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381200

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date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many resettlement units for female offenders have been opened in each prison since October 2013; and what the capacity is of each such unit.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	2457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>All women’s prisons now have embedded resettlement services. These are provided under contract by the Community Rehabilitation Companies which are required to make sure that their services are tailored to women’s specific needs.</p><p> </p><p>Two 25-bed open units were opened at HMP/ YOIs Styal and Drake Hall earlier this year. The units are situated outside of the perimeter fence and only thoroughly risk-assessed women offenders will be eligible to be located there, focusing on helping them into jobs and preparing them for release.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally a 34 bed unit has been opened within the perimeter of HMP/YOI Foston Hall and two units totalling 78 places are shortly to open within HMP/YOI Eastwood Park. These additional places will mean that future women offenders can be held closer to home and are intended to contribute to their successful resettlement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 13:07:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

381223

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders are currently housed in each resettlement unit in each prison.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	2450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>All of the current 3,901 women offenders are held in resettlement prisons which have embedded resettlement services. These are provided under contract by Community Rehabilitation Companies which are required to make sure that their services are tailored to women’s specific needs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 12:59:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

381232

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders from each resettlement unit are currently doing community work on resettlement day release.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	2478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of women offenders participating in community work on resettlement day release at each women’s prison as of 17 June 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Askham Grange</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Bronzefield</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Drake Hall</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI East Sutton Park</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Holloway</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Low Newton</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Peterborough</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Send</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Styal</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 12:48:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

381234

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many female offenders from each resettlement unit are in paid work while on resettlement day release and are paying 40 per cent of that wage to Victim Support.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	2479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>All female offenders are held in resettlement prisons. The Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996 was brought into force on 26 September 2011. It enables prison governors to impose a levy of up to 40% on the wages of low-risk prisoners who work outside prison on temporary licence, in order to prepare for their eventual release.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the numbers of female offenders who are in paid work while on resettlement day release and are paying 40% of their wage to Victim Support for each women’s prison as of 17 June 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Askham Grange</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Drake Hall</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI East Sutton Park</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Eastwood Park</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP/ YOI Holloway</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Send</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/06/2015 12:53:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson