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1139551

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Prisons: Death
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Keen of Elie on 8 July (HL16975), what process Her Majesty’s Prison Service uses to (1) record, (2) classify, and (3) centrally collect information about, any deaths of those imprisoned in women’s prisons.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Corston
	uin	HL17198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths in custody are reported to Her Majesty's Prison &amp; Probation Service within 24 hours. That report includes (among other things) the name of the deceased, the date they died, their gender, and a brief description of the circumstances of their death. Where possible the report will give a provisional cause of death. The prison is also obliged to report the death to the Prisons &amp; Probation Ombudsman, to allow her investigation to begin, and all deaths in custody are the subject of an inquest. The cause of death may be updated later in light of the Ombudsman’s report and/or the coroner’s verdict.</p><p> </p><p>The answer to question 16975 gave figures taken from data that the Government published on 25 April 2019, covering deaths in custody up to the end of March. My officials have double-checked and I can confirm that those figures were correct. Data about deaths in custody can be inspected using the <em>Deaths data tool </em>at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2018. As the question was about deaths during 2019, the causes of death are provisional and may be updated once the investigations outlined above have been concluded.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of deaths at HMP Styal and HMP Peterborough in March, April and May 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Styal</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Peterborough</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2019</p></td><td><p>1 (self-inflicted)</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1 (self-inflicted)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2019</p></td><td><p>1 (self-inflicted)</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL17199 question first answered 30/07/2019 15:32:44 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	215 label Biography information for Baroness Corston

1139552

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Prisons: Death
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Keen of Elie on 10 July (HL16975), how many deaths occurred in (1) HMP Styal, and (2) HMP Peterborough, in (a) March, (b) April, and (c) May 2019; what was the cause of death in each case; and what steps they took to ensure that the earlier Written Answer was accurate.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Corston
	uin	HL17199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths in custody are reported to Her Majesty's Prison &amp; Probation Service within 24 hours. That report includes (among other things) the name of the deceased, the date they died, their gender, and a brief description of the circumstances of their death. Where possible the report will give a provisional cause of death. The prison is also obliged to report the death to the Prisons &amp; Probation Ombudsman, to allow her investigation to begin, and all deaths in custody are the subject of an inquest. The cause of death may be updated later in light of the Ombudsman’s report and/or the coroner’s verdict.</p><p> </p><p>The answer to question 16975 gave figures taken from data that the Government published on 25 April 2019, covering deaths in custody up to the end of March. My officials have double-checked and I can confirm that those figures were correct. Data about deaths in custody can be inspected using the <em>Deaths data tool </em>at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2018. As the question was about deaths during 2019, the causes of death are provisional and may be updated once the investigations outlined above have been concluded.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of deaths at HMP Styal and HMP Peterborough in March, April and May 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Styal</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Peterborough</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2019</p></td><td><p>1 (self-inflicted)</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1 (self-inflicted)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2019</p></td><td><p>1 (self-inflicted)</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie grouped question UIN HL17198 question first answered 30/07/2019 15:32:44 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	215 label Biography information for Baroness Corston

1139575

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Keen of Elie on 4 July (HL16559), what proportion of the prison population of HMP Belmarsh identifies as Muslim; and how this compares to the average of the proportion of prisoners who identify as Muslim in other prisons in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL17222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>HMP Belmarsh had a population of 826 on the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2019. On the same date there were 233 Prisoners at HMP Belmarsh who identified as Muslim, which represents 28.20% of the population.</p><p> </p><p>Available statistics for England and Wales ending 31<sup>st</sup> March 2019 showed an overall Prison Population of 82,634. Of that Population, a total of 13,008 Prisoners identified as Muslim, which represents 15.74% of the Prison Population.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 30/07/2019 15:46:50 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1139576

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners there are in HMP Belmarsh; and how many of those are serving sentences for civil offences.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL17223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>HMP Belmarsh had a population of 826 on the 31st March 2019. On the same date there were 11 Prisoners at HMP Belmarsh who were serving sentences for Civil Offences, which represents 1.33% of the population.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 30/07/2019 15:51:08 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1139577

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Tommy Robinson
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the process for reaching the decision that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon should be imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh; whether a Minister was responsible for that decision; and if so, who.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL17224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>HMP Belmarsh located in South London operates as a Core Local Prison and is responsible for a number of Courts in the area. HMP Belmarsh receives Prisoners from the Central Criminal Court (CCC), Woolwich Crown Court, Bexley Magistrates Court and Greenwich Magistrates Court. As per Court Committal Directions, Mr Yaxley-Lennon, who appeared at the CCC, was allocated to HMP Belmarsh.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 30/07/2019 15:28:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch