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1535535

registered interest
date	24/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on tackling extremism within prisons.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	69857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend, the Member for Stockton South, to the answer given by my predecessor on Wednesday 29 June 2022 to Question 23808, and include a direct link to that answer from <em>Written Questions, Answers and Statements</em> – <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-06-23/23808" target="_blank">UIN 23808</a>.</p><p>As outlined in that previous answer, following the tragic attacks in 2019 and 2020 at Fishmongers’ Hall, Whitemoor Prison, Streatham and Reading, we have overhauled our approach to counter terrorism in prisons. Through the CT Step Up Programme, we have uplifted our capacity and addressed gaps in our capabilities to tackle the terrorist threat, including:</p><ul><li>Establishing a new central hub to improve intelligence sharing between MI5, the Police, and HMPPS; and</li><li>Developing our new Counter Terrorism Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre for expert psychologists and specialist staff to research, implement and evaluate special programmes to draw offenders away from extremism.</li></ul><p>We have also ended the automatic early release of terrorists through the Terrorist Offenders Act 2020 and introduced a 14-year minimum jail term for the most dangerous terrorist offenders through the Counter Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021. These vital laws mark the largest overhaul of terrorist legislation in decades.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/11/2022 10:09:18 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1285332

registered interest
date	09/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce and prevent (a) radicalisation and (b) extremism in prisons.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	151606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government takes the threat posed by terrorist offenders very seriously and is committed to tackling radicalisation and terrorism in our prisons.</p><p>We have a range of capabilities and controls to manage the unique risk posed by terrorist offenders and to prevent them from radicalising others. All risk management is underpinned through specialist counter terrorism case management. This includes rehabilitative tools, which tackle the drivers of radicalisation and seek to draw prisoners away from extremist ideologies.</p><p>The Joint Extremism Unit (JEXU) is the strategic centre for counter-terrorism work in prisons; since 2017, it has led important investment and improvement in the sector. Over 30,000 prison staff have been trained to identify, report and deal with extremist behaviour in prison. The Government introduced separation centres to manage the risk of a small number of prisoners who may pose a particular risk of radicalising other offenders in the mainstream prison estate.</p><p>The CT Step Up programme will transform this response in prisons by addressing gaps in our current capabilities. The programme will increase counter-terrorism capability in the system by focusing resource into a number of centres of excellence and specialist functions that can deliver a strengthened set of controls and interventions to terrorist offenders at a pace and scale commensurate to the threat.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/02/2021 11:03:16 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1176831

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many compulsory deradicalization programmes there are for identified prisoners; and how many prisoners have attended those programme in each month since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	13595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Radicalisation is a complex issue. For every terrorist offender in prison and on probation, we have a range of capabilities to ensure robust supervision. We use tailored interventions with offenders - psychological, ideological and theological - to support their disengagement and rehabilitation. None of the programmes offered are compulsory, to ensure the intervention is most effective, the individual must be willing to engage.</p><p>We will continue to regularly review Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) intervention programmes to ensure they are informed by the most up to date research on correctional rehabilitation. Accurately measuring the effectiveness of a programme relies on sufficient numbers completing it, which can take a number of years.</p><p>Interventions are led by specialist intervention providers. None of the programmes developed for terrorist offenders are prison officer led. However, we have trained over 29,000 prison staff to recognise, report and challenge extremist behaviour in prison.</p><p>HMPPS works closely with partners, including with law enforcement, to understand and manage the risks that terrorist offenders present in prison, using a range of control and rehabilitation measures. This is underpinned by a specialist counter terrorism case management process, which is led by HMPPS Counter Terrorism specialists.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 13596 13597 question first answered 13/02/2020 15:30:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1176832

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
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 effectiveness of de-radicalisation programmes in prisons for Islamic extremists.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	13596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Radicalisation is a complex issue. For every terrorist offender in prison and on probation, we have a range of capabilities to ensure robust supervision. We use tailored interventions with offenders - psychological, ideological and theological - to support their disengagement and rehabilitation. None of the programmes offered are compulsory, to ensure the intervention is most effective, the individual must be willing to engage.</p><p>We will continue to regularly review Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) intervention programmes to ensure they are informed by the most up to date research on correctional rehabilitation. Accurately measuring the effectiveness of a programme relies on sufficient numbers completing it, which can take a number of years.</p><p>Interventions are led by specialist intervention providers. None of the programmes developed for terrorist offenders are prison officer led. However, we have trained over 29,000 prison staff to recognise, report and challenge extremist behaviour in prison.</p><p>HMPPS works closely with partners, including with law enforcement, to understand and manage the risks that terrorist offenders present in prison, using a range of control and rehabilitation measures. This is underpinned by a specialist counter terrorism case management process, which is led by HMPPS Counter Terrorism specialists.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 13595 13597 question first answered 13/02/2020 15:30:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1176833

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the de-radicalisation programmes operating in the prison estate for Islamic Extremists are prison officer led.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	13597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Radicalisation is a complex issue. For every terrorist offender in prison and on probation, we have a range of capabilities to ensure robust supervision. We use tailored interventions with offenders - psychological, ideological and theological - to support their disengagement and rehabilitation. None of the programmes offered are compulsory, to ensure the intervention is most effective, the individual must be willing to engage.</p><p>We will continue to regularly review Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) intervention programmes to ensure they are informed by the most up to date research on correctional rehabilitation. Accurately measuring the effectiveness of a programme relies on sufficient numbers completing it, which can take a number of years.</p><p>Interventions are led by specialist intervention providers. None of the programmes developed for terrorist offenders are prison officer led. However, we have trained over 29,000 prison staff to recognise, report and challenge extremist behaviour in prison.</p><p>HMPPS works closely with partners, including with law enforcement, to understand and manage the risks that terrorist offenders present in prison, using a range of control and rehabilitation measures. This is underpinned by a specialist counter terrorism case management process, which is led by HMPPS Counter Terrorism specialists.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 13595 13596 question first answered 13/02/2020 15:30:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1176835

registered interest
date	06/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) Category A prisoners and (b) prisoners believed to have been radicalised will be housed in private prisons.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	13598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Across England and Wales, it is HMPPS policy that no Category A prisoners are held in private prisons. For every terrorist offender in prison and probation there are a range of capabilities to ensure robust end-to-end supervision. Risk management is underpinned by our specialist counter terrorism case management process to which all terrorist offenders, including offenders of extremist risk, are subject. We adopt a multi-agency approach, which allows risk assessments and intelligence to be shared appropriately with the police and security service. All of these measures help to manage the risk across the prison estate, including in private prisons.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/02/2020 15:33:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1133807

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the level of radicalising influence by Islamist extremists in prisons in England and Wales; and what estimate they have made of the number of prisoners who have been radicalised in the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL16558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>We are currently managing around 650 individuals in prison and probation through a counter terrorism specialist case management process, ranging from convicted terrorists to those we have identified as showing signs of extremist views or vulnerabilities. We have around 50% more terrorist related prisoners in prisons in England and Wales than we did three years ago.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of cases are Islamist extremist (approximately 80%). However, there continues to be a significant rise in Right Wing Terrorism (RWT) cases across the country; the number of Right-Wing offenders in custody rose from 4% of the total Terrorism Act (TACT) / TACT-related cohort in 2015 to 14% in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We do not produce an estimate of the number of offenders who might have been radicalised, nor do we produce a single assessment of the level of radicalising influence by extremists of any ideology. We take the threat of radicalisation and extremism very seriously and this is a key part of our work to improve safety in our prisons. We deal with the risks that individual prisoners present on a case-by-case basis, working closely with law enforcement partners.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 02/07/2019 16:52:26 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1127497

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what interventions his Department is making to tackle the ideologies of far-right offenders within the prison system.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	256230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works closely with a range of partners to tackle extremism of all ideologies in prisons, including ideologies held by far-right offenders. An HMPPS and Home Office Joint Extremism Unit (JEXU) was established in April 2017 to be the strategic centre for all counter terrorism work in prison and probation and have oversight of delivery across the end-to-end offender management process.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners identified as being of extremist concern, or who have shown signs of being vulnerable to extremism, are managed actively as part of a comprehensive case management process. Over 22,000 prison staff have received specialist extremism awareness training, to enable them to identify, report and challenge extremist views.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS uses a wide range of interventions as part of its management of extremist offenders in prison. These range from assessment tools, such as the Extremism Risk Guidance 22+ and Extremism Risk Screening, to rehabilitative measures such as the Healthy Identity Intervention, Developing Dialogues, and the Desistance and Disengagement Programme. Interventions play an important role in helping to encourage and facilitate desistance and disengagement from extremism, support reintegration into society, and reduce the risk of further offending. All of these interventions are available to far-right offenders, if required.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 29/05/2019 16:21:05 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

909007

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to prevent the further radicalisation of (a) terrorist and (b) terrorist-related offenders in prison.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	146205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works closely with a range of partners to tackle terrorism and extremism of all ideologies. HMPPS have a wide range of interventions available to deal with such prisoners including transfer to others prisons, wing moves and where appropriate, segregations. In addition the Government opened its first Separation Centre in June 2017. A second centre open in March 2018. The centres have been established in order to hold the most subversive extremist prisoners, and safeguard the mainstream population from terrorist and extremist influences. HMPPS also has a strong multi-faith Chaplaincy dedicated to working with prisoners on all faith matters including providing a proper understanding of religion. In addition over 14,000 prison staff have received specialist extremism awareness training since January 2017.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/05/2018 16:28:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

771594

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of radicalisation in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	107837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department takes the threat of radicalisation very seriously and tackling radicalisation is a key part of our work to improve safety in our prisons, and in the community for those under probation supervision. Front line staff are being given enhanced training to challenge extremist views and take action against them. A new joint HMPPS and Home Office Extremism Unit was created in April 2017 to drive closer working with policy and law enforcement partners. The first Separation Centre was opened at HMP Frankland in June 2017. Separation centres are facilities to hold the most subversive extremist prisoners, protecting those most vulnerable to radicalisation from their extremist ideology.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 24/10/2017 16:06:50 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz