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804361

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date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Custodial Treatment: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2017 to Question HL 3476, on Custodial Treatment: Private Sector, how much was paid out of the public purse to private providers in each year since 2010 for the management of custodial sentences; what the total planned expenditure to private providers will be in each year up to 2020 and which private companies he estimates will receive the largest amount of funding in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Full Year Forecast (At end of November 2017)</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Draft </strong><strong>Medium Term Financial Planning (MTFP) Budgetary Estimates, for planning purposes and not yet agreed or allocated as budgets</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£469,511,861</p></td><td><p>£479,914,867</p></td><td><p>£492,105,132</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The provider projected to receive the largest sum over the years in question is G4S as the operator in a total of five of the fourteen privately managed prisons in England and Wales. The amounts shown in the summary above are inclusive of payments to Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) which act as the prime contractors for three of those five privately managed prisons and pay G4S to operate them.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:23:47 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

804362

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 116478 on Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), how many people work in the Contract Management Teams (CTM); what the annual budget is of the CTMs; how many times a CMT notified a CRC that its staffing levels needed to be increased; and what criteria CMTs use to assess the adequacy of a CRC's level of staffing.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The CRC Contract Management Group in the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Directorate of Community Interventions is responsible for managing the 20 CRC contracts in England. The Group currently operates with an annual budget of £5,302,127, and 80.19 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff.</p><p> </p><p>Contract Management of Wales CRC is the responsibility of HMPPS in Wales, and currently employs 4.25 FTE staff for this purpose, with an annual budget of £233,000.</p><p> </p><p>The contracts with CRCs require each CRC to ensure that it employs a sufficient level of staff, and that its workforce is competent and adequately trained. Our CMTs closely monitor and robustly manage providers on a local basis, taking into account the regional context, to make sure they fulfil their contractual commitments to reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:24:12 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

804363

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) male and (b) female offenders who have accommodation found for them on the first night out of prison by a community rehabilitation company; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>As a result of our Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, all offenders now get targeted support before and after they leave prison to help them reintegrate into society. This includes working with local partners to help them find accommodation including, where necessary, emergency accommodation. Local authorities are statutorily responsible for working with and supporting an individual in order to assist them into securing settled accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We currently publish the performance of Community Rehabilitation Companies against Assurance Metric C, which measures the percentage of offenders who have settled accommodation on release from custody. The latest published information can be found in the ‘Community Performance Quarterly Management Information Release: April to June 2017’ on Gov.uk at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-performance-quarterly-mi-update-to-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-performance-quarterly-mi-update-to-june-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are considering the development of a performance measure for accommodation on first night out of prison for introduction in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:24:00 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

804364

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in excess of Certified Normal Accommodation there have been in the prison estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate the Government has made of that number in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Information on how many prisoners in excess of Certified Normal Accommodation there have been in the prison estate in England and Wales in each of the last five years is set out in the following table. This information can also be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-population-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-population-statistics</a> We do not forecast CNA levels.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>In Use Certified Normal Accommodation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners in excess of In Use Certified Normal Accommodation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012</p></td><td><p>79,450</p></td><td><p>86,352</p></td><td><p>6,902</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>77,730</p></td><td><p>83,796</p></td><td><p>6,066</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>76,017</p></td><td><p>85,582</p></td><td><p>9,565</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>77,220</p></td><td><p>86,028</p></td><td><p>8,808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2016</p></td><td><p>76,819</p></td><td><p>85,130</p></td><td><p>8,311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2017</p></td><td><p>76,026</p></td><td><p>85,863</p></td><td><p>9,837</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Note:</strong> CNA, or uncrowded capacity, is the HM Prison Service’s own measure of accommodation. CNA represents the good, decent standard of accommodation that the Service aspires to provide all prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>We will always have enough prison places for those sent to us by the courts. Our reforms will close ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands. Our prison estate will have modern prison places that create the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:24:26 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

804523

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Antisocial Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) civil injunctions in relation to anti-social behaviour, (b) Community Protection Notices and (c) Criminal Behaviour Orders have been issued in each financial year from 2010 to date.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	118725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 14/12/2017 17:59:10 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

804556

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many men in prison are cell sharing on the basis of (a) two to a cell designated for one and (b) three to a cell designated for two; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	118758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Information on the percentage of prisoners in doubled accommodation (two prisoners held in a cell designed for one) is published as Official Statistics in the Supplementary Tables to the annual Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Digest on https://www.gov.uk/. This is published alongside information on the overall level of crowding, most of which is made up of doubling, but also includes other forms of crowding, i.e. trebling (typically three held in a cell designed for two) and crowding in dormitories, which are rare. This has been shown below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1998/9</p></td><td><p>1999/00</p></td><td><p>2000/01</p></td><td><p>2001/02</p></td><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td><p>2004/05</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doubling</p></td><td><p>18.6</p></td><td><p>19.0</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td><td><p>20.8</p></td><td><p>22.1</p></td><td><p>22.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trebling and other crowding</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Crowding</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p>20.1</p></td><td><p>18.2</p></td><td><p>19.2</p></td><td><p>23.3</p></td><td><p>24.8</p></td><td><p>24.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doubling</p></td><td><p>22.1</p></td><td><p>23.1</p></td><td><p>23.6</p></td><td><p>24.2</p></td><td><p>23.6</p></td><td><p>23.3</p></td><td><p>24.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trebling and other crowding</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Crowding</p></td><td><p>24.0</p></td><td><p>24.6</p></td><td><p>25.3</p></td><td><p>25.3</p></td><td><p>24.6</p></td><td><p>24.2</p></td><td><p>25.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doubling</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>23.2</p></td><td><p>24.5</p></td><td><p>23.8</p></td><td><p>23.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trebling and other crowding</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Crowding</p></td><td><p>23.9</p></td><td><p>24.1</p></td><td><p>25.5</p></td><td><p>24.5</p></td><td><p>24.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We will always have enough prison places for those sent to us by the courts. Our reforms will close ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands. Our prison estate will have modern prison places that create the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:23:31 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

802973

registered interest
date	08/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of installing medical facilities at HMP Berwyn to reduce the pressure on local NHS providers.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	118393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>A full range of health and wellbeing services are available to the men at HMP Berwyn including primary care services, mental health and learning disability services, and services for men with a need for substance misuse services.</p><p> </p><p>These services are housed in purpose built facility and are staffed by a variety of health and wellbeing professionals.</p><p> </p><p>Health is devolved in Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Welsh Government, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and the HMP Berwyn project team have worked closely together to assess the potential impact of HMP Berwyn on local health services, including emergency services. A full health needs assessment was carried out in the early stages of the development of the prison and models of care were developed from this, with the aim of reducing the local health impact as far as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:24:44 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

802976

registered interest
date	08/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Berwyn Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the procedure is for taking an inmate from HMP Berwyn to local A&E services.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	118396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Men who present with issues which may require attendance at hospital, short of emergency medical issues, are assessed by health professionals before any decision is made to take them to hospital. There are a wide range of interventions which can be provided by the health and wellbeing team in situ to prevent the need for men to attend at local emergency departments. In the event of a medical emergency a man may be transferred to local services if care cannot be provided within HMP Berwyn but men are transferred back to the prison at the earliest appropriate opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>A risk assessment will decide the level of staffing required for the safe transfer to hospital and during any further hospital stay. This will be completed before any move to hospital from HMP Berwyn except in an emergency. The risk assessment is approved by the Head of Security or the person operationally in charge of the prison.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:25:20 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

802614

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in England and Wales were prosecuted for possession of a weapon while in prison in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, c) 2016 and (d) 2017 to date.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	118164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The Serious Crime Act 2015 introduced an offence of unauthorised possession in prison of a knife or offensive weapon. Data on proceedings in 2015 and 2016 is available on the gov.uk website.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/614435/experimental-statistics-by-ho-offence-code.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/614435/experimental-statistics-by-ho-offence-code.zip</a></p><p>Data on proceedings in 2017 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:23:12 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

802645

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Tactical Response Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many separate occasions National Tactical Response Group officers were deployed to (a) HM Prison Buckley Hall, (b) HM Prison Forest Bank, (c) HM Prison Manchester and (d) HM Prison Hindley in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	118195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) provide a specialist service to prisons through the deployment of staff resources with tactical and operational expertise required to bring about resolution to serious incidents of disorder. The service includes planning and preparation of tactical options to Gold, Silver and Bronze Commanders, and the implementation of those orders and this service is not solely limited to violent incident. NTRG are also the provider of training in Use of Force, developing the curriculum from which prison officers receive training in basic and advanced level control and restraint, personal protection techniques, and use of batons. They also complete cross government resilience assurance work and professional practice development around HMPPS operational response capabilities. The answers to all four NTRG related questions submitted follow below;</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Number of NTRG staff in post by year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Staff</p></td><td><p>Managers</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>NTRG ATTENDANCE AT REQUESTED SITES BY YEAR</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>HMP Buckley Hall</p></td><td><p>HMP Forest Bank</p></td><td><p>HMP Hindley</p></td><td><p>HMP Manchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The budget allocation for National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) is shown below. These figures include pay and non-pay items (including training materials, operational incident consumables and vehicle costs). It is not possible to retrieve the 2010 data information within the time available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>NTRG Budget</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>1.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>1.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>1.7m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>1.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>1.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>1.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>1.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>1.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>There has been no reduction in our investment in NTRG from 2017-18, in fact the position is quite the opposite. The funding position has changed due to the transfer of NTRG staff cost from the HR Directorate into the SOCT Directorate during 2017/18. The reason for the comparative budget reduction is that HR Directorate have held onto £0.2k budget for Facilities Management costs within the Learning &amp; Development Unit and the average pay used to set the pay budget allocation for 17/18 was based on average costs which are £7k lower than in previous years and will need to be adjusted next year to reflect Operational rather than HQ posts of approx. £0.41m. HMPPS Budgets are set at the beginning of the year, but are subject to changes and adjustments during the course of the year due to changes in scope and priorities of the business.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>NTRG staff work from one of two centres, and are deployed to establishments as the need arises. The deployment of NTRG staff to establishments is managed centrally and subject to operational considerations and priorities. The decision to deploy our specialist resources can be taken as a precautionary measure, however it is usually in response to an ongoing incident or disorder.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 118196 118197 118200 question first answered 14/12/2017 16:27:03 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne