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758810

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) e-cigarettes and (b) tobacco products were sold in prison shops in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	9456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Numbers of units of e-cigarettes, vaping products and tobacco items sold in prisons in England and Wales in each month for the last year are as set out in the attached annex.</p><p>Prisons are rolling out the smoke free policy, subject to a series of assessments which will test the operational stability, readiness and health readiness of the prisons to implement the policy in a safe, decent and secure way. HMPPS’ health partners in England and Wales are fully involved in supporting prisoners with appropriate smoking cessation services in place.</p><p>The open estate across England and Wales has been smoke free indoors since October 2015.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/09/2017 10:59:45 question first ministerially corrected 15/09/2017 15:01:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name 9456 Annex A.docx title Number of Products Sold in Prisons previous answer version 11646 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name 9456 Annex A.docx title Number of Products Sold in Prisons
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

757501

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Basic Skills
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to increase the levels of literacy and numeracy in the prison population.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	8538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>All adult prisoners in English prisons have an assessment of their maths and English needs on entry to prison, when they transfer between prisons, and prior to release.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the White Paper, “Prison Safety and Reform” published in November 2016, we will ensure that a core common curriculum, focused on the underpinning basic skills of maths and English, will apply in every prison and that every prisoner will have a Personal Learning Plan linked to their sentence plan. We have introduced additional assessment of prisoners’ levels of maths and English on transfer between prisons and on release, gathering data that will allow us to compare prisoners’ attainment in maths and English on release with that at the start of custody, and to measure progress made by prisoners whilst serving their sentences.</p><p> </p><p>We have already introduced significant flexibility in our funding rules for prison education, giving prison governors more ability to put in place a curriculum that meets the needs of learners and responds to the demand for skills in the areas to which those prisoners will be released. Once existing prison education contracts end, we will make prison governors fully responsible for education provision in their prisons, commissioning the services they think are most appropriate in their individual prison. This will allow governors to decide how to structure their educational regime, and who delivers it, while following a core common curriculum set nationally which will focus on maths and English.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/09/2017 16:56:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

757502

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Self-harm
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of self-harming of people held in the Prison Estate.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	8539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>We have put in place a range of measures to support prisoners who are at risk of self-harm or suicide, especially in the early period in custody, when they are at their most vulnerable.</p><p>We have established a Prison Safety programme to support establishments in the implementation of the reforms set out in the Prison Safety and Reform White Paper, including our investment in an additional 2,500 staff who will help deliver consistent, purposeful regimes and allow us to introduce a new key worker role to support better staff-prisoner relationships.</p><p>We are rolling out new training across the estate to support our staff to identify the risks and triggers of suicide and self-harm and understand what they can do to support prisoners at risk. We have put in place specialist roles - regional safer custody teams - in every region to provide advice to prisons and to spread good practice on identifying and supporting prisoners at risk. We are using experts, including providing extra funding for the Samaritans, to provide targeted support for prison staff and to prisoners directly.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/09/2017 16:56:20 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

757780

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to promote, identify and treat mental health conditions in the prison population.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	8540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The department remains committed to reforming our prisons to make them safe and secure establishments with access to health, including mental health services to support the rehabilitation of offenders in custody.</p><p>Health services, in English prisons are commissioned by NHS England and by Local Health Boards in Wales, informed by evidence of the need in each prison. All prisoners have an initial health screen at reception by clinical staff and may be referred for further treatment, within or outside prisons, where mental health needs are identified.</p><p>Prison staff also have a critical role to play in identifying mental health needs and supporting prisoners. We are rolling out new suicide and self-harm prevention training which includes a module on mental health awareness. This is being delivered to all new prison officers as part of their entry level training (POELT), to existing prison officers, and to non-HMPPS staff who come into contact with prisoners.</p><p>Alongside this, we are investing £100 million towards recruitment of 2,500 new staff, and introducing new offender management arrangements in prisons under which Key Workers will have particular responsibility for a small number of prisoners. These measures will enhance the time and resources available to support prisoners. Dedicated officers will be able to build a relationship with prisoners and be in a better position to recognise and respond to changes in their behaviour or their mental well-being.</p><p>We are continuing to work with our health partners to improve our understanding of the mental health of prisoners. Since April 2017 we have launched co-commissioning, which means governors will now begin to have greater input into decision making about health provision in their prisons, enabling them to identify and work with health commissioners to contribute to the commissioning of quality healthcare services.</p><p /> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 13:35:28 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

757784

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Paedophilia: Travel Restrictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will introduce legislative proposals to cancel or bar overseas travel by convicted paedophiles from the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	8725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Follwoing release from prison into the community on licence, all child sex offenders will be subject to a series of licence conditions. This will include as standard, the requirement to “not travel outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man except with the prior permission of your supervising officer or for the purposes of immigration deportation or removal.” Such permission is granted only in the most exceptional circumstances, where the offender meets a strict set of criteria.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the prohibitions in a licence in England and Wales, the Police may also apply to the courts for a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) to prevent a sex offender from travelling overseas where they suspect that the offender could commit an offence while outside of the UK. This SHPO replaced the Foreign Travel Order, introduced by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which remains in operation in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/10/2017 15:11:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

757786

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Repatriation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign prisoners have been (a) deported and (b) transferred to foreign prisons in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	8869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the United Kingdom. 6,343 FNOs were removed in 2016/17 – a record number. Of these, 110 prisoners were transferred to prisons in their own countries in the same period.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 13:34:16 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

757788

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals are in prison in the UK; and what steps his Department is taking to send those nationals back to their countries of origin.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	8985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>As of 30 June 2017, there were 6,792 foreign national offenders serving a custodial sentence in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is absolutely committed to removing Foreign National Offenders, and during the financial year 2016 / 2017, 6,343 FNO’s were removed from prisons, immigration removal centres and the community. The barriers to returning FNOs to their countries of nationality are varied and complex which is why the action we take must be tailored to each specific country. I am working closely with ministerial colleagues in DFID, FCO, and Home Office, to ensure that all options are being pursued and that our early removal mechanisms are working as effectively as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 16:08:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

758273

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2017
	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, how many (a) staff and (b) vacancies there were in each community rehabilitation company in each quarter since those companies were established.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	9270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Ownership of Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) transferred to new providers in 2015. Contracts with CRCs require each CRC to ensure that it employs a sufficient level of staff, and that its workforce is competent and adequately trained. We no longer routinely collect and publish CRC workforce numbers.</p><p>We closely monitor and robustly manage providers to make sure they fulfil their contractual commitments to reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 16:26:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

758274

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the prison incarceration rates per capita are for (a) England and Wales and (b) other EU countries; and what the average cost of jailing a person per year is in (i) England and Wales and (ii) other EU countries.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	9073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The SPACE I report (last published in April 2017) covers incarceration rates for each member country of the Council of Europe: <a href="http://wp.unil.ch/space/files/2017/04/SPACE_I_2015_FinalReport_161215_REV170425.pdf" target="_blank">http://wp.unil.ch/space/files/2017/04/SPACE_I_2015_FinalReport_161215_REV170425.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), routinely publishes average costs per prisoner and prison place, and overall prison unit costs of individual prisons for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales. The information can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each relevant financial year here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/563326/costs-per-place-cost-per-prisoner-2015-16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/563326/costs-per-place-cost-per-prisoner-2015-16.pdf</a>. Prison unit costs can be found within the Excel document <em>Costs per prison place and cost per prisoner by individual prison establishment</em> in the ‘Cost by Establishment’ tab. The most recently published figures are for financial year 2015-16 and we expect to publish the 2016-17 data on 26 October 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/09/2017 15:38:38 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

758277

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	G4S: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place the documents relating to the contract signed in 2017 between the Government and G4S for the electronic tagging of offenders in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	9216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>A redacted version of the new contract between the Ministry of Justice and G4S for electronic monitoring hardware equipment will be published on Contracts Finder in line with current transparency regulations. We are currently planning to sign the contract by the end of October 2017. I will write to the Honourable gentleman when the contract has been published.</p><p>The field monitoring services including fitting and removal of tags and the monitoring provision is provided by Capita Business Services Limited.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/09/2017 16:09:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon