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1136190

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 5 September 2017, Official Report, Column 19, whether protocols his Department were developing with the Department of Health in 2017 on mental health and prisoner access to healthcare have been implemented; and what those protocols are.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	272231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>MoJ is committed to working in collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England (NHSE), Public Health England (PHE) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to deliver safe, decent, effective healthcare for offenders.</p><p> </p><p>Over 4,000 new prison staff are now in post, enabling us to implement initiatives like the key worker role, which allows staff to dedicate time to support individual prisoners. These initiatives and others mean that we will be able to better support individuals with mental health needs in prison.</p><p> </p><p>We have also agreed a Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) protocol to support the greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements, including Mental Health Treatment Requirements helping to improve access to treatment for offenders who need it and divert vulnerable offenders away from custody where appropriate. The protocol is currently being piloted at five sites and last month we announced the extension of the programme to include Greater Manchester and London.</p><p> </p><p>The context of how health and justice partners work together to improve mental health provision, and indeed other health issues that that might impact on an individual’s ability to engage with rehabilitation, in both custody and the community, will be set out further in the joint MoJ/ DHSC Health and Justice Plan, which was announced on 20<sup>th</sup> June.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 10/07/2019 16:43:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1064908

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the guidance entitled, Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, how many suppliers have been excluded from bidding for contracts as a result of not meeting the criteria in that document in each year since 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	224823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 27/02/2019 15:01:16 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1083623

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the guidance entitled Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, how many suppliers were allocated contracts by his Department as a result of complying with (a) one and (b) more than one of the mitigating circumstances after failing the tax compliance questions.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	229775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 12/03/2019 17:32:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1050446

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Electronic Tagging: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies his Department has contracted to deliver electronic tagging services; and what the (a) value and (b) duration is of each of those contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	214068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Electronic monitoring is a vital tool in protecting the public by robustly monitoring offenders in the community and defendants on bail. Electronic Monitoring provides a proportionate and value-for-money alternative to prison in support of the subjects’ journey through rehabilitation.</p><p> </p><p>The Electronic Monitoring service is delivered through contracts with the following suppliers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Service </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract Duration </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract Value</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast spend over the life of the contract </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita Business Services</p></td><td><p>Electronic Monitoring - Field Services (Bridge Services Contract)</p></td><td><p>6 years from 01/02/2015</p></td><td><p>£309,600,000</p></td><td><p>£219,000,000 (Average: £36.5m per annum)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G4S Monitoring Technologies</p></td><td><p>G4S Electronic Monitoring Hardware (BAU)</p></td><td><p>04/11/2016-03/11/2019</p></td><td><p>£15,000,000</p></td><td><p>£12,900,000 (Average: £4.3m per annum)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telefonica UK Ltd</p></td><td><p>Electronic Monitoring - Network</p></td><td><p>6 years 10 months from 01/08/2014</p></td><td><p>£3,200,000</p></td><td><p>£3,000,000 (Average: £440k per annum)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/02/2019 16:51:39 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 99527 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582801

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support his Department provides (a) nationally and (b) regionally to Independent Domestic Violence Advisors to help support older people who have been subject to domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	137988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23, we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund. The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’ services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 137986 137987 question first answered 09/02/2023 13:40:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582799

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
	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 estimate of the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisors who specialise in dealing with cases of domestic abuse experienced by elderly people.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	137986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23, we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund. The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’ services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 137987 137988 question first answered 09/02/2023 13:40:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582800

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
	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 effectiveness of the mechanism for the allocation of specialised Independent Domestic Violence Advisors focused on the abuse of older people and the way it relates to (a) the level of older person-focused abuse and (b) the relative proportion of older people in the local population.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	137987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23, we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund. The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’ services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 137986 137988 question first answered 09/02/2023 13:40:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1050443

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Rehabilitation Centres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on residential detoxification facilities provided to individuals required to attend such facilities as a condition of their sentence in each year since 2010 for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	214066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>There is no specific requirement for an offender to attend residential detoxification as a condition of their sentence. However, residential treatment may be provided within a Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR) or Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) through locally commissioned residential addiction recovery services. In England, these services are funded by local authorities, as part of their public health responsibilities. In Wales, health, including substance misuse services, is devolved to the Welsh Government. The table below shows the overall number of DRRs and ATRs commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in England and Wales since 2010. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of DRRs commenced </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of ATRs commenced</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>16,071</p></td><td><p>8,538</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>13,617</p></td><td><p>8,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>13,294</p></td><td><p>8,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013 </strong></p></td><td><p>13,664</p></td><td><p>8,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014 </strong></p></td><td><p>12,951</p></td><td><p>8,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>11,780</p></td><td><p>6,948</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 </strong></p></td><td><p>9,698</p></td><td><p>6,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>8,719</p></td><td><p>5,419</p></td></tr></tbody></table>We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England to develop a protocol to support greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements (CSTRs) in courts, including drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment requirements.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 214065 question first answered 04/02/2019 13:47:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1050442

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were required to attend residential detoxification facilities as a condition of their sentence in each year since 2010 for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	214065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>There is no specific requirement for an offender to attend residential detoxification as a condition of their sentence. However, residential treatment may be provided within a Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR) or Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) through locally commissioned residential addiction recovery services. In England, these services are funded by local authorities, as part of their public health responsibilities. In Wales, health, including substance misuse services, is devolved to the Welsh Government. The table below shows the overall number of DRRs and ATRs commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in England and Wales since 2010. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of DRRs commenced </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of ATRs commenced</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>16,071</p></td><td><p>8,538</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>13,617</p></td><td><p>8,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>13,294</p></td><td><p>8,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013 </strong></p></td><td><p>13,664</p></td><td><p>8,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014 </strong></p></td><td><p>12,951</p></td><td><p>8,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>11,780</p></td><td><p>6,948</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 </strong></p></td><td><p>9,698</p></td><td><p>6,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>8,719</p></td><td><p>5,419</p></td></tr></tbody></table>We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England to develop a protocol to support greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements (CSTRs) in courts, including drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment requirements.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 214066 question first answered 04/02/2019 13:47:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1051392

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Coroners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) post-mortem investigations and (b) inquests were undertaken by coroners into deaths in assessment and treatment units in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	214635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice collates statistics on the number of inquests and post-mortem investigations commissioned and publishes these annually. They can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Since 2011 deaths of patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 have been separately recorded along with deaths in other forms of state detention and custody. However, with this exception deaths are not otherwise sub-categorised by location and the number of deaths of voluntary patients in treatment and assessment units is not recorded.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/02/2019 13:53:03 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds