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1130675

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2019 to Question 253551 on Ministry of Justice: telephone services, on what date that helpline was set up; how many calls that helpline received in each month from the date it was set up to 30 April 2019; what promotional material was used to advertise that helpline's use; and whether that helpline is still in use.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	261502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of calls received by each telephone line, these go back as far as data is available.</p><p> </p><p>The CICA phoneline was set up in 2007/2008. HMCTS centralised its telephone service to go through their Loughborough Contact Centre in 2011. The LAA phonelines have existed in various formats for the past 17 years. OPG do not have the exact date that the phone line was set up. All phonelines are still in use.</p><p> </p><p>All numbers are advertised on relevant department websites and some are included on letterheads and corporate literature.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/06/2019 15:42:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Copy of Table for PQ 261502.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1130685

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Injuries Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the overall budget for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	261492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the overall budget (excluding capital) for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in each year since 2010-11. This comprises the budget received from the Ministry of Justice, income received from Scottish Government and income received through the victim surcharge.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms in 2012 and the current review are focused on protecting payments to those most seriously affected by their injuries, and ensuring the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is affordable and sustainable.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£305,323,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£462,445,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£316,734,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£192,850,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£151,700,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£136,650,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£138,073,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£160,778,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 08/07/2019 16:49:45 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1132402

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Injuries Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, since 2010 how many claims have been rejected by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority because the application was made more than two years following the criminal incident.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	265569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 (the Scheme), which was approved by Parliament, sets out the time limits in which applications must be received by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). The CICA publishes data about the number of claims rejected for being out with the time limit in its annual reports and accounts at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations%5B%5D=criminal-injuries-compensation-authority&amp;parent=criminal-injuries-compensation-authority" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations%5B%5D=criminal-injuries-compensation-authority&amp;parent=criminal-injuries-compensation-authority</a></p><p> </p><p>In the 2017-18 annual report and accounts, this data was presented as a proportion of all refusal reasons used. The number of cases refused for being submitted out with the time limit was 1252.</p><p> </p><p>The figures published in the annual reports and accounts show the number of times each rejection reason was used. For some applications there will have been more than one reason for rejection. This means that the total number of reasons for rejection is higher than the actual number of claims refused.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/06/2019 15:44:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1132595

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Justice Board: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value was of the Youth Justice Board grant to each local authority in each year from 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	265537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>Table A attached sets out the total funding the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has given to local authorities in each year from 2009/10 to 2017/18 as published in the 2017/18 annual youth justice statistics (published totals for 2018/19 are not yet available). Table B breaks this down by local authority. The majority of this funding helps support the day-to-day business of Youth Offending Teams (YOTs), but it also includes some discrete additional grants for specific projects or initiatives, for example funding for restorative justice. The annual recorded value of the additional grants is set out in Table C.</p><p> </p><p>Due to a change in reporting processes the additional grants given in 2014/15 and 2015/16 were not included in the published totals in the 2017/18 youth justice statistics. The totals for these years therefore differ between Table A (where the additional grants are not included) and Table B (where they are included).</p><p> </p><p>Reductions in the grant over the past decade have been made alongside a decrease in statutory caseloads and as part of wider savings.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/07/2019 15:42:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Tables A, B and C.docx title Tables A, B and C
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1134989

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Treatment of, and Outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Individuals in the Criminal Justice System Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the status is of the Government's response to each recommendation in the Lammy Review.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	269804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is taking forward every recommendation of the Lammy Review in some way – where a recommendation could not be implemented in full or exactly as set out, alternative approaches have been sought to achieve the same aim.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its response to the Lammy Review in December 2017: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lammy-review-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lammy-review-government-response</a></p><p> </p><p>We provided a public update on progress against each of the 35 recommendations of the Lammy Review in November 2018 in the “Tackling racial disparity in the Criminal Justice System” update: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-racial-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-racial-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>We are committed to publishing a further full public update against each recommendation of the Lammy Review, along with work above and beyond this to tackle racial disparity in the criminal justice system, before the end of 2019.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/07/2019 15:57:05 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1134999

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children were recorded as being of no fixed abode on arrival in custody in each custodial institution that holds children in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	269813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>While this information is collected at a young person’s point of entry into the youth custody system, the figures are not collated centrally. We could therefore only provide this figure at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 makes it the general duty of every local authority</p><p>to safeguard and promote the welfare of children within their area who are in need</p><p>by providing a range and level of services appropriate to those children’s needs. This includes the provision of accommodation where it is necessary to protect a child. Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 imposes a specific duty on local authorities to provide accommodation for any child in need in their area who appears to require it because there is no one with parental responsibility for them, they have been lost or abandoned, or the person caring for them is prevented (temporarily or otherwise) from providing suitable accommodation or care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/07/2019 15:59:41 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1135000

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were recorded as being of no fixed abode on arrival in custody in each custodial institution that holds women in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	269814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of women who were recorded as being of no fixed abode on arrival in custody for each year which data is available is shown below. Data prior to 2015 is not available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>ESTABLISHMENT</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>Bronzefield (HMP)</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>736</p></td><td><p>1006</p></td><td><p>1021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drake Hall (HMP)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastwood Park (HMP)</p></td><td><p>323</p></td><td><p>454</p></td><td><p>531</p></td><td><p>514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foston Hall (HMP)</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holloway (HMP)</p></td><td><p>336</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Newton (HMP)</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Hall (HMP)</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>259</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Peterborough Female (HMP)</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>337</p></td><td><p>492</p></td><td><p>557</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Styal (HMP)</p></td><td><p>286</p></td><td><p>317</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>441</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Everyone should have a safe and suitable home to live; having somewhere to live gives people a stable platform from which to access health services, hold down a job and reduces the likelihood of them reoffending. In keeping with this the Government published its Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018, launching a £100 million initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms to probation are designed to encourage long-term rehabilitation and ultimately reduce reoffending – and the first step in this is ensuring that everyone leaving prison has access to secure and stable accommodation. We are improving support for offenders leaving prison with a £22 million investment in through-the-gate services which will help to strengthen ties with key partners, including the third sector, local authorities and the police.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Female Offender Strategy sets out our vision and plan to improve outcomes for women in the community and custody. We want to see fewer women coming into the criminal justice system, a greater proportion managed successfully in the community, and better conditions for those in custody.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes</p><ol><li><em>These figures show the number of </em><em>Basic Custody Screening Tool</em><em> (BCS) Part 1 that were fully completed in each year 2015 – 2018 which indicated that the prisoner had entered custody from no fixed abode to prisons which hold women prisoners. </em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li><em>The </em><em>Basic Custody Screening Tool</em> <em>(BCS) Part 1 is completed within 72 hours of a prisoner entering custody and the answers to the accommodation questions are entered as provided by the prisoner to the BCS screener. The BCS answers are not assessed. </em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="3"><li><em>Female establishments not shown in the above list did not complete BCS Part 1s in this time period. </em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="4"><li><em>HMP Holloway closed in 2016. </em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="5"><li><em>It is possible for prisons to manually create a BCS Part 1 where one hasn’t been previously fully completed and this may explain why HMP Drake Hall completed 3 in 2015.</em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="6"><li><em>The BCS Part 1 went live on 01/01/2015 which is why we cannot produce this data for 2010 – 2014 inclusive.</em></li></ol><p> </p><ol start="7"><li><em>Data count includes with each of repeat admissions by an individual during the course of a year. </em></li></ol> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/07/2019 15:53:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1135218

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Iron and Steel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will sign his Department up to the UK Steel charter.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	270358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice will sign the Charter. The MoJ supports the Charter where this is relevant to our commercial activities and only where consistent with the relevant procurement regulations that require fair and open competition.</p><p> </p><p>Andrew Stephenson MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, wrote to Secretary of State for Justice on 29 May to ask my Department to sign the Steel Charter.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 270362 question first answered 04/07/2019 15:32:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1135222

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Iron and Steel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has had discussions with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the UK Steel charter.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	270362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice will sign the Charter. The MoJ supports the Charter where this is relevant to our commercial activities and only where consistent with the relevant procurement regulations that require fair and open competition.</p><p> </p><p>Andrew Stephenson MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, wrote to Secretary of State for Justice on 29 May to ask my Department to sign the Steel Charter.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 270358 question first answered 04/07/2019 15:32:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1135845

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the penalties incurred for knife crime.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	271405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>For possession or threatening with an offensive weapon or possession of an article with a blade or point offences, offenders are now more likely to receive an immediate custodial sentence for a knife and offensive weapon offence and to go to prison for longer than at any point over the past 10 years. In the year ending March 2019 over a third (37%) of offences resulted in immediate custody, compared to 22% in the year ending March 2009. The average length of immediate custodial sentences has increased from 5.5 months in the year ending March 2009 to 8.1 months in the year ending March 2019. This is the highest since the series began.</p><p>There are a range of offences available to prosecute knife crime and Parliament has set penalties that are proportionate to the nature of these serious offences.</p><p> </p><p>Unlawful possession of a knife or offensive weapon in public is a serious criminal offence with a maximum penalty of four years’ imprisonment. Since 2015, adults convicted of threatening with a knife in public, or for second or subsequent knife possession face a minimum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment and young people aged 16 or 17 face a minimum sentence of a 4 month Detention and Training Order. Courts can only depart from minimum sentencing if the court considers would be unjust in all the circumstances to impose these terms.</p><p> </p><p>Where someone is physically injured by a knife or offensive weapon there are a range of other offences, such as causing grievous bodily harm, that the person may be charged with. These can result in lengthy determinate sentences or life imprisonment. In England and Wales, all murder convictions for adults must result in a life sentence, and the Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out a starting point of a minimum term in prison of 25 years for offenders aged 18 and over who bring a knife or another weapon to the scene of a murder with the intention of using it.</p><p> </p><p>It is already the case that for offences where the possession or use of a knife or offensive weapon is not inherent to the offence or charged separately, possession will be treated as an aggravating factor, which increases the seriousness of the offence. This is outlined in several sentencing guidelines produced by the independent Sentencing Council.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/07/2019 16:32:25 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper