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1715325

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who had been convicted of offences under the Terrorism Act 2006 and related offences were being monitored by the Probation Service in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	24372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The method for recording counter terrorism training data has changed over time, so the information requested cannot be provided. Since December 2021, over 17,000 directly employed HMPPS prison staff have been trained in counter terrorism (through the Awareness for Staff on Prevent Extremism and Counter Terrorism Strategy (ASPECTS) programme).</p><p>ASPECTS is delivered by counter-terrorist specialists and since 2017, all newly recruited Prison Officers have received ASPECTS training as part of their initial foundation training.</p><p>Data as a proportion of the workforce also cannot be provided as records include staff who have since left the prison service and may also include staff who have attended training more than once. The figure also does not include training figures for non-directly employed staff (i.e. those working in private prisons).</p><p>The below table shows the number of individuals convicted under Terrorism legislation (TACT), or of other offences considered to have a terrorism connection (TACT-connected), who were being managed by the Probation Service in each year since 2020.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. under probation supervision. </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>254</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024</p></td><td><p>234</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data can only be provided since 2020 as that is when the information began to be recorded centrally.</p><p>All high-risk offenders released on licence are managed under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, through which police, probation, the prison service and other agencies work together to keep the public safe. Upon release, terrorist offenders are subject to robust risk management, and stringent controls which severely limit their activity. This can include extended periods of electronic monitoring, accommodation in Approved Premises, and polygraph testing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 24371 question first answered 13/05/2024 08:46:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1715327

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many former prison guards were found guilty of criminal offences in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	24374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Information on how many former prison guards were found guilty of criminal offences in each year since 2015 is not centrally held.</p><p>This is because the information cannot be obtained from the administrative systems held for the public authority purposes by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service and the Ministry of Justice. If held, this information can only be obtained by accessing the case records themselves; these case records are held in the custody of the court for the purposes of the court, only.</p><p>The vast majority of prison staff are hardworking and dedicated. A minority of staff engage in corrupt activity which is often as a result of conditioning and manipulation by prisoners.</p><p>HM Prison &amp; Probation Service has a zero-tolerance policy to drugs conveyed into prisons and take appropriate action to a small number of prison staff who break the rules. Our £100 million Security Investment Programme, aimed at reducing crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of illicit items such as drugs and mobile phones, is ongoing. This includes increased resource to pursue corruption, as well as established a new ‘Prevent’ function, aimed at building staff resilience against corruption.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 08:50:32 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1715393

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners at HMP Wandsworth have been recalled to custody having been released as part of the early release scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	24583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Data on End of Custody Supervised Licence will be published when sufficient robust and comprehensive data is available. To support orderly release, its publication will be announced through the gov.uk release calendar.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:42:26 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1715394

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners at HMP Wandsworth are serving (a) Imprisonment for Public Protection and (b) Detention for Public Protection sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	24584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The number and proportion of prisoners in HMP Wandsworth serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) and Detention for Public Protection sentences (DPP), as at 31 March 2024, are set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Sentence type</p></td><td><p>Number of prisoners</p></td><td><p>Proportion of the total population at HMP Wandsworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IPP</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DPP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Please note:</p><p>(1) IPP prisoners include both unreleased IPP prisoners and recalled IPP prisoners.</p><p>(2) DPP is the youth equivalent of the IPP sentence, given to those aged under 18 at the time of conviction.</p><p>(3) The figures in this table 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.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken significant action through the Victims and Prisoners Bill to curtail IPP and DPP licence periods to give offenders the opportunity to move on with their lives. In addition to these changes, the actions this Government is taking are working; the number of prisoners serving the IPP sentence, including those serving DPP sentences, who have never been released now stands at 1,180 as of March 2024, down from more than 6000 in 2012.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1715395

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of foreign national prisoners at HMP Wandsworth are (a) post-sentence awaiting deportation and (b) serving current sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	24585
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The removal of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) is a Government priority: the Ministry of Justice continues to work closely with the Home Office to maximise the number of deportations.</p><p>As of 31 March, 13 FNOs were held under immigration powers after their conditional release date at HMP Wandsworth, while deportation arrangements were being made by the Home Office. This represents 1.8 per cent of the prison’s population. On the same date, 90 FNOs were serving sentences in HMP Wandsworth. This represents 12.8 per cent of the population.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:45:01 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1715799

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Long Lartin Prison and Whitemoor Prison: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidences of (a) assault and (b) serious assault were committed against prison staff at (i) HMP Long Lartin and (ii) HMP Whitemoor in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	24757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>We publish the number of assaults and serious assaults against prison staff, broken down by establishment, as part of our Safety in Custody statistics, in Table 8e and 8f of the summary tables, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/662a24fb690acb1c0ba7e57c/Safety-in-custody-summary-q4-2023_final_table.xlsx." target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/662a24fb690acb1c0ba7e57c/Safety-in-custody-summary-q4-2023_final_table.xlsx.</a></p><p>Totals for those occurring at HMP Long Lartin can be seen at row 94, and for HMP Whitemoor at row 151.</p><p>Improving the safety of staff and prisoners is our priority and while overall assault rates remain below pre-pandemic levels, we will continue to protect our hardworking staff through our £100 million security investment that led to X-ray body scanners, airport style security measures and drug dogs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 08:54:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1715800

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Long Lartin Prison and Whitemoor Prison: Prison Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were deployed on detached duty to (a) HMP Long Lartin and (b) HMP Whitemoor in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	24758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Staff are deployed on national detached duty (NDD) as a tactical response to support prisons which require it, to cover staffing shortfalls or to meet other operational requirements. NDD is a vital contingency measure to assist H M Prison &amp; Probation Service to maintain good order and security in prisons</p><p>The table below shows the average monthly deployment of full-time equivalent NDD staff to the two prisons between October 2022 and April 2024. HMP Whitemoor is no longer receiving NDD support. Except as shown in the table, no NDD staff were deployed to either site during the past four years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Whitemoor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>HMP Long Lartin</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>36.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>37.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>44.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>61.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun 2023</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>60.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul 2023</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td><td><p>55.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug 2023</p></td><td><p>23.4</p></td><td><p>61.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep 2023</p></td><td><p>31.25</p></td><td><p>65.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2023</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2023</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>65.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2023</p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2024</p></td><td><p>27.5</p></td><td><p>46.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2024</p></td><td><p>23.2</p></td><td><p>32.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2024</p></td><td><p>13.25</p></td><td><p>27.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2024</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:47:14 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1715998

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Bail: Remote Hearings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary on its decision to make second and subsequent bail applications remote by default.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	24910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>It is standard practice not to comment on discussions between Ministers and the judiciary.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is supportive of any efforts to help ensure sufficient capacity in the courts to hear bail applications and to remove principal structural barriers to applications being submitted, and he welcomes the revised guidance launched by Judicial Office which sets out that all second and subsequent bail applications to the Crown Court should be heard remotely unless ordered otherwise by a judge.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 08:49:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1716036

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an imprisonment for a Public Protection sentence were held in secure hospitals at the start of the last 20 quarters.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	24924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>Under sections 47/49 of the Mental Health Act 1983, the Secretary of State may authorise by warrant the transfer of sentenced prisoners to a mental health hospital, where he is satisfied that the criteria for detention are met by the aforementioned Act. Thereby, and for the duration of the period in hospital, the transferred prisoner becomes what is known as a restricted patient.</p><p>The requested data in the tables below are taken from an electronic casework system. Snapshot data of restricted patients in hospital are available only at the end of each year. We have provided this information in Table 1 for 2019-2022. We are unable to recreate snapshot data, for the start of each of the last 20 quarters, due to limitations of the case management system.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Population of offenders serving a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) detained in hospital as a restricted patient on 31 December in each year from 2019-2023.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population of IPP Restricted Patients </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>276</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Table 2:</strong> <strong>The number of offenders serving an IPP sentence who have been transferred from prison to secure hospitals on mental health grounds in each year since 2020.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of transfers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes </strong></p><ol><li>These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large-scale recording systems are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>Where patients are admitted more than once, each admission is counted separately. This information does not count number of individual patients but instances of transfers.</li></ol><p><strong>Data Source: Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD)</strong></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 24926 question first answered 13/05/2024 11:49:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

1716160

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence on licence in the community took their own life in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	24925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of self-inflicted deaths of offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence on licence in the community in England and Wales in each year between April 2019 and March 2023 are shown in the table.</p><p><strong>Self-inflicted deaths of offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence supervised on licence in the community, financial year 2019/20 to 2022/23, England and Wales<sup> (1) (2) (3)</sup> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23<sup> (p)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(p) The 2022/23 figures are provisional and may be updated in future publications to account for any changes or additions to the data since they were originally collected.</p><p>1. Apparent cause is as reported in annual returns (prior to 2020/21 only) or the national Delius case management system (nDelius) and has not been independently verified.</p><p>2. The reporting period relates to when the death occurred.</p><p>3. A new set of death classifications was implemented on 1 April 2022 and, as such, figures for 2022/23 are not comparable to those presented for previous years. The category of 'self-inflicted death' up to 31 March 2022 includes any death of a person who has apparently taken his or her own life, irrespective of intent. The category of 'self-inflicted death' from 1 April 2022 includes any death of a person at their own hand, including where intent is undetermined. This includes some drug poisonings (e.g. where a suicide note is found or the circumstances are suspicious) but not drug poisonings which appear to have been the accidental result of consumption for another purpose. Refer to the guide to deaths of offenders supervised in the community statistics for further details about the new set of classifications.</p><p>The information for the period before April 2019 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/05/2024 11:49:55 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern