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date	02/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the waiting time is for a prisoner to be categorised at HM Prison Belmarsh.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	207875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) policy on prisoner categorisation is set out in Prison Service Instruction 40/11 (Categorisation and Re-categorisation of adult male offenders). Policy requires that all adult male prisoners are assigned a security category within four working days of the prison receiving the information required for the assessment.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 10/09/2014 14:51:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

90351

registered interest
date	02/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of days was that a prisoner was held in HM Prison Belmarsh after being categorised as Category D before being moved to another prison in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	207876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) policy on prisoner categorisation is set out in Prison Service Instruction 40/11 (Categorisation and Re-categorisation of adult male offenders). Policy requires that all adult male prisoners are assigned a security category within four working days of the prison receiving the information required for the assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the average number of days that a Category D prisoner is held in Belmarsh pending allocation to a Category D prison is not held centrally or routinely collated so could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Allocation will, in most cases, take longer than the categorisation process as it is based on a more thorough assessment of individual prisoner risks and sentence management needs. This must be completed before a prisoner is transferred to open conditions. It is not unusual for prisoners who have been recategorised to a lower category to be held in a prison of a higher security category pending further assessment; or, for example, where there is need to complete medical treatment or courses.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 10/09/2014 15:02:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

90353

registered interest
date	02/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Belmarsh Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are held in HM Prison Belmarsh awaiting categorisation.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	207874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) policy on prisoner categorisation is set out in three Prison Service Instructions. Policy requires that all prisoners are assigned a security category on a range of factors including the basis of an assessment of the likelihood that they will try to escape and the risk of harm to the public in the event that they succeed in escaping. Once they are categorised, prisoners are allocated to a prison with that or higher category.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The risk assessment that informs the categorisation decision takes into account the nature of an individual’s index offence, length of sentence, history of offending and previous intelligence relating to escape.</p><p>The numbers of prisoners awaiting categorisation changes regularly at prisons with a local function as new prisoners are received and assessments are completed. It is possible for categorisation assessments to build up quickly at prisons with 50 to 100 prisoner movements through reception daily. Belmarsh currently has 25 prisoners awaiting categorisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 10/09/2014 14:46:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce