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1379100

registered interest
date	16/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on the suitability and safety of women prison officers carrying out their duties between the ages of 60 and 68.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	75877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>Prison officers need to be capable of performing specific tasks to a certain standard to ensure their safety and the safety of everyone else, including prisoners and work colleagues.</p><p> </p><p>All prison officers who joined after 1 April 2001 must pass an annual fitness test in order to remain in a prison officer role. Staff who do not meet the annual fitness test standard will be provided with advice and support by a fitness assessor on achieving and maintaining the required fitness level. Following an Occupational Health (OH) referral, management can discuss and consider options for redeployment to roles that don’t require the Prison Officer fitness level.</p><p> </p><p>There are many factors which determine a person’s ability to pass a fitness test which are often not determined by age, sex or gender alone. No adjustment to the fitness test is made based on age, sex or gender because they are not the determining factor on passing the test and fitness levels between employees of either sex or gender at all ages can vary. Adjustments are considered and may be offered on the advice of an occupational health practitioner.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/11/2021 14:47:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1378617

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pension Age
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the Prison Officers Association on the prison officer pension age.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	75116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>Soon after being appointed, I met the Prison Officer’s Association for our introductory meeting at which a range of issues were raised, including pension age. I intend to meet the POA and other trade unions regularly to discuss matters relating to staff welfare and working conditions.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/11/2021 12:10:29 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1378631

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of planned maintenance for HM Prisons in England and Wales in each year from 2012 to 2018.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	74977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/11/2021 13:05:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1367468

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison and Probation Service: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on (a) recruitment, (b) morale and (c) retention of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service staff of the Government’s pay policy for public-sector workers.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	72391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>Pay awards for this financial year across HMPPS are subject to the public sector pay pause, introduced by the Chancellor in 2020. This has assisted Government in protecting public sector jobs and investment in public services as Covid-19 continues to have an impact.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State announced the prison pay award on 19 October, which delivered a pay increase of £250 to those earning less than £24,000, and progression pay of up to 5% for those who are eligible. Even with the restrictions of public sector pay policy for this year, this year’s award sees over half of prison service staff receive an increase to their pay. My Department is also currently engaging with our recognised trade unions on the 2021/22 pay award for the Probation Service, which – like the prison pay award – will be backdated to April 2021.</p><p> </p><p>I welcome the Chancellor’s recent budget announcement regarding public sector pay, which will see public sector pay from 2022 return to a normal pay setting process. Following this announcement, we are developing proposals for a pay and reward package for all our staff over the coming years.</p><p><br> Recruitment and retention and morale are driven by a range of factors, including pay, staff health and wellbeing, leadership and line management, and how safe, secure and supported officers feel at work. When making decisions over pay, it is important that the department balances investment proportionally across these issues.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/11/2021 13:04:37 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1367585

registered interest
date	09/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department has provided to (a) local authorities in London, (b) The Mayor of London and (c) voluntary organisations in London to support their work in supporting refugees from Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	72476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office have provided a funding offer to support all local authorities who have bridging accommodation in their areas. For example, to provide enrolment in schools, integration into the community, handling of donations and registering with GPs.</p><p>Frequent and regular engagement is continuing between Home Office officials and Local Authorities with bridging hotels.</p><p>The Home Office worked closely with Voluntary Sectors Communities Emergency Partnership to provide crisis support in the first few weeks supporting Afghans just arriving into the UK and settling into local communities.</p><p>We are grateful for the continued support of Local Authorities, voluntary organisations and all those involved in the joint efforts as we work in partnership to fulfil our moral duty to those who have fled Afghanistan, many of whom have stood shoulder to shoulder with our armed forces and now seek a new life in the UK but ask local authorities who are able to consider what additional support they can provide so that all evacuated Afghans can be resettled.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/11/2021 15:27:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 33409 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1366880

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report, Out of sight: Girls in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate, published by Centre for Mental Health on 5 October 2021, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, (b) the Secretary of State for Education and (c) the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on steps that can be taken to improve early interventions in the community for girls at risk of involvement with the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	71301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>To better understand the needs and care pathways of girls in the youth secure estate, the Youth Custody Service and NHS England &amp; Improvement co-commissioned the Centre for Mental Health to undertake this report. We are considering all the recommendations carefully. The report will inform our strategy for girls and helping us to continue to build a gender-responsive approach to children in custody.</p><p> </p><p>HMI Prisons is conducting a thematic on girls in custody which will also feed into our strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is undertaking and supporting a range of community-based interventions to address underlying causes of offending behaviour by children and young people, including girls. MoJ ministerial and official engagement has contributed to, for example, DLUHC’s Supporting Families programme; DfE’s programmes (such as the Alternative Provision and the Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed taskforces) and on Family Hubs; and DHSC’s Long Term Plan rollout of the Community Integrated Care Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Custody should always be a last resort for all children. Measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will tighten the tests courts must apply in order to remand children in custody and will strengthen community sentencing options. This will better ensure that remand and short custodial sentences are only used for girls where necessary and appropriate. The department is also undertaking a review into youth remand and will publish its findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 71302 71304 71305 question first answered 19/11/2021 13:02:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1366881

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Remand in Custody: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report, Out of sight: Girls in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate, published by Centre for Mental Health on 5 October 2021, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of remand for girls.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	71302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>To better understand the needs and care pathways of girls in the youth secure estate, the Youth Custody Service and NHS England &amp; Improvement co-commissioned the Centre for Mental Health to undertake this report. We are considering all the recommendations carefully. The report will inform our strategy for girls and helping us to continue to build a gender-responsive approach to children in custody.</p><p> </p><p>HMI Prisons is conducting a thematic on girls in custody which will also feed into our strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is undertaking and supporting a range of community-based interventions to address underlying causes of offending behaviour by children and young people, including girls. MoJ ministerial and official engagement has contributed to, for example, DLUHC’s Supporting Families programme; DfE’s programmes (such as the Alternative Provision and the Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed taskforces) and on Family Hubs; and DHSC’s Long Term Plan rollout of the Community Integrated Care Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Custody should always be a last resort for all children. Measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will tighten the tests courts must apply in order to remand children in custody and will strengthen community sentencing options. This will better ensure that remand and short custodial sentences are only used for girls where necessary and appropriate. The department is also undertaking a review into youth remand and will publish its findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 71301 71304 71305 question first answered 19/11/2021 13:02:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1366883

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report, Out of sight: Girls in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate, published by Centre for Mental Health on 5 October 2021, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of the use of short custodial sentences for girls.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	71304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>To better understand the needs and care pathways of girls in the youth secure estate, the Youth Custody Service and NHS England &amp; Improvement co-commissioned the Centre for Mental Health to undertake this report. We are considering all the recommendations carefully. The report will inform our strategy for girls and helping us to continue to build a gender-responsive approach to children in custody.</p><p> </p><p>HMI Prisons is conducting a thematic on girls in custody which will also feed into our strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is undertaking and supporting a range of community-based interventions to address underlying causes of offending behaviour by children and young people, including girls. MoJ ministerial and official engagement has contributed to, for example, DLUHC’s Supporting Families programme; DfE’s programmes (such as the Alternative Provision and the Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed taskforces) and on Family Hubs; and DHSC’s Long Term Plan rollout of the Community Integrated Care Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Custody should always be a last resort for all children. Measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will tighten the tests courts must apply in order to remand children in custody and will strengthen community sentencing options. This will better ensure that remand and short custodial sentences are only used for girls where necessary and appropriate. The department is also undertaking a review into youth remand and will publish its findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 71301 71302 71305 question first answered 19/11/2021 13:02:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1366884

registered interest
date	08/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report, Out of sight: Girls in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate, published by the Centre for Mental Health on 5 October 2021, what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations in that report in relation to (a) girls from racialised communities in the children’s and young people’s secure estate, (b) transitions into the children's and young people's secure estate, (c) girls’ placement far from home, (d) gender-responsive approaches, (e) use of force/restraint with girls, (f) educational, vocational and growth opportunities, (g) self-harm, (h) transitions to adult settings, (i) transition to inpatient settings, (j) residential accommodation issues, (k) workforce issues, (l) girls from LGBTQ+ communities, (m) Mother and Baby Units for teenage girls and (n) research and data monitoring.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	71305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2021 answer text <p>To better understand the needs and care pathways of girls in the youth secure estate, the Youth Custody Service and NHS England &amp; Improvement co-commissioned the Centre for Mental Health to undertake this report. We are considering all the recommendations carefully. The report will inform our strategy for girls and helping us to continue to build a gender-responsive approach to children in custody.</p><p> </p><p>HMI Prisons is conducting a thematic on girls in custody which will also feed into our strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice is undertaking and supporting a range of community-based interventions to address underlying causes of offending behaviour by children and young people, including girls. MoJ ministerial and official engagement has contributed to, for example, DLUHC’s Supporting Families programme; DfE’s programmes (such as the Alternative Provision and the Support, Attend, Fulfil, Exceed taskforces) and on Family Hubs; and DHSC’s Long Term Plan rollout of the Community Integrated Care Framework.</p><p> </p><p>Custody should always be a last resort for all children. Measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will tighten the tests courts must apply in order to remand children in custody and will strengthen community sentencing options. This will better ensure that remand and short custodial sentences are only used for girls where necessary and appropriate. The department is also undertaking a review into youth remand and will publish its findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 71301 71302 71304 question first answered 19/11/2021 13:02:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown