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47323

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) items of post were received by prisoners and (b) items of contraband was found in prisoners' post in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	195533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Prisons employ a range of measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of unauthorised items into prisons.</p><p> </p><p>The number of individual items of post sent to prisoners is not recorded by prison establishments. Finds of contraband are recorded on a central incident reporting system as either a drug-related incident or a miscellaneous incident. In order to establish the number and type of contraband found in post received by prisoners, in each of the last four years, would require the interrogation of over 62,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

47324

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what types of contraband were found in items of post received by prisoners in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	195534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Prisons employ a range of measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of unauthorised items into prisons.</p><p> </p><p>The number of individual items of post sent to prisoners is not recorded by prison establishments. Finds of contraband are recorded on a central incident reporting system as either a drug-related incident or a miscellaneous incident. In order to establish the number and type of contraband found in post received by prisoners, in each of the last four years, would require the interrogation of over 62,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

46341

registered interest
date	01/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults there were against prison officers in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	194698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>NOMS takes the issue of assaults on prison staff very seriously. It currently has systems in place to deal with perpetrators quickly and robustly, with serious incidents referred to the police for prosecution. It is working with the police and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Prosecution_Service" target="_blank">Crown Prosecution Service</a> to ensure that prisoners who assault staff are charged and punished appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS is committed to exploring options to continue to improve how violence is tackled in prisons to keep both staff and prisoners safe. It is currently reviewing the policy and practice of the management of violence.</p><p> </p><p>The number of prisoner on prison officers assault incidents in each year are provided in table 3.8 of the supplementary tables on assaults that accompany each Safety in Custody statistics bulletin. The latest publication can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-in-custody" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-in-custody</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of these incidents that are reported on the centralised administrative system as being referred to the police in each year are provided in table 1. These figures do not represent individuals as there may be multiple assailants in some incidents. How many of these resulted in charges or conviction can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Number of prisoner on officer assault incidents referred to the police</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prisoner on officer assaults referred to police</p></td><td><p>374</p></td><td><p>393</p></td><td><p>543</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 4896 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

46145

registered interest
date	31/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds his Department has spent on preparing HM Prison the Verne for re-role as an immigration detention centre to date.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	194448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Ministry Justice has not spent any additional money to date in preparing HM Prison The Verne to hold immigration detainees. However, the Home Office has funded infrastructure changes to make the site suitable for holding immigration detainees. These changes have allowed for early and cost-efficient preparation for its change of use while continuing to allow The Verne to operate as a prison.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 4484 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

45817

registered interest
date	28/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) operational capacities and (b) certified normal accommodations were of each privately run prison with which a contract for additional places has been signed since January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	194309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The privately operated prisons at which additional places have been purchased since January 2014 are listed below</p><p> </p><p>Altcourse</p><p>Dovegate</p><p>Forest Bank</p><p>Lowdham Grange</p><p>Parc</p><p>Peterborough</p><p> </p><p>Individual prison population and capacity information is published monthly on the Government website at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>Population and capacity figures for March 2014 will be published on the Government website on Friday 11 April</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 4248 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

41940

registered interest
date	06/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
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 originate from countries that are signed up to the EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	191088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement (Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA) entered into force on 5<sup>th</sup> December 2011.</p><p> </p><p>To date 18 Member States (including the United Kingdom) have implemented the Agreement. The number of foreign nationals in prison from these countries (as of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2013) is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Transfer under the EUPTA requires a deportation order and prisoners must have at least six months left to serve when transferred. Many shorter sentenced EU prisoners will therefore not be in scope for transfer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which sentenced</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign Nationals from EU countries that have implemented the EUPTA <sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td><p>2,307</p></td><td><p>1,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>938</p></td><td><p>553</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) Includes Poland. Poland has implemented but has derogation from accepting compulsory prisoner transfers under the EU Prisoner Transfer Arrangement (PTA) until December 2016.</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Use of the EU PTA remains at an early stage, but we expect to see a significant increase in the number of prisoner transferred once the Agreement has been implemented by all Member States.</p><p>All foreign national offenders sentenced to custody are referred to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office" target="_blank">Home Office</a> for them to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 237 FNOs to date.</p><p>Whereas this Government has begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan