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416202

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date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what implications the report of the unannounced visits by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons to HMP Wandsworth will have for his policies on (a) making prisons safer, (b) protecting minority groups in prisons, (c) addressing staff shortages in prisons and (d) providing educational and vocational opportunities in prison.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>HMP Wandsworth is implementing its action plan addressing the recommendations in the Inspectorate report. A new governor is in place who is focusing on delivering a safe, decent and secure regime. Additional resources have been identified within the establishment to support the safety and violence issues within the report and the prison is working hard to improve the issues identified in the report.</p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is committed to running safe prisons. Violence in prison is wholly unacceptable. NOMS has launched a new Violence Reduction Project, which has been created to gain better understanding of the causes of the current levels of violence in prisons and to make sure that there is strengthened handling of it, in terms of both prevention and response.</p><p> </p><p>A number of processes are in place to ensure that all black and minority ethnic prisoners are treated fairly with regards to the delivery of services in prisons, including monitoring and equality impact assessments, both of national policies and local implementation.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS has undertaken a large scale recruitment to tackle shortfalls caused by the unexpected rise in the prison population and a higher turnover of staff. NOMS has recruited over 2,230 new Band 3 Officers in the 12 months to 30 June 2015 and is planning to recruit at a similar rate in 2015-16 to address outstanding vacancies and turnover of staff.</p><p> </p><p>Work is already in progress to improve the quality of learning and skills in prisons. Increasing numbers of prisoners are engaged in learning but Ofsted Inspections confirm that one in five prisons has an inadequate standard of education provision and another two fifths require improvement. Additionally, the Secretary of State has asked Dame Sally Coates to chair a review of the quality of education in prisons. The review will report in March 2016. Details can be found at the following link: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/education-in-prison" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/speeches/education-in-prison</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/09/2015 12:51:45 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416211

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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 prison population of the UK was in each year since 2010; and whether it is his policy to reduce the prison population over the course of the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on the prison population in England and Wales from 2010 to 2015 can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website and is available in table A1.1 at the following link:-</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449241/prison-population-2015.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449241/prison-population-2015.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>The prison population is determined by sentencing decisions made by the independent judiciary, according to law and after considering the circumstances of the individual case. The Government keeps the sentencing framework under review to make sure that the courts have the appropriate powers to deal with offenders in the most effective way possible.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 10:14:47 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416212

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Tobacco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what account his Department took of the experience of attempting to exclude illegal drugs from prisons when formulating its ban on tobacco in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>In my written statement of 22 October, I announced plans for roll out of a smoke free estate.</p><br /><p>The introduction of voluntary smoke free areas in all closed prisons mirrors the provision of drug free wings which exist in many establishments across the estate. Staff and prisoners will be able to elect to work or reside in a smoke free area and they will be supported within them. It is a short term measure which provides a proportionate response to the impact of second hand smoke in communal areas.</p><br /><p>In line with Public Health England (PHE) guidance, the importance and significance placed upon the provision of smoking cessation services is critical to our approach. Prisoners with drug problems are currently managed via a balance of medicated maintenance and abstinence based treatment. We will adopt this approach to smoke free. Vaping and the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) as an alternative to tobacco smoking are supported by PHE as a harm reduction tool. Research commissioned by PHE concluded that e-cigarettes can help smokers to stop smoking. E -cigarettes have been made available to prisoners and their use is allowed in designated areas. In addition a range of nicotine replacement products and smoking cessation support will be in place to support prisoners attempting to abstain.</p><br /><p>The Government is committed to reducing the supply of drugs into prison. NOMS already 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. In addition, each prison has a dynamic Local Searching Strategy which identifies and mitigates known supply routes.</p><br /><p>The success of the strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse in prisons, as measured by the random Mandatory Drug Testing (MDT) programme, which has declined by 17.5 percentage points over the past 17 years.</p><br /><p>This approach to enforcement and security will inform NOMS thinking where appropriate as we move forward to smoke free prisons.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/11/2015 11:38:05 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416213

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Tobacco
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 potential effect on prison and prisoner stability of banning tobacco in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my WMS of 22 October 2015.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 28/10/2015 10:24:35 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416398

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Driving Offences: Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been successfully prosecuted for using a mobile phone while driving in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	8713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of the offence of using a mobile phone while driving in England and Wales, by month, in 2014 can be viewed in the table.</p><p>Court proceedings data for 2015 are planned for publication in May 2016</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/09/2015 15:46:57 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous attachment 1 file name 8713 - table.xls title mobile phone while driving court statistics, 2014
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

416499

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that prisons provide an appropriate standard of (a) care and resources for prisoners and (b) safety for staff.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	8477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Healthcare for prisoners is commissioned by the NHS. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) works closely with the NHS, local authorities, Public Health England and Public Health Wales to ensure that all prisoners receive equivalent health and social care provision to people in the community.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS is committed to running safe prisons, keeping the safety and wellbeing of all staff under constant review. Violence of any kind is unacceptable and NOMS is working hard to reduce the incidence of violence in prisons. All assaults are treated extremely seriously, and prisoner who commits an act of violence can expect to have action taken against them.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 14/09/2015 15:42:11 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

416548

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Staffordshire and West Midlands Community Rehabilitation Company: Video Conferencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Staffordshire and West Midlands Rehabilitation Company's use of video calls in place of face-to-face contact with offenders.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	8488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The bid made by the Reducing Reoffending Partnership for the contract to run the Staffordshire and West Midlands Community Rehabilitation Company (SWM CRC) included changes to the way services are delivered, such as the introduction of biometric kiosk reporting. These changes do not specifically include the use of video calls in place of face-to-face interviews with offenders, and we are not currently aware of any plans SWM CRC may have to introduce them in the future.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/09/2015 12:56:30 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley