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date	14/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria were for selecting the 10 prisons to be included in the 10 Prison Programme.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>When establishing the 10 Prisons Project, we identified a group that were representative of the range of challenges currently facing the estate, including drugs, violence, and building issues. We focused on a small number of regions - London, Yorkshire and the North Midlands - to facilitate partnership working within the project and to limit any potential displacement whereby controlling drugs in one prison would simply move the problem to a neighbouring prison. We identified prisons in both urban and rural areas, with cohorts of young adult or adult male offenders, that are facing some of the most significant challenges across the estate. While all prisons were considered for the project, we included those that gave the best balance of these criteria.</p><p> </p><ul><li>All the prisons selected have three times more assaults now than in 2012;</li><li>Eight of them have regularly had higher numbers of assaults than similar prisons through the first half of the year;</li><li>Five of them are among the worst for positive drug tests for psychoactive substances;</li><li>One has received an Urgent Notification from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons;</li><li>Two are in special measures;</li><li>Four are over a hundred years old; and</li><li>Three received the lowest mark possible for safety in their latest Inspection reports.</li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 208312 208419 question first answered 22/01/2019 16:54:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041270

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will (a) list the prisons that were considered for but not included in the 10 Prisons Programme and (b) set out the reasons why those prisons were not included.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>When establishing the 10 Prisons Project, we identified a group that were representative of the range of challenges currently facing the estate, including drugs, violence, and building issues. We focused on a small number of regions - London, Yorkshire and the North Midlands - to facilitate partnership working within the project and to limit any potential displacement whereby controlling drugs in one prison would simply move the problem to a neighbouring prison. We identified prisons in both urban and rural areas, with cohorts of young adult or adult male offenders, that are facing some of the most significant challenges across the estate. While all prisons were considered for the project, we included those that gave the best balance of these criteria.</p><p> </p><ul><li>All the prisons selected have three times more assaults now than in 2012;</li><li>Eight of them have regularly had higher numbers of assaults than similar prisons through the first half of the year;</li><li>Five of them are among the worst for positive drug tests for psychoactive substances;</li><li>One has received an Urgent Notification from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons;</li><li>Two are in special measures;</li><li>Four are over a hundred years old; and</li><li>Three received the lowest mark possible for safety in their latest Inspection reports.</li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 208309 208419 question first answered 22/01/2019 16:54:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1041479

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department used to select the prisons included in the 10 Prison Programme.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	208419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>When establishing the 10 Prisons Project, we identified a group that were representative of the range of challenges currently facing the estate, including drugs, violence, and building issues. We focused on a small number of regions - London, Yorkshire and the North Midlands - to facilitate partnership working within the project and to limit any potential displacement whereby controlling drugs in one prison would simply move the problem to a neighbouring prison. We identified prisons in both urban and rural areas, with cohorts of young adult or adult male offenders, that are facing some of the most significant challenges across the estate. While all prisons were considered for the project, we included those that gave the best balance of these criteria.</p><p> </p><ul><li>All the prisons selected have three times more assaults now than in 2012;</li><li>Eight of them have regularly had higher numbers of assaults than similar prisons through the first half of the year;</li><li>Five of them are among the worst for positive drug tests for psychoactive substances;</li><li>One has received an Urgent Notification from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons;</li><li>Two are in special measures;</li><li>Four are over a hundred years old; and</li><li>Three received the lowest mark possible for safety in their latest Inspection reports.</li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 208309 208312 question first answered 22/01/2019 16:54:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts