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1150076

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mother and Baby Units
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to delay the start of a custodial sentence for pregnant women and new mothers until a place in a mother and baby unit has been made available to them.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	1021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Sentencing decisions are for the independent judiciary following relevant sentencing guidelines produced by the Sentencing Council.</p><p>In line with the sentencing guideline on the Imposition of Community and Custodial Sentences, the courts may choose to suspend a custodial sentence where there is strong personal mitigation or where immediate custody would result in significant harmful impact upon others. The expanded explanations produced by the Sentencing Council, which came into force on 1 October, provide further guidance on mitigation where an offender is pregnant.</p><p>Emergency Admissions Boards can be held to expedite a woman’s placement on a mother and baby unit, and there are a range of circumstances when these can be appropriate. Pregnant women receiving custodial sentences are also provided access to a number of supportive provisions reflective of that which is available in the community, including: being provided with the local NHS Pregnancy free advice line number; fortnightly multi-disciplinary Maternity Boards for all pregnant women; local mid-midwifery services; and appropriate Social Services support, including for pregnant women who refuse to engage with ante-natal services.</p><p>In recent weeks, an additional safeguard of hourly welfare observations during the night has been put in place by the Director of the Women’s Estate, for women who are post 28 weeks pregnant.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 15:52:25 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1150209

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Homicide: Children
	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 make whole-life orders mandatory when sentencing people found guilty of the murder of a child; and how many child murderers were released into Hampshire in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	1072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Whole-life orders are the most severe form of punishment that the courts can impose, as such they are reserved for the most heinous cases of murder.</p><p>Schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out that a whole life order is currently the appropriate starting point for the murder of a child involving the abduction of a child or sexual or sadistic motivation. As part of a forthcoming Sentencing Bill, we will look at extending the range of circumstances where the starting point, in cases of murder, is a whole life order. We do not publish information on the areas that offenders are released to for operational security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 17:02:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1150584

	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	Ministry of Justice: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the pay system in his Department has been changed to take account of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mr G Willetts and Others on holiday pay and voluntary overtime; and whether affected workers in his Department have been given back pay as a result of that ruling.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	1733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (HMPPS, HMCTS, CICA, LAA, and OPG) pay system has been updated in response to the tribunal case to meet the requirement for holiday pay and overtime. Affected staff have received arrears backdated to 1 March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 14:52:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1150362

	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	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his oral contribution at the Justice Select Committee on 16 October 2019, what the total funding applied for by the Department was in the Spending Round 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	1747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In our Spending Round 2019 request, the Ministry of Justice sought funding for the department’s key priorities. This included funding to prepare for Brexit, to ensure the effective operation of the courts and tribunals system, to deliver a strong probation service, and to support a prisons system which provides decent and safe accommodation, and reduces reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry was successful in securing a 4.9% real term increase in our fiscal resource funding for the next financial year, having agreed a settlement of £8.142bn. In addition to our resource budget we also agreed a capital settlement for 2020-21 of £620m.</p><p> </p><p>We have subsequently agreed additional funding for 2020-21 of £156m to further invest in custodial maintenance. Our revised settlement for 2020-21 is £8.198bn fiscal resource and £720m capital. We are now in the process of setting internal budget allocations to ensure this budget delivers our priorities as effectively as possible.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 15:07:25 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1149189

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Judges: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing mandatory training on memory science for judges; and whether he will introduce mandatory training on memory science for judges.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for judicial training rests with the Lord Chief Justice and with the Senior President of Tribunals (for the tribunals judiciary, under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, in line with the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007) and is exercised through the Judicial College.</p><p>To preserve judicial independence, the judiciary and professional staff in the Judicial College are responsible for the design, content, and delivery of judicial training.</p><p>Courts and tribunals across all jurisdictions rely upon individuals accurately recalling things when giving evidence, both oral and written. The cross-jurisdictional induction and continuation seminars that deal with judicial assessment of the reliability and credibility of witnesses, refer to this during presentations and workshops.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 14:44:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1150170

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department uses ONS estimates of personal wellbeing in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>We use ONS wellbeing statistics to inform Health and Wellbeing policy within the Civil Service. The Ministry of justice also measures personal wellbeing through the annual Civil Service People Survey using the same national statistics that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) use for the UK population as a whole.</p><p> </p><p>The four personal well-being questions are: Life Satisfaction, Worthwhile, Happiness, and Anxiety. Further details can be found <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/bulletins/measuringnationalwellbeing/july2017tojune2018" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The People Survey is one source of data used to inform the department’s wellbeing agenda and the development of our wellbeing strategy. More information can be found within the department’s published voluntary report on disability mental health and wellbeing. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/827763/moj-voluntary-reporting.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/827763/moj-voluntary-reporting.pdf</a></p><p>Since the launch of the department’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy in November 2015, we have produced a wide range of toolkits and guidance to support personal wellbeing. Most are based on cross government products developed by Civil Service Employee Policy (CSEP). The main polices/guidance we have introduced in the last 12 months are:</p><ul><li>Domestic Abuse – guidance and support for employees and their managers</li><li>cross-government toolkits – supporting staff through menopause</li><li>Support guidance for EU Nationals working in MoJ.</li><li>A wellbeing and resilience toolkit for staff working on EU exit work.</li></ul> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 15:20:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1149927

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Homicide: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of sentence served by people convicted of murder was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The information you ask for is routinely published and therefore available in the public domain, however, I have provided it below for ease of reference. The table shows the average time served by individuals sentenced to mandatory life, the only sentence available to the Courts for those convicted of murder, who were released from custody in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><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>17</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>As with any large-scale recording system, administrative IT systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is our priority. It is for the independent Parole Board to review the detention of those prisoners serving mandatory life sentences who have completed their tariff period. The Board will direct the release of these prisoners only if it is satisfied that the levels of risk posed to the general public are reduced enough that the National Probation Service and its partner agencies can safely manage them in the community under supervision.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 15:23:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1149957

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Sentences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of pre-sentence reports have recommended immediate custody for (a) men and (b) women in Crown courts in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested has been provided in the table below. The data shows the number and proportion of recommendations in pre-sentence reports prepared for Crown Courts in 2016 - 2018 where the sentence proposed was Immediate custody.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="12"><p><strong>Proportion of pre-sentence reports prepared for the Crown Court that have recommended immediate custody, by sex, 2016 to 2018, England and Wales</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><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong> 2016</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong> 2017</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong> 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Immediate custody</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Immediate custody</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Immediate custody</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sex</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All proposed sentences<sup>(1), (2)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>NO.</p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of all proposed sentences</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>All proposed sentences<sup>(1), (2)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>NO.</p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of all proposed sentences</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>All proposed sentences<sup>(1), (2)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>NO</p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of all proposed sentences</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><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Fem</strong></p></td><td><p>3,533</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,913</p></td><td><p>421</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,466</p></td><td><p>319</p></td><td><p>9%</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><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p>25,447</p></td><td><p>4,957</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>26,279</p></td><td><p>5,362</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>23,356</p></td><td><p>4,833</p></td><td><p>21%</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><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </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><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>(1) Excludes pre-sentence reports where information on the proposed sentence is not available.</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 colspan="12"><p>(2) Includes pre-sentence reports where the proposed sentence was an absolute/conditional sentence, a community sentence, a fine, immediate custody, a suspended sentence and other sentence types.</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><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </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></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 15:31:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1149960

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Life Imprisonment: Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time served in prison by (a) men and (b) women on mandatory life sentences was for those who were released from prison in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The table shows the average time served by men and women sentenced to mandatory life, the only sentence available to the Courts for those convicted of murder, who were released from custody in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </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><strong>Men</strong></p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Women</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>As with any large-scale recording system, administrative IT systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is our priority. It is for the independent Parole Board to review the detention of those prisoners serving mandatory life sentences who have completed their tariff period. The Board will direct the release of these prisoners only if it is satisfied that the levels of risk posed to the general public are reduced enough that the National Probation Service and its partner agencies can safely manage them in the community under supervision.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 953 question first answered 22/10/2019 15:37:11 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1149975

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Homicide: Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time served in prison by (a) men and (b) women sentenced for murder was for those who were released from prison in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The table shows the average time served by men and women sentenced to mandatory life, the only sentence available to the Courts for those convicted of murder, who were released from custody in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </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><strong>Men</strong></p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Women</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>As with any large-scale recording system, administrative IT systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is our priority. It is for the independent Parole Board to review the detention of those prisoners serving mandatory life sentences who have completed their tariff period. The Board will direct the release of these prisoners only if it is satisfied that the levels of risk posed to the general public are reduced enough that the National Probation Service and its partner agencies can safely manage them in the community under supervision.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 952 question first answered 22/10/2019 15:37:11 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies