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1166645

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Judiciary
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days (a) recorders and (b) judges have sat in total in England in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	6329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The official statistics for judge sitting days (tables 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 of the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly, January to March 2019) were withdrawn on 5 September 2019, due to data discrepancies that were discovered after publication on 6 June 2019 and deemed potentially misleading to users. These discrepancies remain under investigation and, in line with the Code of Practice on Statistics, the Chief Statistician and Head of Profession decided to withdraw these tables until the investigations were complete as is normal practice. The revised figures will be published in due course, and will provide the total sitting days in Family, Civil and Crown courts.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:57:04 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1166674

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Sentences
	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 22 October 2019 to Question 955 on Prison Sentences, what proportion of all standard determinate custodial sentences handed down to (a) men and (b) women were served in prison.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	6306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Sentencing is a matter for the independent judiciary, which takes the full facts of each case into account. In 2018, the mean average proportion of the sentence served in prison by males released from determinate sentences (excluding extended determinate sentences) was 64%, the median proportion was 56%. For females the mean average was 49% and the median was 45%. The overwhelming majority of the releases covered by this data will be from standard determinate sentences but the way the data is recorded does not allow us readily to exclude releases from other types of determinate sentence, such as Detention and Training Orders and sentences for offenders of particular concern imposed under s.236A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:57:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1166677

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Parents
	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 23 October 2019 to Question 949 on Prisoners: Parents, for what reasons his Department does not collect data to illuminate the prevalence and needs of male prisoners with children; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	6309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>We do recognise the needs of male prisoners with children, dependent or otherwise, as well as those of women. Information in this regard is vital in informing policy and practice in this area. Where male or female offenders choose to disclose such information, data is collected, although it is not corroborated. As noted in our previous answer this data does not provide detailed information of the child’s age or whether they are dependents. The data is therefore not suitable for publication.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:16:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1166722

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Interpreters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases in the (a) family, (b) criminal and (c) civil courts have required a translator or interpreter in each of the last ten years; and what the average length of time for cases in the (i) family, (ii) criminal and (iii) civil courts requiring translation or interpretation services was in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	6331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>(a)(b)(c) Data is published concerning the ‘number and rate of completed language interpreter and translation services requests in the United Kingdom’.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published figures cover the period to June 2019 and are available back to 2013, when the initial contracts were put in place. This data is published in Criminal Court Statistics overview table L1.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Our most recent statistics show the total number of language service requests are at their highest level since the new contract was introduced in 2016 and the vast majority of these – 97% - were fulfilled.</p><p> </p><p>(i)(ii)(iii) The Ministry of Justice does not centrally collate the data requested and it is not possible to separately identify cases requiring translation from overall case counts or from data used to calculate timeliness estimates. This information may be held on court records, however, obtaining it would be of disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:41:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1166768

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	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, how many prison-to-prison transfers have been completed in each of the last five years by (a) the Police, (b) the Prison Service and (c) private contractors.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	6474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) use private contractors to transfer prisoners across the prison estate. A breakdown of the numbers of transfers that took place in the last five years is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Prison-to-prison transfers by private contractors between 2014 – September 2019.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Prison-to-prison transfers by private contractors</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>70,625</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>69,190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>69,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>65,351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>62,971</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 (January – September)</p></td><td><p>48,152</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The police do not conduct prison-to-prison transfers. Information on transfers conducted by HMPPS is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Private providers continue to play an important role in the prison estate. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will continue to closely monitor the performance of all providers and we will not hesitate to take action where standards fall short.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:26:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1166860

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's strategy entitled, Transforming Rehabilitation, what key success indicators his Department plans to include in its programmes to reduce reoffending.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	6455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Performance indicators will give providers the incentives to ensure quality delivery which secures rehabilitative outcomes whilst delivering the sentence of the court and protecting the public.</p><p> </p><p>There will be performance indicators to assess whether accredited programmes and other interventions have been delivered to service users referred to them by offender managers. There will also be quality indicators on whether accredited programmes and other interventions are of sufficient quality to enable individuals to complete the intervention and address problems related to their offending.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:22:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1166861

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to include targeted programmes for offenders that are dependent on (a) drugs, (b) alcohol and (c) gambling as a commissioning requirement under the proposed new probation system.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	6456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Probation Reform Programme seeks to support the protocol agreed between the Ministry of Justice, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England to promote the use of Mental Health Treatment, Alcohol Treatment and Drug Rehabilitation requirements as the intervention of choice for eligible offenders.</p><p> </p><p>We also intend to procure additional rehabilitative interventions that support offenders on release from custody and under community supervision to access treatment and stay safe while awaiting treatment and/or access to specialist services which address both substance misuse and gambling.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:38:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1166863

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the criteria used by Her Majesty's Prisons and Probation Service expert panel to assess accredited rehabilitation programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	6457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The criteria used by the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel (CSAAP) to accredit programmes for Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) are being updated and prepared for publication.</p><p> </p><p>There are 18 HMPPS accredited programmes, of which:</p><ul><li>Two programmes have published impact studies which set out the programme’s impact on proven reoffending.</li><li>A further four programmes have published short-term outcomes studies which assess the programme’s effect on variables that are expected to change (such as treatment targets like problem solving) to then assess impact (reduced likelihood of reconviction).</li><li>In addition, seven programmes have not been in operation long enough to generate sufficient data for a reoffending impact analysis, and three have small or specialist samples that make constructing a suitable comparison group for a robust evaluation challenging at this time.</li></ul><ul><li>Impact studies to assess reoffending are currently being scoped or are underway for four HMPPS programmes. Short-term outcome studies are underway for two other programmes.</li></ul><p> </p><p>While several evaluations have been published for accredited offending behaviour programmes, are being scoped, or are underway, not all courses have had an impact evaluation. There are several reasons for this:</p><ul><li>Some are relatively new and insufficient time has passed to observe outcomes – especially for programmes that target individuals likely to be on long sentences. It can take many years (sometimes upwards of eight years) to generate the data needed to evaluate proven reoffending.</li><li>Some programmes are delivered to a low volume of participants or are targeted at specific cohorts, which makes it difficult to construct a suitable comparison group for a robust impact evaluation to assess reoffending.</li><li>The Department has delivered other types of evaluations such as process studies or short-term outcome studies (for example, effects on institutional behaviour) to assess the implementation and delivery of the programmes. This is particularly valuable for new programmes, where we want to learn about how they are being received (as per Cabinet Office guidance on evaluation).</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 6458 question first answered 04/11/2019 15:50:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1166864

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of HMPPS accredited programmes have had impact evaluations.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	6458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The criteria used by the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel (CSAAP) to accredit programmes for Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) are being updated and prepared for publication.</p><p> </p><p>There are 18 HMPPS accredited programmes, of which:</p><ul><li>Two programmes have published impact studies which set out the programme’s impact on proven reoffending.</li><li>A further four programmes have published short-term outcomes studies which assess the programme’s effect on variables that are expected to change (such as treatment targets like problem solving) to then assess impact (reduced likelihood of reconviction).</li><li>In addition, seven programmes have not been in operation long enough to generate sufficient data for a reoffending impact analysis, and three have small or specialist samples that make constructing a suitable comparison group for a robust evaluation challenging at this time.</li></ul><ul><li>Impact studies to assess reoffending are currently being scoped or are underway for four HMPPS programmes. Short-term outcome studies are underway for two other programmes.</li></ul><p> </p><p>While several evaluations have been published for accredited offending behaviour programmes, are being scoped, or are underway, not all courses have had an impact evaluation. There are several reasons for this:</p><ul><li>Some are relatively new and insufficient time has passed to observe outcomes – especially for programmes that target individuals likely to be on long sentences. It can take many years (sometimes upwards of eight years) to generate the data needed to evaluate proven reoffending.</li><li>Some programmes are delivered to a low volume of participants or are targeted at specific cohorts, which makes it difficult to construct a suitable comparison group for a robust impact evaluation to assess reoffending.</li><li>The Department has delivered other types of evaluations such as process studies or short-term outcome studies (for example, effects on institutional behaviour) to assess the implementation and delivery of the programmes. This is particularly valuable for new programmes, where we want to learn about how they are being received (as per Cabinet Office guidance on evaluation).</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 6457 question first answered 04/11/2019 15:50:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1167024

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: International Men's Day
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	7103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>No one should suffer unfair treatment because of their gender. Every year International Men’s Day offers an opportunity to highlight how outcomes for men and boys can be improved and to talk about some of the important work going on every day across Government to do this.</p><p> </p><p>We have a range of activity planned to mark International Men’s Day, either on the day itself or in advance, including:</p><ul><li>a men’s health and wellbeing event in Leeds being run by our departmental Mental Health Allies;</li><li>working with our Corporate Communications and Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing teams and our network of Health and Wellbeing Champions to raise awareness amongst our male employees of the range of departmental support and wellbeing programmes available;</li><li>activity being led by our departmental Gender Equality Network includes an International Men’s Day quiz, a shared event with the Government Legal Department, and a breakfast session for dads and dads-to-be; and</li><li>a dedicated International Men’s Day blog from a male member of staff to feature on our employee intranet.</li></ul> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/11/2019 17:46:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies