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168066

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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