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1123082

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: 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 (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on staff were recorded in each prison in each quarter from 2010 to 2018 by the type of weapon used.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	247719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>Data for the numbers of assaults and serious assaults in each prison, broken down by type of weapon and type of injury, is set out in the attached tables. The figures are presented by calendar year rather than by quarter. This is because analysis at the level of detail requested produces many results of 5 or fewer. Disclosure-proofing to reduce the risk of identification, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, requires such low numbers to be suppressed. Even at the annual level, some such values have had to be suppressed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since October 2016, and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search teams to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 247719-20 Imran Hussain MP table 1 weapons.xlsx title Table 1 2 file name Copy of PQ 247719-20 Imran Hussain MP table 2 serious injuries.xlsx title Table 2 3 file name Copy of PQ 247719-20 Imran Hussain MP table 3 minor injuries.xlsx title Table 3 question first answered 28/06/2019 15:17:52 question first ministerially corrected 03/07/2019 12:20:42 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 125923 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

100823

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates there are in each local authority area; what the gender and ethnic composition is of magistrates in each such area; and what recruitment of magistrates there has been in each such area in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	211837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Each magistrate in England and Wales is assigned to a local justice area. I have therefore interpreted the reference to ‘local authority area’ in the question to mean local justice area.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 provides the number of magistrates in each local justice area along with their gender and ethnic breakdown.</p><p> </p><p>The number of magistrates recruited in each local justice area is dictated by the business needs of the magistrates’ courts. Due in part to falling crime levels, the workload of the magistrates’ court has reduced in recent years. Table 2 provides the number of magistrates recruited in each local justice area in the last five years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara attachment 1 file name Table 1 - 211837 - Number of magistrates.xls title Table 1 2 file name Table 2 - 211837 - Number of magistrates.xls title Table 2 question first answered 28/10/2014 15:17:56 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1150479

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Crimes against the Person: Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) mean and (b) median waiting times were in weeks for trials where the defendants entered a not guilty plea for an assault charge in each Crown Court in England and Wales in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	1750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested about the waiting times for a trial where the defendant has entered a not guilty plea for an assault charge in 2010 and 2018 can be found in the attached Excel document.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the small number of defendants pleading not guilty to these offences at individual Crown Courts, we have not supplied the average waiting times for courts where fewer than five defendants pleaded not guilty. Basing an average on such small numbers can skew the mean and result in the figures being unrepresentative.</p><p> </p><p>Performance, demand and waiting times in the courts are constantly reviewed to balance sitting days with waiting times, disposals and receipts. Resources are adjusted when appropriate. Demand has been falling in recent years and sitting days have been reduced accordingly. The abolition of committal hearings in 2013 transferred the file preparation period from the magistrates’ court to the Crown Court and so comparisons between pre-2013 data and post-2013 data do not compare like with like.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to review demand and performance in the Crown Courts and will ensure they have the resource they require.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 24/10/2019 16:05:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 1750 Annex A.XLSX title Table 1
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1197539

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 May 2020 to Question 45068 on Prisoners: Home Detention Curfew, if he will breakdown the (a) violence against the person, (b) theft, (c) drug and (d) miscellaneous crimes against society offence groups into the number of each of the individual offences in that group for each year.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	49621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested in your first question can be found in the table attached.</p><p>The information requested in your second question could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Release on HDC is subject to a risk assessment to ensure that there is a plan in place to manage offenders safely. It is only available for certain offenders who receive sentences of less than four years. If offenders breach their curfew, or any other conditions of their licence, they can be recalled to prison.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 49623 question first answered 02/06/2020 16:48:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 49621_final.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1197541

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offences were committed by offenders on home detention curfew after being released before the halfway point in their sentences in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	49623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested in your first question can be found in the table attached.</p><p>The information requested in your second question could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Release on HDC is subject to a risk assessment to ensure that there is a plan in place to manage offenders safely. It is only available for certain offenders who receive sentences of less than four years. If offenders breach their curfew, or any other conditions of their licence, they can be recalled to prison.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 49621 question first answered 02/06/2020 16:48:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 49621_final.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1260485

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Remand in Custody
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the (a) longest, (b) median, and c) seventy-fifth percentile length of time spent in custody on remand for (i) adult females, (ii) adult males, (iii) young people in custody on 4 November 2020.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	128641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2020 answer text <p>Centrally held court data does not include the amount of time spent remanded in custody, and therefore obtaining this information would result in a disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p>Prison receptions data has enabled an approximation of the data that has been requested. The attached tables provide information on the longest, median and seventy-fifth percentile length of time that adult women, adult men and young people spent remanded in custody up to the point that they were sentenced (Table 1); and also time spent remanded in custody pre-trial up to the point that they were admitted to prison between conviction and sentencing (for those who spent time on pre-trial remand) (Table 2). This data includes the first two quarterly periods for 2020 (January to June) – which tallies with the latest available published prison receptions data.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/12/2020 16:20:43 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name 20201216 - Copy of PQ 128641_final.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1328183

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted under the single justice procedure in each month of 2020 and 2021 by type of offence; and what the plea rates were for offences charged under the single justice procedure in each of those months.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	7818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>Data showing the number of defendants dealt with via single justice procedures (SJP) notices at the magistrates’ courts by plea and offence in England and Wales from January – December 2020 (latest available) can be found in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>The data supplied is a subset of published information relating to the timeliness of defendants dealt with by SJP notice which is available in Table 1 of the Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly, latest to December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/06/2021 15:37:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ 7818 (final).xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1353389

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent with each company providing agency staff to his Department in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The information requested for is provided in the attached Tables.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp attachment 1 file name 2021-09-10 PQ 44186 Table 1 Spend By Agency.xlsx title Table 1 2 file name 2021-09-10 PQ 44186 Table 2 Spend By Agency.xlsx title Table 2 question first answered 10/09/2021 13:57:06 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1566567

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of a criminal offence under section 31 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 in each of the last 12 years.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	122150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The number of defendants convicted of an offence under section 31 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 in each of the last 12 years, on a principal offence basis, has been provided in Table 1.</p><p>There were also 2 cases in which the defendant was committed for trial at Crown Court for an offence under section 31 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, one in the year ending June 2016 and one in the year ending June 2019. Due to data issues, the outcome of those two cases is unknown.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/01/2023 17:41:06 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-01-18 122150 Table (1).xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1649975

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Metals: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions have been bought under section 146 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 in relation to the resale of scrap metal in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	192335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>Section 146 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 ‘Offence of buying scrap metal for cash etc’ was repealed by the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/10/section/12" target="_blank">Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013</a> under Section 12, with legislation of Section 12 now including the offences applicable to the purchasing of scrap metal.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes a time series of information on the number of defendants prosecuted for offences under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 (offence code 19534), in the following tool:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1158218/outcomes-by-offence-2022.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence data tool</a></p></li></ul><p>A breakdown of prosecutions for offences under Section 12 of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013, related to paying cash for scrap metal within the last five years, has been provided in Table 1 on a principal offence basis for all courts in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 10/07/2023 10:15:48 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-07-10 PQ 192335 Table.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury