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1713188

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people on probation (a) have been assessed as eligible for the Building Better Relationships programme and (b) are waiting for a place on that programme as of 23 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	23187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data on the number of people on probation who have been assessed as eligible for the Building Better Relationships programme (BBR) or who are waiting for a place on that programme as of 23 April 2024 without incurring disproportionate cost. We are also unable to provide the number of available places on the BBR programme for people on probation in 2024-25 without incurring disproportionate cost. This information is not collated and recorded centrally. Regions collect their own management information and waiting lists vary with average waiting times for BBR between one and five months. Each region manages their own accredited programme referrals and allocation of places is based on risk and order expiry date.</p><p>We are unable to provide data on the number of filled custodial places on the Building Better Relationships (BBR) programme in 2023-24 at this time as to do so would breach official statistics publication rules outlined in the Code of Practice for Statistics as they will form a subset of future published statistics. Data for 2023-2024 will be published in the Prison Education and Accredited Programme Statistics report on 26 September 2024.</p><p>There are 210 places available on the BBR programme for people in custody for 2024-25. This is subject to review related to changes in both the demand for different programmes, and the transition to new programmes being introduced in-year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 23188 23189 question first answered 26/04/2024 13:34:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1713194

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the 200 custodial places on the Building Better Relationships programme were filled in 2023-24.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	23188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data on the number of people on probation who have been assessed as eligible for the Building Better Relationships programme (BBR) or who are waiting for a place on that programme as of 23 April 2024 without incurring disproportionate cost. We are also unable to provide the number of available places on the BBR programme for people on probation in 2024-25 without incurring disproportionate cost. This information is not collated and recorded centrally. Regions collect their own management information and waiting lists vary with average waiting times for BBR between one and five months. Each region manages their own accredited programme referrals and allocation of places is based on risk and order expiry date.</p><p>We are unable to provide data on the number of filled custodial places on the Building Better Relationships (BBR) programme in 2023-24 at this time as to do so would breach official statistics publication rules outlined in the Code of Practice for Statistics as they will form a subset of future published statistics. Data for 2023-2024 will be published in the Prison Education and Accredited Programme Statistics report on 26 September 2024.</p><p>There are 210 places available on the BBR programme for people in custody for 2024-25. This is subject to review related to changes in both the demand for different programmes, and the transition to new programmes being introduced in-year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 23187 23189 question first answered 26/04/2024 13:34:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1713198

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many places will be available on the Building Better Relationships programme for people (a) in custody and (b) on probation in 2024-25.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	23189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data on the number of people on probation who have been assessed as eligible for the Building Better Relationships programme (BBR) or who are waiting for a place on that programme as of 23 April 2024 without incurring disproportionate cost. We are also unable to provide the number of available places on the BBR programme for people on probation in 2024-25 without incurring disproportionate cost. This information is not collated and recorded centrally. Regions collect their own management information and waiting lists vary with average waiting times for BBR between one and five months. Each region manages their own accredited programme referrals and allocation of places is based on risk and order expiry date.</p><p>We are unable to provide data on the number of filled custodial places on the Building Better Relationships (BBR) programme in 2023-24 at this time as to do so would breach official statistics publication rules outlined in the Code of Practice for Statistics as they will form a subset of future published statistics. Data for 2023-2024 will be published in the Prison Education and Accredited Programme Statistics report on 26 September 2024.</p><p>There are 210 places available on the BBR programme for people in custody for 2024-25. This is subject to review related to changes in both the demand for different programmes, and the transition to new programmes being introduced in-year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 23187 23188 question first answered 26/04/2024 13:34:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1701808

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	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 manage prison population levels.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	22365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>We continue to focus on the prison capacity challenge.</p><p>To meet rising demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.</p><p>On 11 March, I announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing FNOs. This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania and the creation of a new taskforce across the HO and MoJ to change the way we process FNO cases radically.</p><p>We have also put in place short-term measures across the prison estate to expand useable capacity, while ensuring our prisons remain safe for staff and offenders.</p><p>The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:24:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1701810

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Education and Training
	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 that (a) educational and (b) vocational training opportunities are not reduced in prisons; and whether he plans to use those training opportunities to help reduce prison overcrowding.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	22366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>Education is key for reducing reoffending and research indicates that prison education reduces reoffending by 9 percentage points. In September 2023, we set out our plans to deliver an improved Prison Education Service that will support more prisoners to improve their literacy and numeracy and increase the number of prison leavers employed on release.</p><p>Over the past 12 months we have seen a sustained delivery in the number vocational courses undertaken by prisoners following increases to 95,000. To ensure the right education and vocational training opportunities are available across prisons we have:</p><ul><li>Introduced new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.</li><li>Enabled the first ever prisoner apprenticeships in catering and construction through ground-breaking partnerships with Greene King, Kier and Clipper, with talks underway to open up apprenticeships in other industries.</li><li>Recruited Neurodiversity Support Managers in every prison to support offenders with neurodivergent needs in accessing education, skills and work opportunities within the prison.</li><li>Launched a Future Skills programme to train up over 2,000 offenders over the next two years in vital industries such as scaffolding and electrics, before linking them up with employers in the local community and guaranteeing interviews on release.</li><li>We are investing £16 million to test new ways of increasing workshop activity to get prisoners work-ready and improve labour supply.</li><li>£1.8 million in the Literacy Innovation Fund which is delivering pilots in 15 prisons targeting those with low literacy levels.</li></ul><p>I am pleased to say that we have seen positive outcomes in employment in support of our work to make best use of prison capacity. The proportion of prison leavers in employment six months after release has more than doubled in the two years to March 2023, from 14% to over 30%and between 2011/12 and 2021/22, the overall proven reoffending rate has decreased from 31.3% to 25.2%.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:25:49 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1702144

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Lewes Prison: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what investigation HM Prison and Probation Service has carried out into the causes of the hospitalisation of (a) prison staff and (b) prisoners at HMP Lewes on 28 March 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	22577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>On 28 March, following a Maundy Thursday service and meal in the prison chapel at HMP Lewes, two people who were present collapsed and were taken to hospital. After others who had attended the service also reported feeling unwell, the 32 prisoners and six staff who had attended were checked by paramedics. In total, six people required hospital treatment. The police are conducting an investigation into the incident. His Majesty’s Prison &amp; Probation Service is continuing to engage with them and to obtain regular updates on the investigation.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:27:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1702281

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2024 to Question 21066 on Prisons: Civil Disorder, how may Tornado trained officers each prison should aim to have trained.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	22578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>Operation Tornado is a national mutual aid plan by which prisons support one another in the event of a serious incident or occurrence requiring a reinforcement of staff. Operation Tornado is employed by HMPPS for three main reasons:</p><ul><li>In response to a serious incident requiring a reinforcement of staff.</li><li>In response to other events or crisis requiring additional staff, who may not necessarily need to be Tornado trained.</li><li>To aid the transfer of prisoners in the event of a serious incident or the threat of one (with the GOLD commander’s agreement).</li></ul><p>HMPPS aims to have 2,100 volunteers trained in readiness for Operation Tornado. Since the inception of Operation Tornado in the late 1980s, HMPPS has allocated a commitment to each prison for how many Tornado staff they should have trained. HMPPS monitors the number of staff available for deployment and offer training spaces to ensure resilience to respond to serious incidents.</p><p>In the event of a serious incident, all prisons, including those who have a commitment of zero, receive the same level of support from the Operation Response and Resilience Unit and Tornado trained staff from other prisons if required.</p><p>The requested information is in the table attached.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:28:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2024-04-25 PQ 22578 table.xlsx title PQ_25578_table
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1702516

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Just Stop Oil: Remand in Custody
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for which some Just Stop Oil protestors who were under the age of 18 were held on remand in adult prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	22812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>Custody should always be a last resort for children, including on remand. The Government raised the legal test for remanding a child to custody in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. A child must have committed a violent or sexual offence or have been charged with an offence where an adult may receive a custodial sentence of 14 years, and the court must consider it very likely that the child will receive a custodial sentence.</p><p>Any person under the age of 18 will not be remanded in an adult prison. Instead, they are remanded into Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), a Secure Training Centre (STC), or Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs). Specific placement decisions for custodial remands are made by the Youth Custody Service (YCS), factoring in the needs of the child.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2024 11:29:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1700826

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	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 people recalled to prison were recalled due to (a) new offences, (b) a lack of address and (c) non-compliance with appointments in the latest 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	21675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Public protection is our priority. The decision to recall on offender on licensed supervision is taken on the professional advice of senior probation staff following consideration of safe alternatives to recall. Where offenders are recalled, it is because they present a risk of serious harm to the public and the controls available are no longer sufficient to keep the public safe. These individuals will remain in prison for only as long as necessary to protect the public.</p><p> </p><p>Reasons for recall are recorded and published as set out in the table below. Further breakdown of recall reasons is not possible without significant manual checks.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Recall period</p></td><td><p>Oct-Dec 2022</p></td><td><p>Jan-Mar 2023*</p></td><td><p>Apr-Jun 2023</p></td><td><p>Jul-Sep 2023</p></td><td><p>% Proportion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Recalls</p></td><td><p>6,092</p></td><td><p>6,824</p></td><td><p>6,814</p></td><td><p>7,030</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Facing further charge</p></td><td><p>1,821</p></td><td><p>1,977</p></td><td><p>1,883</p></td><td><p>1,815</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-compliance</p></td><td><p>4,378</p></td><td><p>5,047</p></td><td><p>5,038</p></td><td><p>5,376</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failed to keep in touch</p></td><td><p>1,960</p></td><td><p>2,140</p></td><td><p>2,110</p></td><td><p>2,286</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failed to reside</p></td><td><p>1,613</p></td><td><p>1,792</p></td><td><p>1,810</p></td><td><p>1,920</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drugs/alcohol</p></td><td><p>413</p></td><td><p>437</p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>577</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poor Behaviour - Relationships</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>214</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>224</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HDC - Time violation</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HDC - Inability to monitor</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failed home visit</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HDC - Failed installation</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HDC - Equipment Tamper</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>1,299</p></td><td><p>1,304</p></td><td><p>1,296</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol start="1"><li><p>* Figures for Jan-Mar 2023 have been revised since last publication.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>The table includes instances of offenders recalled multiple times.</p></li></ol><ol start="3"><li><p>Recall reasons do not sum to the total number of recalls published, as more than one reason can be recorded against each recall.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>We routinely publish recall data at:</p><p><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 constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/04/2024 13:57:42 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1700829

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for how many and what proportion of people on community sentences with a supervision element was a breach recorded in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	21678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The supervision requirement was phased out with the introduction of Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, therefore we have used the Rehabilitation Activity Requirement as the data source in this response as the best match to Supervision.</p><p> </p><p>Between 01/04/2022 and 31/03/2023, the last full year for which data is available, breaches were initiated one or more times for 39,617 individuals with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement as part of their Community Sentence.</p><p> </p><p>During this period, the typical number of persons with an active Rehabilitation Activity Requirement was 84,608. As the caseload will vary, with a vast number of sentences commencing and ending on a daily basis, it is not possible to provide a figure for the proportion of those with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, with a breach recorded.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that a breach being initiated does not necessarily mean that a breach was heard at court, or resulted in a Court hearing, they may instead have been withdrawn due to renewed compliance, at the Probation Practitioner’s professional judgement. Breaches are undertaken for a number of reasons, including non-attendance, unacceptable behaviour and commission of further offences.</p><p> </p><p>Data are as at 16/04/2024. 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 23/04/2024 14:01:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury