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170519

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Just Solutions International is a contractor or a sub-contractor in the current electronic monitoring contract.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Just Solutions International is neither a contractor nor a sub-contractor with regards to current electronic monitoring contracts.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 18/12/2014 15:44:38 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169881

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts his Department has awarded to Just Solutions International in each of the last five years; what the value and length of each such contract is; and with whom in his Department each such contract was signed.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>No contracts have been awarded to Just Solutions International in each of the last five years.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/12/2014 16:41:30 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169882

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to which companies Capita are sub-contracting under its electronic monitoring contract with his Department.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Capita is currently providing electronic monitoring services under an interim contract while the new contracts are mobilised. Capita subcontracts with a number of companies to deliver these services; namely, G4S, Serco, Lex Autolease, Nacro, Vodafone and TNT Express.</p><p> </p><p>Under these transitional arrangements, Capita is responsible for managing the electronic monitoring service using the equipment and systems inherited from G4S and Serco. The involvement of the former suppliers will come to an end once the new contracts have been fully mobilised.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/01/2015 15:14:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

170007

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the new contract for electronic monitoring is costing his Department in each year of the contract.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The annual cost of the Ministry of Justice’s new electronic monitoring contracts is forecast as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£114.5M</p></td><td><p>£81.8M</p></td><td><p>£61.2M</p></td><td><p>£59.4M</p></td><td><p>£56.6M</p></td><td><p>£56.6M</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figure for 2015/16 incorporates the cost of mobilising the contracts. We expect the new contracts to deliver average annual savings of approximately £20m relative to the previous contracts with G4S and Serco.</p><p> </p><p>These new contracts will allow us to introduce some of the most advanced electronic monitoring technology in the world. Satellite tagging will allow us to keep a much closer watch on the most high-risk and persistent offenders who cause so much harm in our communities, creating a safer society with fewer victims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/01/2015 15:56:47 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

170008

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times officials and Ministers in his Department have had meetings with companies that were interested in bidding for the electronic monitoring contract.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold a comprehensive record of how many such meetings took place.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to the competition for replacement electronic monitoring services we engaged the market widely, meeting interested parties in a series of sessions to consider the opportunities presented by emerging technology.</p><p> </p><p>Once the competition was under way, following publication of the OJEU contract notice in February 2012, the Department held various meetings with suppliers selected as bidders and preferred bidders, including negotiations as part of the competition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/01/2015 17:10:52 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169580

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Offensive Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) knives, (b) guns and (c) other weapons were seized from people visiting prisoners (i) in total and (ii) in each prison in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service takes the importation of all weapons into prisons extremely seriously. Prisons deploy a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect weapons and other items of contraband at the point of entry to the prison.</p><p> </p><p>Records of firearms seizures are held centrally, and I can advise that no firearms have been seized from people visiting prisoners since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Specific records of other weapons seized from people visiting prisoners are not held centrally. To provide the information you have requested about other weapon types would involve requesting and examining information held locally at all prison establishments which could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 08/01/2015 13:15:41 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169581

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offences were committed by (a) escaped or (b) absconded prisoners in each year since 2010; and what those offences were.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of escapes from custody has been falling since 1995 when central records began, despite an increasing prison population. Absconds have reached record lows under this Government, falling by more than 80 per cent in the last 10 years, but we have not been complacent. We have made major changes to tighten the system. Offenders who escape or abscond are an extremely small proportion of the almost 86,000 offenders in the prison system at the moment.</p><p> </p><p>To establish what offences were committed by escaped or absconded prisoners would require the examination of core records for each prisoner that had escaped or absconded since 2010. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the details of escapes occurring from prison escort vans between April 2010 and March 2014. The offence and sentence length is that recorded at the time of the escape. All prisoners who escaped from prison vans have subsequently been arrested and returned to custody. The table includes escorts conducted by contractors under the Prison Escort and Custody Services contract and HM Prison Service staff.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Escapes from prison vans between April 2010 and March 2014, by year.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sentence at time of escape</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>Assault/arson</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>IPP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>7 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Assault</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>54 Months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Supply class a drugs</p></td><td><p>Convicted Unsentenced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>7 years 10 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>14 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Aggravated burglary</p></td><td><p>Uncategorised</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of escapes since 1995 are provided in the Prison Digest contained in the Prison and Probation Trusts Performance Statistics. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 218048 question first answered 22/01/2015 17:16:27 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169582

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have escaped from prison vans in each year since 2010; how many such prisoners remain on the run; of what offences each such prisoner was convicted; and what length of custodial sentence each such prisoner was given.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	218048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of escapes from custody has been falling since 1995 when central records began, despite an increasing prison population. Absconds have reached record lows under this Government, falling by more than 80 per cent in the last 10 years, but we have not been complacent. We have made major changes to tighten the system. Offenders who escape or abscond are an extremely small proportion of the almost 86,000 offenders in the prison system at the moment.</p><p> </p><p>To establish what offences were committed by escaped or absconded prisoners would require the examination of core records for each prisoner that had escaped or absconded since 2010. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the details of escapes occurring from prison escort vans between April 2010 and March 2014. The offence and sentence length is that recorded at the time of the escape. All prisoners who escaped from prison vans have subsequently been arrested and returned to custody. The table includes escorts conducted by contractors under the Prison Escort and Custody Services contract and HM Prison Service staff.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Escapes from prison vans between April 2010 and March 2014, by year.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sentence at time of escape</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>Assault/arson</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>IPP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Possession of a firearm</p></td><td><p>7 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Assault</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>54 Months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>Supply class a drugs</p></td><td><p>Convicted Unsentenced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>7 years 10 months</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>14 years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Aggravated burglary</p></td><td><p>Uncategorised</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of escapes since 1995 are provided in the Prison Digest contained in the Prison and Probation Trusts Performance Statistics. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 218047 question first answered 22/01/2015 17:16:28 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

169013

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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 (a) charges, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there have been for the offence of prison mutiny in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	217818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Disruptive behaviour has no place in prison and we take swift and robust action against anyone who attempts any kind of disorder. All serious incidents are referred to the police for prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of offences related to prison mutiny in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in the table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6">Defendants proceeded against at magistartes courts and found guilty at all courts of offences relating to prison mutiny<sup>(1)</sup>, England and Wales, 2009 to 2013 <sup>(2)(3)</sup></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Outcome</td><td>2009</td><td>2010</td><td>2011</td><td>2012</td><td>2013</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Proceeded against</td><td>#</td><td>#</td><td>-</td><td>7</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>Found guilty</td><td>-</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>'-' = Nil</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">'#' - prosecution statistics for this offence for these years collected as part of a miscellaneous grouping and can only be separately identified at dispropotionate cost</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">(1) An offence under S1 Prison Security Act 1992</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">(3) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="6">Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.</td></tr><tr><td>Ref: PQ 217818</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Please note, however, that proceedings data for 2009 and 2010 are part of a miscellaneous grouping, which can only be separately identified at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 27/01/2015 09:16:38 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

166788

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
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 times and to which prisons (a) Tornado Teams and (b) the National Tactical Response Group has been called out in each month since January 2014; how many Gold Command prison incidents there have been in each month since January 2014; and on how many occasions (i) police stations and (ii) court cells have been used to accommodate prisoners in each month since January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	216465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to answer this question within the set timeframe. I will write to the Rt. Hon. Member in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 03/12/2014 17:58:36 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan