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1125102

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contractual improvement notices have been issued at each private prison in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	251425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Over the last 10 years, the following formal contractual notices have been issued at the following private prisons.</p><p> </p><p><strong>HMP Birmingham (operated by G4S)</strong></p><p>HMP Birmingham – Incident Reporting (Improvement Notice Issued August 2016, Closed January 2017 due to sufficient improvements in performance being made)</p><p>HMP Birmingham – Release in Error (Improvement Notice Issued August 2016, Closed January 2017 due to sufficient improvements in performance being made)</p><p>HMP Birmingham - Levels of Violence, reduced purposeful activity, cleanliness (Improvement Notice issued March 2018)</p><p>HMP Birmingham – ACCT (Assessment, Care in Custody, Teamwork) (Improvement Notice issued March 2018)</p><p>HMP Birmingham – Levels of Violence, reduced purposeful activity, cleanliness, (Outstanding Issues Notice issued June 2018, not closed, superseded by Step In)</p><p>HMP Birmingham – ACCT (Assessment, Care in Custody, Teamwork) ( Outstanding Issues Notice issued August 2018, not closed, superseded by Step In)</p><p> </p><p><strong>HMP &amp; YOI Doncaster (operated by Serco) </strong></p><p>HMP &amp; YOI Doncaster – Insufficient Progress against HMIP Recommendations, Increase in Levels of Violence and Staffing Levels (Improvement Notice Issued – March 2015)</p><p>HMP &amp; YOI Doncaster – Insufficient Progress against HMIP Recommendations, Increase in Levels of Violence and Staffing Levels (Outstanding Issues Notice Issued – July 2015)</p><p>HMP &amp; YOI Doncaster – Insufficient Progress against HMIP Recommendations, Increase in Levels of Violence and Staffing Levels (Rectification Notice Issued 12<sup>th</sup> – August 2015)</p><p>Rectification Closed due to sufficient improvements in performance being made in July 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>HMP Northumberland (operated by Sodexo)</strong></p><p>HMP Northumberland – Insufficient performance against the Performance Threshold for Prisoner Working Hours (Improvement Notice Issued - June 2015)</p><p>Improvement Notice Closed due to sufficient improvements in performance being made in December 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong>HMP Oakwood (operated by G4S)</strong></p><p>HMP Oakwood – Areas of Reduced performance - Cleanliness, MDT, Purposeful Activity, Searching, Staffing Numbers - (Improvement Notice Issued - February 2012)</p><p>Improvement Notice closed due to sufficient improvements in performance being made in July 2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong>HMP Peterborough (operated by Sodexo)</strong></p><p>HMP Peterborough – Healthcare Provision (Rectification Notice issued – 17<sup>th</sup> August 2018)</p><p>Rectification closed due to sufficient improvements in performance being made in January 2019</p><p> </p><p><strong>HMP Rye Hill (Operated by G4S) </strong></p><p>HMP Rye Hill – (i) Shortfall in staffing levels and (ii) inadequate paperwork plus non-compliance to PSO1700 (Management of Disruptive Prisoners) in operation of the Care and Separation Unit (Rectification Notice issued in March 2010).</p><p>HMP Rye Hill – Rectification Notice for above formally closed due to sufficient improvements in performance being made in December 2010.</p><p>HMP Rye Hill – Continued water ingress into Education Block (Corrective Action Notice Issued - September 2016)</p><p>HMP Rye Hill – Corrective Action Notice formally closed due to sufficient improvements in performance being made in January 2017).</p><p> </p><p>Every privately contracted prison is robustly scrutinised by an on-site Prison Service Controller who monitors their performance, including staffing levels. Some privately run prisons are among the best across the estate, and we are able to take rapid action if standards do not meet contractual levels, and in such circumstances remedies are applied.</p><p> </p><p>For publicly run prisons we have a Performance and Assurance Framework, which ensures that where a prisons performance falls below a certain level improvement measures can be put in place.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:59:50 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 118256 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125783

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers vacancies were not filled in each prison in (a) May 2018 (b) May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The table attached provides the vacancies for Band 3-5 prison officers, by establishment (full time equivalent) on 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019 – the most recent date for which statistics are available.</p><p>Retaining and recruiting engaged and motivated staff is critical to delivering the solutions to drive improvement across the service.</p><p>We met our target to increase prison officer numbers by 2,500 early last year and have now almost doubled that.</p><p>We continue to run targeted recruitment campaigns to boost frontline staff for some of our most difficult to recruit sites, fill our remaining vacancies and stay on top of attrition.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:50:25 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name HMPPS Vacancies for Band 3-5 prison officers, by establishment (full time equivalent)1,2, March 2018 and March 2019.docx title Table
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125243

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Joseph McCann
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) scope, (b) timescale and (c) remit is of the urgent review into the reported mistaken release of Joseph McCann.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>In accordance with the sentence of the Court, Joseph McCann was released on 15 February 2019, after he had completed half (less time spent on remand) of a three-year determinate sentence for burglary imposed on 25 January 2018. On release, he was supervised by the National Probation Service (NPS)</p><p> </p><p>When charged with that offence and remanded into custody on 21 August 2017, he was being supervised on licence by the NPS as part of the sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) which he received on 26 September 2008. An offender on an IPP licence is not recalled automatically when he is charged with a further offence or offences. The probation officer will consider whether the alleged further offences, prior offending and the offender’s current behaviour show that his risk has escalated to the point where he needs to be recalled to protect the public. The decision on whether to recall an offender is to be based on a robust assessment of risk and to reflect the professional judgment of a trained probation officer.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS has undertaken an urgent review to establish why Mr McCann was not recalled to custody, either when remanded into custody on 21 August 2017 or when he was sentenced on <ins class="ministerial">25 Jarnuary 2018</ins> <del class="ministerial">15 February 2018</del>. Mr McCann has now been charged with a number of very serious offences committed on or after 21 April this year. This has triggered a mandatory serious further offence (SFO) review, under the Probation SFO Review Procedures. The SFO review will consider in greater depth than has thus far been possible, including by interviewing relevant members of staff, the question of whether Mr McCann should have been recalled to custody when charged with and subsequently convicted of the burglary offence. Typically, an SFO review is completed within three months of an offender being charged with an SFO.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:45:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/06/2019 14:34:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 118716 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125241

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Joseph McCann
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who took the decision not to refer the question of Joseph McCann's release to the Parole Board.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>In accordance with the sentence of the Court, Joseph McCann was released on 15 February 2019, after he had completed half (less time spent on remand) of a three-year determinate sentence for burglary imposed on 25 January 2018. On release, he was supervised by the National Probation Service (NPS)</p><p> </p><p>When charged with that offence and remanded into custody on 21 August 2017, he was being supervised on licence by the NPS as part of the sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) which he received on 26 September 2008. An offender on an IPP licence is not recalled automatically when he is charged with a further offence or offences. The probation officer will consider whether the alleged further offences, prior offending and the offender’s current behaviour show that his risk has escalated to the point where he needs to be recalled to protect the public. The decision on whether to recall an offender is to be based on a robust assessment of risk and to reflect the professional judgment of a trained probation officer.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS has undertaken an urgent review to establish why Mr McCann was not recalled to custody, either when remanded into custody on 21 August 2017 or when he was sentenced on <ins class="ministerial">25 January 2018</ins> <del class="ministerial">15 February 2018</del>. Mr McCann has now been charged with a number of very serious offences committed on or after 21 April this year. This has triggered a mandatory serious further offence (SFO) review, under the Probation SFO Review Procedures. The SFO review will consider in greater depth than has thus far been possible, including by interviewing relevant members of staff, the question of whether Mr McCann should have been recalled to custody when charged with and subsequently convicted of the burglary offence. Typically, an SFO review is completed within three months of an offender being charged with an SFO.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:45:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/06/2019 14:34:30 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 118715 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125240

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Joseph McCann
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the decision was taken to release Joseph McCann.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>In accordance with the sentence of the Court, Joseph McCann was released on 15 February 2019, after he had completed half (less time spent on remand) of a three-year determinate sentence for burglary imposed on 25 January 2018. On release, he was supervised by the National Probation Service (NPS)</p><p> </p><p>When charged with that offence and remanded into custody on 21 August 2017, he was being supervised on licence by the NPS as part of the sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) which he received on 26 September 2008. An offender on an IPP licence is not recalled automatically when he is charged with a further offence or offences. The probation officer will consider whether the alleged further offences, prior offending and the offender’s current behaviour show that his risk has escalated to the point where he needs to be recalled to protect the public. The decision on whether to recall an offender is to be based on a robust assessment of risk and to reflect the professional judgment of a trained probation officer.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS has undertaken an urgent review to establish why Mr McCann was not recalled to custody, either when remanded into custody on 21 August 2017 or when he was sentenced on <ins class="ministerial">25 January 2018</ins> <del class="ministerial">15 February 2018</del>. Mr McCann has now been charged with a number of very serious offences committed on or after 21 April this year. This has triggered a mandatory serious further offence (SFO) review, under the Probation SFO Review Procedures. The SFO review will consider in greater depth than has thus far been possible, including by interviewing relevant members of staff, the question of whether Mr McCann should have been recalled to custody when charged with and subsequently convicted of the burglary offence. Typically, an SFO review is completed within three months of an offender being charged with an SFO.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:45:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/06/2019 14:34:20 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 118714 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125244

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Joseph McCann
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date was his Department informed of the release from prison of Joseph McCann.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>In accordance with the sentence of the Court, Joseph McCann was released on 15 February 2019, after he had completed half (less time spent on remand) of a three-year determinate sentence for burglary imposed on 25 January 2018. On release, he was supervised by the National Probation Service (NPS)</p><p> </p><p>When charged with that offence and remanded into custody on 21 August 2017, he was being supervised on licence by the NPS as part of the sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) which he received on 26 September 2008. An offender on an IPP licence is not recalled automatically when he is charged with a further offence or offences. The probation officer will consider whether the alleged further offences, prior offending and the offender’s current behaviour show that his risk has escalated to the point where he needs to be recalled to protect the public. The decision on whether to recall an offender is to be based on a robust assessment of risk and to reflect the professional judgment of a trained probation officer.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS has undertaken an urgent review to establish why Mr McCann was not recalled to custody, either when remanded into custody on 21 August 2017 or when he was sentenced on <ins class="ministerial">25 January 2018</ins> <del class="ministerial">15 February 2018</del>. Mr McCann has now been charged with a number of very serious offences committed on or after 21 April this year. This has triggered a mandatory serious further offence (SFO) review, under the Probation SFO Review Procedures. The SFO review will consider in greater depth than has thus far been possible, including by interviewing relevant members of staff, the question of whether Mr McCann should have been recalled to custody when charged with and subsequently convicted of the burglary offence. Typically, an SFO review is completed within three months of an offender being charged with an SFO.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:45:21 question first ministerially corrected 12/06/2019 14:34:49 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 118711 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125779

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the baseline for the permanent leavers as a percentage of average staff changed from the workforce statistics bulletin published in November 2018 to the bulletin published in February 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>There has been no change to the methodology used in producing the HMPPS workforce bulletin published in November 2018 to that of the HMPPS workforce bulletin published in February 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:39:54 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125784

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have been transferred (a) into and (b) out of each prison in the 10 prisons project since August 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Prison officer transfers are an important part of our approach to flexibly managing the workforce and enabling the sharing of best practice.</p><p> </p><p>Several Band 3-5 prison officers have transferred in and out of the 10 prisons since August 2018. A breakdown of transfers in each of the 10 prisons is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1 - HMPPS band 3-5 officers<sup>1</sup> who transferred <sup>2,3</sup> in each prison in 10 prison project, from 1st August 2018 to 28 February 2019</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Transfer In</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Transfer Out</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lindholme</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moorland</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wealstun</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ranby</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isis</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><strong>1</strong> Includes band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), band 4 / Supervising Officer and band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p><strong>2</strong> Figures only include where the individual was a prison officer both before and after the move ie. ignoring transfers due to promotion or regrading.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as part of the 10 Prisons Project, we are piloting the new Standards Coaching Team initiative, in which experienced officers from across the estate are being temporarily transferred to the 10 prisons to provide coaching and support to new recruits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:23:43 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125781

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of detached duty have been provided to each of the prisons in the 10 prisons project in each month since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Detached Duty (DD) is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons and respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise. The deployment of staff between prisons on DD is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing; the number of Prison Officers deployed on DD varies from one week to the next in order to reflect operational circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Annex A attached shows the number [and cycle] of staff deployed to the six of the prisons in the 10 prisons project (Isis, Hull, Moorland, Nottingham, Ranby and Wormwood Scrubs) for a period since 2015. Detached Duty is allocated on a cycle (4 week average) rather than on a month by month basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:14:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name ANNEX A.docx title Annex A tables
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125778

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his plans are for the responsibility for procurement under the new model of probation proposed for Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government set out its response to the consultation ‘Strengthening probation, building confidence’ on the 16th May 2019.</p><p>This consultation response confirmed that we intend to bring the supervision of medium and low risk offenders, currently supervised by the Community Rehabilitation Company, into the National Probation Service across England and Wales. Recognising the unique delivery landscape in Wales, we are seeking to achieve this by the end of 2019 so that advice to court, risk and need assessments, sentence planning and managing enforcement and recall will all sit within a single organisation.</p><p>Responsibility for delivering unpaid work, running accredited programmes, and provision of “Through-The-Gate” resettlement services will remain with the Community Rehabilitation Company until the end of the current contract. A competitive procurement process will be run over the coming months to re-procure delivery of these services once the current contracts end</p><p>A number of market engagement events have been held in Wales to help inform the design of the future services and the procurement process. We are keen to work with a range of providers including both the private and voluntary sector. Work is ongoing to finalise the competitive process for procuring unpaid work, accredited programmes and resettlement services and we aim to have new contracts signed by the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 252667 question first answered 17/05/2019 13:10:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon