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64819

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Police Cautions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cautions have been issued for offences of (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) sexual assault, (d) robbery and (e) burglary in (i) each year between 2010 and 2013 and (ii) each month since January 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of offenders (including young people) cautioned, for offences of rape, sexual assault, robbery and burglary, by months in England and Wales from 2010 to 2013 (latest available) can be viewed in the table. There were no cautions administered for murder.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Simple cautions (previously police cautions) are a non-statutory disposal available to the police to dispose of any offence committed by an adult and designed for dealing with low level, mainly first time offending. The Government does not believe that cautions are appropriate for serious offences. We issued new guidelines on 14 November 2014 following a detailed review of how cautions were being used by police forces, and are strengthening the law to prevent cautions being used for serious offences.</del></p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police and the CPS when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. This guidance states that the use of a simple caution for indictable only offences, such as rape, should only be given following authorisation by the CPS. These will be cases where there were exceptional circumstances which would mean that it was not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The overall number of simple cautions issued has halved since 2007. The cautioning rate, that is, the number of offenders cautioned as a percentage of offenders who were either cautioned or convicted, in 2013 was 20 per cent; this has declined from a peak of 31 per cent in 2007.</p><p>The Government is clear that serious offences should always be brought to court and to ensure that there is increased public confidence in the justice system last year announced limits on the use of simple cautions. These changes restrict the use of cautions for indictable only offences and certain serious either way offences unless there are exceptional circumstances and a senior police officer, as well as the CPS for certain cases, has agreed that a caution should be administered.</p><p>The MOJ guidance on Adult Simple Cautions was amended in November last year to reflect these changes, and we are currently legislating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to place statutory restrictions around their use.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 07/07/2014 15:20:18 question first ministerially corrected 28/08/2014 11:45:56 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13 previous answer version 9230 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64818

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Offensive Weapons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents were recorded of knives or other weapons being confiscated by staff in each prison in England and Wales in each year between 2011 and 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Prisons deploy a comprehensive range of robust searching and security techniques to detect, deter and disrupt the supply of unauthorised items, including weapons, both at the point of entry to the prison or concealed within the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The number of incidents recorded of knives or other weapons being confiscated by staff, and how many prisoners have been found in possession of knives or other weapons, in each prison in England and Wales in each year between 2011 and 2013 is recorded on a central incident reporting system, but not in a discrete category. In order to establish the number of recorded confiscations or possessions for the period in question would require the interrogation of over 30,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 203141 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:59:56 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64823

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Offensive Weapons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inmates in each prison in England and Wales have been found in possession of knives or other weapons in each year between 2011 and 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Prisons deploy a comprehensive range of robust searching and security techniques to detect, deter and disrupt the supply of unauthorised items, including weapons, both at the point of entry to the prison or concealed within the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The number of incidents recorded of knives or other weapons being confiscated by staff, and how many prisoners have been found in possession of knives or other weapons, in each prison in England and Wales in each year between 2011 and 2013 is recorded on a central incident reporting system, but not in a discrete category. In order to establish the number of recorded confiscations or possessions for the period in question would require the interrogation of over 30,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 203140 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:59:56 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64826

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ratio of prison officers to prisoners was in (a) HM Prison Swansea, (b) HM Prison Lincoln, (c) HM Prison Preston, (d) HM Prison Leicester, (e) HM Prison Exeter, (f) HM Prison Wandsworth, (g) HM Prison Kennet, (h) HM Prison Bedford, (i) HM Prison Cardiff and (j) HM Prison Doncaster in each year between 2010 and 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Tooting on 4 Mar 2014, Official Report, 805W.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 14:17:24 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64827

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the average number of assaults on prison staff recorded in prisons in England and Wales was in each year from 2010 to 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>NOMS takes the issue of assaults very seriously. It currently has systems in place to deal with perpetrators quickly and robustly, with serious incidents referred to the police for prosecution. It is working closely with the police and CPS to develop a new joint protocol to report crimes in prison - this includes pushing for prosecutions when prison staff are attacked.</p><p> </p><p>The number of assaults on staff in prison custody is published in Table 4 of the Safety in Custody Statistics bulletin which can be found at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 16:59:11 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

65048

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many training and education sessions in each prison in England and Wales were cancelled due to staff shortages in each month in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is not held centrally and would need to be collated through enquiries at each prison in England and Wales. This would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 08/07/2014 14:33:53 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

65537

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when community rehabilitation companies are planned to begin providing post-release supervision to offenders serving sentences of under 12 months in prison.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>We are opening up delivery of probation services to a diverse range of new organisations in order to tackle repeat reoffending which blights our communities. As part of our reforms, we will extend post-release supervision to offenders released from custodial sentences of less than 12 months. We plan to commence the relevant provisions of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 at the point when ownership of the new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) transfers to successful bidders. We will do this in line with the Government's commitment to roll out these important reforms by 2015.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 16:56:28 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

65538

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training prison officers receive to enable them to detect incidents of sexual assault inside prison.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	203841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>During their initial training prison officers learn how to identify and respond to a prisoner exhibiting signs of distress or a change in their normal behaviour. Prison staff also receive training in assessing and managing offenders' risk of harm, including the risk of harm from others.</p><p> </p><p>Officers receive training about prevention of violence in prisons and to complement this, specific training about sexual violence will be included in the revised Prison Officer Entry Level Training (POELT) course which will be introduced from January 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 16:54:40 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington