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date	25/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the new probation contracts will include break clauses to ensure that those contracts can be terminated at no cost to the public purse in the event that private companies fail to reduce re-offending rates.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	247757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>All major Government contracts have standard clauses to allow for termination for poor performance. This will not differ for any future contracts we let as part of future probation arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 30/04/2019 14:18:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

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registered interest
date	18/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the number of prisoners who leave prison homeless.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	203406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Nobody should be released from prison without a roof over their head. We know that individuals are less likely to reoffend if they have a stable home to go to upon release. That is why the Government has launched a £100 million initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England. Through this work we will invest £6.4 million over two years in a pilot to support individuals who have served 12 months or less in custody, and who are at risk of being released as homeless, to secure and maintain accommodation.</p><p>Since 1 October, Prisons and Probation providers have been subject to a legal ‘Duty to Refer’ anyone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to the Local Authority. <br>This change means that offenders will receive meaningful housing assistance at an earlier stage, irrespective of their priority need.</p><p>We also know that the support, provided by probation providers, to prepare individuals for release from prison is not meeting the standard we require. We have therefore taken decisive action to stabilise and improve the delivery of probation services. We are ending current Community Rehabilitation Company contracts early, while investing £22m per year to enhance the services that support individuals leaving prison and re-entering the community. We have introduced minimum standards so that all providers offer monthly face-to-face meetings with offenders during the first 12 months of supervision. This new service will commence from April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/01/2019 15:39:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1027692

registered interest
date	18/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Self-harm and Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to reduce the levels of self-harm and suicide in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	203409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to keep prisoners safe, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths and the incidence of self-harm across the estate. This is why we have established a prison safety programme through which we are taking forward a comprehensive set of actions to improve safety in custody. They include:<ul><li>investing in over 4,300 additional staff in order to deliver consistent, purposeful regimes;</li><li>improving staff knowledge and understanding of the factors known to increase risk of self-harm, to help them to identify and respond appropriately to prisoners at risk. Our revised introduction to suicide and self-harm prevention training has already reached over 24,000 staff;</li><li>improving the flow, quality and use of risk information about people coming into our prisons, to support effective decision-making about risk;</li><li>producing an early days toolkit to help staff enhance the support that they provide for prisoners during the first few days and weeks in custody;</li><li>renewing our partnership with Samaritans by confirming a further three years’ funding for their valuable Listeners Scheme, and working with them to share learning from the ‘Coping with Life in Prisons’ project, a successful pilot initiative in which Samaritans-trained ex-prisoners delivered emotional resilience training to groups of newly-arrived prisoners; and</li><li>improving the multi-disciplinary ACCT case management process for those identified as at risk of self-harm or suicide.</li></ul></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/01/2019 16:56:38 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

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registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Funerals: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is implementing the Children's Funeral Fund for England.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	137650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all families who lose a child are given the support they need. That is why the Prime Minister has announced the establishment of a Children’s Funeral Fund for England. Details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2018 13:56:51 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi