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1696707

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Convictions: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions of young people there were in (a) the North West, (b) Lancashire and (c) Preston in each of the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the trend in the number of such convictions.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	18978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds information on convictions by age group and Police Force Area, covering the period requested. The latest data available, until year ending June 2023, can be obtained in the following published tool: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65bd0675704282000d752143/outcomes-by-offence-june-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence tool: June 2023</a>.</p><p>The tool linked above will allow you to select particular age groups of interest through the age group filter, and areas of the country through the police force area filter.</p><p>It is not possible to separately identify all convictions in Preston courts specifically, as those at magistrates’ courts in Preston are counted within the wider geographical area of Lancashire outlined in the first part of the question. Figures for the rest of 2023 will be available in the next update of the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly publication, expected in May 2024.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has not carried out any recent location-specific assessment of on how our policies have influenced the trend in the number of children convicted since 2019 in Preston, Lancashire and the North West. However, there has been analysis of the broader national trend, which is a fall in the overall number of children entering the criminal justice system more generally in recent years. Since 2012, the number of first-time entrants to the youth justice system has declined by 72%. This can be attributed to a number of drivers. These include changes to policing and criminal justice practices intended to increase police discretion to divert children who had committed low-level offences from the formal justice system, prevention programmes to support vulnerable families and Youth Offending Teams undertaking prevention work with children perceived to be at risk of offending.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 27/03/2024 13:00:03 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1697796

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have used prison officers on detached duty in 2023; and how many (a) officers were deployed to each prison and (b) times those officers were deployed.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	19894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>During 2023, 21 prisons received Band 3 officers on National Detached Duty. The table attached shows the average number of detached duty staff deployed at each site in each month.</p><p>It is not possible, without incurring disproportionate cost, to provide the remaining information requested, as this would require a detailed examination of individual records.</p><p>We are doing more than ever to attract and retain the best staff, including boosting salaries and launching our first-ever nationwide advertising campaign. These efforts are working - we have over 4,800 FTE additional officers between March 2017 and December 2023, and retention rates for prison staff are improving.</p><p>We have committed to recruiting up to 5,000 additional prison officers across public and private prisons by the mid-2020s.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/03/2024 17:34:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2024-03-26 PQ 19894 table.xlsx title Number of detached duty staff deployed
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1692084

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders: Suspended Sentences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of unpaid work handed down as part of suspended sentences were cancelled as a result of not having been completed within 12 months of the sentence being handed down, in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	15829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The disruption caused by the pandemic added to a backlog of Unpaid Work hours. The Government is investing an additional £93m in Community Payback over three years. This will allow us to increase delivery of Community Payback back to pre-covid levels of delivery.</p><p>We have launched a national campaign to recruit more than 500 additional Community Payback staff to bolster resources in every probation region and new staff are arriving in post. The additional staffing will enable us to boost delivery of Community Payback to pre-covid levels.</p><p>There will be a particular focus on delivering more outdoor projects that improve local areas, sustainability focussed and allow the public to see justice being done.</p><p>Suspended Sentence Orders cannot legally be extended beyond the length of the operational period of the order which is set by the judiciary. A Suspended Sentence Order ceases the moment the operational period expires, regardless of any outstanding requirements such as unpaid work. Robust processes have been developed to ensure unpaid work requirements are completed in a timely manner, including prompt enforcement action where required.</p><p>It is important to note that these hours have not been “cancelled” but due to the legal limitations of a Suspended Sentence Order, the Probation Service is unable to apply for an extension in order to work hours once the operational period has expired.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>Hours remaining on Expired Suspended Sentence Orders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>91,588.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>171,124.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>386,845.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>405,800.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>279,639.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data as at 27/02/2024</p><p>The expired Suspended Sentence Orders detailed here should be viewed in context of the total completed hours delivered as detailed in PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-22/171423" target="_blank">171423</a>.</p><p>By way of comparison, in 2023, 279,640 hours remained on expired Suspended Sentence Orders, while during the twelve months 01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023, over 4.7 million hours of Unpaid Work were delivered.</p><p>A number of these expired orders will be as a result of persons being remanded in custody or otherwise unable to complete their hours within the operational period. Additionally, others may have expired due to delays in enforcement, particularly as a result of Covid.</p><p>Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 16:17:41 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1694759

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2024
	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 progress his Department has made on providing 20,000 additional prison places by 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	17728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>We are delivering 20,000 additional, modern prison places, the largest prison build programme since the Victorian era, ensuring the right conditions are in place to rehabilitate prisoners, helping to cut crime and protect the public.  So far, c.5,900 additional places have been completed. This includes our two new c.1,700 place prisons, HMP Five Wells, which opened in 2022 and HMP Fosse Way, which opened last year. It also includes, among others, c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells (RDCs) now in place across 11 sites.</p><p>There was no commitment to deliver 20,000 additional prison places by 2025. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total. This will include our third new prison, HMP Millsike, delivering c.1,500 places, new houseblocks at HMPs Stocken and Rye Hill, as well as hundreds more RDCs.</p><p>We have secured outline planning permission for our fourth new prison, near the existing HMP Gartree in Leicestershire, and for our fifth new prison, near the existing HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire. We will now seek to deliver those new places as quickly as possible.</p><p>We are continuing to push ahead with further options to deliver capacity across the estate, including looking at all options for accelerating timelines.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 16:24:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1694760

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison cells have been built in each year since 2010, broken down by cell type.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	17729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>As some cells hold more than one person, the operational capacity of the prison estate is best understood by the number of places rather than number of cells, and this is how data is recorded by HMPPS.</p><p>The below table provides a summary of the number of prison places which have opened in each year since 2010, broken down into Adult Male, Female and CYPSE (Children and Young People’s Estate). Please note that, for simplicity, all places relating to a prison opening are included in the year that the prison opened. In practice, a new prison may take more than a year before reaching its final operational capacity.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Adult Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CYPSE</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1479</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1479</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3066</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3066</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1466</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1551</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>580</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>580</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>484</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>508</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1044</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2176</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2176</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>2435</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2459</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15413</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>271</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>45</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15729</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We continue to push ahead with the largest prison expansion programme since the Victorian Era – with 10,000 of the pledged 20,000 additional places to be delivered by the end of 2025.</p><p>We have also put in place short-term measures across the prison estate to expand capacity by the equivalent of around 2,000 places since September 2022, through doubling up cells and delaying non-urgent maintenance work where safe to do so. Thousands of places are also being created through the expansion of prisons through additional house blocks and major refurbishments at existing prisons and we are rolling out Rapid Deployment Cells across the estate, with c.590 already delivered at eleven sites.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 16:25:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1697122

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	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, how many and what proportion of prisoners were sharing a one-person cell with another person on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 March 2022 and (c) 1 March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	19382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Crowding levels are published annually in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2022-to-march-2023" target="_blank">HMPPS Prison Digest.</a> Figures for the last three years for the number of prisoners sharing a one-person cell with another person for that year can be found in the documents here:</p><p><br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2021-to-march-2022." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2021-to-march-2022.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2022-to-march-2023." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2022-to-march-2023.</a></p><p>The accompanying annex to the latest publication, titled ‘Chapter 2 Tables – Prison Crowding’ provides the percentage of prisoners sharing a one-person cell with another person for each year since 1996.</p><p>The determination of the maximum crowded capacity of a particular establishment is a matter of operational judgement, considering risks to safety and stability.</p><p>By the end of this SR period, we will have invested nearly £4 billion towards the delivery of 20,000 modern and uncrowded prison places, the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era, ensuring the right conditions are in place to rehabilitate prisoners, helping to cut crime, and protect the public. We have delivered c.5,900 of these and by the end of 2025, we will have delivered over 10,000 in total.</p><p>These places are being delivered through the construction of six new prisons, as well as the expansion and refurbishment of the existing estate and temporary accommodation.  We are also continuing to invest in prison maintenance so that existing places remain in use and are safe.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 16:20:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1697491

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Centres: Swansea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on establishment of the residential women’s centre in Swansea.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	19654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Planning approval for the Residential Women’s Centre at the Trehafod site in Cockett, Swansea, was granted by the Welsh Government’s Planning Environment Decisions Wales in August 2023, following an appeal by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Due to delays and uncertainty in securing this planning approval, the MoJ has a number of ongoing steps to re-mobilise the project and continues to work closely with partners in Wales.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 15:24:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1697533

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	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 he has made an estimate of the number of proposed new prison places that will be rapid deployment cells.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	19628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>We are delivering 20,000 prison places, the largest prison build programme since the Victorian era. As part of this, and alongside further opportunities to optimise capacity in the estate, the estimated number of proposed new prison places that will be Rapid Deployment Cells is c.1,800. Delivery of the first c.1000 began last year, with c.630 already delivered across 12 sites.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 16:20:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1697596

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wetherby Young Offender Institution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of girls aged under the age of 15 (a) have been placed in the last 12 months and (b) are expected to be placed within the next 12 months at the Wetherby and Keppel Young Offender Institution.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	19717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>No girls under 15 have been placed at HMYOI Wetherby in the last 12 months. We do not expect to make any such placement in the next 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 15:26:41 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1697048

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pension Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many pre-Fresh Start prison officers with reserved pension rights remain in service.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	19322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>Currently there are 11 full time and 181 partially retired operational uniform staff who retained Pre-Fresh Start Reserved Rights Terms under the legacy PCSPS Classic scheme. There are also 19 partially retired Operational Managers who retained Pre-Fresh Start terms under the legacy PCSPS Classic scheme at the date of taking their benefits.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 19323 question first answered 22/03/2024 11:56:07 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris