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1582799

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date	01/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
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 estimate of the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisors who specialise in dealing with cases of domestic abuse experienced by elderly people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	137986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23, we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund. The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’ services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 137987 137988 question first answered 09/02/2023 13:40:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582800

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
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 mechanism for the allocation of specialised Independent Domestic Violence Advisors focused on the abuse of older people and the way it relates to (a) the level of older person-focused abuse and (b) the relative proportion of older people in the local population.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	137987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23, we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund. The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’ services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 137986 137988 question first answered 09/02/2023 13:40:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1582801

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support his Department provides (a) nationally and (b) regionally to Independent Domestic Violence Advisors to help support older people who have been subject to domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	137988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) it funds by 300 to over 1,000 by 2024/2025. For 2022/23, we are providing £34 million of ringfenced funding for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission IDVAs and ISVAs. It is the responsibility of the PCCs to decide how to target recruitment of specialist IDVAs, including those that support elderly victims, based on their assessment of local need.</p><p>In addition, the Government is committed to further building capacity in specialist service provision and has launched a £6m Violence Against Women and Girls Support and Specialist Services Fund. The fund is led by the Home Office with a £3m contribution from MoJ for ‘by and for’ services, open to both national and local organisations. ‘By and for’ services are specialist services that are led, designed, and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve. One of the fund’s ambitions is to increase the number of ‘by and for’ IDVAs and ISVAs.</p><p>The MoJ continually reviews the most effective mechanism for allocating funding for IDVAs and ISVAs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 137986 137987 question first answered 09/02/2023 13:40:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1136190

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 5 September 2017, Official Report, Column 19, whether protocols his Department were developing with the Department of Health in 2017 on mental health and prisoner access to healthcare have been implemented; and what those protocols are.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	272231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>MoJ is committed to working in collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England (NHSE), Public Health England (PHE) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to deliver safe, decent, effective healthcare for offenders.</p><p> </p><p>Over 4,000 new prison staff are now in post, enabling us to implement initiatives like the key worker role, which allows staff to dedicate time to support individual prisoners. These initiatives and others mean that we will be able to better support individuals with mental health needs in prison.</p><p> </p><p>We have also agreed a Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) protocol to support the greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements, including Mental Health Treatment Requirements helping to improve access to treatment for offenders who need it and divert vulnerable offenders away from custody where appropriate. The protocol is currently being piloted at five sites and last month we announced the extension of the programme to include Greater Manchester and London.</p><p> </p><p>The context of how health and justice partners work together to improve mental health provision, and indeed other health issues that that might impact on an individual’s ability to engage with rehabilitation, in both custody and the community, will be set out further in the joint MoJ/ DHSC Health and Justice Plan, which was announced on 20<sup>th</sup> June.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 10/07/2019 16:43:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds