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750275

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted sex offenders have (a) started and (b) completed the Sex Offender Treatment Programme; and of those offenders how many are (i) in prison, (ii) released and (iii) in a bail hostel.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Information on the numbers of convicted sex offenders who have (a) started and (b) completed the Sex Offender Treatment Programmes is published annually. The data until 2015/16 is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/547224/supplementary-tables.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/547224/supplementary-tables.zip</a>. Data for the period 2016 / 17 due to be published on 27July 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the current locations of former participants in the Core Sex Offender Treatment Programme is held on individual offender files. The information requested could therefore be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:47:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750271

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Computers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners (a) requested and (b) were granted access to laptop computer facilities in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>All prisoners are able to request access to IT for legal purposes. However, there is a clear need to balance the need to access electronic legal information with the risk that some prisoners may seek to use IT for illicit or criminal purposes. Therefore, prisoners are only provided with IT equipment where there is a clear and genuine need, and where not to do so would raise a real risk of prejudicing the legal proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Where such a requirement is clear, a prisoner can be provided with IT for the sole specified purpose of considering digital evidence. The IT can be made available for as long as the requirement to use it remains, up to the conclusion of the relevant legal proceedings.</p><p>There is currently no national guidance on the process for access to digital evidence (formerly access to justice). Local procedures for assessing access to digital evidence have been developed in collaboration with the High Security and Long Term Estate and the Directorate of Security, Order and Counter Terrorism Guidance on the procedures for applying for, and receiving, access to digital evidence will be published for prison staff and prisoners this year.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of applications made and approved for access to digital evidence is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 3720 question first answered 18/07/2017 15:45:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750265

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Offender Assessment System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been transferred between prisons who have (a) completed and (b) incomplete OASys in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:43:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750272

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have dedicated equalities departments.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Prison Governors are responsible for identifying a functional head with lead responsibility for coordinating equalities work within the prison, ensuring that there is a coherent approach to equalities obligations. Every prison has been allocated resources for an equality officer and Governors are free to deploy this resource in a way that best meets the needs of their population.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:40:16 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750268

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
	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 on Offender Management Unit staff in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) does not record expenditure in its central accounting system in a format that allows for the identification of spend on Offender Management Unit staff and therefore, cannot provide data for the period requested.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:44:14 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750266

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Offender Assessment System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will launch a review into the process of, and arrangement for, sentence planning to ensure that prisoners transferring from other prisons arrive with a complete and up to date OASys.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The review of Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) has included a review of OASys and sentence planning arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The new Offender Management in Custody model considers and addresses the issues which prisons currently face around completing OASys reports. The new model will move the resource for OASys report completion into the training / resettlement estate and away from local / reception prisons.</p><p> </p><p>The model also introduces a new role of Prison Offender Managers, who will be based in the prison. These Prison Offender Manager posts will be held by a combination of band 4 prison staff and NPS Probation Officers.</p><p> </p><p>Roll out of the new OM model has commenced within the 10 pathfinder sites and HMP Berwyn. We are currently working through the roll out schedule into the wider estate, but the new OM model will be in place in all Closed prisons by March 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:46:07 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750274

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Computers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidelines his Department has produced for prisons on Access to Justice on (a) how and when computers can be accessed by prisoners and (b) for how long and what actions and tasks can be undertaken.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>All prisoners are able to request access to IT for legal purposes. However, there is a clear need to balance the need to access electronic legal information with the risk that some prisoners may seek to use IT for illicit or criminal purposes. Therefore, prisoners are only provided with IT equipment where there is a clear and genuine need, and where not to do so would raise a real risk of prejudicing the legal proceedings.</p><p> </p><p>Where such a requirement is clear, a prisoner can be provided with IT for the sole specified purpose of considering digital evidence. The IT can be made available for as long as the requirement to use it remains, up to the conclusion of the relevant legal proceedings.</p><p>There is currently no national guidance on the process for access to digital evidence (formerly access to justice). Local procedures for assessing access to digital evidence have been developed in collaboration with the High Security and Long Term Estate and the Directorate of Security, Order and Counter Terrorism Guidance on the procedures for applying for, and receiving, access to digital evidence will be published for prison staff and prisoners this year.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of applications made and approved for access to digital evidence is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 3717 question first answered 18/07/2017 15:45:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750273

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) capacity and (b) attendance was of the prisons education, learning and skills departments in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The education curriculum for each prison in England is agreed locally by the prison governor with their Offender Learning and Skills Service provider and decisions over the available capacity are made locally. Information on the capacity of learning and skills departments in individual prisons is not collected nationally.</p><p> </p><p>National data on the total number of offenders aged 18 and over in the prison system participating in learning in England from academic year 2010/11 is published and can be found here (table 10):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624613/Further-education-and-skills-July-2017-SFR-27-2017-main-tables_ODS.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624613/Further-education-and-skills-July-2017-SFR-27-2017-main-tables_ODS.ods.</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:41:28 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

750269

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of contracts tendered out for prison maintenance by (a) prison and (b) private sector service provider in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	3715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>It is right that prison repair work is carried out in a timely and effective manner to ensure public protection. We always work to ensure we achieve value for money for the taxpayer and keep our costs under review.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent applicable data available for the period requested is from 2012, when Mitie Care and Custody Ltd took over the provision of facilities management (FM) at HMP Brixton, later expanding to cover three sites. Until June 2015, FM services at the rest of the public-sector prison estate was delivered in-house by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). Since then, it has been delivered by Amey Community Ltd and Carillion Plc.</p><p>Below is a breakdown of the applicable tendered fixed costs for each of the three private sector service providers broken down by year as requested. These contracts were tendered on a ‘lot’ basis and as such costs are not broken down by establishment. The number of establishments/sites within each package has been included below for completeness:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Custodial Facilities Management: Tendered Fixed Costs (Excludes Indexation and variable works)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mitie Care and Custody</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lot C: Various: 3 Sites</p></td><td><p>£2,189,000</p></td><td><p>£2,810,000</p></td><td><p>£2,843,000</p></td><td><p>£3,055,000</p></td><td><p>£3,500,000</p></td><td><p>£3,529,000</p></td><td><p>£10,084,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Amey Community Limited</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>From June 2015</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lot E: North East, North West, Yorkshire Humberside: 34 Sites</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>£11,780,000</p></td><td><p>£23,560,000</p></td><td><p>£23,560,000</p></td><td><p>£58,900,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lot F: East Midlands, West Midlands and Wales: 27 Sites</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>£9,340,000</p></td><td><p>£18,680,000</p></td><td><p>£18,680,000</p></td><td><p>£46,700,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Carillion PLC</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>From June 2015</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lot G: South West, South Central, Kent &amp; Sussex: 32 Sites</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>£9,880,000</p></td><td><p>£19,760,000</p></td><td><p>£19,760,000</p></td><td><p>£49,400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lot H: Greater London and East of England: 22 Sites</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>£10,020,000</p></td><td><p>£20,040,000</p></td><td><p>£20,040,000</p></td><td><p>£50,100,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Totals:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,189,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,810,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,843,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£44,075,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£85,540,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£85,569,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£215,184,000</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/07/2017 15:40:48 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson