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1657671

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Buildings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what mitigating actions are in place for prison buildings when the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete is detected.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL9763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Departments have been asked to report on the current picture of suspected and confirmed Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in their estates as soon as possible. This will be updated on a regular basis as new buildings are identified and surveying and remediation are carried out. The Government published lists of education settings confirmed as having RAAC on Wednesday 6 September and committed to providing further updates.</p><p>The potential mitigating actions for prison buildings will be to monitor them, prop them up or replace them, in line with Institute of Structural Engineers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL9761 HL9762 question first answered 18/09/2023 14:51:40 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1657670

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Buildings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to audit all prison buildings constructed between 1950 to 1990 for the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; and, if so, what is their timescale.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL9762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Departments have been asked to report on the current picture of suspected and confirmed Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in their estates as soon as possible. This will be updated on a regular basis as new buildings are identified and surveying and remediation are carried out. The Government published lists of education settings confirmed as having RAAC on Wednesday 6 September and committed to providing further updates.</p><p>The potential mitigating actions for prison buildings will be to monitor them, prop them up or replace them, in line with Institute of Structural Engineers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL9761 HL9763 question first answered 18/09/2023 14:51:40 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1657669

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Buildings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete within prison buildings in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL9761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Departments have been asked to report on the current picture of suspected and confirmed Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in their estates as soon as possible. This will be updated on a regular basis as new buildings are identified and surveying and remediation are carried out. The Government published lists of education settings confirmed as having RAAC on Wednesday 6 September and committed to providing further updates.</p><p>The potential mitigating actions for prison buildings will be to monitor them, prop them up or replace them, in line with Institute of Structural Engineers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL9762 HL9763 question first answered 18/09/2023 14:51:40 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1331558

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Rehabilitation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people in prison serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence (1) enrolled on, and (2) completed, an offending behaviour course after the expiry of their tariff period in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>We have responded to your request in line with the statistical definition of offending behaviour programmes (OBP) used in the HMPPS Annual Digest and HMPPS Offender Equality Report. Therefore, Sexual Offender Treatment Programmes and Substance Misuse Programmes have been excluded.</p><p>National data on all prisoner enrolments (starts) and completions in prison-delivered accredited OBPs are collected and published annually.</p><p>The latest available statistics are from April 2019 to March 2020 and were published this month. This data will include some individuals who may have attended more than one accredited programme over time. The available national data does not provide further break-down by those currently in custody or by sentence type to be able to identify who accessed a programme after the expiry of their tariff period. However, data-gathering and further analysis has been able to provide some of the information requested in line with the statistical definition which are primarily for general, domestic violence and violence related offending behaviour programmes. The accredited programmes data was matched with the National Offender Management Information System to obtain data on tariff expiry and this process achieved a 90% match rate of records between the two sources.</p><p>The table attached provides the number of indeterminate sentenced prisoners serving a life sentence, and those serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence who (a) enrolled on and (b) completed a general or violence offending behaviour course after the expiry of their tariff.</p><p>The Government’s primary responsibility is to protect the public. Accredited programmes aim to protect the public and reduce reoffending and are part of a range of rehabilitation and risk reduction opportunities available. In recent years, there has been a reinvestment from shorter, moderate intensity programmes in favour of longer, higher intensity programmes. HM Prison and Probation Service remains committed to supporting the progression of those serving IPP and life sentences in custody, so that the Parole Board may direct their release, or as the case may be, re-release, as soon as it is safe to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL922 question first answered 23/06/2021 16:48:27 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar attachment 1 file name HL 922 923_UPDATED FINAL.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1331557

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Rehabilitation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people in prison serving a life sentence (1) enrolled on, and (2) completed, an offending behaviour course after the expiry of their tariff period in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>We have responded to your request in line with the statistical definition of offending behaviour programmes (OBP) used in the HMPPS Annual Digest and HMPPS Offender Equality Report. Therefore, Sexual Offender Treatment Programmes and Substance Misuse Programmes have been excluded.</p><p>National data on all prisoner enrolments (starts) and completions in prison-delivered accredited OBPs are collected and published annually.</p><p>The latest available statistics are from April 2019 to March 2020 and were published this month. This data will include some individuals who may have attended more than one accredited programme over time. The available national data does not provide further break-down by those currently in custody or by sentence type to be able to identify who accessed a programme after the expiry of their tariff period. However, data-gathering and further analysis has been able to provide some of the information requested in line with the statistical definition which are primarily for general, domestic violence and violence related offending behaviour programmes. The accredited programmes data was matched with the National Offender Management Information System to obtain data on tariff expiry and this process achieved a 90% match rate of records between the two sources.</p><p>The table attached provides the number of indeterminate sentenced prisoners serving a life sentence, and those serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence who (a) enrolled on and (b) completed a general or violence offending behaviour course after the expiry of their tariff.</p><p>The Government’s primary responsibility is to protect the public. Accredited programmes aim to protect the public and reduce reoffending and are part of a range of rehabilitation and risk reduction opportunities available. In recent years, there has been a reinvestment from shorter, moderate intensity programmes in favour of longer, higher intensity programmes. HM Prison and Probation Service remains committed to supporting the progression of those serving IPP and life sentences in custody, so that the Parole Board may direct their release, or as the case may be, re-release, as soon as it is safe to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL923 question first answered 23/06/2021 16:48:27 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar attachment 1 file name HL 922 923_UPDATED FINAL.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1331028

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2005.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to each question could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central data was not stored in a way that it can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information, until 2009. As a result, the tables below provide data for each year from 2009.</p><p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a life sentence who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes for all tables:</p><p>1. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p>2. The figures in these tables do not include recalled indeterminate-sentence prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the indeterminate sentence population in prisons are routinely published as part of the Quarterly Offender Management Statistics on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL845 question first answered 22/06/2021 14:43:47 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1331027

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Life Imprisonment: Prisoners' Release
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people serving a life sentence were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2000.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2021 answer text <p>The information needed to provide a comprehensive answer to each question could be provided only at disproportionate cost as central data was not stored in a way that it can be filtered by the required fields to obtain the information, until 2009. As a result, the tables below provide data for each year from 2009.</p><p>The Government is committed to the protection of the public and the effective management of offenders. By law, prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have completed their tariff will be released only when the independent Parole Board concludes that the risk they present to the public is capable of being safely managed in the community under probation supervision.</p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a life sentence who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>122</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total number of prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection who were released at their first eligible parole date in each year since 2009, is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Outcome year</p></td><td><p>Count of release decisions at first eligible parole date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes for all tables:</p><p>1. These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database and Prison-NOMIS held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p>2. The figures in these tables do not include recalled indeterminate-sentence prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the indeterminate sentence population in prisons are routinely published as part of the Quarterly Offender Management Statistics on Gov.uk - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL846 question first answered 22/06/2021 14:43:47 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1456708

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are currently in prison serving a determinate sentence with a parole eligibility date, as defined in Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service Security Categorisation Policy Framework, reissued on 17 August 2021, by length of time between their sentence start date and conditional release date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL7538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2022 answer text <p>The answer is given in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Determinate sentenced prisoners<sup>(1)</sup> with a Parole Eligibility Date (PED), by time between First Movement Date<sup>(2)</sup> and Date of Release; as at 31 December 2021, England &amp; Wales</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Determinate sentenced prisoners with a Parole Eligibility Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,511</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>less than a year</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between 1 and 2 years</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between 2 and 4 years</p></td><td><p>159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between 4 and 5 years</p></td><td><p>402</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between 5 and 7 years</p></td><td><p>1,030</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between 7 and 10 years</p></td><td><p>1,901</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between 10 and 14 years</p></td><td><p>2,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14 years and over</p></td><td><p>2,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data sources and quality</p><p>The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p>Notes</p><p>(1) Recalled prisoners have not been included in these figures</p><p>(2) First Movement Date has been used, as it would reflect any time on remand deducted from total sentence length</p><p>Disclosure control</p><p>An asterisk (*) has been used to suppress values of one and two. This is to prevent the disclosure of individual information. Further disclosure control may be completed where this alone is not sufficient</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 14/04/2022 15:06:34 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1456707

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many miles on average a person currently in prison aged (1) 15–17, (2) 18–24, (3) 25–29, and (4) 30 and over, is held from their home.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL7537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2022 answer text <p>The requested information can be found in the table below. This information includes male and female prisoners held in prisons and young offender institutions in England and Wales and was accurate as of Friday 25th March 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Age Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Straight-Line Distance from home address (Miles)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15–17</p></td><td><p>48.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18–24</p></td><td><p>37.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25–29</p></td><td><p>42.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 and over</p></td><td><p>47.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>45.1</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There are complex and wide-ranging issues involved in transferring and locating prisoners, and allocation decisions must reflect both the specific needs and circumstances of the prisoner, including their security assessment, as well as the operating environment and range of services at the receiving prison.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS is committed to ensuring, where practicable, that prisoners are accommodated as close as possible to their resettlement communities and families. Whilst this is a priority, it is not always possible due to a variety of factors including wider population pressures, or where prisoners have specific sentence planning needs which can only be met at certain establishments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 14/04/2022 15:01:46 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1456706

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2022
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many foreign national prisoners for each country were convicted of each offence category in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL7536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2022 answer text <p>Figures for convicted foreign national prisoners by offence group and nationality as of 31 December 2021 in England and Wales can be found in the table attached.</p><p>We are committed to removing foreign offenders from the UK by working with international governments and reviewing our early removal mechanisms to maximise the removal of serious and persistent offenders.</p><p>Since January 2019 we have removed more than 10,000 foreign national offenders from our prisons, immigration removal centres and the community (to year ending September 2021).</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 14/04/2022 14:51:20 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name 2022-04-14 HL7536.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley