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804362

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 116478 on Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), how many people work in the Contract Management Teams (CTM); what the annual budget is of the CTMs; how many times a CMT notified a CRC that its staffing levels needed to be increased; and what criteria CMTs use to assess the adequacy of a CRC's level of staffing.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	118432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The CRC Contract Management Group in the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Directorate of Community Interventions is responsible for managing the 20 CRC contracts in England. The Group currently operates with an annual budget of £5,302,127, and 80.19 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff.</p><p> </p><p>Contract Management of Wales CRC is the responsibility of HMPPS in Wales, and currently employs 4.25 FTE staff for this purpose, with an annual budget of £233,000.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts with CRCs require each CRC to ensure that it employs a sufficient level of staff, and that its workforce is competent and adequately trained. Our CMTs closely monitor and robustly manage providers on a local basis, taking into account the regional context, to make sure they fulfil their contractual commitments to reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:24:12 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

793924

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Holloway Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministry of Justice, how many tenders have been received for purchase of the land at the site of former HM Prison Holloway; what the timetable is for sale of the site; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	115013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government set out its ambition for a reformed prison estate in the November 2016 Prison Safety and Reform White Paper. Our reforms will close down ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands. Our new prison estate will create the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes. We have concluded the marketing exercise for the sale of the former HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Holloway site and are currently evaluating the bids received. As part of the evaluation, the Ministry of Justice will assess the feasibility of redevelopment schemes proposed by bidders. This will include whether they comply with the London Borough of Islington’s (LBI) affordable housing and other planning requirements and whether the purchaser has sufficient funds to undertake the development. The MoJ will also consider the proposed timetable for development and the track record of the developers in undertaking developments on time.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We expect to make an announcement about the successful bidder in the Spring of 2018. At this stage in the process the number of bids received is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 115011 question first answered 29/11/2017 16:48:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

795091

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Aircraft: Kingston upon Hull
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) which organisations contacted (i) the Ministry of Justice and (ii) HM Prison Hull expressing an interest in permanently housing the replica of Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth at a site in Hull.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	115633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>HMP Hull created a full-scale replica of Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth as part of the Hull City of Culture 2017 programme and the prison’s reducing reoffending initiative. No organisation contacted the Department to express an interest in permanently housing the replica Gipsy Moth in Hull.</p><p> </p><p>None of the organisations listed expressed an interest or were consulted about permanently housing the replica Gipsy Moth in Hull. Mr Brown was also not consulted as the replica Gypsy Moth remains the property and responsibility of HMP Hull.</p><p> </p><p>HMP Hull approached and held discussions about the permanent placement of the replica Gipsy Moth with the City of Culture organisation, Network Rail for the use of Paragon Station, Curator Hull Museums, Museums Registrar (East Riding) and Sewerby Hall before the decision was taken to locate house the replica at Yorkshire Air Museum.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 115630 115631 115634 question first answered 29/11/2017 16:49:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

809871

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, Pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 119536, what the total expenditure was in 2017 prices on (a) public and private prisons across the whole estate, (b) public prisons and (c) private prisons in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	120491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, routinely publishes average costs per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales. This information is produced on an annual basis and is published after the end of each financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Information on actual prison expenditure for previous financial years can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each financial year on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website. Prison unit costs can be found within the Excel document Costs per prison place and cost per prisoner by individual prison establishment in the ‘Cost by Establishment’ tab.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent published figures for financial year 2016-17 can be accessed on the www.gov.uk website from the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2016-to-2017</a></p><p>Within the costs per prison place and cost per prisoner 2016 to 2017 summary file, the figures for financial year 2015-16 have been restated to enable a more accurate comparison between the two years.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:35:48 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

794608

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, Pursuant to the Answer of 7 November to Question 110305, if he will the place a copy in the Library of the recent internal review into the probation system.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	115581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Our review examined the operation of the probation system, with a particular focus on the performance and services of CRCs and the operation of contractual arrangements. As such, much of the work is commercially sensitive and not intended or suitable for publication.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of this work we made changes to CRC contracts in the summer, and at this time I took the opportunity to update Parliament in a written ministerial statement.</p><p> </p><p>We closely monitor the performance of probation services and will take further steps if needed to improve delivery.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 29/11/2017 11:09:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

757158

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2017
	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, What assessment his Department has made of the appropriate ratio of staff to prisoners in each prison for operating a safe and rehabilitative prison regime.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	900683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>There are arrangements in place in every prison, taking into account population and accommodation, to set staffing levels which are sufficient to maintain safe and decent conditions.</p><p>We are significantly increasing staff numbers by recruiting a net 2,500 extra prison officers by December 2018.</p><p>This will allow us to introduce a new key worker role, in which all prison officers on wings will support a small caseload of prisoners, improving the quality of staff-prisoner relationships and tackling the drivers of each prisoner’s offending.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/09/2017 23:10:38 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

757156

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Port Talbot
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, Whether he or Ministers of his Department have plans to attend the public meeting in Port Talbot on 20 September 2017 on the proposed siting of a prison in Baglan, Port Talbot.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	900688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The site at Port Talbot was proposed along with a number of other sites by the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government continue to support us in redeveloping the site for the purpose of building a new prison.</p><p>It is not customary for Ministers to attend public consultation events about obtaining planning permission for new prisons.</p><p>My officials will be holding a two-day public event about our plans for the new prison in Port Talbot, in due course. This event will be over and above the statutory consultation process required.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/09/2017 23:11:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

758819

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the recommendation from Abigail Rogers at the Public Protection Casework Section of the Parole Board in her letter dated 19 May 2017 that a prisoner be transferred to an open conditions prison has not yet been acted upon.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
	uin	9380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>If the Hon member writes with further details I will look into the case for him.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/09/2017 10:59:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

771597

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons waiting times for personal independent payment tribunals have increased over the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	108058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The volume of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals made to the tribunal has built up since it was introduced as a new benefit in 2013. As the number, and age, of appeals lodged increased so has the average waiting time.</p><p>Waiting times generally can fluctuate temporarily and geographically, owing to a number of variable factors, including volumes of benefit decisions made locally, availability of medical/disability members, and venue capacity. Any disparity in waiting times is monitored and investigated locally.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has been working with the tribunal’s judiciary to identify initiatives with potential to increase the capacity and performance of the tribunal, including reviewing current listing practices to increase the number of PIP cases being able to be listed on a session. We are also in the process of recruiting over 350 judicial office holders to provide long term capacity in the tribunal.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">The average waiting time for PIP appeals in each of the last four years, in the Alyn and Deeside constituency, is set out below.</ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong> </strong> <ins class="ministerial"><strong>The average time (weeks<strong>[1]</strong>) from receipt in HMCTS to outcome for PIP<strong>[2]</strong> Appeals </strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Year<sup>3</sup></strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Alyn and Deeside</strong>4</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2013/145</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">9.8</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2014/15</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">12.5</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2015/16</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">17</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2016/17</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">17</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">[1] Average Clearance Time - time taken from appeal receipt to outcome. This includes both those cleared at hearing and those cleared without the need for a tribunal hearing.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2</strong> Personal Independence Payments (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">3 The table shows information in the financial year April to March.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">4 First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) appeals for Alyn and Deeside constituents are heard in the Chester venue.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">5 There were fewer than five PIP appeals disposed of at the Chester venue in 2013/14 and as such the waiting time may not be representative of average waiting time.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.</ins></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/10/2017 09:16:08 question first ministerially corrected 23/10/2017 09:33:27 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah previous answer version 16692 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

768181

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how far away from residential properties are the planned new prisons at (a) Yorkshire, adjacent to HM Prison Full Sutton, (b) HM Young Offenders Institute Rochester and (c) HM Young Offenders Institute Hindley.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	107059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison Site</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Distance (m) from centre of prison<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochester</p></td><td><p>330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hindley</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full Sutton<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>531</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Distance from estimated centre of prison.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Distance taken from centre of identified agricultural field.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/10/2017 13:43:32 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock