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91317

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the national youth justice budget was in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	208784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer my honourable member to a previous answer of 26 November 2013 to question 176385, HC Deb 26 Nov 2013: Column 234W, which provides the Youth Justice Board’s budget for the past five years:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131126/text/131126w0003.htm#13112677002849" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131126/text/131126w0003.htm#13112677002849</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 12/09/2014 08:58:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

91511

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of young offenders released in the last 12 months are not in education, employment or training.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	208978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>In 2013/14 41%(1) percent of young people who had been sentenced to custody were not receiving any education, training or employment at the end of their licence period.</p><p> </p><p>Our Transforming Youth Custody programme is improving the prospects of effective resettlement of young people leaving custody. We are working closely with other Government Departments to provide young people with the opportunities they need, including through the Youth Engagement Fund which will help to close the attainment gap for disadvantaged 14-17 year olds, including those that have come into contact with the youth justice system.</p><br />(1) Information is extracted from YOTs’ electronic case management system and is taken from the last week of the custodial licence period. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time. answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/10/2014 09:05:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

100497

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to prevent young people with mental illnesses and depression from being sentenced to custody in young offenders institutions.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	211572
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>When sentencing a child or young person under the age 18, courts have a duty to have regard to the welfare of the offender, which includes their mental health.</p><p> </p><p>Youth Offending Teams provide courts with a pre-sentence report for each young person, including information about their mental health and any self-harming or risk taking behaviour. Where emotional and mental health issues have been identified, a referral to the mental health specialist worker should be made for completion of a Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool which will provide details about the support and type of intervention programme needed, tailored to their needs. The pre-sentence report should assess the potential impact of any custodial sentence imposed by the court (including the impact on mental health).</p><p> </p><p>In January 2014, the Government announced £25 million of funding for the Liaison and Diversion Programme, which will join up police and courts with mental health services and to fund the provision of mental health professionals to give prompt and appropriate treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Programme, commissioned by NHS England, identifies, assesses and refers people of all ages with a wide range of mental health and other issues on first contact with the criminal justice system. A person assessed with single or multiple vulnerabilities will be referred to the appropriate treatment or support service and care and/or support will be instigated.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 27/10/2014 16:33:45 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

100495

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Counselling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to provide emotional support for inmates of young offenders institutions.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	211571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to providing emotional support to young people and young adults in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs). All young offender institutions and prisons are required to have procedures in place to identify, manage and support offenders in need of emotional support or at risk of harming themselves.</p><p> </p><p>These procedures include the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) process which is an offender-centred, flexible care planning system designed to ensure that offenders at risk are managed in a way that is responsive to individual needs, including those related to age. A recent review of the ACCT process for young people made a number of recommendations that are being taken forward by the National Offender Management Service.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England provide a commissioned healthcare service to all YOIs which includes GPs, nurses and mental health professionals to support those with an identified physical or mental health need in custody. Support services provided under contract are equitable with those provided in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Healthcare services are supported by the chaplaincy team which offers a range of pastoral support services and by the Samaritans who provide free helpline access and train young offenders aged 18 and over to act as ‘Listeners’, that is, peer supporters for other young offenders who are in crisis.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 27/10/2014 16:11:26 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

90870

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by his Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	208429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested for the proportion of named day answers which have been answered within the prescribed period is set out in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Session</p></td><td><p>Proportion answered within the prescribed period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15*</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Data correct as of 8 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State and the ministerial team take our obligations to Parliament seriously and want to ensure that honourable members receive answers of a high standard which set out the relevant context. More complex questions can involve compiling and analysing large volumes of information, and we respond to such questions as promptly as we can.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has implemented a number of measures to ensure it provides high quality and timely Parliamentary Question answers. Following these changes there has been a significant improvement in timeliness.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental performance information is published on a sessional basis by the Procedure Committee. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report for the 2013-14 session is due to be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 11/09/2014 15:09:17 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

91762

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for which written questions tabled by the hon. Member for Shipley in 2014 which were answered with a promise to place information in the Library that information has (a) been and (b) not been placed in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	209236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>My Department has conducted a check, and information for all the relevant written questions tabled by the hon. Member for Shipley in 2014 has now been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant written questions are as follows:</p><p>- 191214 – 191216</p><p>- 191309 – 191215</p><p>- 194407</p><p>- 194406 - 194408</p><p>- 204641 – 204642 – 204652 - 204653</p><p>- 205007</p><p>- 194430</p><p>- 203440</p><p>- 204505-204455</p><p>- 204660</p><p>- 202790-202791</p><p> </p><p>The Department has put in place a robust system to keep track of commitments to place information in the Library and ensure that this is done promptly in future.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 09:22:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

99922

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's latest internal guidance for officials on the drafting of answers to Parliamentary Questions.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	211099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice’s internal guidance for answering parliamentary questions was updated and published on the Department’s intranet on 29<sup>th</sup> September 2014. I will send the hon. Member a copy and also arrange for it to be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p><p>In addition, the Cabinet Office has produced guidance for civil servants on drafting answers to parliamentary questions. This may be found on the gov.uk website at:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drafting-answers-to-parliamentary-questions-guidance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 24/10/2014 13:36:06 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

93294

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Witnesses: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government has taken to investigate the feasibility of rolling-out the NSPCC Young Witness Service that was launched in Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	210606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice currently funds Victim Support for the provision of support to witnesses attending criminal courts in England and Wales. Funding for this support beyond March 2015 is currently subject to a competitive commissioning process.</p><p> </p><p>In developing the requirement specification for the service from April 2015, the Ministry of Justice took the views of a number of organisations working in the field of support for victims and witnesses. This included NSPCC, who provided valuable input drawn from practitioner experience in supporting young witnesses.</p><p> </p><p>The requirements of the service include that witnesses should receive tailored support which meets their individual needs, and there is particular emphasis on ensuring the service meets the needs of young, vulnerable and intimidated witnesses. Support for young witnesses includes the provision of a Young Witness Pack, age appropriate explanations about court proceedings, and where needed support at pre-trial visits and home visits. Support will also include supporting and facilitating the attendance of parents or adults accompanying a young witness to court.</p><p> </p><p>The service is part of wider arrangements within the Criminal Justice System to support young witnesses at court, including use of special measures such as screens around the witness box to shield the witness from the defendant, use of live-links or recorded evidence-in-chief and a Registered Intermediary to aid communication.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our recent announcement detailing our Commitment to Victims, all vulnerable victims and witnesses will be given greater opportunity to give evidence away from the court building, and we will work towards rolling out pre-trial cross examination for child victims nationally, subject to the evaluation of ongoing pilots.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/10/2014 14:31:04 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

91516

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wardship
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what legal aid his Department makes available for cases involving wardship.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	209037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p><strong>The Government has prioritised civil legal aid for the most important cases, including those involving wardship.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, civil legal aid is available (subject to means and merits tests) for matters where the High Court exercises its inherent jurisdiction in relation to children and vulnerable adults.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/10/2014 10:26:40 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

91518

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wardship
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court cases involving wardship there were in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	209038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The wardship jurisdiction is part of the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court. It is the duty of the court to ensure that a child who is the subject of proceedings is protected and taken care of. The wardship jurisdiction means the court has custody of the child who is a ward. No important step can be taken in the child's life without the court's consent.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the number of wardship applications made to courts in England and Wales during each of the last five calendar years is in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Applications for Wardship in England &amp; Wales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Wardship Applications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>396</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>267</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>428</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/10/2014 15:18:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton