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1716410

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Litter
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press notice entitled Clean-up scheme expanded nationwide to tackle anti-social behaviour, published on 22 March 2024, how many offenders in England and Wales were ordered to carry out litter-clearing activities in support of the Great British Spring Clean from 17 March to 2 April 2024; and how many hours of litter-clearing activity were completed by those offenders.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	25188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:51:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1716412

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Ipsos MORI
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what way the purpose of the contract agreed by his Department with Ipsos Mori on 20 March 2024, procurement reference 398437/1351727, differs from the purpose of the contract agreed with the same company on 5 June 2023, procurement reference 336036/1227987.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	25190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The contract with procurement reference 336036/1227987 was delayed due to difficulties with finding a survey design that would accurately answer the research question, and eventually the contract expired before a workable design was agreed.</p><p>A new contract – reference 398437/1351727 – was awarded to Ipsos on the basis of agreeing a different survey design, which is more likely to produce usable results.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 13/05/2024 11:54:17 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1716602

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	End-to-End Rape Review
	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 merits of expanding the Rape Review Action Plan to include all cases of sexual violence.
	tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
	tabling member printed	Sarah Dyke
	uin	25402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The 2021 Rape Review Action Plan set public ambitions to return the volumes of adult rape cases being referred by the police, charged by the CPS, and going to court back to at least 2016 levels. We have exceeded each of these ambitions ahead of schedule.</p><p> </p><p>The Rape Review intentionally focussed its efforts on the system’s response to adult rape, acknowledging its unique and complex nature to investigate and prosecute, as well as for the harm it causes to victims. That being said, improvements delivered through the Action Plan will also have wider benefit for the justice system’s response to other sexual offences.</p><p> </p><p>For example, we have recruited 20,000 extra police officers and are providing specialist rape and serious sexual assault training to 2,000 officers, making sure the police have the skills to investigate these crimes. We have rolled out pre-recorded cross examination for victims of sexual and modern slavery offences nationally, sparing victims from the glare of court and helping them give their best evidence. We are also quadrupling victims funding by 2024/25, up from £41 million in 2009/10, enabling us to increase the number of Independent Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse Advisors to around 1,000 by 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, the Government’s 2021 Tackling Violence against Women and Girls strategy set out our plan for improving the system wide response to VAWG. We have delivered on the vast majority of the actions set out in the original Strategy and continue to make important strides, including the first successful prosecution for cyber flashing resulting in a custodial sentence (March 2024); bringing into force the provisions in the Online Safety Act (January 2024) including new intimate image abuse offences; and putting a new duty on employers to protect their employees from sexual harassment via the Worker Protection amendment of the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 13/05/2024 15:30:34 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4995 label Biography information for Sarah Dyke

1715998

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Bail: Remote Hearings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary on its decision to make second and subsequent bail applications remote by default.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	24910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>It is standard practice not to comment on discussions between Ministers and the judiciary.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is supportive of any efforts to help ensure sufficient capacity in the courts to hear bail applications and to remove principal structural barriers to applications being submitted, and he welcomes the revised guidance launched by Judicial Office which sets out that all second and subsequent bail applications to the Crown Court should be heard remotely unless ordered otherwise by a judge.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 08:49:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1716036

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an imprisonment for a Public Protection sentence were held in secure hospitals at the start of the last 20 quarters.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	24924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Under sections 47/49 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the Secretary of State may authorise by warrant the transfer of sentenced prisoners to a mental health hospital, where he is satisfied that the criteria for detention are met by the aforementioned Act. Thereby, and for the duration of the period in hospital, the transferred prisoner becomes what is known as a restricted patient.</p><p>The requested data in the tables below are taken from an electronic casework system. Snapshot data of restricted patients in hospital are available only at the end of each year. We have provided this information in Table 1 for 2019-2022. We are unable to recreate snapshot data, for the start of each of the last 20 quarters, due to limitations of the case management system.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Population of offenders serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) detained in hospital as a restricted patient on 31 December in each year from 2019-2023.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population of IPP Restricted Patients </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>276</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Table 2:</strong> <strong>The number of offenders serving an IPP sentence who have been transferred from prison to secure hospitals on mental health grounds in each year since 2020.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of transfers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes </strong></p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>Where patients are admitted more than once, each admission is counted separately. This information does not count number of individual patients but instances of transfers.</li></ol><p><strong>Data Source: Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD)</strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 24926 question first answered 13/05/2024 11:49:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1716054

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	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 guidance by the Central Digital and Data Office entitled Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published on 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by his Department; and how many red-rated IT systems have been identified since 4 December 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Reading East
	tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
	uin	25013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, has established a programme to support departments managing legacy IT. CDDO has agreed a framework to identify ‘red-rated’ systems, indicating high levels of risk surrounding certain assets within the IT estate. Departments have committed to have remediation plans in place for these systems by next year (2025).</p><p>It is not appropriate to release sensitive information held about specific red-rated systems or more detailed plans for remediation within the Ministry of Justice’s IT estate, as this information could indicate which systems are at risk, and may highlight potential security vulnerabilities.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 13/05/2024 09:12:33 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1716160

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence on licence in the community took their own life in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	24925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of self-inflicted deaths of offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence on licence in the community in England and Wales in each year between April 2019 and March 2023 are shown in the table.</p><p><strong>Self-inflicted deaths of offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence supervised on licence in the community, financial year 2019/20 to 2022/23, England and Wales<sup> (1) (2) (3)</sup> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23<sup> (p)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(p) The 2022/23 figures are provisional and may be updated in future publications to account for any changes or additions to the data since they were originally collected.</p><p>1. Apparent cause is as reported in annual returns (prior to 2020/21 only) or the national Delius case management system (nDelius) and has not been independently verified.</p><p>2. The reporting period relates to when the death occurred.</p><p>3. A new set of death classifications was implemented on 1 April 2022 and, as such, figures for 2022/23 are not comparable to those presented for previous years. The category of 'self-inflicted death' up to 31 March 2022 includes any death of a person who has apparently taken his or her own life, irrespective of intent. The category of 'self-inflicted death' from 1 April 2022 includes any death of a person at their own hand, including where intent is undetermined. This includes some drug poisonings (e.g. where a suicide note is found or the circumstances are suspicious) but not drug poisonings which appear to have been the accidental result of consumption for another purpose. Refer to the guide to deaths of offenders supervised in the community statistics for further details about the new set of classifications.</p><p>The information for the period before April 2019 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:49:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1716162

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence have been transferred from prison to secure hospitals on mental health grounds in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	24926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Under sections 47/49 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the Secretary of State may authorise by warrant the transfer of sentenced prisoners to a mental health hospital, where he is satisfied that the criteria for detention are met by the aforementioned Act. Thereby, and for the duration of the period in hospital, the transferred prisoner becomes what is known as a restricted patient.</p><p>The requested data in the tables below are taken from an electronic casework system. Snapshot data of restricted patients in hospital are available only at the end of each year. We have provided this information in Table 1 for 2019-2022. We are unable to recreate snapshot data, for the start of each of the last 20 quarters, due to limitations of the case management system.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Population of offenders serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) detained in hospital as a restricted patient on 31 December in each year from 2019-2023.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population of IPP Restricted Patients </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>276</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Table 2:</strong> <strong>The number of offenders serving an IPP sentence who have been transferred from prison to secure hospitals on mental health grounds in each year since 2020.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of transfers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes </strong></p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>Where patients are admitted more than once, each admission is counted separately. This information does not count number of individual patients but instances of transfers.</li></ol><p><strong>Data Source: Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD)</strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 24924 question first answered 13/05/2024 11:49:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1715799

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Long Lartin Prison and Whitemoor Prison: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidences of (a) assault and (b) serious assault were committed against prison staff at (i) HMP Long Lartin and (ii) HMP Whitemoor in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	24757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>We publish the number of assaults and serious assaults against prison staff, broken down by establishment, as part of our Safety in Custody statistics, in Table 8e and 8f of the summary tables, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/662a24fb690acb1c0ba7e57c/Safety-in-custody-summary-q4-2023_final_table.xlsx." target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/662a24fb690acb1c0ba7e57c/Safety-in-custody-summary-q4-2023_final_table.xlsx.</a></p><p>Totals for those occurring at HMP Long Lartin can be seen at row 94, and for HMP Whitemoor at row 151.</p><p>Improving the safety of staff and prisoners is our priority and while overall assault rates remain below pre-pandemic levels, we will continue to protect our hardworking staff through our £100 million security investment that led to X-ray body scanners, airport style security measures and drug dogs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 08:54:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1715800

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Long Lartin Prison and Whitemoor Prison: Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were deployed on detached duty to (a) HMP Long Lartin and (b) HMP Whitemoor in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	24758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Staff are deployed on national detached duty (NDD) as a tactical response to support prisons which require it, to cover staffing shortfalls or to meet other operational requirements. NDD is a vital contingency measure to assist H M Prison &amp; Probation Service to maintain good order and security in prisons</p><p>The table below shows the average monthly deployment of full-time equivalent NDD staff to the two prisons between October 2022 and April 2024. HMP Whitemoor is no longer receiving NDD support. Except as shown in the table, no NDD staff were deployed to either site during the past four years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Whitemoor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Long Lartin</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>36.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>37.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>44.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>61.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>60.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul 2023</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td><td><p>55.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug 2023</p></td><td><p>23.4</p></td><td><p>61.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep 2023</p></td><td><p>31.25</p></td><td><p>65.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2023</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2023</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>65.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2023</p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2024</p></td><td><p>27.5</p></td><td><p>46.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2024</p></td><td><p>23.2</p></td><td><p>32.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2024</p></td><td><p>13.25</p></td><td><p>27.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2024</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:47:14 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury