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1523201

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set a numerical target for the commitment in the Female Offenders Strategy on reducing the number of women entering prison.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	64211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We remain committed to the aims in the Female Offender Strategy (2018) of seeing fewer women offending and reoffending; fewer women in custody, especially on short sentences, with more managed effectively in the community; and better conditions for women in custody that support effective rehabilitation.</p><p>As we have an independent judiciary, setting a numerical target as proposed is not appropriate and may have unintended consequences. We are working to ensure that interventions and pilot projects are, where possible, evaluated so that we can understand their impact on the numbers and make-up of the population.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Rob Butler question first answered 25/10/2022 10:36:59 answering member 4745 label Biography information for Rob Butler
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1487100

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report by the Public Accounts Committee entitled Improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system, published on 28 April 2022, HC 997, if he will publish his Department's assessment of the implementation of the 66 commitments contained within the Female Offender Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	31832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>We will be formally responding to the Public Accounts Committee’s report shortly and will set out our future actions on the delivery of the Female Offender Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/07/2022 15:59:21 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1405199

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Audit Office report, Improving Outcomes for Women in the Criminal Justice System, what steps his Department is taking to achieve the aim set out in the Female Offenders Strategy to reduce the number of women in prison and increase support in the community.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	109314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>We remain committed to the vision in the Female Offender Strategy, which set out the long-term framework to achieve better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>Since publication in June 2018, the number of women entering the criminal justice system has fallen by 30%. We're investing millions of pounds over the next 3 years into community services like women’s centres, drug rehabilitation and accommodation support so fewer women end up in prison.</p><p> </p><p>We also have several initiatives underway to improve community sentencing options to tackle low-level offending, divert women from custody, and reduce reoffending. This includes several pilots such as the Residential women’s centre pilot, and plans to create a residential women's centre Pre-Sentence Report pilot that is targeting fuller reports for women.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/01/2022 12:37:48 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1405200

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Audit Office report, Improving Outcomes for Women in the Criminal Justice System, what assessment his Department has made of the Female Offenders Strategy's aim of having fewer women in custody when estimating how many more prison places may be required.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	109315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>We launched the Female Offender Strategy in 2018 with the aim of steering women away from crime and since then, the number of women entering the criminal justice system has fallen by 30%. We're investing millions of pounds over the next 3 years into community services like women centres, drug rehabilitation and accommodation support so fewer women end up in prison.</p><p> </p><p>The new facilities for women are an important step in taking forward the Female Offender Strategy aim to better conditions for women in custody that support effective rehabilitation. We must ensure that those women who need to be in custody are held in appropriate, decent and safe accommodation. This is why the design of our new accommodation will be trauma-informed and gender-specific, with the expectancy of improved outcomes for women.</p><p> </p><p>The new smaller communities of accommodation are specifically designed to be trauma-informed with visible aspects such as windows without bars, smaller units, better layouts, bigger association spaces being included, whereas dark, narrow corridors, blind corners and communal showers may trigger responses linked to sexual assault or abuse experience.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/01/2022 12:46:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1405201

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the National Audit Office report, Improving Outcomes for Women in the Criminal Justice System, what the projected costs and timeframe are for delivering the 500 new prison places for women.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	109316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>We are consulting with the market, so our current project cost estimate is commercially sensitive until that process has concluded.</p><p>Given the likely timeframes for planning and construction, we expect the first women to be in the new facilities in early 2025.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 31/01/2022 12:49:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1382380

registered interest
date	25/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Prison population projections: 2021 to 2026, published on 25 November 2021, page 12, if he will make an assessment of the reasons, apart from the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, that no effect of the Female Offender Strategy on the population of women in prison has been detected; and whether he has made an assessment of the effect on the population of women in prison over the forecast period of that strategy’s full implementation.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	81910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>“Prison population projections: 2021 to 2026”, published on 25 November 2021, noted that the adult female prison population fell from 3,766 at the end of June 2019 to 3,170 at July 2021. However, as also noted in the same publication, no effect of the Female Offender Strategy on the population of women in prison has been detected because “the limited time between the publication of the Female Offender Strategy and the start of the pandemic means it is difficult to disentangle any effects of the strategy. Any future impacts of the Female Offender Strategy have therefore been excluded from the baseline projection.”</p><p>There are a number of external influencing factors that will result in fluctuations in the adult female population. We will continue to monitor trends and, where possible, look to assess the impact of interventions driven through the Female Offender Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/12/2021 12:54:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1330224

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will implement all of the commitments in their Female Offender Strategy (Cm 9642), published on 27 June 2018.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to delivering its commitments in the Female Offender Strategy. The Strategy has three overarching aims: 1) fewer women offending and reoffending; 2) fewer women in custody, especially on short sentences, with more managed effectively in custody; and 3) better conditions for women in custody that support effective rehabilitation. Considering how we can best address the needs of female offenders and to improve outcomes for them, their families and their communities, is a complex issue that we want to get right. The Strategy’s publication was the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 21/06/2021 16:46:58 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1309043

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the 2019 Farmer Review for Women, what progress has been made on the introduction of a Personal Circumstances File for women in contact with the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	181124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government has made good progress in implementing the recommendations of the Farmer Review for Women, since its publication in June 2019. Ten recommendations have already been implemented and a further eight are expected to be completed this year. Achievements so far include increased access to telephone contact in court custody suites, allowances for the increased use of Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL), amending the eligibility for Child Resettlement Leave to include primary carers as well as sole carers, and the rollout of video calling across the Women’s Estate.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Female Offender Strategy, the Government is working to ensure women’s personal circumstances are identified and shared by all agencies in the criminal justice system, in order to inform decisions and support. Lord Farmer’s recommendation on the Personal Circumstances File forms part of this work.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to increasing the delivery of quality and timely pre-sentence reports (PSRs) and understand the particular importance of PSRs for women. HM Prison and Probation Service has developed a Pre-Sentence Report interview checklist which focuses on the specific needs of female offenders. Following a series of briefing events, this was rolled out nationally in August 2019 and is available to all practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, in the Sentencing White Paper we committed to ensuring that probation staff are supported to deliver a high standard of reports and to significantly increase the proportion of court disposals which benefit from a PSR. This pilot has now launched, and will be in all 15 pilot magistrate courts across 10 probation regions in England and Wales by mid-May. One element of this pilot looks specifically at female offenders, given this cohort often have particularly complex needs. We will use the findings from this pilot to further inform how we take forward Lord Farmer’s recommendation.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 181123 181125 question first answered 19/04/2021 15:43:21 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1260566

registered interest
date	11/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on the implementation of the Female Offender Strategy of the analysis of imprisonment rates for women in 2019 by police service area, published by the Prison Reform Trust on 10 December 2020.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	128652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2020 answer text <p>The number of adult women in custody has fallen by 23% in the last ten years (June 2010 to June 2020). However, with the introduction of an additional 20,000 police officers, we expect to see an increase in the prison population, including for women.</p><p>As set out in our Female Offender Strategy (2018), we know that many women can be better supported in the community on robust and effective community sentences, and we are working to divert women away from custody, where appropriate.</p><p>We announced in May 2020 that our first residential women’s centre will be located in Wales. This will provide accommodation for vulnerable women with complex needs who would otherwise be sentenced to custody, enabling them to stay closer to home and maintain important family ties. The RWC will provide interventions that directly tackle the issues which often underlie offending, such as substance misuse or poor mental health.</p><p>The Government’s White Paper, <em>A Smarter Approach to Sentencing </em>(September 2020) sets out our further plans for more effective community sentencing that responds to the underlying drivers of offending. We will support offenders to change their lifestyles for good and protect the public by better identifying individual needs, providing treatment options where appropriate, and utilising technology to drive compliance. Underpinning these measures, will be our ongoing probation reform, to deliver effective, tailored and responsive supervision of offenders in the community.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/12/2020 16:23:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1239783

registered interest
date	01/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent representations his Department has received from (a) the Advisory Board on Female Offenders and (b) members of that Board in relation to the adequacy of funding levels for the implementation of the Female Offender Strategy.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	98197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2020 answer text <p>The last meeting of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders (ABFO) was held on 30 June 2020. The agenda items covered comprised: a standing up-date on delivery of the Female Offender Strategy to date; the impact of Covid 19 on HMPPS and measures taken; plans for the first Residential Women’s Centre in Wales; and the National Concordat on Female Offenders. Wider discussion included reference to the following topics: meeting the needs of minority ethnic and foreign national women; funding for the strategy; and women and remand. HM Government’s commitment to delivering the aims of the strategy was confirmed.</p><p>We have received the following formal representations from ABFO members recently relating to funding for the FO Strategy:<br> - The Prison Reform Trust’s ABFO representative raised the issue at the last meeting of the ABFO on 30 June 2020</p><p>- The Women in Prison ABFO representative submitted a written representation on 24 September</p><p>- Women in Prison together with 20 other women’s sector organisations submitted a co-signed letter on 7 June and 29 September relating to funding.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 98196 question first answered 09/10/2020 13:42:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown