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806646

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Cameroon: Politics and Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the recent political instability in western Cameroon; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	119722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text The Government is deeply concerned to hear reports of deaths and injuries in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. There have been fatalities on both sides; a number of security forces personnel have been killed by protestors, and Amnesty International reported that 17 civilians were killed by security forces in October. There have been fewer reports of clashes recently and a heavy security presence remains in many Anglophone areas. The British High Commissioner in Yaoundé has raised our concerns about the situation in the Anglophone region, including the Government of Cameroon's obligations under international law in respect to human rights, with Prime Minister Philemon Yang on 22 November. In these and several other recent meetings with Cameroonian Ministers, he called on the Cameroonian Government to exercise restraint, enter into purposeful and inclusive dialogue and to take action to reduce tensions. answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 21/12/2017 14:36:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

800510

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Sudan: Overseas Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) financial and (b) administrative support his Department has provided to the forthcoming trade conference with Sudan on 12 December 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	117131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is not providing any financial or administrative support to the forthcoming trade conference with Sudan on 12 December 2017. answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 12/12/2017 13:22:46 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

988791

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Synthetic Cannabinoids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what strategy his Department has to tackle the use of synthetic cannabinoids in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
	tabling member printed	Jared O'Mara
	uin	180298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>We have formed a Drugs Taskforce working with law enforcement and health partners across government to reduce substance misuse including psychoactive substances (PS) in prisons. The Taskforce is developing a Prison Drugs Strategy for publication this autumn which supports and complements the National Drugs Strategy published by the Home Office in 2017. Our approach is centred around the same three objectives: restricting supply, reducing demand and building recovery. We are supporting prisons in reducing all types of drug use, with a particular focus on PS and the unique challenges they bring. In September 2016, we became the first prison service in the world to introduce innovative mandatory drug tests for psychoactive substances, a significant step in tackling the supply and use of them. We have made it a criminal offence to possess psychoactive substances in prison and trained more than 300 sniffer dogs specifically to detect these drugs. We will shortly be providing guidance on how to counter the evolving methods used by suppliers such as impregnated paper. The creation of a new specialist Financial Crime Unit to identify and disrupt the organised crime gangs fuelling drug dealing in prisons was announced by the Secretary of State for Justice at the Conservative Party Conference. The unit is staffed by members of the Police and Prison Service and is able to freeze bank accounts linked to organised crime and to make arrests. This action will cut the supply of drugs to prisoners and prevent money reaching criminal kingpins. We are supporting Bim Afolami MP’s Private Member’s Bill on substance testing in prisons. This legislation will simplify and strengthen the drug testing framework, allowing us to test for all psychoactive substances, as well as prescription-only and pharmacy medicines, helping to identify where they are being abused.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 24/10/2018 16:50:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4661 label Biography information for Jared O'Mara

969470

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Berwyn Prison: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of staff employed at each pay band at HMP Berwyn since February 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	171720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The number of staff employed at each HMPPS pay band in Berwyn since March 2017 is shown in the table below: <table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Berwyn Prison Staff by HMPPS Pay Bands 31/03/2017 to 30/06/2018</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>(Full time equivalent)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMPPS Bands</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31/03/2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30/06/2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30/09/2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31/12/2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31/03/2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30/06/2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 2</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 3</p></td><td><p>248</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>385</p></td><td><p>403</p></td><td><p>407</p></td><td><p>429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 4</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 5</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 6</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 8</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 9</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band 10</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Senior Civil Servant (Band 1)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NPS Band 2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NPS Band 4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>414</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>500</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>583</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>589</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>605</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>634</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes: As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 17/09/2018 16:47:38 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

988767

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Bedford Prison: Wellingborough Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of closing HMP Bedford and transferring prisoners to HMP Wellingborough when it is operational.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
	uin	180281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government is committed to the modernisation of the prison estate. This will be achieved by delivering up to 10,000 modern, safe and decent prison places as previously announced, and the reconfiguration of the existing estate, providing the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitative outcomes. The delivery of new places will enable the Prison Estate Transformation Programme to achieve a combination of replacing existing capacity and increasing current capacity so that we will be able to close the least fit for purpose prison accommodation while ensuring we continue to meet demand. Population and capacity of the prison estate is kept under careful review to ensure there is always sufficient capacity. Decisions on the size of the future prison estate will reflect the current and projected prison population, including an assessment of the necessary margin to manage population fluctuations. No decisions have been made about future prison closures (male or female) beyond those which have already been announced.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 24/10/2018 16:46:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

971623

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Altcourse 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 Custody Officers were certified in HMP Altcourse as at 1 April (a) 2010, (b) 2012, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	173593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>HM Prison and Probation do not hold data on the number of Prison Custody Officers certified. This table displays the number of funded posts at each privately managed prison for January each year. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>416.21</p></td><td><p>393.21</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>488</p></td></tr></tbody></table>This table displays the population at each privately managed prison for 31<sup>st</sup> March each year, prison population figures are published regularly.<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>1,133</p></td><td><p>1,177</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMP Ashfield</strong></p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Operators of privately managed prisons are required to deliver sufficient recruitment and training of staff to ensure they maintain a safe, decent and secure prison as per their contractual obligation. The performance of all providers continues to be robustly managed. We will not hesitate to take action if and when standards fall short.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 173607 173608 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:44:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

971640

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Altcourse Prison: Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the population in HMP Altcourse was on 1 April (a) 2010, (b) 2012, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	173607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>HM Prison and Probation do not hold data on the number of Prison Custody Officers certified. This table displays the number of funded posts at each privately managed prison for January each year. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>416.21</p></td><td><p>393.21</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>488</p></td></tr></tbody></table>This table displays the population at each privately managed prison for 31<sup>st</sup> March each year, prison population figures are published regularly.<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>1,133</p></td><td><p>1,177</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMP Ashfield</strong></p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Operators of privately managed prisons are required to deliver sufficient recruitment and training of staff to ensure they maintain a safe, decent and secure prison as per their contractual obligation. The performance of all providers continues to be robustly managed. We will not hesitate to take action if and when standards fall short.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 173593 173608 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:44:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

971641

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ashfield Prison: Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the prison population in HMP Ashfield was on 1 April (a) 2010, (b) 2012, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	173608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>HM Prison and Probation do not hold data on the number of Prison Custody Officers certified. This table displays the number of funded posts at each privately managed prison for January each year. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>416.21</p></td><td><p>393.21</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>488</p></td></tr></tbody></table>This table displays the population at each privately managed prison for 31<sup>st</sup> March each year, prison population figures are published regularly.<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>1,133</p></td><td><p>1,177</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMP Ashfield</strong></p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Operators of privately managed prisons are required to deliver sufficient recruitment and training of staff to ensure they maintain a safe, decent and secure prison as per their contractual obligation. The performance of all providers continues to be robustly managed. We will not hesitate to take action if and when standards fall short.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 173593 173607 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:44:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

989645

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 4 of the 17 October 2018 Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Board on HMP Bedford, if he will undertake a review of the role of local prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
	uin	180839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>As well as constructing new prisons, the Government’s Prison Estate Transformation Programme is working to reconfigure the existing estate so that prisoners will be held in the right place at the right time in their custodial journey and their rehabilitation can be managed more effectively. This work will see the organisation of the adult male prison estate - including local prisons -simplified into three key functions: reception, training and resettlement. Reception prisons will manage men on remand, fixed recalls and those with a very short time to serve, and they will allocate other individuals for transfer to the next prison. Resettlement prisons will prepare people for release into the community, and they will hold shorter-sentenced men, as well as people transferred from training prisons. To support reconfiguration, we have developed evidence-based Models for Operational Delivery (MODs) for each prison function and also for specialist cohorts. The MODs are best-practice toolkits that will enable governors and commissioners to deliver effective services for their functions and specialist cohorts. The combination of building new prisons and the reconfiguration of the existing estate will address basic issues such as safety and decency, reduce crowding, and drive improvements in rehabilitation. By improving the match between the supply of places and the demands of the population men will be able to progress through the estate to access the right regimes for their needs and prisons will be able to better carry out their function.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/10/2018 16:44:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

874780

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Repatriation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on prison transfer arrangements with the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	135081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Any foreign national who comes to our country and abuses our hospitality by breaking the law should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them. More than 40,000 foreign national offenders have been removed from the UK since 2010, with a record number of over 6,300 removed in 2016/17.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A range of removal mechanisms exist which enable foreign offenders to be returned to their home countries, and we are working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Home Office as we consider our future criminal justice arrangements with the EU, with the aim of carrying on our close working relationship.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/04/2018 12:56:15 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz