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76898

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the status is of each prison building and site for prisons closed since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>We are determined to drive down the cost of running our prisons. That is why we are replacing older accommodation that is expensive to run with newer, cheaper and more efficient accommodation that will provide better value for money for taxpayers by reducing prison costs significantly.</p><p> </p><p>Where surplus prison sites have been identified we will look to dispose of them expeditiously.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Status of each prison building and site closed since May 2010</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Former Prison Name</p></td><td><p>Status</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Ashwell</p></td><td><p>Sold on 14 December 2012.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Lancaster Castle</p></td><td><p>Lancaster Castle was leased from the Duchy of Lancaster. The lease was surrendered to the Duchy.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Latchmere</p></td><td><p>Sold on 29 April 2013.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Canterbury</p></td><td><p>Sold on 1 April 2014.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Brockhill (formed part of HMP Hewell)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>On the market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Wellingborough</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Decommissioned.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Bullwood Hall</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Under offer.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Gloucester</p><p> </p></td><td><p>On the market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Kingston</p><p> </p></td><td><p>On the market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Shepton Mallet</p><p> </p></td><td><p>On the market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Shrewsbury</p></td><td><p>On the market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Dorchester</p><p> </p></td><td><p>On the market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Camp Hill – part of the Isle of Wight cluster</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Preparing for disposal (including discussions with Local Authority)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Blundeston</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Preparing for disposal (including discussions with Local Authority)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Northallerton</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Preparing for disposal (including discussions with Local Authority)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Reading</p></td><td><p>Preparing for disposal (including discussions with Local Authority)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/07/2014 16:45:04 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

76899

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service
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 former prison staff who will be members of Her Majesty's Prison Service Reserve.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service has written to 2066 selected former officers who left during the past two years, inviting them to volunteer for a fixed term contract of up to nine months.</p><p> </p><p>There is no limit on, or estimate of, the number of former officers who may be accepted to join the HMPS Reserve.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions for the repayment of voluntary exit payments upon re-appointment are defined by the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. Information on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme is available on the Civil Service website at: <a href="http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions" target="_blank">http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 204694 204696 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:48:01 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

76900

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to how many former prison staff his Department has written on the formation of Her Majesty's Prison Service Reserve.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service has written to 2066 selected former officers who left during the past two years, inviting them to volunteer for a fixed term contract of up to nine months.</p><p> </p><p>There is no limit on, or estimate of, the number of former officers who may be accepted to join the HMPS Reserve.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions for the repayment of voluntary exit payments upon re-appointment are defined by the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. Information on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme is available on the Civil Service website at: <a href="http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions" target="_blank">http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 204693 204696 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:48:02 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

76901

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether spaces in segregation units and in hospital or medical wings count towards a prison's certified normal accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Prison Service Instruction 17/2012 “Certified Prisoner Accommodation” which is published on the Ministry of Justice website <a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/psis/prison-service-instructions-2012" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/offenders/psis/prison-service-instructions-2012</a> sets out that Deputy Directors of Custody (DDCs) are responsible for determining which accommodation is not included in baseline Certified Normal Accommodation, based on operational issues and other management considerations.</p><p> </p><p>The Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA) of a prison is its uncrowded capacity. General guidance within PSI 17/2012 sets out that baseline Certified Normal Accommodation is the sum total of all certified accommodation in an establishment except, normally: cells in segregation units and healthcare cells or rooms in training prisons and Young Offender Institutions that are not routinely used to accommodate long stay patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/07/2014 16:47:15 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

76902

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether former prison staff recruited to Her Majesty's Prison Service Reserve will be liable to return all or part of any severance or redundancy packages they received.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service has written to 2066 selected former officers who left during the past two years, inviting them to volunteer for a fixed term contract of up to nine months.</p><p> </p><p>There is no limit on, or estimate of, the number of former officers who may be accepted to join the HMPS Reserve.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions for the repayment of voluntary exit payments upon re-appointment are defined by the Civil Service Compensation Scheme. Information on the Civil Service Compensation Scheme is available on the Civil Service website at: <a href="http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions" target="_blank">http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/pensions</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 204693 204694 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:48:02 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

66157

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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, whether his Department will impose a cap on the number of contracts any one bidder can be awarded to undertake the work of the 21 community rehabilitation companies.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>The Transforming Rehabilitation Programme is opening up the market to a diverse range of new providers, so that we can harness the best that the private and voluntary sectors have to offer to reduce reoffending. The competition to award contracts to run the new Community Rehabilitation Companies is ongoing and in June we received bids from potential providers. We are committed to rolling out these important reforms by 2015.</p><p>The Government has been clear that we want to see a diverse market delivering probation services, rather than being dominated by just a few providers. We have set a market share restriction whereby bidders can win a maximum of 25% of market share based on the indicative contract values set out in the competition documentation. Bidders will be allowed to win multiple contracts up to the point at which their market share cap would be breached subject to meeting any other requirements set out by the Authority.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 204268 question first answered 10/07/2014 16:24:35 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

66160

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many books there are in HM Prison (a) Leeds and (b) Wakefield.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	204166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is not held centrally and would need to be obtained and collated through enquiries at each prison. This would require a manual search of all cells and all other areas where books might be held. This would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/07/2014 07:59:49 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

66161

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Secure Colleges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether secure colleges will contain segregation units.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	204372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We have not instructed Wates, the preferred bidder for the design and build of the pathfinder Secure College, to include a segregation unit in the designs.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 15/07/2014 08:57:44 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

66163

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners committed suicide in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	204365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of self-inflicted deaths in prison custody for the last 10 years is published in the Safety in Custody statistical bulletin which is available at <a title="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are working hard to manage the levels of self-harm in prison and are carefully investigating the rise in self-inflicted deaths.</p><p> </p><p>We are applying strenuous efforts to learn from each one and providing further resources and support to prisons to help support their safer custody work.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/07/2014 16:12:02 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

66169

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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 maximum share of the total contract value for community rehabilitation companies any one successful bidder will be able to be awarded.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	204268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>The Transforming Rehabilitation Programme is opening up the market to a diverse range of new providers, so that we can harness the best that the private and voluntary sectors have to offer to reduce reoffending. The competition to award contracts to run the new Community Rehabilitation Companies is ongoing and in June we received bids from potential providers. We are committed to rolling out these important reforms by 2015.</p><p>The Government has been clear that we want to see a diverse market delivering probation services, rather than being dominated by just a few providers. We have set a market share restriction whereby bidders can win a maximum of 25% of market share based on the indicative contract values set out in the competition documentation. Bidders will be allowed to win multiple contracts up to the point at which their market share cap would be breached subject to meeting any other requirements set out by the Authority.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 204265 question first answered 10/07/2014 16:24:35 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan