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846136

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from January to June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	128831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:13:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44279 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846137

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from July to December 2016.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	128832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:13:14 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44280 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846138

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from January to June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	128833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:13:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44281 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846139

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from July to December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	128834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:12:40 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44282 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846140

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from January to June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	128835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:12:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44283 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

894887

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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, whether his Department has set a target for the net number of prison officers to be employed in the prison service in the next (a) 12 months and (b) three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	139558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer to PQs 13<ins class="ministerial">7</ins>608-10, given on 27 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>As we focus on making our jails safe and decent places to support rehabilitation between the end of October 2016 and the end of March 2018 we have increased prison officer numbers by 3,111, which is already significantly over our target of 2,500 additional staff by the end of December 2018. These recruitment efforts form part of a wider drive to ensure that all prisons are fully staffed so that they can deliver safe and decent regimes.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/05/2018 15:40:33 question first ministerially corrected 04/05/2018 10:29:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 55954 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810213

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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, on how many occasions wings of publicly-owned prisons have been closed due to insufficient staff levels in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is fully committed to making our prisons safe and is actively taking the measures necessary to ensure that. We are boosting the number of prison officers by 2,500 and we have already reached the halfway mark over the past year with a further 1,211 candidates who have received job offers. In addition to that, we are also giving officers the tools they need to manage violent offenders – investing in body-worn cameras, new style handcuffs and piloting PAVA incapacitant spray.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2018 17:25:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 33813 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

819144

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January to Question 120488, for what reasons that Answer did not provide information on what categories of information the Government collects on detached duty.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	121821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The answer to Question 120488 by my honourable friend, the member for East Surrey, sought to make clear that detached duty is driven by operational decisions and assessments based on a wide range of information. The discrete data that HMPPS currently collates in relation to detached duty is designed for administrative use only, to assist and support the management of detached duty. In the broadest terms it relates to staffing levels and demand and supply levels of available staff.</p><p> </p><p>The data is drawn from a number of sources and it is necessarily dynamic and often time limited with a number of caveats. The data and a number of other dynamic dependencies are brought together in the context of the need at a particular time when detached duty is being planned and implemented. At present, there is no intention to routinely publish such data relating to detached duty.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2018 17:23:47 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

806040

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
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, how much has been spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	119249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings. Please see table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. Hotel Bookings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost Hotels</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. Rail Bookings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost Rail</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec 2016 </strong></p></td><td><p>533</p></td><td><p>£152,215.55</p></td><td><p>526</p></td><td><p>£17,336.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jan 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>£190,440.04</p></td><td><p>666</p></td><td><p>£25,827.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Feb 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>602</p></td><td><p>£179,890.49</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>£23,212.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>633</p></td><td><p>£208,199.35</p></td><td><p>622</p></td><td><p>£26.340.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>April 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>552</p></td><td><p>£190,137.31</p></td><td><p>621</p></td><td><p>£21,957.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>566</p></td><td><p>£196,172.76</p></td><td><p>512</p></td><td><p>£20,666.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>June 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>515</p></td><td><p>£185,084.90</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>£21,249.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>July 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>671</p></td><td><p>£230,523.78</p></td><td><p>499</p></td><td><p>£22,496.65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>857</p></td><td><p>£289,386.37</p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>£20,727.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>September 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>767</p></td><td><p>£279.052.29</p></td><td><p>516</p></td><td><p>£24,143.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>October 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>837</p></td><td><p>£320,363.26</p></td><td><p>566</p></td><td><p>£26,363.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>November 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>845</p></td><td><p>£267,479.50</p></td><td><p>565</p></td><td><p>£23,858.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8129</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,409,893.31</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6699</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£247,838.95</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/01/2018 17:47:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

838599

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
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, what the ratio of prisoners to prison officers was in (a) privately managed, (b) public sector-run and (c) all prisons in each of the past five years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	127419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Prison population statistics and workforce statistics are regularly published.</p><p> </p><p>Prison population statistics are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>HMPPS workforce stats (which will contain staffing figures in public sector prisons but not private) are at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>Staffing figures for privately managed prisons since 2010 were provided in the reply to the Honourable member for Leeds East on 23 November 2017 (PQ 114727)</p><p> </p><p>Every privately managed prison is required to maintain a ‘safe and secure prison; and every public sector prison has an agreed safe, decent and secure operating level (SDSOL) which reflects the category of prison and the types of prisoners held. The SDSOL is central to the delivery of the regime in every prison.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, this Government is on target to recruit an additional 2500 Prison Officers by December 2018 to improve safety and offender management in custody. [Since April 2017 Governors in public prisons have been empowered to manage workforce planning locally and use this flexibility to set their own staffing arrangements.]</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/02/2018 17:21:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq