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1135194

	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	Legal Aid Scheme: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help people in South Wales that are unable to travel to a housing legal aid provider.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	270393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) keeps availability of legal aid providers under constant review, and takes urgent action whenever it has concerns.</p><p> </p><p>The LAA has recently tendered for new face-to-face housing contracts across the 134 housing and debt procurement areas across England and Wales. Contracts commenced on 1 September 2018. As of 31 May 2019, there is at least one provider offering housing and debt services in all but 4 procurement areas. Legal advice is still available in these areas through the Civil Legal Advice telephone service, and the LAA is considering how to secure provision in these areas and will set out next steps shortly.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the Civil Legal Advice telephone service offering legal services in a range of issues to those who need it, we are investing £5m in innovative new technologies to help people access legal support wherever they are in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:54:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1142948

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff were employed by probation services in Wales in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	284444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>As of 31 December 2018, there were 695 staff employed by the National Probation Service in the Wales probation region.</p><p> </p><p>Prison and Probation workforce statistics are published quarterly, more information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 11:28:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1142949

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding his Department allocated to probation services in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	284448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The total amount spent by the Ministry of Justice on probation services in England and Wales for each region is set out in the summary table below: <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>2018/19 Probation Expenditure by Region (£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>CRC</p></td><td><p>NPS</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Total (£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</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>London</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>139</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Midlands</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South East and Eastern</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South West and South Central</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>113</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Probation England Total</p></td><td><p>348</p></td><td><p>443</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>791</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Probation Wales Total</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Central Delivered Operational Support Functions*</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Probation Total</p></td><td><p>370</p></td><td><p>473</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>* includes bail accommodation, NPS centrally delivered operational support, public protection group and probation contract management</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Responsibility for delivery of probation services in Northern Ireland and Scotland sits with the devolved administrations and is not funded through the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 13:28:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1143083

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff were employed by probation services in Wales in 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	284479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>We currently do not hold workforce data for Probation Services prior to 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Workforce statistics for 2013 and onwards can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 11:19:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1143084

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the provision of probation services in rural locations in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	284760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government set out its response to the consultation ‘Strengthening probation, building confidence’ on 16<sup>th</sup> May 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This consultation response confirmed that we intend to bring the supervision of medium and low risk offenders, currently supervised by the Community Rehabilitation Company, into the National Probation Service across England and Wales. Recognising the unique circumstances of Wales, we are seeking to achieve this by the end of 2019 so that advice to court, risk and need assessments, sentence planning and managing enforcement and recall will all sit within a single organisation.</p><p> </p><p>A number of market engagement events have been held in Wales to help inform the design of the future services and we are keen to work with a range of providers including both the private and voluntary sector. HMPPS in Wales work closely with the Welsh Government, the PCCs and other key stakeholders in Wales to ensure we capture how our services can best meet our shared objectives and align with existing arrangements. We are taking into account the landscape in Wales, including consideration of Welsh legislation, Welsh language and other priorities identified in our design work to date. In doing this, we will seek to reduce duplication in existing services and encourage partners to design, develop, commission and deliver in an integrated way.</p><p> </p><p>NPS in Wales covers the whole of Wales, which has a mix of urban and rural areas creating different challenges and opportunities. There are five geographical local delivery units that are configured in a way to ensure that there is local oversight of issues such as rurality and an ability to respond to local challenges that may arise.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 12:58:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1143085

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload was for probation service responsible officers in (a) Wales and (b) England in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	284480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Figures on the average caseload of probation officers are not collected centrally. A probation worker’s tasks are not based solely on the number of cases they are managing, but the level of supervision each case requires and an assessment of risk involved. Public protection is our priority and probation services are crucial to help offenders on community orders or leaving prison to turn their lives around in the community, while keeping the public safe.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics showing total caseload in both England and Wales. This information is broken down by Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) and the National Probation Service division (NPS). These figures are published quarterly as part of the Offender Management Statistics Bulletin, England and Wales: <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> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 11:26:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1149039

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Queen's speech 2019, whether his Department's priorities for the Female Offender Strategy have changed.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime and public protection is our priority. The Sentencing Bill, announced in the Queens Speech, will contain a range of measures targeted at the most serious violent and sexual offenders to ensure their punishment reflects the severity of their crimes. It will also contain proposals for community penalties that offer an appropriate level of punishment, while tackling the underlying drivers of offending. While custody should be available as a last resort, if we are to break the cycle of reoffending, solutions will often lie in community sentences, including those which address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, or provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the vision and aims set out in our Female Offender Strategy (June 2018); which aims to see fewer women in custody. There is persuasive evidence that many women, particularly on short custodial sentences, can be better supported in the community on robust and effective community sentences. Where a woman needs to be in custody, we want to provide rehabilitative regimes specifically tailored to women’s needs to break the reoffending cycle. However, we know that for many vulnerable women, with the right support at the right time, there are opportunities to prevent them from entering the criminal justice system at all. Publication of the Strategy was the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>Lord Farmer’s review, The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders' Family and other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime, continued his work on the importance of family ties in improving outcomes for offenders, by looking at the issues for female offenders in the community and custody. We welcome the findings and recommendations of the review and we are committed to taking this important area of work forward. The 33 recommendations cover a number of Government departments, and officials are working at pace to see how we can best give effect to them in both the short and longer term. We have accepted Lord Farmer’s recommendation for this work to be embedded into joint policy and operational Family Strategy Working Group (FWSG), which is already taking forward implementation of the original Farmer Review. We are reporting to Lord Farmer with progress on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 367 368 369 question first answered 23/10/2019 16:35:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1149040

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it remains his Department's priority to reduce the use of short prison sentences for women.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime and public protection is our priority. The Sentencing Bill, announced in the Queens Speech, will contain a range of measures targeted at the most serious violent and sexual offenders to ensure their punishment reflects the severity of their crimes. It will also contain proposals for community penalties that offer an appropriate level of punishment, while tackling the underlying drivers of offending. While custody should be available as a last resort, if we are to break the cycle of reoffending, solutions will often lie in community sentences, including those which address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, or provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the vision and aims set out in our Female Offender Strategy (June 2018); which aims to see fewer women in custody. There is persuasive evidence that many women, particularly on short custodial sentences, can be better supported in the community on robust and effective community sentences. Where a woman needs to be in custody, we want to provide rehabilitative regimes specifically tailored to women’s needs to break the reoffending cycle. However, we know that for many vulnerable women, with the right support at the right time, there are opportunities to prevent them from entering the criminal justice system at all. Publication of the Strategy was the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>Lord Farmer’s review, The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders' Family and other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime, continued his work on the importance of family ties in improving outcomes for offenders, by looking at the issues for female offenders in the community and custody. We welcome the findings and recommendations of the review and we are committed to taking this important area of work forward. The 33 recommendations cover a number of Government departments, and officials are working at pace to see how we can best give effect to them in both the short and longer term. We have accepted Lord Farmer’s recommendation for this work to be embedded into joint policy and operational Family Strategy Working Group (FWSG), which is already taking forward implementation of the original Farmer Review. We are reporting to Lord Farmer with progress on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 366 368 369 question first answered 23/10/2019 16:35:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1149041

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders' Family and other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the Farmer Review for women, published on 18 June 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime and public protection is our priority. The Sentencing Bill, announced in the Queens Speech, will contain a range of measures targeted at the most serious violent and sexual offenders to ensure their punishment reflects the severity of their crimes. It will also contain proposals for community penalties that offer an appropriate level of punishment, while tackling the underlying drivers of offending. While custody should be available as a last resort, if we are to break the cycle of reoffending, solutions will often lie in community sentences, including those which address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, or provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the vision and aims set out in our Female Offender Strategy (June 2018); which aims to see fewer women in custody. There is persuasive evidence that many women, particularly on short custodial sentences, can be better supported in the community on robust and effective community sentences. Where a woman needs to be in custody, we want to provide rehabilitative regimes specifically tailored to women’s needs to break the reoffending cycle. However, we know that for many vulnerable women, with the right support at the right time, there are opportunities to prevent them from entering the criminal justice system at all. Publication of the Strategy was the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>Lord Farmer’s review, The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders' Family and other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime, continued his work on the importance of family ties in improving outcomes for offenders, by looking at the issues for female offenders in the community and custody. We welcome the findings and recommendations of the review and we are committed to taking this important area of work forward. The 33 recommendations cover a number of Government departments, and officials are working at pace to see how we can best give effect to them in both the short and longer term. We have accepted Lord Farmer’s recommendation for this work to be embedded into joint policy and operational Family Strategy Working Group (FWSG), which is already taking forward implementation of the original Farmer Review. We are reporting to Lord Farmer with progress on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 366 367 369 question first answered 23/10/2019 16:35:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1149042

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Orders: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it remains his Department's policy to manage female offenders in the community through a community order, who would otherwise face a short prison sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime and public protection is our priority. The Sentencing Bill, announced in the Queens Speech, will contain a range of measures targeted at the most serious violent and sexual offenders to ensure their punishment reflects the severity of their crimes. It will also contain proposals for community penalties that offer an appropriate level of punishment, while tackling the underlying drivers of offending. While custody should be available as a last resort, if we are to break the cycle of reoffending, solutions will often lie in community sentences, including those which address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, or provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the vision and aims set out in our Female Offender Strategy (June 2018); which aims to see fewer women in custody. There is persuasive evidence that many women, particularly on short custodial sentences, can be better supported in the community on robust and effective community sentences. Where a woman needs to be in custody, we want to provide rehabilitative regimes specifically tailored to women’s needs to break the reoffending cycle. However, we know that for many vulnerable women, with the right support at the right time, there are opportunities to prevent them from entering the criminal justice system at all. Publication of the Strategy was the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>Lord Farmer’s review, The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders' Family and other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime, continued his work on the importance of family ties in improving outcomes for offenders, by looking at the issues for female offenders in the community and custody. We welcome the findings and recommendations of the review and we are committed to taking this important area of work forward. The 33 recommendations cover a number of Government departments, and officials are working at pace to see how we can best give effect to them in both the short and longer term. We have accepted Lord Farmer’s recommendation for this work to be embedded into joint policy and operational Family Strategy Working Group (FWSG), which is already taking forward implementation of the original Farmer Review. We are reporting to Lord Farmer with progress on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 366 367 368 question first answered 23/10/2019 16:35:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore