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168066

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Civil Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison (a) riots and (b) acts of concerted indiscipline there were in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	217216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The term &quot;riot&quot; is not a category that is used to record incidents in prison. Incidents where two or more prisoners act together to defy a lawful instruction or against the requirements of the regime of the establishment are all recorded as Concerted Indiscipline.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the number of reported incidents of concerted indiscipline between January 2010 and September 2014.</p><p>Concerted indiscipline incidents vary widely in nature and duration and many of these incidents are relatively minor and of short duration and cause little disruption to the prison regime.</p><p> </p><p>Only a very small number of these incidents are serious enough to require external support from specialist intervention teams and the number of such interventions has not increased over recent years.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Concerted Indiscipline, by year, January 2010 to September 2014</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014 (to 30th September)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Concerted Indiscipline</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system</em></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/12/2014 17:42:50 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

168068

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Sports
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 average number of hours per week offenders in (a) youth custody institutions and (b) adult prisons were physically active in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	217230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>All prisons are required to provide physical education (PE). The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) promotes participation in activities supervised and organised as part of an establishment’s agreed PE programme. Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 58/2001 <em>Physical Education for Prisoners</em> specifies the requirement for prisons to offer a range of sport and gym based activity for a minimum of two and half hours a week.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the NOMS’ Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme covers a range of privileges including how prisoners may earn additional time outside of their cells to engage in activities (other than work, education, treatment interventions or religious services) such as PE. Prisons are encouraged to provide a range of physical activities that suit the particular population balance within resources/facilities available.</p><p> </p><p>It is also important to note that the design for the new Secure College Pathfinder includes enhanced sports facilities, including a running track, indoor gym hall and gym classroom. The range of facilities reflects the importance we place on physical education, sport and outdoor activities as part of an environment which is suitable for young people and an integral part of a sound and challenging education.</p><p> </p><p>Specific data on the number of hours a prisoner engages in physical activity is not available as this varies by individual prison and prisoner depending on the IEP level the prisoner is on, the behaviour of the individual, the availability of constructive activities and supervisory staff.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS recognises the importance physical activity plays in the overall well-being of prisoners and the effect PE can have on supporting other programmes designed to reduce offending behaviour.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/12/2014 17:50:19 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

168074

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
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, how many people in each age group have been admitted to prison in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	217246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Annual information on receptions of offenders into prison establishments in England and Wales is published routinely in the Annual Tables of the ‘Offender Management Statistics Quarterly bulletin’ and can be found in Table A2.4. Copies of the publication are available from the Library of the House and via the following link:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305747/2013-Annual.zip" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305747/2013-Annual.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/305747/2013-Annual.zip</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/12/2014 17:59:30 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

167826

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners on Remand: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been remanded from courts in North Wales into police cells in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	216974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not collected centrally in this form. To provide it, we would need to undertake a manual examination of individual records of prisoner journeys in North Wales. This could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>Police cells are not normally used to accommodate prisoners remanded or sentenced by the courts. However, circumstances can exceptionally occur – for example where there is major traffic disruption owing to bad weather or other causes – in which it is not possible, at the end of the court proceedings, to complete a journey to a prison in the time available.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 08/12/2014 14:42:59 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

167828

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
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 effectiveness of out-sourcing probation services in reducing re-offending rates.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	217027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Our Transforming Rehabilitation reforms will tackle the problem of persistently high reoffending rates by opening up the delivery of rehabilitation services to a diverse range of public, private and voluntary sector providers. Providers will only be paid in full if they are successful at reducing reoffending. We are also putting in place an unprecedented ‘through the gate’ resettlement service giving most offenders continuous support by one provider from custody into the community. Rehabilitation support is also being extended to an extra 45,000 offenders on sentences of less than 12 months, who currently get no support on release and have the highest reoffending rates.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the reforms, transition to new probation structures took place on 1 June 2014 and the National Probation Service and 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies are now live. The 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies remain in public ownership while the competition to establish their new owners progresses. We will be able to assess the impact of the reforms on reoffending rates once we have transitioned service provision to the new providers.</p><p> </p><p>A significant step towards completing these reforms was taken on 5 December as we awarded contracts to the organisations that will lead a new approach to rehabilitation. There was strong competition for each of the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies, with bids showing real innovation. Nineteen of the 21 contract areas will be led by new partnerships and joint ventures between private sector firms and some of Britain’s biggest and most successful rehabilitation charities. Six will be run with the involvement of a probation staff “mutual”. We expect new providers to be in place by early next year, in line with the Government’s commitment to introduce these reforms by 2015.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 08/12/2014 15:16:35 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

167547

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Islam
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Muslim prisoners there are in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	216881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Information on the number of offenders in prison by self-declared religion (including Islam) in England and Wales is published routinely in the ‘Offender Management Statistics Quarterly bulletin’ and can be found in Table 1.5. Copies of the publication are available from the Library of the House and via the following link:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368442/prison-population-q3-2014.xls" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368442/prison-population-q3-2014.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368442/prison-population-q3-2014.xls</a></p><p>Please note that the religion of prisoners is self declared and prisoners are under no obligation to declare their religion.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 05/12/2014 14:53:50 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

167121

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Offending Teams
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 24 November 2014 to Question 215236, by what date he plans to finalise the details of the Youth Offending Team stocktake.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) play a key part in the youth justice system and the Government recognises their valuable contribution to the recent successes of the system. The Ministry of Justice is working closely with the Youth Justice Board to finalise the details of a stocktake to establish how the YOT model is operating and how YOTs have evolved in light of the changing circumstances surrounding the delivery of local youth justice services. We anticipate that the details of the stocktake will be finalised in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 04/12/2014 17:19:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

167123

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
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 many recalled determinate sentenced offenders are (a) under 18, (b) between 18 and 21, (c) over 60, (d) suffering from a physical disability, (e) suffering from mental illness, including learning disability, (f) pregnant, (g) BME, (h) male and (i) female.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>All recalled determinate sentence offenders will have protected characteristics as defined within the Equality Act 2010. This is because protected characteristics include, for example, gender and sexual orientation, which are universally held characteristics.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the total number of determinate sentence offenders whose licences were revoked during the period 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014 and who were given either a standard recall or a fixed term recall. The data are broken down by gender, ethnicity and age group.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold data centrally on the number of offenders within this group who had either a physical disability, mental impairment, learning disability or who were pregnant at the point at which they were recalled. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of individual prisoner case files and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p /> <p /> <p><strong>Table 1: Number of Determinate Sentenced Prisoners who were Licence Recalls in 2013-14, broken down by Gender</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Gender</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>16,362</p></td><td><p>96%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>720</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>17,082</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Number of Determinate Sentenced Prisoners who were Licence Recalls in 2013-14, broken down by Ethnicity</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Ethnicity</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Declared BME</p></td><td><p>2,897</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>of which</em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Declared Asian or Asian British</em></p></td><td><p><em>658</em></p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Declared Black or Black British</em></p></td><td><p><em>1,469</em></p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Declared Chinese and Other Ethnic Groups</em></p></td><td><p><em>70</em></p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Declared Mixed Ethnic Groups</em></p></td><td><p><em>700</em></p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Declared White</p></td><td><p>14,109</p></td><td><p>83%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Not Declared</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Total</p></td><td><p>17,082</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 3: Number of Determinate Sentenced Prisoners who were Licence Recalls in 2013-14, broken down by Age</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Age Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-17</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18-20</p></td><td><p>1501</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21-24</p></td><td><p>3541</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>3631</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-39</p></td><td><p>5493</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-49</p></td><td><p>2277</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-59</p></td><td><p>497</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60+</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>17,082</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 216708 question first answered 04/12/2014 17:50:56 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

167124

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Youth Custody
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 24 November 2014 to Question 215244, what proportion each individual ethnic group cited in that Answer represented of the total number of offenders in youth custody in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>The proportion of young people in the youth secure estate from each ethnic group was set out in PQ 215983 which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=215983" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=215983</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 04/12/2014 16:46:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

167125

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
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, if he will publish the evidence used in his assessment of the equality impact of his legislative proposals to create a system of recall adjudicators to review the detention of recalled determinate sentenced offenders.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice has considered the equality impact of the recall adjudicator provisions, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. There is no requirement to publish the evidence that was considered.</p><p> </p><p>I should like to reassure the honourable Member that implementation of the new system of recall adjudicators will be subject to ongoing equality considerations as details of new model are developed.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 04/12/2014 17:39:50 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis