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384739

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Alternatives to Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what community programmes are available in lieu of prison sentences for (a) female and (b) gay or lesbian perpetrators of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	3495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) work with all offenders to address the factors associated with their offending, including factors associated with their violent behaviour. Depending on the individual offender’s needs, there are a wide range of services in the community to address their offending behaviour and the factors leading to offending. These include emotion management, treatment for substance misuse and mental health, relationship skills, dealing with own victimisation and stress management.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/06/2015 12:22:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

387102

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family law cases have cited the Human Rights Act 1998 since that Act came into effect.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	5148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Applications to the Family Court are made and recorded by reference to the relevant provision in family law. Details of how many family law cases specifically cited the Human Rights Act 1998 since it came into force could only be obtained by manually checking every case file at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 11:07:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

384791

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation of female prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	South Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Heather Wheeler
	uin	900507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Maintaining family links, education and promoting aspiration are essential to helping female offenders turn their lives around. The women’s custodial estate has been reconfigured so that women offenders can be held as close as possible to their homes, with access to the right interventions and opportunities for meaningful resettlement.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Community Rehabilitation Companies are providing embedded resettlement services, which are required to be tailored to the specific needs of women.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/06/2015 15:26:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler

385373

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the offences and length of time served in prison are of each of the 20 longest serving female prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	4117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Of the twenty female prisoners who had served the longest amount of time in custody, as of 31 March 2015, twelve had served between 14 and 18 years and eight had served 18 years or more.</p><p> </p><p>All bar two of those female offenders were imprisoned for violent offences against the person.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2015 14:05:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

346861

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) stillbirths and (b) perinatal deaths were referred to HM Coroner services in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Daventry
	tabling member printed	Chris Heaton-Harris
	uin	113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the types of cases referred to coroners. However, it does collect data on the conclusions recorded at inquests.</p><p> </p><p>Coroners cannot by law investigate cases in which a child has not lived independently of its mother. They can open an investigation if there is any doubt over whether the child has lived independently, once they have received a report of a death. They can also investigate perinatal deaths which occur in the six days following birth. The Chief Coroner, HHJ Peter Thornton QC, is considering actions to improve consistency and good practice in relation to neonatal deaths.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the number of inquest conclusions which were recorded as stillbirths. This information is also published at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Stillbirth conclusions recorded</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/06/2015 16:01:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris

348880

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Cremation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to appoint a National Inspectorate of Crematoriums in England.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	1388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>What happened at Emstrey Crematorium over the course of more than a decade was totally unacceptable and we deeply sympathise with the parents in these tragic cases. We are clear that this should never happen again.</p><p> </p><p>The recommendations of the Independent Report, which took account of the report by the Bonomy Infant Cremation Commission, are receiving careful consideration and the Government will announce its conclusions in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 1462 1463 1464 1465 question first answered 15/06/2015 11:14:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

386338

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to implement the conclusions of the Equality Strategy - Building a Fairer Britain, published in December 2010, particularly those in Section 3 of that strategy involving the devolution of power to local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
	uin	4684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>A progress report on the Equality Strategy was published on 22 May 2012. In relation to Section 3 of that strategy, the Department for Communities and Local Government is undertaking a number of initiatives in support of this aim. These include the Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods programme, which is providing 24 local authorities with grants to redesign services so that they are delivered at neighbourhood level, and the Our Place programme, which is putting the local community at the heart of decision making by bringing together local councillors, public servants, businesses and the community to revolutionise the way the neighbourhood works.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 16:20:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

385535

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when and with whom she consulted on the details of regulations to be introduced under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 for the purpose of requiring the publication of information showing whether there are differences in the pay of males and females.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	4031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>A public consultation will be published soon with a view to making regulations in the first half of 2016. Building on the series of well-attended stakeholder events last year, in this Parliament we have already consulted business, civil society and trade unions as part of continuing engagement around the gender pay reporting. We will be engaging other interested parties before the regulations are prepared.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 16:17:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

381234

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders from each resettlement unit are in paid work while on resettlement day release and are paying 40 per cent of that wage to Victim Support.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	2479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>All female offenders are held in resettlement prisons. The Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996 was brought into force on 26 September 2011. It enables prison governors to impose a levy of up to 40% on the wages of low-risk prisoners who work outside prison on temporary licence, in order to prepare for their eventual release.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the numbers of female offenders who are in paid work while on resettlement day release and are paying 40% of their wage to Victim Support for each women’s prison as of 17 June 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Askham Grange</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Drake Hall</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI East Sutton Park</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Eastwood Park</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Holloway</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Send</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 12:53:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

381223

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders are currently housed in each resettlement unit in each prison.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	2450
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>All of the current 3,901 women offenders are held in resettlement prisons which have embedded resettlement services. These are provided under contract by Community Rehabilitation Companies which are required to make sure that their services are tailored to women’s specific needs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 12:59:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson