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1433848

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of data held by his Department on the number of adult safeguarding concerns recorded in prisons.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	126601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>It is essential that safeguarding concerns regarding prisoners are recorded and acted upon. Action needs to be taken at local level, so the information requested is held within establishments. A variety of different systems and processes are used for this purpose. As records are held locally rather than centrally, to gather the information requested it would be necessary to make individual enquiries of every prison establishment, and this could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 126602 question first answered 24/02/2022 17:23:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1433851

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adult safeguarding concerns were recorded in prisons in England in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	126602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>It is essential that safeguarding concerns regarding prisoners are recorded and acted upon. Action needs to be taken at local level, so the information requested is held within establishments. A variety of different systems and processes are used for this purpose. As records are held locally rather than centrally, to gather the information requested it would be necessary to make individual enquiries of every prison establishment, and this could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 126601 question first answered 24/02/2022 17:23:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1422984

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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 estimate she has made of (a) the number of Afghan nationals resettled under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme who have higher education qualifications and (b) the proportion of that number who acquired those qualifications in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	125553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6th January. The ACRS will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>Afghans who are eligible under ACRS or ARAP are working with job centre work coaches to assess their readiness for the jobs market, including their skills and qualifications.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/02/2022 17:45:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1423047

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how insecure and temporary accommodation for women leaving prison is accounted for in his Department's data of accommodation outcomes for former female offenders.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	125416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>To ensure consistent and accurate data recording, HMPPS, in collaboration with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing &amp; Communities (DLUHC) and the Welsh Government, has recently updated the Accommodation Recording Guidance to ensure Probation regions have a clear and consistent understanding of the accommodation status definitions, and how to record accurately. The Guidance defines homelessness as where an individual is rough sleeping, squatting, residing in night shelters, emergency hostels or campsites. Individuals with other forms of temporary, short-term or otherwise unstable accommodation is encompassed by the ‘unsettled accommodation’ category in published statistics.</p><p>As part of our commitment to eliminate rough sleeping, we are working across Government, with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), the Welsh Government and other Government Departments, to address the barriers offenders face in securing suitable accommodation.</p><p>Our Prisons White Paper sets out our vision that no-one subject to probation supervision is released from prison homeless. We will invest £200 million a year by 2024-25 to improve prison leavers’ access to accommodation, employment support, and substance misuse treatment. We are also delivering on our manifesto commitment to launch a new Prisoner Education Service, so that prisoners can gain the qualifications and skills they need to gain employment on release. By focusing on the factors we know reduce reoffending – employability, maintaining ties with family, accommodation, support through the gates and tackling substance misuse – we can help prison leavers resettle successfully in the community and turn their backs on crime.</p><p>Accommodation circumstances for offenders are reported annually as official statistics. Data for the period 01 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 will be published in July 2022 in the Community Performance Annual report.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/02/2022 16:56:45 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

1423305

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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, if he will publish his estimated projections for the number of prisoners expected to be housed by Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	125186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>This prison population projections (for England and Wales from July 2021 to March 2026) are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2021-to-2026" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2021-to-2026</a>.</p><p>Please refer to table 1.1 of the statistical tables for the total prison population projection for each year.</p><p>We are committed to building as many prison places as we need.</p><p>We are investing £3.8 billion over the next three years to deliver 20,000 additional, modern prison places including 2,000 temporary prison places across England and Wales by the mid-2020s. This includes the new prison in Northamptonshire, HMP Five Wells, which received its first prisoners on 4 February 2022 and provides c1700 places.</p><p>These additional prison places will ensure we meet our commitments to deliver a robust and fit for purpose prison estate.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/02/2022 16:59:46 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1421960

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2022 to Question 98220 on English language support for refugees, whether the Operation Warm Welcome programme for Afghan arrivals in the UK following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan still covers the costs of English language classes.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	122684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>For those coming through both the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) and the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), once granted Indefinite Leave to Remain, beneficiaries over the age of 19 have immediate access to funding through the Department for Education’s Adult Education budget including English For Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses.</p><p>As part of Operation Warm Welcome, the funding package offered to Local Authorities, who have pledged support to the ARAP and ACRS cohort, is additional funding of £850 per adult over the age of 19 which will be made available to assist with English Language training.</p><p>This funding is available for the first year in country.</p><p>Resources from the BBC can be found here <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/afghan_beginners" target="_blank">BBC Learning English - Beginners English</a>. The Open University has curated a series of short courses especially English provision and other resources for refugees. It is free to all and available at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.open.edu%2Fopenlearn%2Fsociety-politics-law%2Fresources-refugees&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHOParliamentaryQuestions%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc75f812623c449d05a3b08d9f55b7599%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637810595431191348%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=YixvjsOeAPCmeMEXoYWry2LO9AyfFzEXHTieOF4ovmw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/resources-refugees</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/02/2022 17:22:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1421241

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners across the prison estate have access to in-cell laptops.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	121760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>Approximately 4,900 prisoners have access to in cell laptops over nine establishments which includes four Youth Custody Service sites.</p><p>Currently a further six establishments are planned to be given access to laptops during 2022 which equates to approximately 4,200 prisoners.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 121761 question first answered 21/02/2022 16:46:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1421242

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are planned to be given access to laptops.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	121761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>Approximately 4,900 prisoners have access to in cell laptops over nine establishments which includes four Youth Custody Service sites.</p><p>Currently a further six establishments are planned to be given access to laptops during 2022 which equates to approximately 4,200 prisoners.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 121760 question first answered 21/02/2022 16:46:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1421243

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding his Department plans to provide for the purpose of giving prisoners access to laptops.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	121762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>The project is currently funded to complete deployment to 15 prisons; 9 of which have already been done and 6 to be completed during 2022.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/02/2022 17:17:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1421245

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) functionality and (b) software is included on laptops available to prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	121763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>Prisoners have access on their laptops to transactional services which provides self service capability, such as menu and canteen ordering, e-mail a prisoner and topping up pin-phone credit, as well as Content Hub, which is software developed in-house by one of our MoJ Digital and Technology teams. This provides secure access to a tightly controlled selection of digital services and includes a range of appropriate educational, vocational, mental health and wellbeing (such as combating addiction) content.</p><p>Users of these devices do not have access to the internet and multiple layers of security protection ensure services and devices are secure. Automated monitoring is in place to ensure any suspicious activity is detected and investigated.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/02/2022 16:49:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed