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969459

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Zahid Mubarek Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has plans to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry, published in June 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	171709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>71 of the 88 recommendations made in the report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry were implemented in full.</p><p>Of the remaining recommendations, 15 were either partially implemented or superseded by other developments. Two were rejected at the time of implementation. Action to improve prison safety and security continues alongside reforms to overhaul the system to focus on the rehabilitation of offenders. We are tackling the supply and demand of drugs, drones and phones, which drive prison violence and undermine safety.</p><p>We are redoubling our efforts to address the record levels of self-harm. We have taken immediate action to strengthen the frontline. We have passed our target to recruit 2,500 extra prison officers, seven months ahead of schedule. Over 3,100 new staff are in post. This will allow us to implement the key worker role, allowing staff dedicated time to provide support to individual prisoners, which will help us deal with emerging threats and to improve safety.</p><p>We are not aware of any recent representations from Mr Justice Keith.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 171711 question first answered 17/09/2018 16:45:54 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

969461

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Zahid Mubarek Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations his Department has received from The Honourable Mr Justice Keith on the recommendations of the Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry, published in June 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	171711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>71 of the 88 recommendations made in the report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry were implemented in full.</p><p>Of the remaining recommendations, 15 were either partially implemented or superseded by other developments. Two were rejected at the time of implementation. Action to improve prison safety and security continues alongside reforms to overhaul the system to focus on the rehabilitation of offenders. We are tackling the supply and demand of drugs, drones and phones, which drive prison violence and undermine safety.</p><p>We are redoubling our efforts to address the record levels of self-harm. We have taken immediate action to strengthen the frontline. We have passed our target to recruit 2,500 extra prison officers, seven months ahead of schedule. Over 3,100 new staff are in post. This will allow us to implement the key worker role, allowing staff dedicated time to provide support to individual prisoners, which will help us deal with emerging threats and to improve safety.</p><p>We are not aware of any recent representations from Mr Justice Keith.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 171709 question first answered 17/09/2018 16:45:54 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

917521

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Custody
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 5 June 2018, Official Report, column 166, whether his Department plans to close other secure facilities when secure schools are opened.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	150138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>The Charlie Taylor review of the Youth Justice System proposed that Secure Schools are developed to replace Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) and Secure Training Centres (STCs). The government accepted the principles of Charlie’s proposal, but in doing so noted that this new concept will need to be gradually tested before any decisions are made about the wide roll-out required to achieve this long-term vision. Any decisions to decommission places in the existing secure estate will need to be considered in this context and made on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/06/2018 15:01:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

917523

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Custody
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 5 June 2018, Official Report, column 166, whether the government has a strategy to reduce the number of young people in custody; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	150139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>There are times when an offence is so serious that custody is the only option. However, we are clear that this should be a last resort and the sentence length should be appropriate and proportionate. That is why we have a range of targeted community sentences which can be tailored based on the needs of children.</p><p>The government has worked to provide robust community sentences, and between 2007 to 2017 there has been a 73% drop in the number of young people sentenced to custody[1]. In 2017, 68% of all youth sentences were community sentences and only 7% were custodial sentences.</p><p>We are focusing on tackling the factors that put young people at risk of offending and are working across government to ensure we respond properly to the needs of vulnerable young people before they reach the criminal justice system. The number of FTEs into the Youth Justice System has fallen by 86% over the last 10 years, and by 10% in the latest year[2].</p><p>For those children that do receive a custodial sentence, it is important that custody rehabilitates them. We currently have a Youth Justice Reform Programme which aims to improve standards in custody and puts a focus on health, wellbeing and education. It also includes expanding the workforce to ensure that children are supported in custody.</p><p>[1] Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2017, published 17<sup>th</sup> May 2018, Sentencing data tool.</p><p>[2] Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2017, published 17<sup>th</sup> May 2018, Offending History Data Tool: Sanction statistics</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/06/2018 15:00:30 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1022839

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Suicide
	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 suicides in (a) young offenders institutes and (b) juvenile wings of prisons in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	200673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>All establishments holding young offenders (either “young adults”, who are aged 18-21, or “young people”, who are aged 15 to 17) are designated as young offender institutions. In 2017 there were three self-inflicted deaths of young adults, and no self-inflicted deaths of young people.</p><p> </p><p>There are no ‘juvenile wings of prisons’, as any site with a population that includes both adults and young people is designated as both a prison and a young offender institution. The only such establishment in the estate at this time is HMP/YOI Parc, where there were no self-inflicted deaths of young people (or of adults) in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The safety and welfare of every young person in custody is our priority. That is why we are already investing in more front-line staff and building on our reforms to youth custody. We are expanding front-line staff capacity in public-sector YOIs by 20%, equating to over 120 new recruits. Since the creation of our youth justice reform programme last year, inspection reports have highlighted improvements in all the under-18 sites they have inspected, and we continue to drive forward these vital reforms so that we have safer, more rehabilitative young offender institutions.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/12/2018 16:07:28 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

971493

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to reduce reoffending rates amongst young people aged 18-24 in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	172603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to reducing reoffending amongst all offenders. We are working to tackle the causes of reoffending through our wider prison reform agenda, the female offender strategy and the education and employment strategy.</p><p>We recognise that young adults are a cohort who may have distinct needs relating to their maturity, alongside other issues they may have in common with the adult offender population. We are committed to developing approaches within the adult system that respond to their particular needs and reduce reoffending.</p><p>The MoJ has appointed a dedicated expert (on secondment from the voluntary sector) to identify best practice across the custodial estate in relation to young adults. This work will scope out areas of specialised practice or approaches that meet the needs of young adults in prisons particularly well.</p><p>The MoJ innovation board has also grant funded The Disabilities Trust to deliver the awareness training and Brain Injury Linkworker service to the two pilot sites in Wales and the four sites in England. The Brain Injury Linkworker service is being qualitatively evaluated, due to report in the autumn.</p><p>We have made a maturity screening tool available to prisons and probation areas via the Segmentation Tool, which enables examination of maturity on a population level. Those who are screened as having low levels of psychosocial maturity and who are considered for the maturity resource pack will take part in a further, collaborative, assessment of their needs, through which they will agree their maturity-related treatment goals.</p><p>For further information, please see <em>Young Adults in the criminal justice system: Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2017-19</em> at <a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmjust/1530/153002.htm" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmjust/1530/153002.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/09/2018 16:17:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

988871

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate his Department has made of the rate of youth reoffending in (a) Dulwich and West Norwood and (b) London after (i) three, (ii) six and (iii) 12 months of attending court.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	180271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice measures proven reoffending from the point at which an offender is released from custody, receives a non-custodial conviction at court or receives a youth caution, reprimand or warning. Proven reoffending is not measured from the point of attending court.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice measures reoffending over a one year follow-up period plus a further six month waiting period to allow the offence to be proven in court.</p><p>Reoffending rates are not available by constituency, they are available down to lower tier unitary authority. Reoffending rates by geographical area are available online:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728736/Geographical_data_tool_oct05_sep16.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/728736/Geographical_data_tool_oct05_sep16.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/10/2018 16:43:05 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

917358

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparative assessment he has made of the number of young offenders of (a) BAME and (b) other ethnic groups who have been detained in youth custody in the last 8 years.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	150175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>Nobody should face discrimination in the criminal justice system, or anywhere else. We have accepted the recommendations of the Lammy Review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the criminal justice system and are committed to driving out discrimination wherever it exists.</p><p> </p><p>Supplementary table 7.18 to the <em>Youth Justice Annual Statistics</em> contains comparative information on the average monthly youth custody population by region and ethnicity for those in custody during each year from 2012 to 2017. It relates to young people under 18:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676069/youth_justice_statistics_2016_to_2017_supplementary_tables.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676069/youth_justice_statistics_2016_to_2017_supplementary_tables.zip</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Youth Custody Service has developed an Equality Plan which outlines a set of strategic objectives that are consistent with the aims of the Lammy Review to target disproportionality in youth custody. We will be commencing delivery of those objectives in due course.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/06/2018 14:57:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

828183

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: East Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many 18 to 24-year-olds are in prisons in England whose addresses before their imprisonment were in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) the East Midlands.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	124143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>As at 31 Dec 2017, the total number of individuals in prisons in England between the ages of 18 and 24 with an origin address from the requested locations is as follows:</p><p>a) Ashfield constituency: 16</p><p>b) The East Midlands: 1,088</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 09/02/2018 13:32:06 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1083737

	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	Young Offenders: Criminal Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken in days has been from arrest to sentence for persistant young offenders in each year since 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	229715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the average number of days from offence to completion for all completed cases involving young offenders. This can be found here in the supplementary tables Annex E; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-justice-statistics-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-justice-statistics-2017-to-2018</a>. The published data relates to all completed cases regardless of outcome, it does not breakdown by persistence or sentencing (i.e. guilty and not guilty).</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice can identify persistent young offenders from arrest to completion but in order to link data to sentence outcomes we would need to do manual checks of a large data set and such information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/03/2019 17:18:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero