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1728439

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has had recent discussions with the Victims' Commissioner on the potential impact on victims of her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that victims have access to information and support they may need.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender that perpetrated crimes against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. This includes providing these victims with the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions that they would like to be in place on an offender’s release such as an exclusion zone.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones grouped question UIN 4964 question first answered 18/09/2024 10:28:42 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728440

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department informs victims when perpetrators of crimes against them are due to be released under her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that victims have access to information and support they may need.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender that perpetrated crimes against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. This includes providing these victims with the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions that they would like to be in place on an offender’s release such as an exclusion zone.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones grouped question UIN 4963 question first answered 18/09/2024 10:28:43 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728654

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department’s annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 17/09/2024 13:54:08 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	5158

1728678

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the prisoners released under the early release scheme (a) are foreign nationals and (b) will be deported.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	Jo White
	uin	5220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the requested prisoner release figures at this time, as they form a subset of prisoner releases data scheduled for future publication. Numbers of custodial releases for the period covering July 2024 to September 2024 will be published on 30 January 2025, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All foreign national offenders in receipt of custodial sentences are referred to the Home Office to be considered for deportation. The Home Office make all final decisions relating to deportation, taking into account individual circumstances in each case, meaning it is not possible to predict future deportation numbers.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 18/09/2024 15:57:22 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5105

1728680

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign-born criminals (a) are in prisons and (b) were released under the revised terms of the early release scheme in Norfolk since 10 September 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Information on the number of Foreign Nationals in prisons can be found in Table 1_Q_12 here: Source: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a1167cce1fd0da7b592c8d/Prison-population-30-June-2024.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a1167cce1fd0da7b592c8d/Prison-population-30-June-2024.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide the requested prisoner release figures at this time, as they form a subset of prisoner releases data scheduled for future publication. Numbers of custodial releases for the period covering July 2024 to September 2024 will be published on 30 January 2025, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 18/09/2024 15:58:15 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5158

1728041

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	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, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending prisoners serving sentences in England and Wales to prisons overseas.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>We have prisoner transfer agreements with over 100 countries which enable us to send foreign national offenders to serve the remainder of their prison sentence in their home country. We are reviewing the opportunities to strengthen or expand these arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The previous Government explored the possibility of sending British prisoners to rented prisons overseas. There are no current plans to introduce this measure, which we believe carries considerable cost. This Government is in the market for practical approaches that work, and not for costly gimmicks, unlike our predecessors</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:39:34 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728063

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have been convicted of domestic abuse and (b) will be released early from prison as part of the SDS40 scheme.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>There is no single offence for domestic abuse defined in legislation as many other criminal offences can include domestic abuse.</p><p>The SDS40 change has exclusions for specific offences linked to domestic abuse including stalking, coercive or controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation. This represents a change from the previous Government’s End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme which failed to exclude domestic abuse sentences.</p><p>SDS40 data will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:40:29 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728207

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	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 estimate she has made of the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of the prisoner early release scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Melton and Syston
	tabling member printed	Edward Argar
	uin	4726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The modelled estimates for the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of this change were published in the Impact Assessment for the Statutory Instrument to Amend the Standard Determinate Sentence Automatic Release Point.</p><p> </p><p>This can be found at: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf</a>. Further statistics will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:41:15 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar

1728220

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	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, what steps her Department is taking to tackle physical violence between prisoners in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
	uin	4788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2024 answer text <p>Reducing violence in prisons remains a key priority. We are working hard to make prisons as safe as possible and are continuing our efforts to address the levels of violence in prisons.</p><p> </p><p>We have completed our landmark £100 million Security Investment Programme to clamp down on illicit items such as drugs, mobile phones and weapons – that drive prison violence and undermine safety.</p><p>To support those at raised risk of being violent, we have introduced the Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan (CSIP), a case management approach that is centred around the individual and addressing the underlying causes of their violence, including specific risk factors and needs, to help them manage and move away from violent behaviours.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure our staff are equipped with the right tools to protect themselves and prisoners from serious assaults, we have completed the roll out of PAVA – a synthetic pepper spray – for use by prison officers in the adult male estate alongside SPEAR, a personal safety training package.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing with plans for a phased removal of wet-shave razors in up to 30 prisons in the adult male estate in 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 13/09/2024 13:51:25 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1728252

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will introduce legal aid for tenants for (a) housing repair issues and (b) enforcing legal housing rights.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Tom Hayes
	uin	4820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>Legal aid is available for those facing homelessness, and disrepair claims (when there is a serious risk of illness or injury) subject to a financial means test. Tenants in this situation should contact the Civil Legal Aid telephone helpline for assistance.</p><p> </p><p>Legal aid is available for anyone facing the loss of their home through the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS). HLPAS provides free early legal advice on housing, debt, council tax reduction and welfare benefits problems from the moment someone is faced with losing their home.</p><p> </p><p>HLPAS also provides free legal advice and representation from a duty solicitor on the day of their court hearing. Where no face-to-face coverage is available, users can access remote early legal advice through HLPAS providers in other areas or via the Civil Legal Aid helpline or by going to <a href="https://find-legal-advice.justice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://find-legal-advice.justice.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p>There is no means or merits test for this service.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 16/09/2024 13:41:44 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
	tabling member	5210