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	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	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 implications for his Department’s policies of the findings of a report by Inquest entitled Still Dying on the inside: examining deaths in women's prisons, published in May 2018, that 93 women have died in custody in England and Wales since March 2007; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	184397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>We are very aware of the number of women who have tragically died in our custody, and we welcome the Inquest report that rightly draws attention to the figures and to the risks this population presents. I look forward to meeting Inquest soon to discuss the recommendations in their report. Our published statistics show that the 93 deaths from 2007 to 2017 to which the report refers include 41 from natural causes, 39 that were apparently self-inflicted and 13 other deaths, including 6 that have yet to be classified. The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to keep staff and prisoners safe, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in our prisons. This is why we have established a prison safety programme through which we are taking forward a comprehensive set of actions to improve safety in custody. This includes a workstream on women offenders, which has drawn on helpful reports from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman and the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody to identify and take forward focused work in women’s prisons. These are in addition to the measures that we are taking across the estate, which include rolling out revised and improved training for staff in assessing and managing the risk of suicide and self-harm amongst prisoners (which has already reached more than 17,000 staff); improving support for prisoners in their early days in custody; revising the ACCT case management process for those identified as being at risk; and renewing our partnership with the Samaritans by confirming a further three years' grant funding for their valuable Listeners Scheme. On 27 June we published our strategy for female offenders, which sets out our vision and plan to improve outcomes for women both in the community and in custody. We want to see:<ul><li>fewer women coming into the criminal justice system;</li><li>fewer women in custody, especially on short-term sentences, and a greater proportion of women successfully managed in the community; and</li><li>better conditions for those in custody.</li></ul>A key theme in the strategy is the need for a joined-up approach to addressing female offenders’ often complex needs. We know that we will make progress in meeting these needs only by adopting a partnership approach at both national and local level. We hope to publish our National Concordat on Female Offenders by the end of the year. This will be a cross-governmental statement of intent and commitment to improve the outcomes for female offenders in a holistic, whole-systems approach.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/10/2018 17:18:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1127091

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adult women with no previous convictions were taken into immediate custody from (a) Crown courts and (b) magistrates courts for sentences of (i) below six months and (ii) six months and over in each police force area in England and Wales in 2018-19; and what the offence classification was in each of those cases.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	255283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Information on the numbers of adult women and adult men with no previous convictions who were taken into immediate custody from the Crown Courts and the Magistrates courts for sentences of below six months and six months and over are provided below. It is not possible to provide breakdowns by police force area because, due to low numbers, this would risk identification of the individuals concerned. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="11"><p><strong>Number of adult<sup>1</sup> female offenders with no previous convictions<sup>2</sup> sentenced to immediate custody by court type<sup>3</sup>, sentence length<sup>4,5</sup> and offence type; England and Wales<sup>6</sup>, 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Number of Offenders</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Offence type<sup>7</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Crown Court</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Magistrates Court</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Less than 6 months</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6 months or more</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Less than 6 months</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6 months or more</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual offences</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft Offences</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal damage and arson</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug offences</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Possession of weapons</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Public order offences</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Miscellaneous crimes against society</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud offences</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary offences excluding motoring</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary motoring offences</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>47</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>616</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>111</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Source: </strong>Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>1) Aged 18 or over at time of sentence.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>2) Counting the number of female offenders who were convicted in court for the first time.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>3) Includes crown and magistrates courts cases, where this information is recorded on the PNC.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>4) 6 months has been assumed to be 180 days.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>5) Excludes cases where the sentence length is not known</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>6) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>7) For more detailed information on the offences included in each classification see the Offence Group Classifications file at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>8) The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p><strong>Number of adult<sup>1</sup> male offenders with no previous convictions<sup>2</sup> sentenced to immediate custody by court type<sup>3</sup>, sentence length<sup>4,5</sup> and offence type; England and Wales<sup>6</sup>, 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Number of Offenders</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Offence type<sup>7</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Crown Court</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Magistrates Court</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Less than 6 months</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6 months or more</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Less than 6 months</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6 months or more</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>946</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual offences</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>1,420</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft Offences</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal damage and arson</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug offences</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>1,304</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Possession of weapons</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>152</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Public order offences</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Miscellaneous crimes against society</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>833</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud offences</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>252</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary offences excluding motoring</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary motoring offences</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>287</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,561</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>752</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>176</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Source: </strong>Ministry of Justice extract of the Police National Computer</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>1) Aged 18 or over at time of sentence.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>2) Counting the number of male offenders who were convicted in court for the first time.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>3) Includes crown and magistrates courts cases, where this information is recorded on the PNC.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>4) 6 months has been assumed to be 180 days.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>5) Excludes cases where the sentence length is not known</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>6) England and Wales includes all 43 police force areas plus the British Transport Police</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>7) For more detailed information on the offences included in each classification see the Offence Group Classifications file at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="11"><p>8) The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There is persuasive evidence showing community sentences, in certain circumstances, are more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing reoffending. The MoJ study ‘The impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on re-offending’ published in 2015 found that over a 1-year follow up period, a higher proportion of people re-offended having been sentenced to custody of under 12 months without supervision on release than other similar people given community orders.</p><p>Unless we tackle the underlying causes of offending, we cannot protect the public from being victims of crime. Effective community orders can address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, and provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p><p>In the female offender strategy, published June 2018, we set out our vision to see fewer women coming into the criminal justice system, and a greater proportion managed successfully in the community.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 255284 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:06:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

784990

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in prison have received an adjudication for refusing to (a) transfer to a different prison and (b) move to a different wing within a prison.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	111505
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Whilst published adjudication statistics do contain data on the detailed offences resulting in an adjudication, this cannot be broken down to show only those that have received an adjudication for refusing to transfer prison or refusing to move wing. This information can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 17/11/2017 10:54:49 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1353037

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	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 tackle the disproportionality of women of ethnic minorities in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	43632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2021 answer text <p>We want people to have confidence in a justice system that is fair and open – one where no person suffers discrimination of any sort.</p><p>The over-representation of ethnic minority women in prisons, and in the justice system more widely, is a real concern and we continue to prioritise understanding and tackling disparities they may face.</p><p>The Female Offender Strategy (FOS), a comprehensive programme of work to improve outcomes for women at all points of the CJS, included a clear commitment to look at how the distinct needs of ethnic minority women can be better addressed, and work is underway to deliver this commitment.</p><p>We have established a specific Female Offender Minority Ethnic (FOME) Working Group to better understand the issues faced by ethnic minority women in the CJS. This brings together policy and operational leads with expert voluntary sector colleagues with experience of supporting this cohort of women.</p><p>Work includes developing specific staff training centred on the needs of ethnic minority women, user-centred research focusing on the earlier experiences ethnic minority women face in understanding the legal processes they face up to the pre-sentencing stage, supporting those voluntary sector organisations who work with this cohort, and taking forward the recommendations of Lord Farmer’s Review.</p><p>More generally, the Department has published two updates to our work on tackling racial disparities detailing the full range of activities to address race disparity in the CJS including specific sections focused on work relevant to the disparity faced by ethnic minority women.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/09/2021 16:05:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

797424

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	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 reduce the number of female prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Fiona Onasanya
	uin	116387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to making sure that as many women as possible are effectively rehabilitated in the community, to better protect the public and deliver better outcomes for female offenders and their families. We have committed to producing a Female Offender Strategy, which will set out how we can do more in the community so custody is only used when absolutely necessary.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 04/12/2017 16:17:33 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4629 label Biography information for Fiona Onasanya

777672

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	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 female offenders are serving custodial sentences for non-violent offences; and how many female offenders are serving such sentences for each such offence.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	109488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>This data is already published and can be found in Table 1.2b of our Offender Management Statistics Quarterly (OMSQ) prison population table: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654646/prison-population-30-september-2017.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654646/prison-population-30-september-2017.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 30/10/2017 17:09:12 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1087136

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women in prison on a sentence of imprisonment for public protection that have children.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	231458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>There are <ins class="ministerial">2,489 unreleased IPP</ins> <del class="ministerial">10,018 IPP</del> prisoners, of which <ins class="ministerial">46</ins> <del class="ministerial">344</del> are women. We know that when coming into contact with the criminal justice system, some women choose not to disclose that they have children. Data is therefore not currently collected on numbers of prisoners with children (whether that be total numbers of children or dependent children).</p><p> </p><p>Our Female Offender Strategy is committed to improving outcomes for women at all stages of the justice system, and this includes supporting those who have children. We know that female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to be a primary carer and imprisoned mothers are more likely to be living with their children prior to custody – around 60% of women compared with about 45% of men in prison who have children. Figures from a 2015 data matching exercise with the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Work and Pensions showed that between 24% and 31% of all female offenders were estimated to have one or more child dependents.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the impact that imprisonment of a parent can have on families. That is why we have asked Lord Farmer to continue his work on the importance of family ties by conducting a further review into female offenders in custody and the community. Lord Farmer is expected to report his findings to Ministers shortly.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/03/2019 14:59:54 question first ministerially corrected 23/04/2019 09:20:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 108105 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1337808

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the length of the (a) median and (b) mean prison stay in days for inmates at each women’s prison in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	17706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>The table below shows the total number of prisoner releases, mean and median time served in prison in days, by releasing prison establishment, for all female prisons in England and Wales, 2018 to 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total releases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean time served (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median time served (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total releases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean time served (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median time served (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total releases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Mean time served (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Median time served (days)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Askham Grange</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>382</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>523</p></td><td><p>425</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>765</p></td><td><p>601</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bronzefield</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>973</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>662</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Downview</p></td><td><p>291</p></td><td><p>394</p></td><td><p>259</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>534</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>603</p></td><td><p>450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drake Hall</p></td><td><p>332</p></td><td><p>403</p></td><td><p>279</p></td><td><p>318</p></td><td><p>402</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>282</p></td><td><p>464</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Sutton Park</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>457</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>633</p></td><td><p>538</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>701</p></td><td><p>550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastwood Park</p></td><td><p>965</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>877</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>590</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foston Hall</p></td><td><p>518</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>393</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>333</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Newton</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>405</p></td><td><p>244</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Hall</p></td><td><p>627</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peterborough (Female)</p></td><td><p>776</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>661</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>471</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Send</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>580</p></td><td><p>413</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>618</p></td><td><p>454</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>754</p></td><td><p>507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Styal</p></td><td><p>907</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>760</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>536</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Prison NOMIS System, PQ 17706 (Ministry of Justice; DASD-DES)</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The information in this table shows the mean and median time served in days across all prisoner releases from each releasing prison. It includes times spent on remand. It is important to note that prisoners may not have spent the bulk of their sentence in the releasing prison and may have been transferred between prisons during their sentence.</li><li>The figures in this table has been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li></ol> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/06/2021 13:49:55 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

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	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders from each resettlement unit are currently doing community work on resettlement day release.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	2478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of women offenders participating in community work on resettlement day release at each women’s prison as of 17 June 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Askham Grange</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Bronzefield</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Drake Hall</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI East Sutton Park</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Holloway</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Low Newton</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Peterborough</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Send</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Styal</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 12:48:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

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	registered interest
	date	21/05/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time spent in prison by women has been since March 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	5240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2021 answer text <p>The table below shows for each quarter the average (mean) number of months, women who were released in that quarter, served in prison including on remand.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Quarter</p></td><td><p>Jan-March 2020</p></td><td><p>April-June 2020</p></td><td><p>July-September 2020</p></td><td><p>October-December 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean time served including remand in months</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2020" target="_blank">Prison releases October to December 2020</a>, Table 3.2i.</p><p> </p><p>The Female Offender Strategy (2018) committed to working towards fewer women serving short custodial sentences with a greater proportion managed successfully in the community. Our Strategy commitment to pilot residential women’s centres, with the first to be located in south Wales, is a key part of this work. We are piloting a Problem-Solving Court approach in up to five locations for certain community and suspended sentence orders. The aim of this is to support offenders who could be both prolific and vulnerable to complete their sentences in the community. Female offenders will be one area of focus given the high proportion who receive short prison sentences, building on the promising outcomes of Manchester’s women’s Problem-Solving Court.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 01/06/2021 10:43:50 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves