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810213

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	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, on how many occasions wings of publicly-owned prisons have been closed due to insufficient staff levels in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	120679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is fully committed to making our prisons safe and is actively taking the measures necessary to ensure that. We are boosting the number of prison officers by 2,500 and we have already reached the halfway mark over the past year with a further 1,211 candidates who have received job offers. In addition to that, we are also giving officers the tools they need to manage violent offenders – investing in body-worn cameras, new style handcuffs and piloting PAVA incapacitant spray.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2018 17:25:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 33813 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846136

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from January to June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	128831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:13:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44279 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846137

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from July to December 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	128832
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:13:14 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44280 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846138

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from January to June 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	128833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:13:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44281 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846139

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from July to December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	128834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:12:40 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44282 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

846140

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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, how much money was spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in each month from January to June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	128835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Prison officers do a challenging and vital job to help protect the public and we are committed to making sure we have enough staff to deliver safe regimes in our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Detached duty is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to cover resourcing pressures and ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons as well as being able to respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 the former Secretary of State announced HMPPS would be recruiting an additional 2,500 prison officers by December 2018. Good progress is being made to hit this target, with 1,970 additional officers recruited by 31<sup>st</sup> December 2017. These new staff will reduce the need for Detached Duty.</p><p> </p><p>When there is a need to accommodate staff in hotels, we work hard to ensure the best possible value for money for the taxpayer and have controls in place to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, bookings are for specifically timed trains and always in standard class to help keep costs to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings made through Redfern Travel Ltd <strong>only</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Please see table attached for data from 2013 – 2017.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/03/2018 17:36:01 question first ministerially corrected 05/03/2018 19:12:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Table PQ 128831-128837.press cleared (002).xlsx title Table previous answer version 44283 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

865114

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Amey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2018 to Question 130494 on Ministry of Justice: Amey, what the evidential basis is for private contractors achieving the majority of their contractual targets.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	132981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Private providers performance is closely monitored by the Ministry of Justice and we will not hesitate to act where standards fall short.</p><p>Department’s contracts typically contain termination provisions where a provider’s performance falls below a minimum acceptable level. The minimum acceptable level for a contract is typically set at far greater than 50%, therefore should the provider not achieve the majority of their contractual targets then the Department can terminate the contract.</p><p>The basis of the assessment that Amey has achieved the majority of their contractual targets is because their contract contains a termination provision where if their performance falls below a minimum acceptable level the department would terminate the contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 10:14:40 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 48948 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

882388

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	John Worboys
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reasons were for information on the (a) rape kit, (b) remarks made by the sentencing judge at Worboys’ trial and (c) new information that emerged as a result of the legal action against the Metropolitan Police, not being included in the dossier of evidence on the John Worboys case that was provided to the Parole Board.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	135326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, who represented the Secretary of State, opposed release in this case. Indeed, the experienced offender manager, who recommended that Worboys remain in custody, considered that the Parole Board could undertake a thorough risk assessment based on the current convictions and the numerous references to wider allegations contained in the rest of the dossier.</p><p> </p><p>The High Court’s findings on how the Parole Board reached the decision in this case, highlighted its failures to undertake further inquiry into the circumstances of offending and, in particular, the extent to which the limited way in which Worboys described his offending may undermine his overall credibility. The High Court found that this was so, even in relation to the offences for which he was convicted. It is the responsibility of the Parole Board to satisfy itself that an offender is no longer a risk to the public and it has powers to request further evidence it deems appropriate. The judgement of Sir Brian Leveson is clear that the Parole Board failed in its duty here.</p><p> </p><p>The High Court found that although the sentencing remarks had been omitted, they did not detail the precise circumstances of Worboy’s offending.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service submitted the dossier to the Parole Board on 26 April 2017. The Parole Board had sufficient time to request the sentencing remarks before the oral hearing, which took place on 8 November 2017, but did not so.</p><p> </p><p>The sentencing remarks in this case were omitted as the result of an administrative oversight. I can provide reassurance that Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service had implemented fresh and robust checks on every dossier, before the High Court handed down its judgment, to ensure that dossiers are complete for the Parole Board to undertake its consideration in all future parole cases.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is not usual to include police evidence, or information in respect of civil actions, in the dossier submitted to the Parole Board. In respect of the kit found by police, I can confirm that the dossier submitted to the Parole Board contained detailed descriptions of Worboy’s method of offending, including his use of substances to drug his victims.</p><p> </p><p>As the High Court said, this was an exceptional case, as there were a very high number of complaints to the police, and two of Worboys victims brought a successful action against the Metropolitan Police for its failures to properly investigate their complaints.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, in the light of this judgement, the Secretary of State has pledged that all relevant evidence of past offending should be included in the dossiers submitted to the Parole Board, including, possibly, police evidence, so it can be robustly tested at each Parole Board hearing. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service is in the process of issuing new guidance to ensure that this is absolutely clear to those submitting evidence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/04/2018 15:42:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 52596 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805320

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Labour Turnover
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of violence against prison officers on the retention of prisoner officers.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	118992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The safety and security of our prisons must always take priority and action to address retention rates are being taken forward as part of the government’s plan to increase the number of prison officers by 2,500, to improve safety and security. We have already recruited 1,255 extra prison officers over the past year. Exit interviews and qualitative analysis has helped to build an understanding of why prison officers leave the Service.</p><p> </p><p>We are actively working with our prisons to drive positive change in the prisons with the highest attrition rates. This includes the appointment of 75 additional prison officer mentors to support our new staff alongside working proactively with Governors to take local action based on the common themes identified.</p><p> </p><p>We have invested in in 5,600 body-worn cameras to help protect our prison staff, alongside training to improve interactions with prisoners. These will provide high-quality evidence to support prosecutions brought against prisoners. In October, we also launched a new case management model to help staff to manage violent prisoners and those identified as posing a raised risk of being violent.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/01/2018 17:47:07 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

806040

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	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, how much has been spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for prison officers on detached duty in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	119249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>We are able to provide data on hotels and rail bookings. Please see table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. Hotel Bookings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost Hotels</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. Rail Bookings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost Rail</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec 2016 </strong></p></td><td><p>533</p></td><td><p>£152,215.55</p></td><td><p>526</p></td><td><p>£17,336.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jan 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>£190,440.04</p></td><td><p>666</p></td><td><p>£25,827.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Feb 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>602</p></td><td><p>£179,890.49</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>£23,212.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>633</p></td><td><p>£208,199.35</p></td><td><p>622</p></td><td><p>£26.340.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>April 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>552</p></td><td><p>£190,137.31</p></td><td><p>621</p></td><td><p>£21,957.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>566</p></td><td><p>£196,172.76</p></td><td><p>512</p></td><td><p>£20,666.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>June 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>515</p></td><td><p>£185,084.90</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>£21,249.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>July 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>671</p></td><td><p>£230,523.78</p></td><td><p>499</p></td><td><p>£22,496.65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August 2017 </strong></p></td><td><p>857</p></td><td><p>£289,386.37</p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>£20,727.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>September 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>767</p></td><td><p>£279.052.29</p></td><td><p>516</p></td><td><p>£24,143.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>October 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>837</p></td><td><p>£320,363.26</p></td><td><p>566</p></td><td><p>£26,363.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>November 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>845</p></td><td><p>£267,479.50</p></td><td><p>565</p></td><td><p>£23,858.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8129</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£2,409,893.31</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6699</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£247,838.95</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/01/2018 17:47:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon