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	registered interest
	date	21/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Security
	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 X-ray scanners deployed to prevent illegal items entering prisons; and whether he plans to roll these out to all prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
	uin	68606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>We have invested £100m to combat crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of illicit items such as drugs and mobile phones.</p><p>Since 2020, we have installed an additional 75 x-ray body scanners, bringing the total to 97 and providing coverage to the entire closed male estate. As of April 2022, there have been approximately 20,000 positive indications recorded.</p><p>A full evaluation of our security investments is underway and will be published in 2023. Further deployment of x-ray body scanners across the prison estate will be informed by the results of this evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 26/10/2022 15:28:03 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1525073

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving a sentence for murder or manslaughter had an indictment for rape or sexual assault that has been ordered to lie on file.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
	tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
	uin	68545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>As at 30 June 2022, there were 6,731 prisoners serving a sentence for murder or manslaughter. Manual checks of paper records for each prisoner would be required to provide the answer to this question, which can be achieved only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 26/10/2022 15:27:14 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1524305

	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	Young Offenders: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure local authorities have the necessary resources to accommodate children post-charge who are unable to be bailed.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	67210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government published the Concordat on Children in Custody in 2017 which clearly sets out the statutory duties of the police and local authorities, and provides a protocol for how transfers of children from custody to local authority accommodation should work in practice. The Home Office is also working with the Metropolitan Police Service regarding its Children in Custody Golden Hour Information Exchange pilot. This pilot with three local authority areas aims to put in place early liaison to ensure more children refused bail receive better accommodation support.</p><p>The Spending Review 2021 maintains and increases capacity in secure and open residential children’s homes by making available £259 million over the Spending Review period so more children can receive the care they need.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 27/10/2022 08:57:33 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby