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1551067

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of drug overdoses at prisons in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	109595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of self-harm incidents due to drug overdoses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2,273</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We are committed to doing all we can to prevent deaths from drug overdoses in prison. We’ve outlined in both our Prisons Strategy Whitepaper and the Government’s 10-year drug strategy ‘From Harm to Hope’ (2021) how we will achieve this. We have committed to opening Drug Recovery Wings in prisons, introduced Problem Solving Courts and we supply life-saving naloxone medication to staff in prisons and in Approved Premises to help prevent unnecessary opioid deaths.</p><p>Naloxone is a medication used to reverse or reduce the effects of opioids. It is currently carried by healthcare staff in prisons to administer where opiate overdose is suspected.</p><p>We propose to implement Naloxone in all prisons and probation sites in England and Wales and to train all new entrants and 30% of existing staff to administer Naloxone and to recognise the signs of overdose. Existing staff will be asked to volunteer to administer Naloxone.</p><p>Consistent with National Statistics on these prison incidents, as published in <em>Safety in Custody</em>, figures do not include incidents in Secure Training Centres.</p><p>In prisons, as in the community, it is not possible to count self-harm incidents with absolute accuracy.</p><p>In prison custody, however, such incidents are more likely to be detected and counted. Care needs to be taken when comparing figures shown here with other sources where data may be less complete.</p><p>Incidents where self-harm was due to a drug overdose can include multiple individuals; the figures in the table count the number of incidents where an overdose occurred rather than the number of individuals that overdosed.</p><p>Includes self-harm options listed as &quot;illegal drugs&quot;, &quot;own medication&quot; and &quot;other persons medication&quot;</p><p><strong>Data Sources and Quality</strong></p><p>These figures have been drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System. Care is taken when processing and analysing returns but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Although shown to the last case, the figures may not be accurate to that level.</p><p>The data only includes self-harm incidents collated centrally; identifying any wider incidents that lead to a hospitalisation and have a connection to drugs would exceed the cost threshold as it would require reading through the text of each incident.</p><p>For a breakdown of Self Inflicted Deaths by method (including overdose), please see section 1.8 in the below published data from Safety in Custody: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113633/Deaths_in_prison_custody_1978_to_2021.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113633/Deaths_in_prison_custody_1978_to_2021.xlsx</a></p><p>Table 1.1 in the above publication gives the number of other/non-natural deaths per year.</p><p>In the case of drug related deaths where no intent to self-harm has been discovered, the death has been classified as “Other: Non-natural”, however this category also includes other accidental deaths where drugs were not present.</p><p>‘Other: Non-Natural’ deaths include accidental and other difficult to classify deaths including those for which further information is awaited. Some of the most recent two years figures are expected to be reclassified as natural causes or self-inflicted deaths.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2022 16:37:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1551162

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Christmas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the recommendations of the Farmer Review, whether prisoners will be able to have a phone call with family members on Christmas Day .
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	109767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the importance that support from families and significant others provides for prisoners in helping to reduce the risk of reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners with in-cell telephony will continue to have normal access to PIN phones during the Christmas and New Year period. For those who do not have in-cell telephones, access to wing-phones will continue to be prioritised in accordance with the regime run by individual establishments each day.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/12/2022 11:13:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1551098

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Firearms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of firearms found in prisons in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	109602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>We publish the number of incidents where weapons were found in prison in England and Wales in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2021-to-march-2022" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest</a>, the latest issue covering the period from April 2021 to March 2022. Information beyond this period cannot be included as it would provide an early indication of future National Statistics. The category ‘weapon’ has been formally recorded since October 2015 and prior to this date incidents where weapons were found, including firearms, were not collated centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Incidents where weapons were found in prison custody can include finds of multiple weapons; the figures in the table count the number of incidents where a firearm was found rather than the number of firearms. This incident type records any imitation or real firearms found.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Firearms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data Sources and Quality</p><p>These figures have been drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System. Care is taken when processing and analysing returns but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Although shown to the last case, the figures may not be accurate to that level.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/12/2022 11:07:01 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1551005

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Five Wells Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he expects HMP Five Wells to be able to hold offenders to its designed capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	109659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>We are working closely with G4S, in accordance with the terms of the contract, to achieve full operational capacity as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 109660 question first answered 19/12/2022 14:08:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1551006

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Five Wells Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when HMP Five Wells will be contractually required to be able to hold its full planned number of prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	109660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>We are working closely with G4S, in accordance with the terms of the contract, to achieve full operational capacity as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 109659 question first answered 19/12/2022 14:08:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1551150

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Marriage: Documents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Law Commission's report entitled Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law, HC 557, published on 19 July 2022, when he plans to respond to the recommendations in that report; and with reference to recommendation 36 in that report that couples should be able to have their schedules and marriage documents issued and completed in Welsh alone where the wedding ceremony takes place in Wales, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending that potential right to couples who would prefer Welsh documentation where the marriage takes place in England.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	109455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>To date, the Government has made no assessment in the potential merits of including a Welsh-only option for people receiving registration documents in England. We will set out our position to recommendation 36, and wider marriage reform, within the formal Government response to the Law Commission in due course.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 19/12/2022 16:13:14 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1551097

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Exercise
	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 5 September 2022 to Question 39794, Prisons: Exercise, whether the amount of time that prisoners must spend out of their cells in private prisons is set out in a contract.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	109524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Time out of cell in private prisons is monitored through our performance measures and contract management arrangements. In cases where the requirement is not specified in the contract, it is set annually as part of the contract management process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2022 14:04:40 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1551069

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisons where drugs have been found to be manufactured in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	109596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>There have been no proven cases of prisoners manufacturing forensically identifiable substances in custody that would, under lab conditions, be proven to be a known drug. There is a remote chance of some prisoners experimenting with chemicals to produce substances that may/may not have a psychoactive effect, but this is unlikely to be undertaken in an organised manner or with the equipment required to produce the desired effects.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2022 14:06:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1551165

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Damage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of broken cell windows on the prisons estate.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	109770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>There are currently 1,539 broken cell windows across the prison estate. We undertake an intensive maintenance programme to ensure that as many cells' windows broken per month are repaired, which means that very few cells are taken out of action due to damaged windows.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/12/2022 16:40:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1551064

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prison officers caught smuggling drugs into prisons in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	109593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The vast majority of prison staff are hardworking and dedicated. A minority of staff engage in corrupt activity which is often as a result of conditioning and manipulation by prisoners.</p><p>There have been a total of 80 outcomes (Criminal Justice, Dismissal or Exclusion) for Prison Officers linked to conveyance of drug related offences since 1 January 2020. Below is a table showing the breakdown by outcome type over the three-year period to 14 December 2022:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Prison Officers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>CJS Outcomes</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Exclusions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Dismissals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Linkspace Case Management System</p><p>HM Prison &amp; Probation Service has a zero-tolerance policy to drugs conveyed into prisons and take appropriate action to a small number of prison staff who break the rules. Our £100m Security Investment Programme, aimed at reducing crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of illicit items such as drugs and mobile phones, was completed in March 2022. This included increased resource to pursue corruption, as well as establish a new ‘Prevent’ function, aimed at building staff resilience against corruption.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1) The new Counter Corruption Unit came into being in April 2019, with a new structure and a change to ways of working. During the initial transition period, and prior to the introduction of the new Case Management System, it is possible that not all outcomes were being captured. Data has been provided in this response from 1<sup>st</sup> January 2020.</p><p>2) Outcome data is shared as we cannot assume guilt during an ongoing case. Due to the length of time a case can take to progress through the criminal justice system and the appeals system, the numbers of outcomes may increase or decrease as the years progress.</p><p>3) Exclusions and Dismissal – These figures quoted are subject to the progress of the case and counted separately.</p><p>4) Cases are dependent on information being reported through our reporting systems. Therefore, the outcomes only reflect the instances reported and developed through the CCU process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2022 14:05:34 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed