that children and young people are (a) always transported in vehicles without adult detained persons and (b) looked after and managed by suitably trained staff.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	22385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We are very grateful to the Lay Observers for their invaluable work. We have thoroughly considered their annual report and its recommendations.</p><p>Timeliness is a key consideration when conveying children and young people to and from court and, in certain circumstances, transport in vehicles with adults may be the appropriate solution. In these cases, the children and young people would be collected and supervised by staff who normally work with adults. This is provided for in the contracts, and our focus is on ensuring that the service provided for in the contracts is delivered.</p><p>On all occasions when children and young people are transported with adults, the cellular accommodation in the vehicle must be separated by a screen to ensure that the children and young people are kept apart.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/04/2024 12:49:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1701808

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to manage prison population levels.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	22365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>We continue to focus on the prison capacity challenge.</p><p>To meet rising demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.</p><p>On 11 March, I announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing FNOs. This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania and the creation of a new taskforce across the HO and MoJ to change the way we process FNO cases radically.</p><p>We have also put in place short-term measures across the prison estate to expand useable capacity, while ensuring our prisons remain safe for staff and offenders.</p><p>The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:24:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1701810

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Education and Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) educational and (b) vocational training opportunities are not reduced in prisons; and whether he plans to use those training opportunities to help reduce prison overcrowding.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	22366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>Education is key for reducing reoffending and research indicates that prison education reduces reoffending by 9 percentage points. In September 2023, we set out our plans to deliver an improved Prison Education Service that will support more prisoners to improve their literacy and numeracy and increase the number of prison leavers employed on release.</p><p>Over the past 12 months we have seen a sustained delivery in the number vocational courses undertaken by prisoners following increases to 95,000. To ensure the right education and vocational training opportunities are available across prisons we have:</p><ul><li>Introduced new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.</li><li>Enabled the first ever prisoner apprenticeships in catering and construction through ground-breaking partnerships with Greene King, Kier and Clipper, with talks underway to open up apprenticeships in other industries.</li><li>Recruited Neurodiversity Support Managers in every prison to support offenders with neurodivergent needs in accessing education, skills and work opportunities within the prison.</li><li>Launched a Future Skills programme to train up over 2,000 offenders over the next two years in vital industries such as scaffolding and electrics, before linking them up with employers in the local community and guaranteeing interviews on release.</li><li>We are investing £16 million to test new ways of increasing workshop activity to get prisoners work-ready and improve labour supply.</li><li>£1.8 million in the Literacy Innovation Fund which is delivering pilots in 15 prisons targeting those with low literacy levels.</li></ul><p>I am pleased to say that we have seen positive outcomes in employment in support of our work to make best use of prison capacity. The proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after release has more than doubled in the two years to March 2023, from 14% to over 30%and between 2011/12 and 2021/22, the overall proven reoffending rate has decreased from 31.3% to 25.2%.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:25:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1701862

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, updated on 29 February 2024, when his Department first assessed each of the red-rated legacy IT systems in (a) his Department and (b) HM Courts and Tribunals Service to be red-rated.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	22312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>We completed an assessment of our critical systems against the CDDO’s legacy technology measures in July 2023, identifying the red rated system during that process.</p><p>HMCTS first assessed the red-rated legacy IT systems in October 2022 as part of their Decommissioning and Legacy Risk Mitigation (DLRM) programme.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 22/04/2024 16:25:28 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1701865

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoner Escorts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates court hearings have been delayed or could not go ahead due to a (a) failure to deliver a prisoner and (b) delay in bringing a prisoner to court by (i) SERCO and (ii) other providers of escort services since 2017, by court.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	22304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide the information requested without detailed examination of individual records for more than 220 courts, across two Prisoner Escort and Custody Services contract generations (Generation 3, 2011 – 2020, and Generation 4, 2020 – 2030), and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon grouped question UIN 22305 question first answered 22/04/2024 14:59:44 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham