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810657

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were serving prison sentences in each of the last five years; and what the average cost to the public purse per prisoner was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	121002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service routinely publishes average costs per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales. Additionally, the prison population numbers are included within the published data. This information is produced on an annual basis and is published after the end of each financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Information on prison population and expenditure for previous financial years can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each financial year on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website. Prison unit costs can be found within the Excel document Costs per prison place and cost per prisoner by individual prison establishment in the ‘Cost by Establishment’ tab.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent published figures for financial year 2016-17 can be accessed on the www.gov.uk website from the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2016-to-2017</a></p><p>Within the costs per prison place and cost per prisoner 2016 to 2017 summary file, the figures for financial year 2015-16 have been restated to enable a more accurate comparison between the two years.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:43:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

810098

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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, what progress has been made on the implementation of a smoking ban on the prison estate in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	120564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>There are now 68 prisons smoke free. More prisons across England are currently preparing for the safe implementation of a smoke free environment during the next six months. All prisons in Wales are already smoke free.</p><p> </p><p>In every prison, the decision on when to go smoke free is only taken after careful planning and preparation to ensure it is operational safe to do so and all necessary healthcare support is available to help prisoners give up smoking.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:36:34 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

810100

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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, what assessment he has made on the effect of the implementation of the smoking ban in prisons on order and discipline in those prisons.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	120566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 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 (Readiness Assessments); 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>Maintaining order and control in our prisons is our priority and this large-scale 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 08/01/2018 17:38:20 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

810115

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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 steps his Department is taking to protect prison officers from exposure to new psychoactive substances.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	120581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>HMPPS’ priority is to reduce any potential use or secondary exposure to Psychoactive Substances (PS) by drug supply prevention, reduction and detection.</p><p> </p><p>Intelligence and security procedures are available to activate strategies including lock-down searches and the use of dog teams to detect and reduce supply. Co-operation and liaison with police and CPS at local and national level is also ongoing, to work on prosecutions and supply intelligence.</p><p> </p><p>In October health and safety guidance was published which brought together existing procedures for the control of exposure to all airborne contaminants in prisons.</p><p> </p><p>In order to establish an evidence-base for reported exposures to staff, experts have been appointed to undertake air sampling to identify and assess concentrations, if any, of PS in prison wings and this program is due to start as a pilot in one prison in January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS continues to monitor and investigate apparent adverse effects of PS exposure and to seek to ensure that methods to reduce supply are fully implemented.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/01/2018 11:43:49 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

810200

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of people losing custody of children following their recall to prison in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:38:56 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810201

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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 much was paid from the public purse in compensation to prison staff as a result of injuries suffered in a violent attack on the prison estate in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available until after the end of the financial year and subsequent audit process.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:41:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810205

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload per caseworker has been for each Community Rehabilitation Company in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Figures on the average caseload of probation officers are not collected centrally. A probation worker’s workload is not based solely on the number of cases they are managing, but the level of supervision required.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics showing the total caseload of the National Probation Service (NPS) and the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies. Figures for total probation caseload are published quarterly in the Offender Management Statistics Bulletin, England and Wales: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:45:26 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810206

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
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 29 November 2017 to Question 115581, if he will publish the recent internal review into the probation system with commercially sensitive sections redacted.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Given the significant commercial nature of the review of the probation system, it would be impractical to publish redacted versions of the documentation, which were never intended for publication.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/01/2018 17:40:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810209

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Long Lartin Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish the HMPPS investigation into the concerted indiscipline at HMP Long Lartin on 11 October 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not publish the Investigation reports into incidents of concerted indiscipline.</p><p> </p><p>The information could allow prisoners to adapt their behaviour in a way that could undermine or circumvent any recommendations within the reports. This would impact negatively on the Prison and Probation Services’ (HMPPS) ability to implement changes to security processes and procedures which will in turn increase the threat to good order and discipline and staff safety.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 120676 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:32:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

810210

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Civil Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish all HMPPS investigations conducted into incidents of concerted indiscipline since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	120676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not publish the Investigation reports into incidents of concerted indiscipline.</p><p> </p><p>The information could allow prisoners to adapt their behaviour in a way that could undermine or circumvent any recommendations within the reports. This would impact negatively on the Prison and Probation Services’ (HMPPS) ability to implement changes to security processes and procedures which will in turn increase the threat to good order and discipline and staff safety.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 120675 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:32:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon