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1726486

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest recidivism rates for all released prisoners.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2024 answer text <p>This Government is reducing reoffending by giving prison leavers the tools to move away from crime.</p><p>The latest available data for England and Wales shows that 37.0% of adults released from custody between April 2021 and March 2022 were proven to have reoffended within 12 months of release.</p><p>We do not currently measure reoffending rates for released prisoners receiving benefits, on training schemes for job placements or in work (although the latter will be featured in future publications of proven reoffending statistics, with the first due for release in October 2024).</p><p>We do, however, know from previous research that offenders who leave custody into employment are up to nine percentage points less likely to reoffend, and there is a similar percentage point reduction in reoffending for those who have engaged in any form of in-prison education.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson grouped question UIN HL611 HL612 HL613 question first answered 06/09/2024 12:45:23 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1726487

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest recidivism rates for released prisoners receiving benefits.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL611
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2024 answer text <p>This Government is reducing reoffending by giving prison leavers the tools to move away from crime.</p><p>The latest available data for England and Wales shows that 37.0% of adults released from custody between April 2021 and March 2022 were proven to have reoffended within 12 months of release.</p><p>We do not currently measure reoffending rates for released prisoners receiving benefits, on training schemes for job placements or in work (although the latter will be featured in future publications of proven reoffending statistics, with the first due for release in October 2024).</p><p>We do, however, know from previous research that offenders who leave custody into employment are up to nine percentage points less likely to reoffend, and there is a similar percentage point reduction in reoffending for those who have engaged in any form of in-prison education.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson grouped question UIN HL610 HL612 HL613 question first answered 06/09/2024 12:45:23 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1726488

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest recidivism rates for released prisoners on training schemes for job placements.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2024 answer text <p>This Government is reducing reoffending by giving prison leavers the tools to move away from crime.</p><p>The latest available data for England and Wales shows that 37.0% of adults released from custody between April 2021 and March 2022 were proven to have reoffended within 12 months of release.</p><p>We do not currently measure reoffending rates for released prisoners receiving benefits, on training schemes for job placements or in work (although the latter will be featured in future publications of proven reoffending statistics, with the first due for release in October 2024).</p><p>We do, however, know from previous research that offenders who leave custody into employment are up to nine percentage points less likely to reoffend, and there is a similar percentage point reduction in reoffending for those who have engaged in any form of in-prison education.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson grouped question UIN HL610 HL611 HL613 question first answered 06/09/2024 12:45:23 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1726489

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are the latest recidivism rates for released prisoners in work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2024 answer text <p>This Government is reducing reoffending by giving prison leavers the tools to move away from crime.</p><p>The latest available data for England and Wales shows that 37.0% of adults released from custody between April 2021 and March 2022 were proven to have reoffended within 12 months of release.</p><p>We do not currently measure reoffending rates for released prisoners receiving benefits, on training schemes for job placements or in work (although the latter will be featured in future publications of proven reoffending statistics, with the first due for release in October 2024).</p><p>We do, however, know from previous research that offenders who leave custody into employment are up to nine percentage points less likely to reoffend, and there is a similar percentage point reduction in reoffending for those who have engaged in any form of in-prison education.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson grouped question UIN HL610 HL611 HL612 question first answered 06/09/2024 12:45:23 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1726490

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Training
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what regulations govern training for prisoners while still in prison for job placements on release.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2024 answer text <p>The prison education curriculum enables prisoners to gain the skills they need to get employment on release. In addition to English, maths and vocational training we offer bespoke, local training via the Dynamic Purchasing System. We are developing other training through our Future Skills Programme in a variety of sectors, such as construction and hospitality with employers guaranteeing interviews to prisoners on completion of the course. Prisoners may also undertake other work placements during their sentence which prepares them for work on release. Some are within the prison setting e.g. prison kitchens, but prisoners in open prisons may also go out to work in a variety of sectors under Release on Temporary Licence conditions. We also work with the Department for Education who fund a ‘skills bootcamp’ to deliver training in skills needed to work in the rail industry alongside continuing to develop the opportunities for serving prisoners to undertake apprenticeships.</p><p>Prison Education delivered by HMPPS is underpinned by the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, the Prison Rules 1999 and the Prison Education and Libraries Framework. The delivery of apprenticeships to prisoners is governed by the Apprenticeships (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2017. All aspects of education, skills and work are inspected by Ofsted alongside HMIP.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson question first answered 06/09/2024 13:09:23 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1726491

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Universal Credit
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what regulations govern Universal Credit payments for prisoners immediately after their release.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>There are no specific regulations that govern the payment of Universal Credit (UC) to a prisoner upon release. They are treated like every other customer when they make a claim to UC. If they need urgent financial assistance when they have completed their online UC claim they can ask for a new claim advance payment which is offered to all new customers. There are provisions (Claims and Payments Regulations 2013) that allow prisoners to start to prepare their UC claim before their release, however the date of entitlement starts on the release date, and first payment is usually made around five weeks after the claim is made.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sherlock question first answered 16/09/2024 12:14:33 answering member 4147 label Biography information for Baroness Sherlock
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1693085

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Property Management Companies: Fees and Charges
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what regulatory powers they have to ensure leaseholders are protected from unreasonable charges or inadequate services property management agents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL2941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>By law all variable service charges must be reasonable and, where costs relate to works or services, the works or services must be of a reasonable standard and leaseholders may challenge them at the property tribunal. It is also a legal requirement for managing and letting agents in England to belong to one of the two Government approved redress schemes.</p><p>The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill will make it easier for leaseholders to scrutinise costs and challenge the services provided by both landlords and property managing agents. The Bill includes measures to require landlords to provide further information to leaseholders upfront and increase the transparency of their service charges and administration charges, as well as providing more information to leaseholders when requested.</p><p>For those homeowners on private and mixed tenure freehold estates, the Bill will also give them rights to challenge costs at the tribunal and improved rights of transparency of costs and services.</p><p>The Government intends to work closely with stakeholders to determine the detail of how the measures will work to protect leaseholders, which will be set out in secondary legislation.</p><p>These measures, alongside existing protections and work undertaken by industry, will make property managing agents more accountable to the leaseholders and homeowners on freehold estates that pay for their services, and we will keep under review the need for further regulation in the sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL2942 HL2943 question first answered 14/03/2024 16:08:06 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1693086

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Property Management Companies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the transparency of ownership structures of freehold property management agents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL2942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>By law all variable service charges must be reasonable and, where costs relate to works or services, the works or services must be of a reasonable standard and leaseholders may challenge them at the property tribunal. It is also a legal requirement for managing and letting agents in England to belong to one of the two Government approved redress schemes.</p><p>The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill will make it easier for leaseholders to scrutinise costs and challenge the services provided by both landlords and property managing agents. The Bill includes measures to require landlords to provide further information to leaseholders upfront and increase the transparency of their service charges and administration charges, as well as providing more information to leaseholders when requested.</p><p>For those homeowners on private and mixed tenure freehold estates, the Bill will also give them rights to challenge costs at the tribunal and improved rights of transparency of costs and services.</p><p>The Government intends to work closely with stakeholders to determine the detail of how the measures will work to protect leaseholders, which will be set out in secondary legislation.</p><p>These measures, alongside existing protections and work undertaken by industry, will make property managing agents more accountable to the leaseholders and homeowners on freehold estates that pay for their services, and we will keep under review the need for further regulation in the sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL2941 HL2943 question first answered 14/03/2024 16:08:06 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1693087

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Leasehold: Fees and Charges
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to launch a consultation about the experiences of leaseholders in relation to service charges.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL2943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>By law all variable service charges must be reasonable and, where costs relate to works or services, the works or services must be of a reasonable standard and leaseholders may challenge them at the property tribunal. It is also a legal requirement for managing and letting agents in England to belong to one of the two Government approved redress schemes.</p><p>The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill will make it easier for leaseholders to scrutinise costs and challenge the services provided by both landlords and property managing agents. The Bill includes measures to require landlords to provide further information to leaseholders upfront and increase the transparency of their service charges and administration charges, as well as providing more information to leaseholders when requested.</p><p>For those homeowners on private and mixed tenure freehold estates, the Bill will also give them rights to challenge costs at the tribunal and improved rights of transparency of costs and services.</p><p>The Government intends to work closely with stakeholders to determine the detail of how the measures will work to protect leaseholders, which will be set out in secondary legislation.</p><p>These measures, alongside existing protections and work undertaken by industry, will make property managing agents more accountable to the leaseholders and homeowners on freehold estates that pay for their services, and we will keep under review the need for further regulation in the sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL2941 HL2942 question first answered 14/03/2024 16:08:06 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1688034

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2024
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many inquests into deaths to the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still to be completed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hain
	uin	HL2233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>At this time, 37 Troubles-related inquests have not been completed:</p><ul><li>18 cases have commenced hearing of evidence;</li><li>A further two cases have been listed for hearing;</li><li>Another 17 cases have not been listed for hearing.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Caine question first answered 13/02/2024 11:44:42 answering member 4581 label Biography information for Lord Caine
	tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain