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1699275

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to resume the publication of timeliness data in respect of employment tribunals.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Ladyton
	uin	HL3658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2024 answer text <p>HM Courts and Tribunals Service anticipate that publication of employment tribunal timeliness data will be at the end of the calendar year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 11/04/2024 14:53:56 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	620 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Ladyton

1698963

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	TV Licensing: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many single justice procedure notices have been issued by the Television Licensing Authority in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	20668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The requirement to hold, and pay for, a television license is set out in the Communications Act 2003 and the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004. Under the Communications Act 2003, the BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the TV licensing system.</p><p>The BBC prosecutes most TV license evasion cases using the Single Justice Procedure (SJP). The SJP is a more proportionate way of dealing with straightforward, uncontested, summary-only non-imprisonable offences which almost exclusively result in a financial penalty.</p><p>The data we hold shows the number of defendants prosecuted by the Television Licensing Authority and dealt with via SJP for TV license evasion cases each year since 2015. This can be found in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="10"><p><strong>Television Licence Evasion</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Defendants dealt with</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>67,473</p></td><td><p>136,793</p></td><td><p>126,571</p></td><td><p>121,020</p></td><td><p>53,227</p></td><td><p>48,495</p></td><td><p>43,504</p></td><td><p>33,460</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 15/04/2024 11:30:49 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1699015

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Cremation: Babies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) babies, (b) stillborn and (c) miscarriages were cremated in each year between 2020 and 2023.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	20634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Data on how many (a) babies, (b) stillborn and (c) miscarriages are cremated each year in England and Wales is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 15/04/2024 11:23:47 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1699087

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Staff
	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 estimate of the number of probation officers required to support prisoners granted early release.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	20693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>We have increased funding for the Probation Service by an extra £155 million a year and onboarded over 4,000 trainee probation officers over the last three years.</p><p>As announced on 11 March, we will reset probation so that practitioners prioritise early engagement at the point where offenders are most likely to breach their licence conditions, allowing frontline staff to maximise supervision of the most serious offenders.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 09:50:18 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1699088

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the (a) number of housing placements available for prisoners on early release and (b) potential impact of the early release scheme on social housing waiting lists.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	20694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is committed to preventing homelessness and works closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Welsh Government to do so. Prisons and probation have a statutory duty to refer someone at risk of homelessness to a local authority for assistance, and we have worked closely with DLUHC on the design and delivery of their Accommodation for Ex-Offenders scheme. We have set up a Cross-Whitehall Accommodation Board, attended by officials from MoJ, HMPPS, Welsh Government and DLUHC, to ensure collaboration across policy and operational areas.</p><p>In July 2021, we launched our groundbreaking Community Accommodation Service Tier-3, to guarantee up to 12-weeks temporary accommodation to prison leavers subject to probation supervision who are at risk of homelessness on release, including those released under the End of Custody Supervised Licence measure. From July 2023 the service was expanded across all probation regions in England and Wales and continues to bring new beds online as the service embeds.</p><p>In 2022-23, 86% of prison leavers were in accommodation on their first night of release from custody.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 10:22:33 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1699089

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on steps to help prisoners on early release find employment.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	20695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice works closely with the Department of Work and Pensions to improve employment outcomes for prison leavers.</p><p>We know that employment reduces the chance of reoffending significantly, by up to nine percentage points. That is why I am pleased to say that the rate 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%.</p><p>All offenders released on End of Custody Supervised Licence will have a release plan put together by probation that helps support them in their journey into employment.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 10:24:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1699090

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions
	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 effectiveness of young offender institutions; and whether he has made a comparative assessment with secure children's homes.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	20696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The secure estate for children and young people is composed of different types of establishment, in order to provide for the differing needs and risks of individual children and young people remanded or sentenced to custody. The effectiveness of all establishments in the estate is continually assessed through internal and external quality audits and performance metrics, which are published regularly.</p><p>Our Children and Young People Strategy, which is in development, will be based on an assessment of the range of provision currently and potentially available. It will set out our longer-term goals for the future of the youth estate, and delivery of services and support to children. These aims include investing in smaller settings, such as the secure children’s home sector, and the new secure school.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 10:25:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1699092

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he is taking steps to ensure that young offenders are provided therapeutic support (a) in the community and (b) in secure settings.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	20697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) are central to supporting children in the community who are on the cusp of offending, as well as those who have already offended. Working as multi-agency teams, with representatives from police, probation, education, health and social services, and specialist workers, such as accommodation officers and substance misuse workers, they are able to tailor their interventions and referrals based on an assessment of a child's vulnerabilities, risk and needs. YOTs are increasingly moving towards becoming a ‘trauma-informed’ service, and most have access to a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services practitioner who will assess children and provide early intervention to young people coming into contact with the justice system.</p><p>In secure settings, in collaboration with Health partners, the Youth Custody Service is committed to the delivery of an individualised, trauma-informed model of care for every child in custody across England and Wales. This approach ensures every child has access to a needs-based programme of therapy, interventions, treatment, and education. Interventions include a range of cognitive behavioural programmes, counselling psychology services and Family Therapy to promote desistance from future offending.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 09:51:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1699144

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Oasis Restore Secure School
	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 13 December 2023 to Question 5313 on Secure Schools, what recent estimate he has made of when the Oasis Restore Secure School will be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	20769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The Oasis Secure School is due to open by the end of this Spring.</p><p>The Ofsted registration process is scheduled for 9-11 April; this can take up to six weeks. If any remedial actions are required, there is a chance that this could cause delay. All efforts are being made, however, to meet the scheduled opening date.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 09:52:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1699145

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many keep apart instructions were issued in HM YOI (a) Cookham Wood, (b) Feltham, (c) Parc, (d) Werrington and (e) Wetherby in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	20770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>Because of the way in which the data are compiled, it is not possible to provide the information in the form requested.</p><p>Non-association alerts are used as a means of improving the safeguarding of children and young people in young offender institutions in the public sector youth estate. Such alerts should only be issued after appropriate consideration, and where there is an identified need. Where an alert has been issued, the child or young person is able to mix with other children and young people in their residential units and in education.</p><p>A “snapshot” taken on 25 March 2024 shows the following numbers and percentages of children and young people at each young offender institution in the public sector youth estate who were assessed as needing to be kept apart from one or more other children or young people in the establishment owing to safeguarding concerns. The decisions are often made at the request of the child or young person who is the subject of the non-association alert.</p><p>HMYOI Cookham Wood: <br>46 of 58 children (79.3 per cent)</p><p>HMYOI Feltham A: <br>68 of 82 children (82.9 per cent)</p><p>HMYOI Werrington: <br>57 of 68 children (83.8 per cent)</p><p>HMYOI Wetherby: <br>106 of 149 children (71.1 per cent)</p><p>These figures are taken from operational oversight data.</p><p>HMYOI Parc, which is operated under contract, is not included in these arrangements.</p><p>The YOI population has decreased significantly – from 1,998 in the year to 31 March 2010 to 332 in the year to 31 March 2023. The cohort we now have in the YOI sector of the youth estate – overwhelmingly young men – present many complex issues, however 70 per cent were sentenced to custody for a violent offence. Our staff work hard to diffuse conflict and reduce violence, both between prisoners and against members of staff.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/04/2024 09:54:35 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby