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1087171

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons currently designated as resettlement prisons are operated by the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	231528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>The aim of a Resettlement Prison is to build and improve family and community ties, and prepare men for release.</p><p>There are currently 14 privately operated prisons (12 male and 2 female) of which 11 are designated as resettlement prisons.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/03/2019 16:55:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1028703

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, for what reason HM Prison and Probation workforce statistics are not published for privately-managed prisons.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203957 203958 203959 203960 203961 203962 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028704

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, when the last time HM Prison and Probation workforce statistics on prison custody officers were published for privately-managed prisons.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203956 203958 203959 203960 203961 203962 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028705

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, what information his Department holds on staffing numbers for privately-managed prisons.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203956 203957 203959 203960 203961 203962 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028707

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, who within his Department is responsible for ensuring that Contractors for privately-managed prisons maintain the number of trained staff necessary to discharge the requirements of the contract.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203956 203957 203958 203960 203961 203962 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028708

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, who within his Department is responsible for ensuring that privately-managed prison establishments are operated safely and securely.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203956 203957 203958 203959 203961 203962 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028710

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, for what reasons operators of privately-managed prisons are not required to meet the same transparency standards as those required for publicly operated prisons.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203956 203957 203958 203959 203960 203962 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028711

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 12 December 2018 to Question 200148 on Prisons Officers: Private Sector, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring operators of privately-managed prison to publish the same workforce data as publicly operated prisons.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>As we have previously stated, the contracts between the Department and all private prison providers require the Contractor to be responsible for all staffing matters, including ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons. There is no requirement in the contracts to inform the Department of staffing levels in privately managed prisons, nor agree those levels with the Department. There have been no changes made to the required staffing information since 2012. The Government does not publish workforce statistics on prison custody officers in post at any privately managed prison.</p><p> </p><p>Each privately managed prison has a full-time on-site Controller employed by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) whose role it is to monitor performance at the prison across a range of indicators. Any concerns in relation to these performance indicators are discussed with the provider, and, where necessary, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the contract. If the contract management team are concerned that outcomes are affected by problems related to staffing, based on local intelligence the controller observes on site, then this will form part of contract management processes and procedures and dialogue will be had with the provider. If we require outcomes to be improved we will expect that action by the provider will address any matters of staffing, such as levels of attrition.</p><p> </p><p>We hold both public and private sector prisons to account for the outcomes they deliver.</p><p> </p><p>As the Department does not currently collect workforce data from private prison providers, to publish these or require the provider to do so would require significant changes to the contracts of all private prison providers and we currently have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29 November, this Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in operating custodial services. As part of the competition process, we will undertake rigorous operational and financial assessments of bids put forward, including staffing commitments. The performance of all providers is, and will continue to be, robustly managed and contracts for the operation of new prisons will not be awarded unless bids meet quality and value for money thresholds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203956 203957 203958 203959 203960 203961 question first answered 11/01/2019 14:44:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028712

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 13 December 2018 to Question 200144 on Prisons: Private Sector, what estimate he has made of maintenance costs for each prison establishment in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>We spend in the region of £250m a year on routine and capital maintenance for prisons. Around half of this is for facilities management services via our FM providers. Budgets for next financial year have not yet been agreed, while funding for subsequent years will be settled through the forthcoming Spending Review. I am therefore not able to provide specific costs per prison over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 08/01/2019 11:50:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1028714

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Private Sector
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 13 December 2018 to Question 200144 on Prisons: Private Sector, how much of the £16 million investment in improving the fabric of prisons has been (a) allocated and (b) spent by each establishment.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	203964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The £30m investment package to tackle organised crime and bring buildings back up to a decent standard, was announced by Justice Secretary David Gauke (10 July). The investment package includes the £16m allocated to improve, where possible, the fabric of the prison estate. The full £30m breakdown is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>-£16m to help improve the basic conditions of the prison estate. The funding will target establishments with the most pressing maintenance issues. Funding is primarily for capital maintenance schemes - cells, flooring, showers, serveries, gates, and Fire Safety Works.</p><p> </p><p>-£7m investment in safety, to fund a range of new security measures, including airport-security style body scanners, improved searching techniques and mobile phone-blocking technology, and evolving our digital categorisation tool – which assesses information from various law enforcement databases to create a central ‘risk rating’ for each prisoner.</p><p> </p><p>-£7m on in-cell telephones and kiosks for more prisons. Currently most prisoners queue for public phones on the landings, which can be the trigger for violence or fuel demand for illicit mobile phones.</p><p> </p><p>The funding has been allocated in full to each programme strand, and is controlled at programme level, not by establishment. Current spending forecasts are on track against budget. Due to the confidential nature of our mobile phone blocking proof of concept pilot, no site details can be provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 203965 question first answered 08/01/2019 11:48:46 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts