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1364311

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the revenue to the Exchequer from inheritance tax in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	65411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2021 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) publishes its forecasts for receipts from Inheritance Tax (IHT) at each fiscal event in its ‘Economic and fiscal outlook’ publication. The most recent forecast was published alongside the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget, on 27 October 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The OBR’s forecast for IHT receipts received by HMRC is reproduced in the table below, for each of the next five full forecast years after the current year. The last two years of outturn receipts have also been included for comparison.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Basis</p></td><td><p>Tax Year</p></td><td><p>Receipts (£billions)</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Outturn</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>Forecast</p></td><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-24</p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024-25</p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2025-26</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2026-27</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: OBR <em>Economic and fiscal outlook</em>, Table 3.4: Current receipts: <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-october-2021/" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-october-2021/</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/11/2021 15:42:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1355524

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the amount the 1.25% increase in National Insurance Contributions will raise in the first year from 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	49105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>As set out in ‘Build Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care’, the net revenue from the Health and Social Care Levy will be around £11.4 billion a year, from 2022-23. A full costing of the policy will be certified by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/09/2021 13:06:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1301906

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what Departmental oversight is exercised over the decisions of the CPS Complex Casework Units.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	167187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Complex Casework Units (CCUs) undertake some of the most complex and serious casework handled by the CPS. A recent report published by Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCSPI) found that CCUs are staffed by highly dedicated, skilled and professional teams who deliver high quality casework, often in demanding circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>CCUs are overseen through a structure of experienced legal managers including Unit Heads, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutors and Chief Crown Prosecutors. The Report identified evidence of effective and regular meetings and conversations between lawyers and managers about casework. They also identified evidence of national oversight with the referral of relevant cases being made to Headquarters for consideration.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/03/2021 17:44:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1301912

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to increase public understanding of the law during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	167190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>Public understanding of the law is even more essential during this unique time when individuals are facing unprecedented challenges. Public legal education is vital to help people to understand the law, their rights, and their responsibilities, and I am proud to work closely with the legal and third sector as part of my Public Legal Education Committee to support and promote this work.</p><p> </p><p>The Attorney General’s Office has also recently supported Justice Week this year, delivered digitally at the start of March. It is a testament to the sector’s commitment to supporting the public in times of crisis that pro bono support and public legal education across the country has continued in spite of the COVID-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/03/2021 17:46:40 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1242897

registered interest
date	13/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his most recent estimate is of the number of (a) drug and (b) alcohol-dependent prisoners in the prison population in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	102764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to addressing substance misuse in prisons and therefore reducing reoffending from this cohort. NHS England/ Improvement are responsible for commissioning health services, including substance misuse treatment, in prisons and data on treatment in prisons is collected by Public Health England through the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System. We are working with health and justice partners through the National Partnership Agreement for Prison Healthcare in England 2018 to 2021 to address substance misuse in prisons.</p><p>The latest publication of Offender Needs in the <em>Identified needs of offenders in Custody and the Community from Offender Assessment System (OASys)</em> publication with data as at June 2018, found that 45% of offenders in custody with a full OASys assessment had a drugs misuse need and 17% assessed had an alcohol misuse need. It should be noted that not all offenders have ever been assessed and, for those who have been assessed, only the most recent full (termed Layer 3) assessment is retained, which includes a criminogenic need assessment.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/10/2020 16:13:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1200506

registered interest
date	04/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) remand and (b) convicted prisoners have died on the prison estate in each of the last five years, by ethnicity.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	54894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2020 answer text <p>Please see the attached table showing the number of prisoners who have died on the prison estate, by sentence type and ethnicity, from 2015 to 2019. Our condolences are with the family and friends of the prisoners who have died.</p><p>These figures are derived from the HMPPS Deaths in Prison Custody database. As classification of deaths may change following inquest or as new information emerges, numbers may change from time to time.</p><p>We have accepted and acted upon the vast majority of recommendations from Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigations into deaths in custody, and regularly disseminate the PPO’s thematic reports and lessons learned bulletins.</p><p>The Ministerial Board on Deaths in Custody is taking forward a programme of work aimed at minimising deaths in custody, and better supporting families if a death does occur.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/06/2020 13:45:48 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 54894.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1200509

registered interest
date	04/06/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoner officers are employed on the prison estate, by ethnicity.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	54897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2020 answer text <p>We have committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce and our target is to hire 14% of recruits from a BAME background by December 2020.</p><p>We have also conducted an independent review of the prison officer recruitment process and are implementing improvements to reduce the time and cost to hire, increase the diversity of new recruits and ensure we attract the right people with the right skills.</p><p>The number of band 3 to 5 prison officers in public sector prisons, by ethnicity as of 31<sup>st</sup> March 2020 is given in the following table.</p><p>Table 1- Number of Band 3 to 5 Prison Officers<sup>1 </sup>in post in public sector prisons, by Ethnicity<sup>2</sup>, as at 31st March 2020</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>332</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>623</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Ethnic Group</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>16,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>4,264</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>22,360</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes</p><p>1.Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p>2.Race is a self-declared, optional field.</p><p>3.Includes Chinese</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/06/2020 13:48:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1194562

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sexual assaults were committed on the prison estate by male-born prisoners who identify as women in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	45149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>Between 1 January and 31 December 2019, amongst the transgender people in custody who were born, and remain, legally male but self-identified as female there was the following involvement in sexual assaults:</p><ul><li>There was 1 sexual assault where someone who identified in this way was recorded as the assailant or suspected assailant;</li><li>There was 1 sexual assault where someone who identified in this way was recorded as a ‘fighter’ i.e. assault incidents in which there is no clear aggressor or victim; and</li><li>There were 11 sexual assaults where someone who identified in this way was recorded as the victim of the sexual assault.</li></ul><p>All of these assaults occurred in the male estate. All sexual assaults in prison are referred to the police and HMPPS have strong safeguards in place to manage risks to all those in custody, regardless of their gender.</p><p>HMPPS has robust processes in place to care for and manage transgender individuals in custody. The safety of all those in our care is of paramount importance. All known risks, both towards or presented by a transgender person in prison, will always be taken into account in their care and management. Individuals will be cared for and managed in the gender with which they identify, regardless of their location in a male or female prison.</p><p>An article in the Mail on Sunday on 10 May stated that the seven sexual assaults carried out by transgender prisoners between 2010 and 2018 in the women’s prison estate were by ‘trans women’ i.e. individuals who were born legally male but self-identified as female. This could not have been assumed from the data provided in response to that enquiry which covered the general definition of transgender, which includes not just those who were born male, but also, for example, those born as female who now identify as men, non-binary and intersex people.</p><p>Details of transgender prisoners were provided by public and private prisons in England and Wales, between 26 March 2019 and 24 April 2019 following an exercise to gather information from transgender individuals in custody. The figures give an estimate of the number of transgender prisoners based on that exercise and may underestimate the true number. Prisoners who have a full Gender Recognition Certificate are excluded from this dataset. Details of individuals who were identified within that dataset as having been born, and who remain, legally male but self-identified as female have been matched to the Incident Reporting System to provide the details of assaults in this response.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2020 15:24:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1187477

registered interest
date	24/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure security in prisons in the event that prison staff become infected with covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	34330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>COVID-19 presents a unique set of challenges that we must address in order to maintain the provision of services in custody. As ever, the safety of our staff and those in our care remains of primary concern, and we are doing all that we can to protect them. Prisons have existing, well-developed policies and procedures in place to manage outbreaks of infectious diseases. We have also been working closely with Public Health and NHS services to put robust contingency plans in place in response to the specific risks posed by COVID-19.</p><p>Prisons are currently operating under temporarily restricted regimes so we can implement the Government’s measures to encourage the public to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. Staff are being re-deployed, where appropriate, from headquarters into operational roles. The Government also recently announced an extension of testing to prison and probation staff. Staff who had been self-isolating because they or a member of their household have symptoms of coronavirus will be able to return to work where they test negative.</p><p>In recognition of the importance of continued contact with family and to ensure stability in our jails, the Government has moved quickly to keep prisoners in touch with their family members. Around 60% of the prison estate now has access to in-cell telephony and for those that do not, we have rolled out 900 locked mobile phone handsets.</p><p>We have also worked with Prison Education Framework providers and local prison teams to collate distraction packs and in-cell activities.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 27/04/2020 13:14:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1186174

registered interest
date	18/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to isolate (a) convicted and (b) remand prisoners on the prison estate in the event that those prisoners have symptoms of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	31487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2020 answer text <p>Prisons have existing, well-developed policies and procedures in place to manage outbreaks of infectious diseases. These policies and procedures are being built upon in response to the specific risks posed by COVID-19 and we have put in place robust contingency plans, which are informed by Public Health authorities. HMPPS has introduced a procedure for the protective isolation of both convicted and remand prisoners when it is considered that they may be potentially infected with the virus, this has been communicated to all prison staff.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/03/2020 13:20:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord