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1668340

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
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, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Electronic Monitoring: expansion and full service business case' published on 7 November 2023, what estimate he has made of the whole life cost of the chosen electronic monitoring future service delivery model.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The estimated whole-life cost of designing, planning, implementing, and operating the Electronic Monitoring Future Service proposed in the Full Business Case over its whole life is £857.6M. This includes costs from the beginning of the Programme in 2021/2022 through to the end of the new contracts in 2032/2033 including a potential 2-year extension.</p><p>Where electronic monitoring can support an individual to remain in the community to serve their sentence or on court bail, it provides a cheaper alternative to prison. Electronic monitoring can also be used to support a robust community sentence as an alternative to a short custodial sentence. There is persuasive evidence that suspended and community sentences are more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing reoffending and rehabilitating offenders.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 17:20:56 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1668564

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an impact assessment of the use of the End of Custody Supervised Licence.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence is a targeted scheme that will only operate in certain areas for a limited period of time. We are continually monitoring its implementation and impact.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 16:48:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1668600

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many youth conditional cautions were issued by (a) an authorised person and (b) a relevant prosecutor in each reporting year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Data on whether an authorised person or the relevant prosecutor issued a Youth Conditional Caution (YCC) is not held centrally by the Government.</p><p>Conditions must be completed within a 12-week period. Data on the time limits applied to YCCs is not readily available – to extract and quality assure the data would incur a disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p>If the offender does not complete their conditions within a reasonable time period, the offender can be prosecuted for the original offence. Data about rates of compliance with YCCs is not held centrally by the Government.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 923 925 question first answered 13/11/2023 17:22:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1668601

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time limit imposed for completing conditional elements of youth conditional cautions was in each reporting year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Data on whether an authorised person or the relevant prosecutor issued a Youth Conditional Caution (YCC) is not held centrally by the Government.</p><p>Conditions must be completed within a 12-week period. Data on the time limits applied to YCCs is not readily available – to extract and quality assure the data would incur a disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p>If the offender does not complete their conditions within a reasonable time period, the offender can be prosecuted for the original offence. Data about rates of compliance with YCCs is not held centrally by the Government.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 922 925 question first answered 13/11/2023 17:22:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1668603

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders failed to comply with the conditions of their youth conditional caution in each reporting year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Data on whether an authorised person or the relevant prosecutor issued a Youth Conditional Caution (YCC) is not held centrally by the Government.</p><p>Conditions must be completed within a 12-week period. Data on the time limits applied to YCCs is not readily available – to extract and quality assure the data would incur a disproportionate cost to the department.</p><p>If the offender does not complete their conditions within a reasonable time period, the offender can be prosecuted for the original offence. Data about rates of compliance with YCCs is not held centrally by the Government.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 922 923 question first answered 13/11/2023 17:22:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1667635

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what risk assessments were carried out on prisoners who were transferred to Category D prisons as part of the Restricted Open Estate Transfer Scheme launched in September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The Restricted Open Estate Transfer (ROET) scheme was active from 25 September to 9 October. ROET was limited to prisoners serving a standard determinate sentence with an automatic release point at the halfway point of their sentence who were between 7 and 28 days away from their conditional release date. Offender Management Units applied set criteria, the transfers were signed off by prison governors, and prisoners showing concerning or violent behaviour were excluded.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 16:45:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1667636

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation Service: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many days staff in the probation service were absent as a result of (a) stress and (b) work-induced stress in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Between 01 January and 31 December 2022, 47,690 working days were lost due to stress. We are unable to make a distinction between sickness caused generally by stress. The average working days lost figure for stress related sickness was 2.7 per staff member.</p><p> </p><p>We are focused on ensuring our staff have the support they need to manage workplace stress, including support for staff and managers such as Occupational Health and the Employee Assistance Programme. Staff are also able to access additional support through staff networks, staff support leads and the HMPPS network of Mental Health Allies. This is balanced with a robust approach to attendance management to ensure that staff absence is kept to a minimum.</p><p> </p><p>We have exceeded our recruitment targets for the last three years. We recruited over 1,000 trainee probation officers in 2020/21, 1,500 2021/22 and a further 1,500 in 2022/23. Those staff are now starting to finish their training and take on full caseloads.</p><p> </p><ol><li>Average working days lost per member of staff is calculated as number of working days lost to sickness divided by the average number of full-time equivalent staff for a year.</li></ol> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 17:18:15 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1667637

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason a pre transfer assessment was not carried out on each prisoner moved as part of the Restricted Open Estate Transfer Scheme launched in September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The Restricted Open Estate Transfer (ROET) scheme was active from 25 September to 9 October. ROET was limited to prisoners serving a standard determinate sentence with an automatic release point at the halfway point of their sentence who were between 7 and 28 days away from their conditional release date. Offender Management Units applied set criteria, the transfers were signed off by prison governors, and prisoners showing concerning or violent behaviour were excluded.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 16:47:04 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1667790

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Question 13 of oral evidence taken before the Justice Committee on 24 October 2023, HC 1929, Session 2022–23, which prisons are (a) sending and (b) receiving prison officers under detached duty; and how many prison officers are affected.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>On 8 November 2023, 385 prison officers at Bands 3-5 were deployed on detached duty. The prisons sending and receiving officers on detached duty on that date are listed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prisons sending staff on detached duty</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisons receiving staff on detached duty</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belmarsh</p></td><td><p>Berwyn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>Bristol</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brinsford</p></td><td><p>Bullingdon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckley Hall</p></td><td><p>Cookham Wood</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bure</p></td><td><p>Elmley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cardiff</p></td><td><p>Long Lartin</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Channings Wood</p></td><td><p>Onley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chelmsford</p></td><td><p>Stocken</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coldingley</p></td><td><p>Swaleside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dartmoor</p></td><td><p>The Mount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deerbolt</p></td><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Downview</p></td><td><p>Wayland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>Whitemoor</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Sutton Park</p></td><td><p>Woodhill</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Erlestoke</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exeter</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Featherstone</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ford</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frankland</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haverigg</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hindley</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holme House</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster Farms</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leyhill</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Littlehey</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Low Newton</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidstone</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moorland</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Morton Hall</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Hall</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Sea Camp</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pentonville</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Risley</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochester</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stanford Hill</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke Heath</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swinfen Hall</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thorn Cross</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Usk</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Verne</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wealstun</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Werrington</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wetherby</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Whatton</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Winchester</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wymott</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Staff are deployed on detached duty as a tactical response to support other prisons when required, to cover staffing shortfalls, or to meet other operation requirements. It provides His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) with a vital contingency measure to assist in maintaining good order and security in prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Despite a challenging labour market, we have seen indications of an improving resource picture nationally within prisons, with a substantial increase of 701 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Band 3-5 Prison officers between June 2022-June 2023. In the same period, we have seen a fall in the resignation rate amongst Band 3-5 officers of 2.6 percentage points, down from 11.5% in June 2022 to 8.9% in June 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 17:13:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1667791

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Question 9 of oral evidence taken before the Justice Committee on 24 October 2023, HC 1929, Session 2022–23, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the adequacy of the levels of pay of (a) prison officers and (b) operational support staff on (i) leaving and (ii) vacancy rates.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Recruitment and retention (leaving and vacancy rates) are a key consideration when formulating HMPPS pay proposals for the Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB). However, levels of pay for Prison Officers and operational support staff are ultimately determined through the independent PSPRB process with the panel having considered evidence from both Government (HMPPS) and the recognised trade unions.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/11/2023 16:42:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris