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1487348

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of renaming youth offender panels as local justice panels.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	32556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>Youth Offender Panels are used in the delivery of Referral Orders, a type of community sentence for children that was introduced in 1999. The name Youth Offender Panels is included in the legislation, but in practice Youth Offending Teams may (and do) already call them other names such as ‘Referral Order Panel’ or ‘Community Panel’. We have no plans to change the name of Youth Offender Panels in the relevant legislation.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 14:40:25 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1488010

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an estimate of the costs of unemployment among ex-offenders.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	33787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>We know that the economic and social cost of reoffending is approximately £18 billion per year. Evidence also shows that prison leavers who get a job within a year after release are up to nine percentage points less likely to reoffend compared to those who do not.</p><p>The proportion of prisoners released from custody employed at six months from their release rose by almost two thirds between April 2021 and March 2022.</p><p>We are committed to delivering a presumption in favour of offering offenders the chance to work in prison, on Release on Temporary Licence and on release, including by building stronger links with employers. We are on track to roll out Prison Employment Leads, Employment Hubs and Employment Advisory Boards across all 92 resettlement prisons by April 2023. We are also developing a £21m Employability Innovation Fund to enable more employers to work with prisons and deliver jobs on release.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 14:38:45 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1487365

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison and Probation Service: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has issued on the standard of proof for assessing complaints.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	32564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The current Prisoner Complaints Policy Framework was published in August 2019 and implemented across all prisons in England and Wales. There is a clear requirement within this for staff in all prisons to adopt a problem-solving approach, applying the ‘balance of probabilities’ level of proof when investigating complaints. Each complaint form gives the prisoner the opportunity to state what they want to see happen as a result of their complaint.</p><p>Prisons are required to complete routine checks of samples of complaint forms in order to assure the quality of responses. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service works closely with the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman to share good practice and feedback and review assurance processes in relation to complaint responses.</p><p>Outside of this process, prisoners are also able to submit a Discrimination Incident Reporting Form, if they perceive that they have experienced, or witnessed, an incident of discrimination. This process is confidential, and each incident must be investigated via a designated process within a set timescale.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 32565 question first answered 14/07/2022 14:50:16 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1487367

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of prisons that have a process for complainants to state what they want to happen following an investigation into their complaint.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	32565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The current Prisoner Complaints Policy Framework was published in August 2019 and implemented across all prisons in England and Wales. There is a clear requirement within this for staff in all prisons to adopt a problem-solving approach, applying the ‘balance of probabilities’ level of proof when investigating complaints. Each complaint form gives the prisoner the opportunity to state what they want to see happen as a result of their complaint.</p><p>Prisons are required to complete routine checks of samples of complaint forms in order to assure the quality of responses. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service works closely with the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman to share good practice and feedback and review assurance processes in relation to complaint responses.</p><p>Outside of this process, prisoners are also able to submit a Discrimination Incident Reporting Form, if they perceive that they have experienced, or witnessed, an incident of discrimination. This process is confidential, and each incident must be investigated via a designated process within a set timescale.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 32564 question first answered 14/07/2022 14:50:16 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1488111

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Periodic visit to the United Kingdom carried out by the CPT from 8 to 21 June 2021 and the Government response, when his Department last reviewed the capacity of (a) each prison and (b) the prison estate overall in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Henley
	tabling member printed	John Howell
	uin	33746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The capacity of each prison and the overall capacity of the prison estate is reviewed on a weekly basis to ensure there are sufficient places for all offenders. Prison numbers can fluctuate, which is why we have a robust set of plans in place to ensure we will always have enough places for offenders sent to custody by the courts.</p><p>We are committed to building as many prison places as we need. Over the next ten years, additional capacity will come in to use through new build prison accommodation, existing accommodation returning to use following the completion of essential maintenance or places coming into use following a change in function.</p><p>We are investing £3.8 billion to deliver 20,000 additional, modern prison places including 2,000 temporary prison places across England and Wales. This includes refurbishing and building additional houseblocks across existing prison sites and creating four new prisons over the next six years and expanding another four prisons over the next three years. The first of these, HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire, opened in February and work is also well underway at HMP Fosse Way, Leicestershire (on the former HMP Glen Parva site).</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 16:45:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1488112

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Periodic visit to the United Kingdom carried out by the CPT from 8 to 21 June 2021 and the Government response, what steps he will take to help reduce the length of time that prisoners in England and Wales diagnosed with a serious mental illness and who have already been assessed as requiring treatment in a psychiatric hospital remain in prison before being transferred.
	tabling member constituency	Henley
	tabling member printed	John Howell
	uin	33747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is committed to working with health partners to improve the timeliness of transfers from prison to hospital under the Mental Health Act.  As stated in the Government’s response to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’s report, we recognise that in some cases this currently takes far too long.</p><p>That is why last month the Government published a draft Mental Health Bill which introduces a new statutory time limit of 28-days for transfers from prisons to hospital. This time limit, together with operational improvements, will help reduce unnecessary delays and ensure people in the criminal justice system receive swift access to treatment.</p><p>The draft Bill will also end the use of prison as a ‘place of safety’. This will end the practice of courts diverting offenders or defendants requiring assessment and treatment in an inpatient setting to prison when there are no hospital beds available, ensuring vulnerable offenders are able to access the right support in the right environment.</p><p>The draft Bill will now be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 14:36:59 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1487354

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to ensure that the prison system works with the relevant stakeholders to learn from the youth justice system and adopt a similar model to the Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool for men and women prisoners with built-in evaluation.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	32559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool (CHAT) is a clinical assessment tool developed and managed by the National Health Service (NHS) England who are statutorily responsible for the commissioning and management of healthcare services in both adult and youth custody.</p><p>NHS England already have a clinically approved screening tool for adults in custody and are responsible for ensuring this continues to meet the assessment needs of this population.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 14:42:24 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1487371

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Service: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Prison Service has a target for the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff to be in leadership positions within that organisation.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	32566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has recently published the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and specific government-wide targets for senior minority ethnic staff are no longer set. HMPPS currently has a national target for 14% of its workforce to be from an ethnic minority background in accordance with the 2011 Census, but this target is not specific to the senior civil service.</p><p>In January 2022, the Ministry of Justice launched the senior civil servant (SCS) Talent Agency. The aim of the Talent Agency is to develop a diverse SCS talent pipeline by supporting upwards progression and assisting with the retention of high potential senior leaders who identify as ethnically diverse, or as having a disability. This includes the Luminate sponsorship programme which encourages and recognises talented ethnic minority staff and aims to increase ethnic minority representation in SCS roles in MoJ.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 14:55:48 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1487362

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Parole Board report on the proportion of prisoners released, broken down by offence and ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	32561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>Statistics on prisoner releases are published as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly National Statistics publication. This publication provides information about the demographics and characteristics of the prison population, as well as equivalent data for prisoner admissions and releases.</p><p>The publication does not currently include a breakdown of prisoner releases by offence and ethnicity; however, the content of the publication is continually under review to ensure that it continues to best meet internal and external needs.</p><p>As part of their annual report and accounts for 2020/21, published in October last year, the Parole Board provided data oral hearing outcomes by each ethnicity and gender. This can be found via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-parole-board-for-england-wales-annual-report-and-accounts-202021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-parole-board-for-england-wales-annual-report-and-accounts-202021</a>.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 14:45:22 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1487903

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Carbon Emissions
	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 potential cost of decarbonising the prison estate in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	33785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the potential cost of decarbonising the prison estate in England and Wales.</p><p>We will be publishing our net zero carbon strategy later this year and this will inform the level of investment required to decarbonise the prison estate.</p><p>This will build on the progress previously made in reducing MoJ’s carbon emissions by 50% to 2021 since 2009/10.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 14/07/2022 16:48:50 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed