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1728680

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign-born criminals (a) are in prisons and (b) were released under the revised terms of the early release scheme in Norfolk since 10 September 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Information on the number of Foreign Nationals in prisons can be found in Table 1_Q_12 here: Source: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a1167cce1fd0da7b592c8d/Prison-population-30-June-2024.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a1167cce1fd0da7b592c8d/Prison-population-30-June-2024.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are unable to provide the requested prisoner release figures at this time, as they form a subset of prisoner releases data scheduled for future publication. Numbers of custodial releases for the period covering July 2024 to September 2024 will be published on 30 January 2025, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 18/09/2024 15:58:15 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5158

1728678

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the prisoners released under the early release scheme (a) are foreign nationals and (b) will be deported.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	Jo White
	uin	5220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the requested prisoner release figures at this time, as they form a subset of prisoner releases data scheduled for future publication. Numbers of custodial releases for the period covering July 2024 to September 2024 will be published on 30 January 2025, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All foreign national offenders in receipt of custodial sentences are referred to the Home Office to be considered for deportation. The Home Office make all final decisions relating to deportation, taking into account individual circumstances in each case, meaning it is not possible to predict future deportation numbers.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 18/09/2024 15:57:22 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5105

1728440

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department informs victims when perpetrators of crimes against them are due to be released under her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that victims have access to information and support they may need.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender that perpetrated crimes against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. This includes providing these victims with the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions that they would like to be in place on an offender’s release such as an exclusion zone.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones grouped question UIN 4963 question first answered 18/09/2024 10:28:43 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728439

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has had recent discussions with the Victims' Commissioner on the potential impact on victims of her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that victims have access to information and support they may need.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender that perpetrated crimes against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. This includes providing these victims with the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions that they would like to be in place on an offender’s release such as an exclusion zone.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones grouped question UIN 4964 question first answered 18/09/2024 10:28:42 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728297

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many letters informing postmasters and former postmasters that their conviction has been quashed under the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024 her Department has sent.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland and Fakenham
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	uin	4865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 10 September 2024 to Question 4254 (<a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-04/4254" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-04/4254</a>).</p><p>The Government will begin to release monthly management information on the progress of the Post Office Convictions casework team. The first release of this management information will be on 3rd October 2024.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 17/09/2024 16:16:46 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1728654

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department’s annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 17/09/2024 13:54:08 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	5158

1728288

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	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 her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making actual bodily harm an excluded offence under SDS40 when being served concurrently with sexual or domestic abuse offences.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Cheshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Cooper
	uin	4856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>Offenders’ eligibility for Standard Determinate Sentences (SDS40) is determined by each specific sentence. Release provisions for different sentence types and length are fixed by law. This change has amended the automatic release point for standard determinate sentences that are not excluded. This means that by law, an offender serving multiple sentences could have a mixture of some sentences that are eligible for the 40% release point and others that are not. Someone serving a sentence for an excluded offence will not see their custodial time for that sentence reduced.</p><p> </p><p>Assault occasioning actual bodily harm is excluded where the sentence is four years or more. Other offences have also been excluded from the change, including sex offences irrespective of sentence length; other serious violent offences with a sentence of four years or more; specified offences linked to domestic abuse irrespective of sentence length (including stalking, coercive or controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation); as well as offences concerning national security.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders who are eligible for release at the 40% point are subject to a robust risk assessment to manage them safely in the community. This will include checks with partners from other agencies, such as the police. Once released, offenders will be subject to the same set of strict licence conditions that would apply had they been release at a 50% automatic release point, for example to prohibit the offender from having contact with named persons, such as the victim or victim’s family, or to impose exclusion zones to prevent the offender from going to specified places.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:42:30 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5195

1728286

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact on victims of SDS40 applying to sentences being served concurrently with sentences of sexual or domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Cheshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Cooper
	uin	4854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>Offenders’ eligibility for SDS40 is determined by each specific sentence. Release provisions for different sentence types and length are fixed by law. This change has amended the automatic release point for standard determinate sentences that are not excluded. This means that by law, an offender serving multiple sentences could have a mixture of some sentences that are eligible for the 40% release point and others that are not. Someone serving a sentence for an excluded offence will not see their custodial time for that sentence reduced, but any sentences for non-excluded offences will be impacted.</p><p>Certain offences have been excluded from the Standard Determinate Sentences SDS40 change. These include sex offences irrespective of sentence length; serious violent offences with a sentence of four years or more; specified offences linked to domestic abuse irrespective of sentence length (including stalking, coercive or controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation); as well as offences concerning national security. The change will also not apply to sentences subject to release at the discretion of the Parole Board or to offences which currently attract automatic release from an SDS at the two-thirds point (certain serious sexual and violent offences).</p><p>If victims are part of the Victim Contact Scheme (VCS) or Victim Notification Scheme (VNS), they will be informed about a change to an offender’s release date. Victims of a sexual, violent or terrorism offence are eligible for the VCS where an offender receives a specified custodial sentence of 12 months or more. They are eligible for the VNS if they are a victim of a stalking or harassment offence regardless of the length of the custodial sentence. This includes breach of a restraining order.</p><p>For victims of domestic abuse, there are national helplines that victims can also contact for more immediate help and support, which do offer translation services if your first language is not English. These are 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline; the Men’s advice line for domestic abuse; and the 24 hour National Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence helpline in Wales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:41:48 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5195

1728207

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	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, what estimate she has made of the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of the prisoner early release scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Melton and Syston
	tabling member printed	Edward Argar
	uin	4726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The modelled estimates for the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of this change were published in the Impact Assessment for the Statutory Instrument to Amend the Standard Determinate Sentence Automatic Release Point.</p><p> </p><p>This can be found at: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2024/117/pdfs/ukia_20240117_en.pdf</a>. Further statistics will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:41:15 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar

1728063

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have been convicted of domestic abuse and (b) will be released early from prison as part of the SDS40 scheme.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>There is no single offence for domestic abuse defined in legislation as many other criminal offences can include domestic abuse.</p><p>The SDS40 change has exclusions for specific offences linked to domestic abuse including stalking, coercive or controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation. This represents a change from the previous Government’s End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme which failed to exclude domestic abuse sentences.</p><p>SDS40 data will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:40:29 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes