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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

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

1042375

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	Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the correlation between homelessness on release from prison and reoffending rates among prisoners serving sentences of under a year.
tabling member constituency	Banbury
tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
uin	209384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Published statistics for 2017/18 showing the accommodation status for all offenders released from custody and offenders on community sentences can be viewed here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/729062/accommodation-cirumstances-tables-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/729062/accommodation-cirumstances-tables-2018.xlsx.</a></p><p>Everyone leaving custody should have a safe and suitable home to go to on release.</p><p>As part of the Government initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England, we will invest up to £6.4 million in a pilot scheme to help ex-offenders into accommodation from three prisons, namely Bristol, Pentonville and Leeds. The pilots will specifically focus on male prisoners who have served shorter sentences of under 12 months, who have been identified as having a risk of homelessness.</p><p>Furthermore, as of 1 October 2018, Prisons and Probation providers have had a “Duty to Refer” anyone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to the Local Authority. Following a referral, Local Authorities are then required to make an assessment, meaning offenders can receive meaningful housing assistance at an earlier stage irrespective of their priority need.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 17:57:40 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

1041709

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison
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 17 September 2018 to Question 171719 on Berwyn Prison, how many prisoners are engaged in work or learning and skills for more than 30 hours a week.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The offer of activities at HMP Berwyn has developed alongside the population increase and availability will continue to increase as the population grows. As of Wednesday 16 January 2019, 925 (73-74%) prisoners have chosen to engage in work or learning and skills on a full-time basis and 25 part-time.</p><p> </p><p>Full time hours for prisoners at HMP Berwyn equates to nine sessions per week, which is a total of 28 ¼ hours.</p><p> </p><p>The aim is to offer a variety of work and education activities to all prisoners throughout the core day. This purposeful activity offers the chance to gain new skills that will help them for the rest of their lives. Together with our partners, we hope prisoners gain the skills, qualifications and work ethic to improve their employment prospects upon release in to the community and reduce their chances of reoffending.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 11:25:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041710

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison: North Wales Fire and Rescue Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service has been called to HMP Berwyn each year since that prison opened.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>At HMP Berwyn we work closely with partners such as the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service. On each occasion, fires were extinguished by the time the fire service arrived to the prison.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The number of occasions the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service have been called to HMP Berwyn each year can be found in the table below:</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of incidents – Fire</strong><sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>0 to date</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>1) Figures include fire related incidents that were false alarms 2) To January 2019</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 17:51:09 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041712

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers in positions as frontline operational staff at HMP Berwyn (a) by each prison block and (b) deployed in the care and separation unit have (i) less than two years experience and (ii) less than one year experience.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>It is important to emphasise that Berwyn is a new prison, and so no-one by definition could have worked at Berwyn before it opened in February 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The number of band 3-5 officers in post in HMP Berwyn with (i) less than one year experience and (ii) less than two years’ experience is provided in table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Band 3-5 officers<sup>1</sup> in post at HMP Berwyn, by length of service<sup>2</sup>, as at 30 September 2018</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Full-time equivalent</p></td><td><p>Percentage (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than one year experience</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than two years’ experience</p></td><td><p>209</p></td><td><p>53.9</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup> </sup> <sup>1</sup> Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>2</sup> 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. Although front line staff are assigned to work in certain areas at HMP Berwyn we are unable to breakdown the information (a) by each prison block and (b) deployed in the care and separation unit. All frontline staff could be deployed to work in any part of the prison on a daily basis.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 10:21:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041717

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison: Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many requests for transfers out of HMP Berwyn have been made by prisoners in each year since that prison opened.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>At HMP Berwyn, there are currently 250 active requests recorded on the system that have been made by prisoners to transfer to other prisons in England and Wales. This information cannot be broken down per year as requested and includes transfer requests that remain active but:</p><ul><li><p>The receiving prison does not accept the transfer request</p></li><li><p>The transfer cannot be made due to restrictions, or</p></li><li><p>The prisoner changes their mind.</p></li></ul><p>All of the above stay as active request in the Offender Management department at HMP Berwyn until either a transfer to another prison occurs or the prisoner is released.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 17:51:37 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041718

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff at HMP Berwyn are on (a) short term sick leave, (b) long-term sick leave, and (c) restricted duty.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>As at 30 September 2018, there were 609 (FTE) staff In Berwyn; of these 141 were non-operational and 468 were operational (of which 387 were Prison Officers). The recorded figures for September 2018 for staff sickness are reported as (a) 11 for short term sick leave, (b) 15 long-term sick leave, and (c) 14 restricted duty, inclusive of six maternity related restrictions.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting the health of all our employees which is why we have implemented a strategy designed to identify the causes of stress and ensure help is in place. We have recruited more than 4,300 officers since October to further ease the burden on our staff in prisons, and have simultaneously given them the biggest pay rise in a decade to better reflect their hard work.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst staff sickness at HMP Berwyn is below the national target, the recent appointment of a dedicated resource to manage processes around sickness has begun to demonstrate an improvement in this area.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 17:49:47 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041266

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff have been deployed as part of the 10 Prisons Programme from other areas of the prison estate; and if he will list those numbers of staff by prison they have been deployed from.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>When we need temporary deployment of experienced or specialist staff, we have in place a well-established Detached Duty scheme which ensures the prisons sending staff have the necessary resources to do so safely.</p><p> </p><p>As an extension of this scheme, we are planning to temporarily transfer 31 staff members from the wider prison estate to support the 10 Prisons Project. The supporting prisons were identified as those best placed to assist based on a risk-assessment of resource levels.</p><p> </p><p>We have also provided additional funding for several additional staff in the 10 Prisons to lead their Drugs Strategies, improve searching and work with extra drug-detection dogs that we’ve provided.</p><p> </p><p>A list of prisons providing supporting staff to the 10 Prisons Project is provided below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. supplied</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brinsford</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckley Hall</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bullingdon</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dartmoor</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastwood Park</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Erlestoke</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frankland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Full Sutton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Garth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gartree</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grendon &amp; Springhill</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hatfield</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highpoint</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holme House</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster Farms</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Littlehey</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidstone</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Risley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stocken</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke Heath</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whatton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whitemoor</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wymott</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 17:56:07 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 96839 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041292

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has commissioned on the routes which are used to bring contraband into prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	208329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Our national, regional and prison-level intelligence teams and our Security Risk Unit build a picture of how various forms of contraband, including drugs and mobile phones, enter our prisons. In March last year we further augmented this capability by investing £14 million in intelligence teams and new serious and organised crime teams to work closely with the Home Office, National Crime Agency and police forces.</p><p> </p><p>The research paper <em>The Demand for and Use of Illicit Phones in Prisons </em>published in 2018 also explains that illicit mobile phones can enter prisons in a number of ways. This can be viewed <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/726874/The_demand_for_and_use_of_illicit_phones_in_prison_web_.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Our security counter-measures then assist us to stop contraband from entering prisons, retrieve it and thereby frustrate illicit trade and further criminal activity within the prison. Most recently we have moved to draft specialist search teams into prisons across England and Wales, and invested £7 million to enhance security through scanners, improved searching techniques and phone blocking technology.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 17:56:56 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 96840 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon