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47762

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the percentage cost over-run established by the management board for any budget in the Wales Office to merit being tabled at the departmental management board; and how many times in the last 12 months that has occurred.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL6710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2014 answer text <p>The Wales Office's financial position is reviewed on a regular basis, and is a standing agenda item at meetings of the Department's Management Committee.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 16/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

47759

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the percentage cost over-run established by the management board for any budget in the Scotland Office to merit being tabled at the departmental management board; and how many times in the last 12 months that has occurred.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL6707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Scotland Office does not have a cost overrun established by its management board above which it merits a budget being tabled at its management board. No overruns have been reported to the management board in the last 12 months.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

47758

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the percentage cost over-run established by the management board for any budget in the Northern Ireland Office to merit being tabled at the departmental management board; and how many times in the last 12 months that has occurred.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL6706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2014 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office has not established a percentage cost overrun limit for budget management purposes. Performance against budget, analysed by business area, is considered on a monthly basis by the departmental management board.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 16/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

47770

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to widen the terms of reference of the independent review of the operation and extent of the administrative scheme for dealing with so-called "on the runs" to cover the question of what understandings or guarantees of immunity from prosecution may have been given to facilitate the talks leading to a ceasefire by IRA/Sinn Fein and to the Belfast Agreement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
	uin	HL6718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2014 answer text <p>The Prime Minister set out the terms of reference for Lady Justice Hallett's review on 27 February. How those terms of reference are delivered is a question for Lady Justice Hallett, who has full access to government officials and documentation in order to fulfil her remit.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit

47764

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were given a community sentence with a mental health community treatment order in each Probation Trust area in each of the last three years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL6712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department of Health, Ministry of Justice and the Home Office are working closely with NHS England to deliver Liaison &amp; Diversion services. These will ensure that offenders' health needs (mental health, learning disability and substance misuse) are identified and assessed, and that the appropriate referral is made at the earliest opportunity within the criminal justice system. The information gained from such assessments should inform key decision makers within the CJS, so that prosecutors and sentencers are able to make more informed decisions.</p><p> </p><p>Liaison and diversion services will be introduced in police custody suites and criminal courts across England and funding has been transferred to NHS England to commission a test model from April 2014 that will form the basis of the rollout of this national service.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of offenders starting supervision under Community Orders with mental health treatment requirements attached, in each probation trust in England and Wales, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and January to September 2013. Data for the last quarter of 2013 will be available from 24 April 2014.</p><p>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to errors with data entry and processing.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7">Offenders starting supervision under Community Orders with mental health</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7">requirements attached, by Probation Trust, England and Wales</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Trust</td><td>2010</td><td>2011</td><td>2012</td><td>Jan-Sep 2013<sup>(1)</sup></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Avon &amp; Somerset</td><td>13</td><td>13</td><td>8</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Bedfordshire</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>4</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Cambridgeshire</td><td>15</td><td>7</td><td>12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Cheshire</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Durham Tees Valley</td><td>14</td><td>8</td><td>4</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Cumbria</td><td>8</td><td>2</td><td>4</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Derbyshire</td><td>6</td><td>8</td><td>7</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Devon &amp; Cornwall</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>8</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Dorset</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Essex</td><td>33</td><td>35</td><td>19</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Gloucestershire</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Hampshire</td><td>23</td><td>19</td><td>17</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>West Mercia</td><td>16</td><td>13</td><td>4</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Hertfordshire</td><td>29</td><td>12</td><td>10</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Humberside</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>2</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Kent</td><td>16</td><td>16</td><td>17</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>Lancashire</td><td>10</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>Leicestershire</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>4</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Lincolnshire</td><td>7</td><td>10</td><td>6</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Greater Manchester</td><td>57</td><td>52</td><td>41</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>Merseyside</td><td>19</td><td>13</td><td>12</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Norfolk &amp; Suffolk</td><td>7</td><td>17</td><td>18</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Northamptonshire</td><td>6</td><td>11</td><td>6</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Northumbria</td><td>19</td><td>10</td><td>7</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Nottinghamshire</td><td>12</td><td>12</td><td>4</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Thames Valley</td><td>22</td><td>18</td><td>22</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Staffs &amp; West Mids</td><td>47</td><td>36</td><td>26</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td>Surrey &amp; Sussex</td><td>23</td><td>19</td><td>24</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>Warwickshire</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Wiltshire</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td>8</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>North Yorkshire</td><td>4</td><td>0</td><td>6</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>South Yorkshire</td><td>20</td><td>15</td><td>7</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>West Yorkshire</td><td>18</td><td>15</td><td>8</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Wales</td><td>30</td><td>37</td><td>37</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>London</td><td>172</td><td>161</td><td>157</td><td>112</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>England and Wales</td><td>696</td><td>606</td><td>523</td><td>418</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="7">(1) Data for October-December 2013 available after pubication on 24 April 2014</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> 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</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

47783

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Faulks on 7 April (WA 249), whether they have set a fixed date in September 2014 by which HM Prison The Verne will be re-designated to an immigration removal centre; if not, why not; and what action they will take if the re-designation has not been completed by the agreed date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
	uin	HL6731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>HMP The Verne started taking immigration detainees as scheduled from 24 March 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Our current plans remain that by the end of September 2014, at the latest, HMP The Verne will be re-designated to an immigration removal centre</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

47788

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of the introduction of regulations to stop parcels being sent to prisoners, they have plans to improve prison libraries.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Morgan of Huyton
	uin	HL6736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Prison library services are, in the majority of prisons, provided by Public Library Authorities. Prison libraries enable prisoners to receive, subject to the constraints of operating within a custodial environment, a service equivalent to that provided for library users in the community.</p><p><br> We have no plans to make changes to these services.</p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	2168 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Huyton

47789

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the Ministry of Justice's March 2013 report showing a link between employment and reduced re-offending, what plans they have to improve literacy education for prisoners.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Morgan of Huyton
	uin	HL6737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are taking a number of steps to enhance and build upon the current learning and skills offer to prisoners. We firmly believe that giving offenders the skills and training they need to get and keep jobs on release reduces their likelihood of re-offending.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Officials from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) are working with the Skills Funding Agency and providers of the Offenders' Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) to continually improve the quality of the teaching and learning experienced by prisoners through the development and dissemination of good practice. New approaches to literacy in particular include an increase in the use of peer mentors, embedded learning as part of other regime activities, and the introduction of aNational Reading Network in association with the Shannon Trust.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Later this year we will be introducing mandatory education assessment by the OLASS providers for all newly-received prisoners. This will ensure that all prisoners, not just those who go on to learning, receive a learning assessment (focused around literacy and numeracy but also covering learning difficulties and disabilities). NOMS and its partners are also working towards implementing better data-sharing arrangements between prisons and OLASS providers, so that more is known about prisoners' previous assessments, progress, and achievements, as well as their current educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>Intensive literacy and numeracy courses, based on the Army's model, have also been piloted in prisons, particularly to address the needs of prisoners serving short sentences. Prison Governors and OLASS providers are working together to deliver such courses where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Prison Governors do not have targets regarding the improvement of prisoners' literacy skills. As noted previously, we are taking considerable steps both to further identify literacy learning needs and then to address them.</p> answering member printed Lord Newby grouped question UIN HL6739 question first answered 16/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1916 label Biography information for Lord Newby
	tabling member	2168 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Huyton

47791

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether prison governors have targets for the improvement of literacy skills of prisoners; and whether those targets are monitored.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Morgan of Huyton
	uin	HL6739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are taking a number of steps to enhance and build upon the current learning and skills offer to prisoners. We firmly believe that giving offenders the skills and training they need to get and keep jobs on release reduces their likelihood of re-offending.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Officials from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) are working with the Skills Funding Agency and providers of the Offenders' Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) to continually improve the quality of the teaching and learning experienced by prisoners through the development and dissemination of good practice. New approaches to literacy in particular include an increase in the use of peer mentors, embedded learning as part of other regime activities, and the introduction of aNational Reading Network in association with the Shannon Trust.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Later this year we will be introducing mandatory education assessment by the OLASS providers for all newly-received prisoners. This will ensure that all prisoners, not just those who go on to learning, receive a learning assessment (focused around literacy and numeracy but also covering learning difficulties and disabilities). NOMS and its partners are also working towards implementing better data-sharing arrangements between prisons and OLASS providers, so that more is known about prisoners' previous assessments, progress, and achievements, as well as their current educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>Intensive literacy and numeracy courses, based on the Army's model, have also been piloted in prisons, particularly to address the needs of prisoners serving short sentences. Prison Governors and OLASS providers are working together to deliver such courses where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Prison Governors do not have targets regarding the improvement of prisoners' literacy skills. As noted previously, we are taking considerable steps both to further identify literacy learning needs and then to address them.</p> answering member printed Lord Newby grouped question UIN HL6737 question first answered 16/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1916 label Biography information for Lord Newby
	tabling member	2168 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Huyton

47796

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of their announcement on 11 June 2013 of plans to establish pilot schemes under section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 in Liverpool, Leeds and Kingston-upon-Thames, whether they have drawn any conclusions from those pilot schemes; if so, what are those conclusions; what plans they have for change on the basis of those conclusions; and when a formal announcement will be made.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Golding
	uin	HL6744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice started piloting Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 in Leeds, Liverpool and Kingston-upon-Thames on 30 December, with the identification of suitable cases by the police for the measure.</p><p> </p><p>The first recorded pre-trial cross-examinations have started and will run until October 2014, followed by an evaluation period to assess the effectiveness and success of the pilot before decisions on how best to implement the measure more widely will be made.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	281 label Biography information for Baroness Golding