Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

78263

registered interest
date	15/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Travellers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the recommendations in the report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons <i>People in prison: Gypsies, Romany and Travellers </i>that there should be further research into the reasons why people from those communities are in prison and how they are supported; and that the number of young people of Gypsy, Romany and Traveller background in Secure Training Centres should be investigated.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL1158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is considering how best to take forward Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) report recommendation for research into the reasons why people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities are in prison.</p><p> </p><p>To address the historically low declaration rates of GRT prisoners and to improve the support received by GRT prisoners, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has carried out extensive work to increase the declaration rates of GRT prisoners including work to increase the confidence of GRT prisoners to declare their ethnicity.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2014, NOMS implemented a new tool to monitor various outcomes for prisoners against a range of protected characteristics, including GRT prisoners. NOMS is now monitoring outcomes for this group of prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>The Youth Justice Board (YJB) commissioned and jointly published (with HMIP) the report: 'Children and Young People in Custody 2012-13: An Analysis of 12-18 year olds' perceptions of their experience in secure training centres'. This was the first published annual summary of children and young people's self-reported experiences and perceptions from surveys carried out with young people in each of the four Secure Training Centres (STCs).</p><p>The YJB will continue to commission these reports and monitor the findings from this survey in future years to gain a better understanding of the representation GRT young people within STCs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/07/2014 16:55:34 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

77801

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Scotland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the transfer of suspects and convicted criminals to and from an independent Scotland, whether or not it remains a member of the European Union.
tabling member printed	Lord MacKenzie of Culkein
uin	HL1098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>Both the UK Government and Scottish Government have said that there can be no ‘pre-negotiations’ on independence in advance of the referendum. The question of how the transfer of prisoners to and from <em>the Scottish prison estate and other parts of the United Kingdom</em> would be affected by Scottish independence cannot be answered now because it would depend on multiple negotiations that could only take place if people in Scotland vote to leave the UK in September’s referendum.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/07/2014 10:59:38 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2507 label Biography information for Lord MacKenzie of Culkein

76549

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prisoners with known mental health problems have been kept in segregated custody for longer than 24 hours in the last year.
tabling member printed	Lord Knight of Weymouth
uin	HL893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2014 answer text <p>Figures recording the number of prisoners with known mental health problems who have been placed in segregation for longer than 24 hours during the last year are not gathered centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost by collating the information from records held at each prison.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/07/2014 11:03:15 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4160 label Biography information for Lord Knight of Weymouth