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1045904

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what policies and procedures his Department had put in place in relation to the (a) legal and (b) other advice on to the release of information about an individual in the criminal justice system; what policies and procedure his Department had put in place for the (i) designation and (ii) authorisation of personnel to release that information at the time when information on Jon Venables being in custody was released on or around 2 March 2010; whether changes to those policies and procedures since that date; and how changes to those policies and procedures were issued to staff in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	211132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is the Department’s policy not to release information about an individual in the criminal justice system, although it will sometimes be necessary for the Department to confirm information which is already in the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>Under the statutory Probation Victim Contact Scheme (VCS), qualifying victims who have chosen to receive the services of the VCS are entitled to receive certain information about an offender at key stages of the sentence being served by that offender. It is for the Probation Victim Liaison Officer (VLO) to provide that information to victims.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to the offender once known as Jon Venables, a VLO employed by a Probation Trust was designated and authorised to disclose to qualifying victims on or around 2 March 2010 that Venables had been recalled to custody for breaching his licence conditions.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no change to the relevant policies and procedures since that time, albeit that VLOs are no longer employed by a Probation Trust but by the National Probation Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/01/2019 16:09:22 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1045933

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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, how many (a) searches for and (b) discoveries of drugs there have been in prisons in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	211138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The misuse of drugs in prison drives violence, vulnerability and crime and so tackling this is one of our top priorities. Consequently, we are improving our security to restrict the availability of drugs. We use body, property, cell and area searches, metal-detecting scanners and drug and phone detection dogs across the estate. We are investing £6 million to tackle drug supply and reduce demand in 10 of the most challenging prisons, with body scanners and more staff focused on effective searching.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not record the number of searches conducted in each prison. Data and information on drug finds is routinely published as part of the normal publication schedule</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-hm-prison-and-probation-service-digest-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-hm-prison-and-probation-service-digest-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Data on drug finds in 2018-19 will be published in due course in line with the normal publication schedule.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/01/2019 16:05:45 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1045672

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sex offenders convicted in each of the last five years were sentenced to a (a) non-custodial sentence, (b) custodial sentence of less than six months, (c) custodial sentence of 6-12 months, (d) custodial sentence of one-five years, (e) a custodial sentence of 5-10 years and (f) a custodial sentence of more than 10 years by sexual offence type.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	210626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of offenders sentenced to custody for sexual offences, broken down by offence and length of sentence, is available in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/Government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>To obtain the requested data, carry out the following steps:</p><ul><li><p>Remove the ‘Values’ field from Rows</p></li><li><p>Select 2013 to 2017 in the ‘Year’ field</p></li><li><p>Filter ‘Offence group’ to ‘02: Sexual offences’</p></li><li><p>Drag the ‘Offence’ field into Rows</p></li><li><p>Drag all the ‘Custody’ fields into Values (this can also be done by ticking the boxes for each field and ensuring the ‘Values’ field this creates is in Rows)</p></li><li><p>For each requested sentence length period, combine the values of the relevant custodial sentence lengths</p></li><li>For those sentenced to a non-custodial sentence, drag the ‘Sentenced’ and ‘Total Immediate Custody’ fields into Values and take the difference as the number of non-custodial sentences.</li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 24/01/2019 16:42:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1043076

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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 many band three to five prison officers at each high-security institution had (a) less than three years' experience and (b) three or more than three years’ service in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	209827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>Table 1: HMPPS Prison Officer1 staff in post, by length of service2 (full time equivalent) as at 30th September 2010 and 2018</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>September 2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Less than 3 years</p></td><td><p>3 years and over</p></td><td><p>Total Prison Officer</p></td><td><p>% less than 3 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belmarsh</p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p>469.6</p></td><td><p>498.2</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frankland</p></td><td><p>29.0</p></td><td><p>564.3</p></td><td><p>593.3</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full Sutton</p></td><td><p>13.0</p></td><td><p>411.3</p></td><td><p>424.3</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long Lartin</p></td><td><p>66.3</p></td><td><p>322.8</p></td><td><p>389.0</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p>460.6</p></td><td><p>480.6</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p>14.0</p></td><td><p>398.2</p></td><td><p>412.2</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whitemoor</p></td><td><p>31.0</p></td><td><p>369.0</p></td><td><p>400.0</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woodhill</p></td><td><p>44.0</p></td><td><p>398.0</p></td><td><p>442.0</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>September 2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FTE</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Less than 3 years</p></td><td><p>3 years and over</p></td><td><p>Total Prison Officer</p></td><td><p>% less than 3 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belmarsh</p></td><td><p>169.0</p></td><td><p>257.8</p></td><td><p>426.8</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frankland</p></td><td><p>106.0</p></td><td><p>432.9</p></td><td><p>538.9</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full Sutton</p></td><td><p>117.0</p></td><td><p>310.9</p></td><td><p>427.9</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Long Lartin</p></td><td><p>49.0</p></td><td><p>266.2</p></td><td><p>315.2</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>182.0</p></td><td><p>302.6</p></td><td><p>484.6</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p>70.0</p></td><td><p>261.5</p></td><td><p>331.5</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whitemoor</p></td><td><p>102.0</p></td><td><p>263.0</p></td><td><p>365.0</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woodhill</p></td><td><p>227.5</p></td><td><p>237.0</p></td><td><p>464.5</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes to Table 1:</p><ol><li><p>Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p></li><li><p>Length of service in HMPPS calculated from most recent hire date. Where staff have transferred in from another Government Department or have transferred in through HMPPS taking over a function, length of service is calculated from entry to HMPPS.</p><p> </p></li></ol><p>As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 25/01/2019 11:58:13 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1043078

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: 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 assaults on staff in each year from 2010 were (a) recorded at each high-security institution and (b) involved staff at high-security institutions with less than three years’ experience.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	209829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government publishes quarterly statistics on violence, self-harm and deaths in prison custody, and a more detailed annual breakdown, and both are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-june-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of assaults in each prison can be seen in table 3.15 of <em>Assaults in prison custody 2000 to 2017</em>; the number of self-harm incidents in each prison is in table 2.13 of <em>Self-harm in prison custody 2004 to 2017</em>; and the number of homicides in each prison can be found in the <em>Deaths data tool</em>. I regret that the number of incidents involving staff with less than three years’ experience could be found only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons custody. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>investing in over 4,300 additional staff since October 2015;</p></li><li><p>investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents;</p></li><li><p>tackling the drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody - introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search teams;</p></li><li><p>introducing new suicide and self-harm prevention training, which has already reached over 24,000 staff;</p></li><li><p>improving support for prisoners in their early days and weeks and rolling out a ‘key worker’ scheme which ensures each prisoner has dedicated support from a particular prison officer;</p></li><li><p>funding the Samaritans service for a further three years’ for their valuable Listeners Scheme; and</p></li></ul><p>improving the ACCT case management process for those identified as at risk of self-harm or suicide.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 209831 209833 question first answered 24/01/2019 16:57:59 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1043080

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Self-harm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of self-harm were recorded at each high-security institution in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	209831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government publishes quarterly statistics on violence, self-harm and deaths in prison custody, and a more detailed annual breakdown, and both are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-june-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of assaults in each prison can be seen in table 3.15 of <em>Assaults in prison custody 2000 to 2017</em>; the number of self-harm incidents in each prison is in table 2.13 of <em>Self-harm in prison custody 2004 to 2017</em>; and the number of homicides in each prison can be found in the <em>Deaths data tool</em>. I regret that the number of incidents involving staff with less than three years’ experience could be found only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons custody. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>investing in over 4,300 additional staff since October 2015;</p></li><li><p>investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents;</p></li><li><p>tackling the drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody - introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search teams;</p></li><li><p>introducing new suicide and self-harm prevention training, which has already reached over 24,000 staff;</p></li><li><p>improving support for prisoners in their early days and weeks and rolling out a ‘key worker’ scheme which ensures each prisoner has dedicated support from a particular prison officer;</p></li><li><p>funding the Samaritans service for a further three years’ for their valuable Listeners Scheme; and</p></li></ul><p>improving the ACCT case management process for those identified as at risk of self-harm or suicide.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 209829 209833 question first answered 24/01/2019 16:57:59 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1043082

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Homicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of homicide were recorded at each high-security institution in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	209833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government publishes quarterly statistics on violence, self-harm and deaths in prison custody, and a more detailed annual breakdown, and both are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-june-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of assaults in each prison can be seen in table 3.15 of <em>Assaults in prison custody 2000 to 2017</em>; the number of self-harm incidents in each prison is in table 2.13 of <em>Self-harm in prison custody 2004 to 2017</em>; and the number of homicides in each prison can be found in the <em>Deaths data tool</em>. I regret that the number of incidents involving staff with less than three years’ experience could be found only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in prisons custody. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>investing in over 4,300 additional staff since October 2015;</p></li><li><p>investing an extra £70 million to improve safety, security and decency, and equipping officers with PAVA incapacitant spray and body-worn cameras to help prevent serious harm to staff and prisoners when dealing with violent incidents;</p></li><li><p>tackling the drugs that we know are fuelling much of the violence in custody - introducing new x-ray scanners, drug-detection dogs and dedicated search teams;</p></li><li><p>introducing new suicide and self-harm prevention training, which has already reached over 24,000 staff;</p></li><li><p>improving support for prisoners in their early days and weeks and rolling out a ‘key worker’ scheme which ensures each prisoner has dedicated support from a particular prison officer;</p></li><li><p>funding the Samaritans service for a further three years’ for their valuable Listeners Scheme; and</p></li></ul><p>improving the ACCT case management process for those identified as at risk of self-harm or suicide.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 209829 209831 question first answered 24/01/2019 16:58:00 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1043085

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners given custodial sentences who were homeless before sentencing in Nottinghamshire in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	209862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data based on the total number of prisoners who were given custodial sentences in Nottinghamshire and were homeless before sentencing as this data isn’t held. Instead the following table sets out the number of people of no fixed abode serving sentences who had an origin address link to Nottinghamshire and who were held in prisons at intervals since 2015. It does not include those held on remand, who are held on a non-criminal basis or those held in immigration removal centres.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>March</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>June</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>September</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>December</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>149</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works to ensure that prisoners due to be released from prison have accommodation arranged for them upon release. It is recognised that securing suitable accommodation is a vital part of an offender's resettlement, and we are working collaboratively with other government departments and interested parties to ensure that we meet the accommodation needs for prisoners on their release. There are currently 100 Approved Premises (AP), providing over 2,200 bed spaces nationally. The recent introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 will also help facilitate resettlement for the prisoners back into areas without APs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018, launching a £100 million initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England. As part of this strategy, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), will be investing approximately £6m in a pilot scheme to support ex-offenders secure suitable accommodation upon release; the pilots will operate in HMPs Pentonville, Bristol and Leeds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 16:12:59 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1043157

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average length of prison sentences in (a) England and (b) Wales in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	209779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on average custodial sentence length (ACSL) in both England and Wales over the last six years can be viewed in the table.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/01/2019 16:33:39 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 209779 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1042269

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to respond to the letter of the hon. Member for Lincoln, of 5 October 2018, on issues at HMP Lincoln, reference MC062204.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	209399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The response was sent to you on 6 November 2018 and a further copy has been sent to your office.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 16:18:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee