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793001

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Bail
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what action his Department requires courts to take upon being notified that a defendant has given an invalid or unavailable bail address to the court.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>The decision to remand an individual in custody or to grant bail is solely a matter for the courts acting in accordance with the law. Where an individual has a condition of bail to reside at a particular address and it transpires that he is not, or may not, be living at that address, the court may notify the police who will investigate whether or not there has been a breach of bail conditions. If there is evidence of an alleged breach the individual can be arrested and brought before the court. The court may then either remand the individual in custody or amend the bail conditions.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 15/12/2017 12:34:30 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793002

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on (a) phones, (b) computers and (c) iPads in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) comprises many organisations including Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs). Each organisation holds separate contracts for these IT products and this information is not held or collated centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 28/11/2017 16:22:27 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793003

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison disturbances have been linked to the ban on tobacco use on the prison estate in each prison facility since that ban was implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Maintaining order and control in our prisons is our priority and this large-scale project has been carefully managed. There is no evidence to link smoking as the causal factor in any incidents this year where national resources were deployed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:32:31 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793004

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department received representations from the Prison Governors Association on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate; and if he will place a copy of any such representations in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Prison Governors Association (PGA) made no representation on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate.</p><p>Throughout the roll out, the PGA have been briefed regularly on the progress of the project including details of the prisons which sit in each phase of the roll out.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:34:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793005

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department received representations from Action on Smoking and Health on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate; and if he will place a copy of any such representations in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>There have been no representations received from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) on the banning of the use of tobacco on the prison estate.</p><p> </p><p>The Director of ASH, Deborah Arnott is a member of the national smoke free prisons project board and is informed of the progress of the roll out.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:41:14 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793007

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether a risk assessment was conducted by his Department on the smoking ban in prisons before the roll-out of that ban.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government remains fully committed to making all prisons smoke free. The decision to go smoke free in every prison is only taken after careful planning and preparation and the final decision is only taken when each prison has met stringent checks to ensure that it is safe to do so and all necessary healthcare support is available to help prisoners give up smoking.</p><p> </p><p>The national roll out of the Smoke Free Prisons project has been actively managed under usual project management disciplines.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 29/11/2017 16:48:15 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793008

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	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 level of use of synthetic drugs in prisons in each of the the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <ul><li><p>Psychoactive substances are a significant driver of violence and instability in prisons. We have put in place a range of supply and demand reduction measures to address the availability and use of such harmful substances. This is based on a multi-agency approach working closely with health partners and law enforcement agencies. We are the first prison jurisdiction in the world to have developed a test for psychoactive substances, and have trained more than 300 sniffer dogs to specifically detect psychoactive substances. We have invested £3m in enhancing our intelligence capability to identify the organised crime groups and individuals behind supply routes, and are using this intelligence to work with the police to disrupt them.</p></li><li><p>Figures drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System suggest there were just under 10,000 incidents where psychoactive substances were found in prisons between October 2015 and October 2017 in England and Wales. Data prior to October 2015 cannot be provided as this is when a new incident type was introduced to the Incident Reporting System.</p></li><li><p>Testing for psychoactive substances was only in place across the whole prison estate from September 2016 onwards. Between October 2016 and March 2017, there were 27,277 random mandatory drug tests administered. Each sample taken is tested for a range of illicit drugs, including psychoactive substances. As these are random drugs tests, prisoners tested in a single month are unique, but an individual prisoner could be chosen in multiple months. Figures for 2017/18 will be published in the Annual HMPPS Digest in July 2018.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 114794 question first answered 28/11/2017 17:29:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793009

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drug Seizures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many seizures of synthetic drugs there have been in each prison in each of the last 3 years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <ul><li><p>Psychoactive substances are a significant driver of violence and instability in prisons. We have put in place a range of supply and demand reduction measures to address the availability and use of such harmful substances. This is based on a multi-agency approach working closely with health partners and law enforcement agencies. We are the first prison jurisdiction in the world to have developed a test for psychoactive substances, and have trained more than 300 sniffer dogs to specifically detect psychoactive substances. We have invested £3m in enhancing our intelligence capability to identify the organised crime groups and individuals behind supply routes, and are using this intelligence to work with the police to disrupt them.</p></li><li><p>Figures drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System suggest there were just under 10,000 incidents where psychoactive substances were found in prisons between October 2015 and October 2017 in England and Wales. Data prior to October 2015 cannot be provided as this is when a new incident type was introduced to the Incident Reporting System.</p></li><li><p>Testing for psychoactive substances was only in place across the whole prison estate from September 2016 onwards. Between October 2016 and March 2017, there were 27,277 random mandatory drug tests administered. Each sample taken is tested for a range of illicit drugs, including psychoactive substances. As these are random drugs tests, prisoners tested in a single month are unique, but an individual prisoner could be chosen in multiple months. Figures for 2017/18 will be published in the Annual HMPPS Digest in July 2018.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 114793 question first answered 28/11/2017 17:29:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793010

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	GCHQ: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much GCHQ spent from the public purse on sponsorship of the National Diversity Awards 2017; and how many full-time equivalent GCHQ staff worked on that project.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Any law enforcement or intelligence agency must represent the diverse communities it serves to enable them to gather the intelligence they need to keep us all safe. Diversity is therefore recognised as a crucial component of the intelligence agencies' workforce. The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament recognised as much when they carried out an inquiry on Parliament's behalf into women in the intelligence agencies.</p><p>It has been the longstanding policy of successive Governments not to reveal details of the budgets or spending of the intelligence agencies. Statutory oversight for budgets and expenditure of the intelligence agencies is provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 29/11/2017 14:13:37 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

793011

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	MI5
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much MI5 spent from the public purse on sponsorship of the National Diversity Awards 2017; and how many full-time equivalent MI5 staff worked on that project.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	114796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Any law enforcement or intelligence agency must represent the diverse communities it serves, to enable them to gather the intelligence they need to keep us all safe. Diversity is therefore recognised as a crucial component of the intelligence agencies’ workforce. The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament recognised as much when they carried out an inquiry on Parliament’s behalf into women in the intelligence agencies.</p><p> </p><p>It has been the longstanding policy of successive Governments not to reveal details of the budgets or spending of the intelligence agencies. Statutory oversight for this is provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 28/11/2017 17:35:03 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies