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1147288

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been convicted of a serious assault on a prison officer in each of the last five years; and what additional sentence those prisoners were given as a result those assaults.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	292171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify the proportion of serious assaults on prison staff that resulted in a criminal conviction in each of the last five years. Detailed information may be held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/10/2019 14:42:27 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1150332

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of assaults on prison staff were (a) dealt with by the prison and (b) charged as an offence in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	1638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>HMPPS has been working closely with the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure they understand the impact of crimes committed within prison. HMPPS published the revised Crime in Prison Referral Agreement in May 2019. This Agreement sets out how crimes in prison will be referred, investigated and prosecuted and aims to provide a more consistent approach to managing crimes committed within prison. The Crime in Prison Referral Agreement specifies that all assaults against members of staff, unless there is little or no injury should be referred to the police.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify the proportion of assaults on prison staff has been charged as an offence in each of the last five years as this information is not held centrally. Detailed information may be held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/10/2019 16:40:21 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1150334

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of days that were added to a prisoner's sentence for violence against (a) a member of staff and (b) another prisoner was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	1640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents of prisoner rule-breaking have consequences. In cases which the prison governor deems the rule-breaking to be sufficiently serious an Independent Adjudicator, appointed by the Chief Magistrate, can attend a prison to award additional days to the prisoner’s custodial time left to serve. Where an act of violence amounts to a criminal offence, prisoners should will be investigated by the police and face serious sanctions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the proportion of adjudications which resulted in no additional days being added to a prisoner's time in custody by offence is not routinely extracted from the adjudications database, as the primary purpose of the database is to report on the volume of punishments imposed. Prisoners can receive more than one punishment for the same offence, so in order to collect this specific information on prisoners, a matching exercise using prison population and adjudication databases would be required to identify each individual prisoner who was sanctioned under the Prison Rules. As a result, the data could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of adjudications for violence which resulted in additional days to a prisoner’s custodial time to serve is publicly available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The publicly available data also provides information on the number of adjudications by gender and adjudication offence. See Table A5.1 at the following link:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/796921/adjudications-2018.ods</p><p>On the prison population for 30 June 2018, select table A1.1 using the link below:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820163/population-30June2019-annual.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820163/population-30June2019-annual.ods</a>.</p><p>The number of adjudications per 100 male and female prisoners can be calculated from tables A5.1 and A1.1, but this information has been attached to this response for ease.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of awards of additional days where an adjudication involving violence against staff and prisoners was proven and the average number of additional days added for 2011 – 2018 is also attached to this response. Please note that due to data quality issues, 2010 figures have not been provided and therefore no conclusion can be drawn for the annual 2010 data and no comparison can be made with 2010 figures.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 1634 1637 1639 question first answered 24/10/2019 15:44:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1156289

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of assaults on prison officers by prisoners resulted in a prosecution in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	5034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Detailed information on the proportion of assaults on prison staff since 2010 is held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p><p>We take violence against our staff very seriously. We have invested in 5,600 Body Worn Video Cameras (BWVC) across the prison estate which has been rolled out alongside training in staff interaction with prisoners, to support better relationships. We have also begun implementation for a national rollout of PAVA, a synthetic pepper spray, which will provide prison officers with additional safety equipment to reduce the risk of serious injury.</p><p> </p><p>Staff will be able to use the PAVA spray where there is serious violence or an imminent or perceived risk of it and there is an immediate necessity to create a safe and protective environment. Only prisons who have rolled out the key worker scheme – which is vital in building relationships between offenders and staff – will receive PAVA.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the rollout of PAVA will be the introduction of a new Personal Safety package; (S.P.E.A.R.). This is to ensure that PAVA is introduced as part of a wider package of skills for staff to resolve and deescalate incidents. The training is based on using the body’s natural flinch reaction when faced with danger and focuses on pre-contact cues to give staff greater awareness of their surroundings. We are also rolling out rigid bar handcuffs to prison officers as part of our continued focus on improving safety and reducing violence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/10/2019 15:00:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1156290

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of successful prosecutions for assaults by prisoners on prison officers resulted in a (a) concurrent sentence and (b) consecutive sentence in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	5035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Detailed information on the proportion of successful prosecutions for assaults by prisoners on prison officers that resulted in a (a) concurrent sentence and (b) consecutive sentence since 2010 is held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/10/2019 15:18:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1156291

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful prosecutions for assaults on prison officers by prisoners on resulted in a sentence of (a) of less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months and (d) more than 12 months in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	5036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Detailed information on how many successful prosecutions for assaults on prison officers by prisoners that resulted in a sentence of (a) of less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months and (d) more than 12 months since 2010 is held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/10/2019 15:19:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1167031

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults against other prisoners and (i) assaults and (ii) serious assaults against staff there were at (A) HMP Dartmoor, (B) HMP Dartmoor comparator prisons, (C) all category C prisons and (D) all prisons per 1,000 prisoners in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	7120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows all the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons. We have recruited over 4,700 more prison officers since October 2016 and we now have the greatest number in post since early 2012. The Challenge, Support and Intervention Plan case management process for prisoners at risk of violence has been mandated for all prisons to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p><p> </p><p>We have announced an extra £100 million for security, on top of £70 million we were already spending to make prisons safer, more secure and decent. This is part of the Government’s new £2.75bn investment to modernise and maintain our prisons, create 10,000 additional places, and step up security to stop the flow of drugs and mobile phones. We are equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. We are improving perimeter security and introducing new x-ray scanners, drug detection dogs and dedicated search teams, to address the supply of drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:32:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 7120 Grahame Morris data.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1170755

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of violent crime in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	3315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government publishes quarterly statistics on violence in prison, and a more detailed annual breakdown, which are both available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons and reduce the level of crime in prisons. We are rolling out our key worker model to provide individual support to each prisoner from a dedicated officer. We have equipped officers with body-worn cameras and are rolling out PAVA incapacitant spray to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents. As part of our £2.75 billion plan to transform the prison estate, we are investing £100 million to bolster security and tackle the supply of illicit items which drive prison violence.</p><p> </p><p>Up to £2.5 billion will be spent on creating 10,000 additional modern prison places to crack down on crime. Modern prisons provide better opportunities to reform criminals and cut the £18 billion cost of reoffending to society each year. Newer prisons are also more efficient to run and benefit the taxpayer in the longer term.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 20/01/2020 13:16:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1176858

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adjudications related to instances of violence against prison staff there were in each year since 2010; and how many of those adjudications resulted in no additional days being added to the prisoner's sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	13458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The prisoner discipline system upholds justice in prisons and ensures incidents of prison rule-breaking have consequences. Only Independent Adjudicators, who are District Judges or Deputy District Judges can make an award of additional days to a prisoner’s custodial time left to serve.</p><p> </p><p>Where an act of violence amounts to a criminal offence, prisoners should be investigated by the police and face serious sanctions. The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 has increased sentencing powers for offences of common assault and battery committed against an emergency worker. This provides Courts with the powers to punish those who commit violent crime against prison staff.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested can be found in the table below:</p><p><strong>Number of punishments for proven adjudications involving violence, 2011 - 2018, England and Wales<sup>1</sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Violence against prison staff<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </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</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of proven adjudications </strong></p></td><td><p>1,361</p></td><td><p>2,102</p></td><td><p>1,788</p></td><td><p>1,763</p></td><td><p>2,436</p></td><td><p>2,829</p></td><td><p>3,006</p></td><td><p>3,645</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of &quot;non-additional days&quot; punishments<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>2,797</p></td><td><p>4,086</p></td><td><p>3,269</p></td><td><p>2,956</p></td><td><p>3,885</p></td><td><p>4,206</p></td><td><p>4,372</p></td><td><p>5,247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of &quot;additional days&quot; punishments<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>304</p></td><td><p>328</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>655</p></td><td><p>697</p></td><td><p>876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total number of punishments<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>3,005</p></td><td><p>4,407</p></td><td><p>3,573</p></td><td><p>3,284</p></td><td><p>4,348</p></td><td><p>4,861</p></td><td><p>5,069</p></td><td><p>6,123</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </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><strong>Data sources and quality</strong></p><p>The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p>Due to data quality issues, 2010 figures have not been provided and therefore no conclusion can be drawn for the annual 2010 data and no comparison can be made with 2010 figures.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1 - Punishments can only be given where an adjudication has been proven and therefore exclude all other adjudications that have been dismissed or not proceeded with. One or more punishments may be imposed onto prisoners. If the charge against the accused prisoner is found to be proved beyond reasonable doubt, the adjudicator will then decide the appropriate punishment(s). The Prison or Young Offender Institution Rules provide guidelines when considering appropriate punishments, taking into account the circumstances and seriousness of the offence, and its effect on the victim (if any), the likely impact on the prisoner (including any health or welfare impact), the prisoner's age, behaviour in custody, remaining time to release, the type of establishment and the effect of the offence on local discipline and good order. Also the number of awards may be given at one establishment and applied at another.</p><p>2 - Offences refer to assaults and attempts of assaults.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/02/2020 15:42:38 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177608

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a (a) custodial and (b) non-custodial sentence for assaulting a prison officer in each of the last two years; and what the average custodial sentence was for those offences.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>These offences can be dealt with in the courts, or in many cases, through prisons themselves. Centrally held court data (including for the new offence of Assaults on Emergency Workers and broader violent offences) does not identify the location of the offence or occupation of the victim, so it would only be possible to identify these from court data with a manual search, incurring disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/02/2020 16:03:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies