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1023334

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of installing and upgrading CCTV cameras across the prison estate in each of the last five years in each category (a) A and (b) B prison.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	201267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The safety and security of prisons is a top priority.</p><p> </p><p>Prisons already use body searches, metal-detecting scanners and drug detection dogs, and we have invested £7 million in modern technology, including phone blocking technology and improved searching techniques. As announced recently in the Budget, we will now spend an extra £30 million this financial year to further improve decency, safety and security in prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not disclose details of our prison security defence capability, including our use of CCTV, for reasons of operational security. Additionally, complete information on the cost of installing and upgrading CCTV in prisons could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For the financial year 2018-2019, the Ministry of Justice has 52 separate projects pertaining to the installation/upgrade of CCTV within prisons, at a cost of £2,213,769.93.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 201264 201265 question first answered 04/02/2019 15:58:48 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 92884 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1023331

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average proportion of space accessible to prisoners which is covered by CCTV camera in each category (a) A and (b) B prison.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	201265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The safety and security of prisons is a top priority.</p><p> </p><p>Prisons already use body searches, metal-detecting scanners and drug detection dogs, and we have invested £7 million in modern technology, including phone blocking technology and improved searching techniques. As announced recently in the Budget, we will now spend an extra £30 million this financial year to further improve decency, safety and security in prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not disclose details of our prison security defence capability, including our use of CCTV, for reasons of operational security. Additionally, complete information on the cost of installing and upgrading CCTV in prisons could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For the financial year 2018-2019, the Ministry of Justice has 52 separate projects pertaining to the installation/upgrade of CCTV within prisons, at a cost of £2,213,769.93.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 201264 201267 question first answered 04/02/2019 15:58:48 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 92883 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1023329

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many CCTV cameras there are in each category (a) A and (b) B prison.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	201264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The safety and security of prisons is a top priority.</p><p> </p><p>Prisons already use body searches, metal-detecting scanners and drug detection dogs, and we have invested £7 million in modern technology, including phone blocking technology and improved searching techniques. As announced recently in the Budget, we will now spend an extra £30 million this financial year to further improve decency, safety and security in prisons.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not disclose details of our prison security defence capability, including our use of CCTV, for reasons of operational security. Additionally, complete information on the cost of installing and upgrading CCTV in prisons could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For the financial year 2018-2019, the Ministry of Justice has 52 separate projects pertaining to the installation/upgrade of CCTV within prisons, at a cost of £2,213,769.93.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 201265 201267 question first answered 04/02/2019 15:58:48 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 92882 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1035329

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Arms Length Bodies: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) his Department and (b) his Department's arm's length bodies spent on consultants in 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	205346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>Total spent on Consultancy service during Financial Year 2017-18 for:</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>Ministry of Justice was £37,605,447.50</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Arm’s length bodies was £787,292.00</p><p> </p></li></ol><p>Consultancy Services, as used by the Ministry of Justice, are defined as externally sourced professional or expert advice across a range of specialist fields such as strategy, legal or HR.</p><p> </p><p>These specialist services are only used where there is no internal expertise, or where the nature of the advice is temporary or very specialist and does not warrant the permanent recruitment of Civil Servants.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/02/2019 13:53:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1023989

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to answer Question 169861 on Government: Databases tabled on 3 September 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	201713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>I responded to Question 169861 on 30/01/19. The response can be found here:</p><p>https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-09-03/169861/</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 04/02/2019 16:45:29 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt