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92680

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many agency staff have been employed by the South Yorkshire Probation Service in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
uin	209814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information re quested is not available as it was not collected centrally from South Yorkshire probation trust before the probation trust ceased to provide probation services on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2014.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 13:21:05 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

92682

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
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, what the current national population is of (a) HM prisons and (b) privately-run prisons.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	209853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Individual prison population and capacity information for every prison in England and Wales, as well as the total population and useable operational capacity of the prison estate is published monthly on the Ministry of Justice website at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest monthly publication shows that on Friday 31 October 2014 the total prison population in England and Wales was 84,578 of which 14,891 prisoners were held in private prisons. Population information for National Offender Management Service operated immigration removal centres has not been included.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 18/11/2014 14:43:14 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

92683

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on consultancy staff by the South Yorkshire Probation Service in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
uin	209815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available as it was not collected centrally from South Yorkshire Probation Trust before the Probation Trust ceased to provide probation services on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2014.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 13:29:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

92684

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparative assessment he has made of the incidence of bullying in prisons run by (a) HM Prison Service and (b) private sector bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	209851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service takes the issue of violence in prison very seriously. Current policy contained in Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 64/2011 states that every verbal or physical act of violence must be challenged, and this includes bullying. Any prisoners engaging in violence, intimidation or bullying behaviour will have their privileges reviewed and may be subject to prosecution or disciplinary action.</p><p> </p><p>Bullying incidents are captured within the figures under “threats/abusive behaviour” offences. These together with associated punishments are published annually in Offender Management Statistics which can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-december-2013-and-annual</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 11:00:57 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

92685

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what oversight mechanisms are in place to ensure that prisoners in private prisons are safe from violence.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	209852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of violence in prison very seriously. It has systems in place to deal with perpetrators quickly and robustly, with serious incidents referred to the police for prosecution. Current policy contained in Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 64/2011 states that every verbal or physical act of violence must be challenged.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS is committed to exploring options to continue to reduce violence to ensure prisons are safer places for everyone. It is currently reviewing the policy and practice of the management of violence with the aim of implementing new policy and guidance in early 2015.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 19/11/2014 15:27:53 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

92687

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what programmes are in place to help prisoners to become digitally literate.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	209841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Offender Learning and Skills Service education providers offer a broad curriculum for digital and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-related education in prisons.</p><p> </p><p>In the academic year 2013/14, total prisoner learner enrolments were in excess of 37,000 across over 80 ICT-related courses. ICT-related learning is frequently embedded into other vocational qualifications.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Virtual Campus (VC), a secure web-based interactive learning tool, is available in 100 prisons and has 30,000 registered prisoner users.</p><p> </p><p>26 Prisons ICT Academies (PICTAs) also offer specialist IT skills training in building and maintaining computer networks; and using Microsoft Office applications.</p><p> </p><p>All IT skills acquisition in custody takes place in a controlled environment and with very restricted secure controlled access to the internet.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 09:57:35 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

92690

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
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, if he will make it his policy that any contracts signed with private sector companies until May 2015 for the provision of probation services do not contain clauses that provide for compensation for loss of profit in the event of the termination of those contracts; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	209296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>Voluntary termination is a standard clause in government contracts. Voluntary termination compensation would only be payable to the contractor if the contract is terminated through no fault of the contractor.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of the clauses is simply to ensure that in the event of termination for reasons beyond their control, bidders are left in no worse a position than they would have been had the contracts run their course.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be acceptable to expect providers to bear this risk, and many would price it into their bids, which would increase the costs of the contracts and result in poor value for money for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/10/2014 10:32:43 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

92032

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of (a) mephedrone, (b) BZP, (c) spice and (d) ketamine there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. We do not tolerate drugs in prison and anyone caught with them will be punished and could face further prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The success of NOMS Drug Strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse - as measured by the random mandatory drug testing programme - which has declined by 17.0 percentage points over the past 17 years (positive rates were 24.4% in 1996/7 and 7.4% in 2013/14) despite the fact that more drugs are being tested for.</p><p> </p><p>New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a recent issue affecting many parts of society, both here and abroad, including our prisons. NOMS is working with its partners to develop methods for testing for NPS and preventing them from entering establishments. Work is also taking place to increase levels of understanding about the risks that NPS present to offenders, with a view to providing them and those who work with them in prisons and the community with appropriate information, guidance and support.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently introduced an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to expand prisons' powers to test prisoners for non-controlled drugs. This would allow prison staff to conduct mandatory drug tests on prisoners for non-controlled drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and medicines, if the required tests were available.</p><p> </p><p>All figures in this answer 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. The data has been extracted by searching for the exact terms given in the question and not any slang or alternative spellings. The data are not subject to audit.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of seizures in prisons in England and Wales in the timeframe requested of Mephedrone, BZP, Spice and Ketamine, and described exactly as such on the database.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </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 31 July</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mephedrone</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BZP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spice</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ketamine</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>138</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>267</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>436</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The term “Legal Highs” represents hundreds of different substances of which spice is just one. To try to calculate the instances of all such substances being confiscated would therefore only be possible at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/10/2014 10:53:54 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92033

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of legal highs there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. We do not tolerate drugs in prison and anyone caught with them will be punished and could face further prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The success of NOMS Drug Strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse - as measured by the random mandatory drug testing programme - which has declined by 17.0 percentage points over the past 17 years (positive rates were 24.4% in 1996/7 and 7.4% in 2013/14) despite the fact that more drugs are being tested for.</p><p> </p><p>New psychoactive substances are a recent issue affecting many parts of society, both here and abroad, including our prisons. NOMS is working with its partners to develop methods for testing for NPS and preventing them from entering establishments. Work is also taking place to increase levels of understanding about the risks that NPS present to offenders, with a view to providing them and those who work with them in prisons and the community with appropriate information, guidance and support.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently introduced an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to expand prisons' powers to test prisoners for non-controlled drugs. This would allow prison staff to conduct mandatory drug tests on prisoners for non-controlled drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and medicines, if the required tests were available.</p><p> </p><p>All figures in this answer 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. The data has been extracted by searching for the exact terms given in the question and not any slang or alternative spellings. The data are not subject to audit.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of seizures in prisons in England and Wales in the timeframe requested of Mephedrone, BZP, Spice and Ketamine, and described exactly as such on the database.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </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 31 July</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mephedrone</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BZP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spice</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ketamine</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>138</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>267</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>436</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The term “Legal Highs” represents hundreds of different substances of which spice is just one. To try to calculate the instances of all such substances being confiscated would therefore only be possible at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/10/2014 11:17:40 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92034

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Probation Service for England and Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) permanent full-time staff, (b) temporary full-time staff, (c) part-time staff, (d) agency staff and (e) consultants have been recruited by the National Probation Service headquarters since 1 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The number of permanently employed, temporarily employed and staff employed through an agency in the National Probation Service (NPS) working in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) as at 30 June 2014 (the date of the first published NPS staffing information) can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Permanent, Temporary and Agency National Probation Service in NOMS as at 30 June 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Division</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Permanent</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Temporary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agency*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,190</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,460</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,520</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>1,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,210</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East and Eastern Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,220</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West and South Central Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,070</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales Probation Service</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>8,160</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>8,390</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Information as at 1 June</p><p>Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 in line with the department’s policy for presenting staffing data. Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.</p><p>The symbol ~ represents 5 or fewer.</p><p> </p><p>The National Probation Service is part of NOMS: it has no separate headquarters. NOMS headquarters includes NPS staff based there as well as other NOMS staff who provide central support for the NPS. It therefore follows that there were no staff in post or recruits into the NPS headquarters.</p><p> </p><p>Between the 1 June and 30 June 2014, the date of the latest published figures, the number of permanent or temporary staff recruited to the NPS, including any central functions relating to the NPS was five or fewer. In the same period 20 agency staff began working in the operational functions of the NPS.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS and CRCs were resourced to deliver their core duties at the point of transfer to the new structures and will maintain necessary levels through workforce planning to meet future staffing needs.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 209415 209420 209421 question first answered 20/10/2014 15:54:52 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan