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date	06/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Reform
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 effect of the revised completion date of the courts reform programme on (a) the cost of the programme and (b) the predicted date when the cumulative benefits of the programme are expected to be greater than the cumulative costs.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	229148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>Learning from the services that have already been delivered and the feedback received, we have decided to re-order aspects of the programme to allow more time to develop some of the shared systems that sit behind our next set of online services, working to an updated finish date of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The overall budget will remain unchanged. The cumulative benefits are expected to be greater than the cumulative costs from 2024/25, a year later than previously expected.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/04/2019 10:39:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 108025 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1082649

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how often (a) resettlement day release and (b) overnight release has been used in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Banbury
tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
uin	229233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The latest information available shows that in the 12 months to September 2018 there were 340,163 incidences of resettlement day release involving 7,232 individuals, and 19,107 incidences of resettlement overnight release involving 4,955 individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Data on release on temporary licence is published quarterly and can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Resettlement day and overnight release are the most common forms of release on temporary licence (ROTL) and allow suitable, risk assessed prisoners to be released to undertake activities linked to the sentence plan that will ease their transition back to the community. There is promising international evidence to suggest that temporary release is associated with better post release employment outcomes, as well as lower re-arrest rates, return to custody rates, and re-imprisonment rates.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ published research in 2018 entitled ‘The reoffending impact of increased release of prisoners on temporary licence’ showed that for those given ROTL in the six month period leading up to release, increased use of it during this period was associated with reduced reoffending. After controlling for some other variables that might influence prisoner’s outcomes (such as demographic characteristics, offending history and prior ROTL failure)</p><p>- Each additional Resettlement Day Release was associated with 0.5% reduced odds of reoffending over a one-year follow-up period</p><p>- Each additional Resettlement Overnight Release was associated with 5% reduced odds of reoffending over a one-year follow-up period</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 229237 question first answered 15/03/2019 14:56:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

1082653

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
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 of the effect of (a) resettlement day release and (b) overnight release on resettlement outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Banbury
tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
uin	229237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The latest information available shows that in the 12 months to September 2018 there were 340,163 incidences of resettlement day release involving 7,232 individuals, and 19,107 incidences of resettlement overnight release involving 4,955 individuals.</p><p> </p><p>Data on release on temporary licence is published quarterly and can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Resettlement day and overnight release are the most common forms of release on temporary licence (ROTL) and allow suitable, risk assessed prisoners to be released to undertake activities linked to the sentence plan that will ease their transition back to the community. There is promising international evidence to suggest that temporary release is associated with better post release employment outcomes, as well as lower re-arrest rates, return to custody rates, and re-imprisonment rates.</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ published research in 2018 entitled ‘The reoffending impact of increased release of prisoners on temporary licence’ showed that for those given ROTL in the six month period leading up to release, increased use of it during this period was associated with reduced reoffending. After controlling for some other variables that might influence prisoner’s outcomes (such as demographic characteristics, offending history and prior ROTL failure)</p><p>- Each additional Resettlement Day Release was associated with 0.5% reduced odds of reoffending over a one-year follow-up period</p><p>- Each additional Resettlement Overnight Release was associated with 5% reduced odds of reoffending over a one-year follow-up period</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 229233 question first answered 15/03/2019 14:56:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

1082683

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crematoriums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list all the crematoria in England operating within the 50-yard requirement of Section 5 of the Cremation Act 1902.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	229086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Section 5 of the Cremation Act 1902 requires that a crematorium must be sited at least 50 yards from a public highway. It is a criminal offence for cremation to take place at a crematorium which does not meet this requirement.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not keep a record of whether individual crematoria comply with this requirement.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/03/2019 14:58:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant