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1404323

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biologically male transgender prisoners housed in the male estate have been subjected to assault and to sexual assault in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>These figures have been drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System, which records the legal gender of prisoners. They are based on snapshot data collections from March 2018, 2019 and 2021. There was no collection in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is not available for 2017. This is because legal gender did not form part of the central data collection in that year.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 38 assaults and 14 sexual assaults on legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 16 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults. In 2020-21 there were fewer than 5 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 332 self-harm incidents involving legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 159. In 2020-21 there were 228. Data on attempted suicide is not available.</p><p>We have trained more than 25,000 staff in suicide and self-harm prevention as part of our drive to tackle these issues, and we continue to develop initiatives to better support people in custody.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107675 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:43:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404324

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of self-harm and attempted suicide have been recorded for biologically male transgender prisoners housed in the male estate in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>These figures have been drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System, which records the legal gender of prisoners. They are based on snapshot data collections from March 2018, 2019 and 2021. There was no collection in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is not available for 2017. This is because legal gender did not form part of the central data collection in that year.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 38 assaults and 14 sexual assaults on legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 16 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults. In 2020-21 there were fewer than 5 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 332 self-harm incidents involving legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 159. In 2020-21 there were 228. Data on attempted suicide is not available.</p><p>We have trained more than 25,000 staff in suicide and self-harm prevention as part of our drive to tackle these issues, and we continue to develop initiatives to better support people in custody.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107674 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:43:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404326

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the OASys Sexual reoffending Predictor (OSP) Guidance for Practitioners, dated December 2021, whether biologically male transgender prisoners (a) with and (b) without a Gender Recognition Certificate who are convicted of sexual offences are risk-assessed using OSP; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>OASys Sexual Reoffending Predictor (OSP) was developed for use with legally male offenders and so is not used with offenders who are not legally male. However, transitioning will not result in an offender’s risk assessment being less robust. Whether or not a transgender prisoner is assessed using OSP is not a factor in decisions about whether to allocate them to a men's or women's prison, which are only made after all individual risk factors have been thoroughly assessed.</p><p>The most accurate risk assessments combine actuarial methods of prediction with structured professional judgement. The Offender Assessment System (OASys) allows HMPPS staff to undertake actuarial assessments. It also provides a structure to record their assessment of the risks posed by, and needs of, an offender.</p><p>Apart from OSP, all actuarial risk assessment tools can be used with men and women. These tools are:</p><p>- Offender Group Reconviction Scale version 3 (OGRS3), for risk of any proven reoffending</p><p>- Risk of Serious Recidivism (RSR), for risk of serious proven reoffending, which comprises sexual reoffending (using OSP, or a simple base rate for legal females) and serious nonsexual violent reoffending (a separate algorithm)</p><p>- OASys Violence Predictor (OVP), for risk of nonsexual violent proven reoffending</p><p>- OASys General reoffending Predictor (OGP), for risk of nonviolent proven reoffending</p><p>Forensic psychologists also use a range of risk assessment tools with this cohort, which involve using their professional judgement. These are used on an individual basis, as with any offender, taking into account the full range of characteristics of the person being assessed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107678 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:45:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404327

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the OASys Sexual reoffending Predictor (OSP) Guidance for Practitioners, dated December 2021, what tools are used to assess the risk of biologically male transgender prisoners (a) with and (b) without a Gender Recognition Certificate who are convicted of sexual offences; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>OASys Sexual Reoffending Predictor (OSP) was developed for use with legally male offenders and so is not used with offenders who are not legally male. However, transitioning will not result in an offender’s risk assessment being less robust. Whether or not a transgender prisoner is assessed using OSP is not a factor in decisions about whether to allocate them to a men's or women's prison, which are only made after all individual risk factors have been thoroughly assessed.</p><p>The most accurate risk assessments combine actuarial methods of prediction with structured professional judgement. The Offender Assessment System (OASys) allows HMPPS staff to undertake actuarial assessments. It also provides a structure to record their assessment of the risks posed by, and needs of, an offender.</p><p>Apart from OSP, all actuarial risk assessment tools can be used with men and women. These tools are:</p><p>- Offender Group Reconviction Scale version 3 (OGRS3), for risk of any proven reoffending</p><p>- Risk of Serious Recidivism (RSR), for risk of serious proven reoffending, which comprises sexual reoffending (using OSP, or a simple base rate for legal females) and serious nonsexual violent reoffending (a separate algorithm)</p><p>- OASys Violence Predictor (OVP), for risk of nonsexual violent proven reoffending</p><p>- OASys General reoffending Predictor (OGP), for risk of nonviolent proven reoffending</p><p>Forensic psychologists also use a range of risk assessment tools with this cohort, which involve using their professional judgement. These are used on an individual basis, as with any offender, taking into account the full range of characteristics of the person being assessed.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107677 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:45:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404386

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the second stream of the Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme will not open until Spring 2022.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6th January. The ACRS will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>This follows the immediate evacuation of over 15,000 people to safety in the largest and fastest emergency evacuation in recent history. We have continued to bring people to the UK, with around 1,500 people helped to enter since the evacuation.</p><p>Some of the people evacuated under Op Pitting will be eligible for the ACRS.</p><p>Details of how the ACRS will operate including the referral pathways for those outside and inside Afghanistan are set in the oral statement of 6 January. Given the complex and changing nature of the circumstances in Afghanistan and the region, it is not possible to give estimates of the numbers of people who will be resettled from outside or inside Afghanistan.</p><p>Those people in the UK following the evacuation who will be eligible for the ACRS, are being contacted to assist them in obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain under the ACRS. People eligible for resettlement under pathways two and three of the ACRS will be contacted at the appropriate time.</p><p>We are working closely with UNHCR with the ambition of receiving referrals as part of the second pathway for vulnerable refugees in need of protection in year 1 of the ACRS. UNHCR have said that they will be able to do this from Spring.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107680 107681 107682 107683 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:12:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1404396

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with stakeholders on the potential merits of introducing a formal application process to the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	107585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6 January 2022 and will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>As set out in the policy statement of 13 September, there will be many more people seeking to come to the UK under the scheme than there are places. It is right that we take a considered approach, working with partners to resettle people to the UK. There will not be a formal Home Office owned application process for the ACRS.</p><p>Instead, eligible people will be prioritised and referred for resettlement through one of three pathways.</p><p>More detail can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2022 17:26:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1404399

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential risk to life caused by the delays in opening the Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6th January. The ACRS will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>This follows the immediate evacuation of over 15,000 people to safety in the largest and fastest emergency evacuation in recent history. We have continued to bring people to the UK, with around 1,500 people helped to enter since the evacuation.</p><p>Some of the people evacuated under Op Pitting will be eligible for the ACRS.</p><p>Details of how the ACRS will operate including the referral pathways for those outside and inside Afghanistan are set in the oral statement of 6 January. Given the complex and changing nature of the circumstances in Afghanistan and the region, it is not possible to give estimates of the numbers of people who will be resettled from outside or inside Afghanistan.</p><p>Those people in the UK following the evacuation who will be eligible for the ACRS, are being contacted to assist them in obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain under the ACRS. People eligible for resettlement under pathways two and three of the ACRS will be contacted at the appropriate time.</p><p>We are working closely with UNHCR with the ambition of receiving referrals as part of the second pathway for vulnerable refugees in need of protection in year 1 of the ACRS. UNHCR have said that they will be able to do this from Spring.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107679 107681 107682 107683 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:12:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1404401

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, how many individuals her Department expects to be resettled in the UK from Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6th January. The ACRS will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>This follows the immediate evacuation of over 15,000 people to safety in the largest and fastest emergency evacuation in recent history. We have continued to bring people to the UK, with around 1,500 people helped to enter since the evacuation.</p><p>Some of the people evacuated under Op Pitting will be eligible for the ACRS.</p><p>Details of how the ACRS will operate including the referral pathways for those outside and inside Afghanistan are set in the oral statement of 6 January. Given the complex and changing nature of the circumstances in Afghanistan and the region, it is not possible to give estimates of the numbers of people who will be resettled from outside or inside Afghanistan.</p><p>Those people in the UK following the evacuation who will be eligible for the ACRS, are being contacted to assist them in obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain under the ACRS. People eligible for resettlement under pathways two and three of the ACRS will be contacted at the appropriate time.</p><p>We are working closely with UNHCR with the ambition of receiving referrals as part of the second pathway for vulnerable refugees in need of protection in year 1 of the ACRS. UNHCR have said that they will be able to do this from Spring.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107679 107680 107682 107683 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:12:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1404402

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people her Department estimates will be resettled in the UK directly from Afghanistan under the Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6th January. The ACRS will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>This follows the immediate evacuation of over 15,000 people to safety in the largest and fastest emergency evacuation in recent history. We have continued to bring people to the UK, with around 1,500 people helped to enter since the evacuation.</p><p>Some of the people evacuated under Op Pitting will be eligible for the ACRS.</p><p>Details of how the ACRS will operate including the referral pathways for those outside and inside Afghanistan are set in the oral statement of 6 January. Given the complex and changing nature of the circumstances in Afghanistan and the region, it is not possible to give estimates of the numbers of people who will be resettled from outside or inside Afghanistan.</p><p>Those people in the UK following the evacuation who will be eligible for the ACRS, are being contacted to assist them in obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain under the ACRS. People eligible for resettlement under pathways two and three of the ACRS will be contacted at the appropriate time.</p><p>We are working closely with UNHCR with the ambition of receiving referrals as part of the second pathway for vulnerable refugees in need of protection in year 1 of the ACRS. UNHCR have said that they will be able to do this from Spring.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107679 107680 107681 107683 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:12:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1404520

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her timeline is for contacting Afghan nationals on their eligibility for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) commenced on 6th January. The ACRS will provide up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>This follows the immediate evacuation of over 15,000 people to safety in the largest and fastest emergency evacuation in recent history. We have continued to bring people to the UK, with around 1,500 people helped to enter since the evacuation.</p><p>Some of the people evacuated under Op Pitting will be eligible for the ACRS.</p><p>Details of how the ACRS will operate including the referral pathways for those outside and inside Afghanistan are set in the oral statement of 6 January. Given the complex and changing nature of the circumstances in Afghanistan and the region, it is not possible to give estimates of the numbers of people who will be resettled from outside or inside Afghanistan.</p><p>Those people in the UK following the evacuation who will be eligible for the ACRS, are being contacted to assist them in obtaining Indefinite Leave to Remain under the ACRS. People eligible for resettlement under pathways two and three of the ACRS will be contacted at the appropriate time.</p><p>We are working closely with UNHCR with the ambition of receiving referrals as part of the second pathway for vulnerable refugees in need of protection in year 1 of the ACRS. UNHCR have said that they will be able to do this from Spring.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107679 107680 107681 107682 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:12:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi