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1524118

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Rye Hill Prison
	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 ensure that HMP Rye Hill Independent Monitoring Board has (a) its full complement of members and (b) the support it needs to adequately monitor the welfare of prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	67230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice values the scrutiny provided by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Rye Hill. The Department recognises the recruitment challenges faced by IMBs and across the wider volunteer sector.</p><p>In response to this, the Department has increased the funding available to IMBs by £440,000 for the financial year 2022-23 and provided an additional £500,000 in capital funding. This additional funding aims to help ensure that IMBs increase their complement of members. The increases will fund structural developments to improve new member recruitment and retention, for example, through the recruitment of Regional Support Leads, who will play a key role in supporting recruitment to Boards through improving local outreach. A Regional Support Lead has been recruited for the region which HMP Rye Hill is located in and is expected to take up post in November 2022. A regional approach to recruitment will also help streamline the recruitment process to ensure that candidates can progress quickly and join the boards they have been recommended to.</p><p>Individual boards have flexibility in how their members work individually and as a collective to ensure that the welfare of prisoners is monitored effectively. In addition, a National Monitoring Framework provides guidance to all boards on how to meet their monitoring requirements. The IMB Secretariat continues to provide support to members and boards through training, guidance and recruitment assistance.</p><p>The additional funding provided by the Department has also increased communications resource to raise the profile of IMBs and improve recruitment advertising to support member recruitment.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 24/10/2022 16:34:20 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1523265

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) rehabilitation, (b) employment and (c) reablement programmes provided by HM Prison and Probation Service.
	tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
	tabling member printed	John Penrose
	uin	901702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>We are investing £550 million to rehabilitate offenders by getting them off drugs and into work and stable accommodation.</p><p>Between April 2021 and March 2022, the proportion of prisoners released from custody employed at six months rose by almost two thirds.</p><p>Together with NHS England, we are continuing to improve services in prison to ensure that people have access to timely and effective mental health care that is tailored to their needs. This will be reflected in the new National Partnership Agreement on health and social care in England, which is due to be published shortly, and the refreshed NHS England mental health service specification for prisons, which will be rolled out by April 2023.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 18/10/2022 14:36:08 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1523266

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
	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 increase the number of prison places.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Tom Randall
	uin	901695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>We have a significant prison build programme, delivering safe, secure and modern prison places across the country. More than 3,100 places have already been delivered.</p><p>As part of this, we are building brand new prisons with a design focused on security and rehabilitation, supporting family ties and resettlement into the community. These include HMP Five Wells which opened earlier this year and was the first of its design to be built; HMP Fosse Way near Leicester which is due to open next year; and a new prison next to the existing HMP Full Sutton where construction has started, and the prison is due to open in 2025.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 18/10/2022 14:08:27 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4845 label Biography information for Tom Randall

1522728

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Independent Monitoring Boards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) the shortfall in and (b) the potential impact of increasing the level funding in the 2022-23 financial year on, recruitment to Independent Monitoring Boards.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	64352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>We value the scrutiny provided by the independent scrutiny bodies, including the Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs).</p><p>In the 2022-23 financial year, we increased the level of funding for the IMBs by £0.44m and provided an additional £0.5m of capital funding. The increases will fund structural developments to improve new member recruitment and retention, for example, through the recruitment of Regional Support Leads, who will play a key role in supporting recruitment to Boards through improving local outreach.</p><p>Additionally, the development of a new organisational database will provide improvements to member recruitment and retention by replacing the current outdated legacy software and providing better access to member learning and development records, whilst aligning with plans to improve recruitment techniques. We hope this will positively impact the recruitment of board members and we will continue to keep this under review.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 20/10/2022 16:18:05 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1523101

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in prison aged (a) 18-25 years old and (b) 26 years old and above were on the (i) basic, (ii) standard and (iii) enhanced incentives status in each month between 1 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	64084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Data on the incentive scheme are published in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The requested disaggregation by month and age group does not form part of the published data and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 24/10/2022 08:43:31 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1523102

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme: Males
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many men in prison aged (a) 18-25 years old and (b) 26 years old and above were on the (i) basic, (ii) standard and (iii) enhanced incentives status in each month between 1 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	64085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Data on the incentive scheme are published in the HMPPS Annual Digest. The requested disaggregation by month and age group does not form part of the published data and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 24/10/2022 08:43:58 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1523201

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set a numerical target for the commitment in the Female Offenders Strategy on reducing the number of women entering prison.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea East
	tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
	uin	64211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We remain committed to the aims in the Female Offender Strategy (2018) of seeing fewer women offending and reoffending; fewer women in custody, especially on short sentences, with more managed effectively in the community; and better conditions for women in custody that support effective rehabilitation.</p><p>As we have an independent judiciary, setting a numerical target as proposed is not appropriate and may have unintended consequences. We are working to ensure that interventions and pilot projects are, where possible, evaluated so that we can understand their impact on the numbers and make-up of the population.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 25/10/2022 10:36:59 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1522460

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2022
	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, what recent steps he has taken to progress the implementation of his Department's action plan entitled A response to: An inspection of accommodation and support for adult offenders in the community and on release from prison, published in July 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	63201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>Since the publication of the action plan, HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has committed to increase capacity across the Approved Premises estate by 200 beds. To date, we have delivered more than 152 beds with the full expansion on track to be delivered by March 2024. Additionally, our new Community Accommodation Service Tier 2 (CAS-2), (formerly known as Bail Accommodation and Support Services), will increase spaces by a further 300 beds over the next 3 years.</p><p>The Community Accommodation Service Tier 3 (CAS3) offers temporary accommodation for up to 84 nights to prison leavers who would otherwise be homeless. It can be used as ‘move on’ provision from Approved Premises as well as for prison leavers at risk of homelessness.</p><p>HMPPS has also retained the Homeless Prevention Teams as a permanent feature to develop relationships with local authorities and other strategic partners in order to embed and expand housing options for prison leavers.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 19/10/2022 13:02:10 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1521471

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Personality Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he will publish the National Evaluation of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	61900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The National Evaluation of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway was published on 13 October 2022.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 17/10/2022 15:13:23 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1520358

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	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 impact of the use of escorted day release for people convicted of serious crimes on (a) public safety and (b) the welfare of those convicted.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	61000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>For offenders detained in prison, the Prison Rules provide for the temporary release of sentenced prisoners for specified purposes. By providing opportunities to work, learn and build family ties, temporary release from prison helps prevent offenders from returning to crime when they leave prison.</p><p>Release on temporary licence (ROTL) will only take place after careful risk assessment and is subject to stringent conditions, which are robustly enforced. Prisoners breaching conditions can be immediately returned to prison, disciplined and may face re-categorisation to a higher security prison and refusal of subsequent ROTL applications.</p><p>Where a Hospital Order is made by a court as an alternative to a prison sentence, the court may also impose a restriction order under section 41 of the Mental Health Act, if it considers it necessary to do so to protect the public form serious harm. While a section 41 restriction order is in force, patients are subject to special controls by the Secretary of State for Justice meaning the clinician treating the patient must obtain the consent of the Secretary of State for Justice for certain key decisions, such as transferring the patient to a different hospital or allowing access to the community. This is to ensure that the patient is managed safely and that public protection is a priority in the patient’s progress through the hospital system.</p><p>Decisions made in relation to leave are made following rigorous risk assessments that consider, among other things, the risk of harm posed by the patient to themselves and to the public.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 17/10/2022 15:12:25 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma