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169007

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which contracts worth more than £5 million his Department has signed since 1 September 2014; with whom such contracts have been signed; for what purpose; what the (a) annual and (b) total cost of each such contract is; and what the length of each such contact is.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	217819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>When buying products and services we always seek best value for taxpayers' money and find savings were possible.</p><p> </p><p>Please refer to Annex A for the answer.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that 24 contracts worth more then 5 million have been signed since 1 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Transforming Rehabilitation Programme successfully signed 21 contracts to run probation services for low and medium risk offenders across the whole of England and Wales in December 2014. These services replace the previous delivery of these services to low and medium risk offenders from probation trusts and will now also provide &quot;through the gate&quot; support and services to offenders serving sentences of less than 1 year. The contracts include a payment by results element to reward providers who are successful at reducing reoffending rates.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The contracts are for 7 years with a further 3 year extension option and an exit period available at the discretion of the Authority. The values stated for the Transforming Rehabilitation contracts are estimates based on a 7 year contract term. A range of values is provided indicating the value of the contract with no Payment by Results payable and with all available Payment by Results payable to the suppliers. Actual values are non-indexed and may vary depending on volumes, indexation and demand for services to the National Probation Service.</p><p> </p><p>The Contract Award date is the signed date.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 25/02/2015 13:53:38 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous attachment 1 file name Annex A - Cost of Contracts.XLS title Cost of Contracts
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

171543

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on marketing in relation to the Right to Buy scheme in London in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	219547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting home ownership, and giving a helping hand to social tenants to move up the housing ladder. But our reinvigorated Right to Buy can only be exercised by eligible tenants if they know about it. It is also important that social tenants have sufficient information about their rights to make an informed decision, and to ensure that home ownership is the right choice for them in light of their financial circumstances.</p><p>Precise figures on spending in London cannot be disaggregated from the national Right to Buy campaign. We can identify £378,393 of spending in 2012-13 and £68,500 in 2013-14; there was no London-specific spending in 2010-11 or 2011-12. Figures for 2014-15 are not yet available.</p><p>I appreciate that the Labour Party in London has effectively called for the Right to Buy to be abolished, and will oppose social tenants being informed. Such are the enemies of aspiration. The Right to Buy improves social mobility and helps build mixed communities. As well as increasing home ownership and supporting new build construction (from replacement affordable homes), it gives something back to families who have worked hard, paid their rent and played by the rules. It allows buyers to do up their home, change their front door, improve their garden – without getting permission from the council. It gives people a sense of pride and ownership not just in their home, but in their street and neighbourhood.</p><p>Total national spending was £0 in 2010-11, £17,728 in 2011-12, £1.4 million in 2012-13 and £1.0 million in 2013-14. To place our information campaigns in context, DCLG has cut spending on marketing and advertising from £9.9 million in 2009-10 to £2.0 million in 2013-14.</p><p>The rt. hon. Member is a former Minister in this Department, so will be well acquainted with communications activity under the last Labour Government, such as departmental spending of:</p><p> </p><ul><li>£1.1 million a year on external public relations, despite having 103 in-house communications officers;</li><li>£15,000 on plugging the “Sustainable Communities summit” that was subsequently cancelled;</li><li>£1 million on marketing and public relations for eco-towns, despite the fact not a single house was ever built;</li><li>£3,520 on re-naming Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services to the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, during one of New Labour’s republican phases of purging public references to the Monarchy;</li><li>£38,200 on sock puppet lobbyists, LLM Communications, astro-turfing friends for the friendless Regional Spatial Strategies;</li><li>£1,371 on re-branding of John Prescott’s ‘Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’ to the cut-price and pointless ‘Deputy Prime Minister's Office’;</li><li>£3,830 on the subsequent logo for the new Department for Communities and Local Government, followed by burning a further £24,765 on dropping the “D” and renaming it “Communities and Local Government”, despite being neither, in a futile attempt to sound achingly trendy.</li></ul><p>We run a tighter ship. Right to Buy and the Fire Kills campaign are now the two primary campaigns we run, and both have a clear public benefit, in strong contrast to the culture of spin and excess in the spendthrift Labour years.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 22/01/2015 16:18:54 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 36985 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169581

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offences were committed by (a) escaped or (b) absconded prisoners in each year since 2010; and what those offences were.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	218047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of escapes from custody has been falling since 1995 when central records began, despite an increasing prison population. Absconds have reached record lows under this Government, falling by more than 80 per cent in the last 10 years, but we have not been complacent. We have made major changes to tighten the system. Offenders who escape or abscond are an extremely small proportion of the almost 86,000 offenders in the prison system at the moment.</p><p> </p><p>To establish what offences were committed by escaped or absconded prisoners would require the examination of core records for each prisoner that had escaped or absconded since 2010. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the details of escapes occurring from prison escort vans between April 2010 and March 2014. The offence and sentence length is that recorded at the time of the escape. All prisoners who escaped from prison vans have subsequently been arrested and returned to custody. The table includes escorts conducted by contractors under the Prison Escort and Custody Services contract and HM Prison Service staff.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Escapes from prison vans between April 2010 and March 2014, by year.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sentence at time of escape</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>Assault/arson</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>IPP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>7 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Assault</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>54 Months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Supply class a drugs</p></td><td><p>Convicted Unsentenced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>7 years 10 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>14 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Aggravated burglary</p></td><td><p>Uncategorised</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of escapes since 1995 are provided in the Prison Digest contained in the Prison and Probation Trusts Performance Statistics. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 218048 question first answered 22/01/2015 17:16:27 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169582

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have escaped from prison vans in each year since 2010; how many such prisoners remain on the run; of what offences each such prisoner was convicted; and what length of custodial sentence each such prisoner was given.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	218048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of escapes from custody has been falling since 1995 when central records began, despite an increasing prison population. Absconds have reached record lows under this Government, falling by more than 80 per cent in the last 10 years, but we have not been complacent. We have made major changes to tighten the system. Offenders who escape or abscond are an extremely small proportion of the almost 86,000 offenders in the prison system at the moment.</p><p> </p><p>To establish what offences were committed by escaped or absconded prisoners would require the examination of core records for each prisoner that had escaped or absconded since 2010. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the details of escapes occurring from prison escort vans between April 2010 and March 2014. The offence and sentence length is that recorded at the time of the escape. All prisoners who escaped from prison vans have subsequently been arrested and returned to custody. The table includes escorts conducted by contractors under the Prison Escort and Custody Services contract and HM Prison Service staff.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Escapes from prison vans between April 2010 and March 2014, by year.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sentence at time of escape</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>Assault/arson</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>IPP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>7 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Assault</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>54 Months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Supply class a drugs</p></td><td><p>Convicted Unsentenced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>7 years 10 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>14 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Aggravated burglary</p></td><td><p>Uncategorised</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of escapes since 1995 are provided in the Prison Digest contained in the Prison and Probation Trusts Performance Statistics. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 218047 question first answered 22/01/2015 17:16:28 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

170008

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times officials and Ministers in his Department have had meetings with companies that were interested in bidding for the electronic monitoring contract.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	218493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold a comprehensive record of how many such meetings took place.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to the competition for replacement electronic monitoring services we engaged the market widely, meeting interested parties in a series of sessions to consider the opportunities presented by emerging technology.</p><p> </p><p>Once the competition was under way, following publication of the OJEU contract notice in February 2012, the Department held various meetings with suppliers selected as bidders and preferred bidders, including negotiations as part of the competition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/01/2015 17:10:52 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

166789

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff have been dismissed in each year since 2010; what the reasons were for each dismissal; and how many prison staff have received custodial sentences for crimes committed while working in prisons in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	216466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of staff dismissed from the public sector prison service in England and Wales, together with the reason for dismissal can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Annual headcount of dismissals from public sector prison service in England &amp; Wales, 2010-2014</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reason</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014 (Jan to Sep)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medical Inefficiency</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conduct</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unsatisfactory Attendance</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poor Performance</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Breach of Contract</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on all custodial sentences received for crimes committed by serving members of Prison Service staff is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 10/02/2015 13:15:19 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

172821

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Christmas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it remains the policy of his Department not to fund Christmas parties for staff.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	220163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Departmental policy sets out that when providing in-house hospitality, no alcohol is to be paid for from Departmental funds. Christmas parties are organised and paid for by individual members of staff.</p><p>Employees are expected to behave in accordance with the standards set out in the Civil Service Code and the Departmental Conduct policy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/01/2015 14:35:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169013

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Civil Disorder
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) charges, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there have been for the offence of prison mutiny in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	217818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Disruptive behaviour has no place in prison and we take swift and robust action against anyone who attempts any kind of disorder. All serious incidents are referred to the police for prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of offences related to prison mutiny in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in the table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6">Defendants proceeded against at magistartes courts and found guilty at all courts of offences relating to prison mutiny<sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 <sup>(2)(3)</sup></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Outcome</td><td>2009</td><td>2010</td><td>2011</td><td>2012</td><td>2013</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Proceeded against</td><td>#</td><td>#</td><td>-</td><td>7</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>Found guilty</td><td>-</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>'-' = Nil</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">'#' - prosecution statistics for this offence for these years collected as part of a miscellaneous grouping and can only be separately identified at dispropotionate cost</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">(1) An offence under S1 Prison Security Act 1992</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</td></tr><tr><td>Ref: PQ 217818</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Please note, however, that proceedings data for 2009 and 2010 are part of a miscellaneous grouping, which can only be separately identified at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 27/01/2015 09:16:38 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan