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47312

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons were operating below the (a) benchmark and (b) baseline staffing level in (i) December 2013, (ii) January, (iii) February and (iv) March 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	195527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 13<sup>th</sup> May 2014, Official Report, 480W, in which the benchmark level and staff in post of prison officers was provided.</p><p> </p><p>Benchmarking is by far the best means of delivering value for money for the public purse (savings of £175m by 2015/16). It optimises the skills of staff by introducing new ways of working and puts all prison officers in prisoner-facing roles.</p><p> </p><p>Our benchmarking approach has been agreed with the Unions, and it will help the wider strategy of reconfiguring the prison estate which the NAO has commented is the most coherent and comprehensive for many years. Benchmarking delivers efficiencies whilst ensuring that public sector prisons can operate safely, decently and securely.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

47318

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have libraries; and which organisations (a) run and (b) fund each such library.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	195640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prison Service has always recognised the importance of reading and literature in the rehabilitative process, and the positive effects these have on prisoners. Every prison has a library, which is available to all prisoners to ensure they have access to books and other material for education and training purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows the organisations that provide and fund library services in each prison. The table also shows the available information in relation to the allocated budget for prison library services over the past four years, broken down by prison and in total.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of Wealstun and Isis, the reduction in spending is due to initial set up costs in previous financial years.</p><p> </p><p>For prisons in Wales, the reduction in spend is due to the change of stock rotation that were implemented in 2011 in line with Welsh library service standards. Learning and skills managers re-negotiated the capitation funds and this resulted in a reduction in cost but not a reduction in opening hours or quality of material provided.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of privately-managed prisons, contracts awarded before 2011 include library provision as part of the overall custodial service. The breakdown of these contract costs is commercially confidential, and is therefore not available and is not shown in the overall total. Prison contracts awarded since 2011 do have identified levels of funding for prison libraries and these are shown in the table.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 195675 question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

47320

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget was for prison libraries (a) in total and (b) for each prison in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	195675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prison Service has always recognised the importance of reading and literature in the rehabilitative process, and the positive effects these have on prisoners. Every prison has a library, which is available to all prisoners to ensure they have access to books and other material for education and training purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows the organisations that provide and fund library services in each prison. The table also shows the available information in relation to the allocated budget for prison library services over the past four years, broken down by prison and in total.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of Wealstun and Isis, the reduction in spending is due to initial set up costs in previous financial years.</p><p> </p><p>For prisons in Wales, the reduction in spend is due to the change of stock rotation that were implemented in 2011 in line with Welsh library service standards. Learning and skills managers re-negotiated the capitation funds and this resulted in a reduction in cost but not a reduction in opening hours or quality of material provided.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of privately-managed prisons, contracts awarded before 2011 include library provision as part of the overall custodial service. The breakdown of these contract costs is commercially confidential, and is therefore not available and is not shown in the overall total. Prison contracts awarded since 2011 do have identified levels of funding for prison libraries and these are shown in the table.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 195640 question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan