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1661917

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of legally recognising humanist marriages.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	200434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>In July 2019 we invited the Law Commission to undertake a wholesale review on weddings law in England and Wales. As part of that review, the Government invited the Law Commission to make recommendations about how marriage by humanist and other non-religious belief organisations could be incorporated into a revised or new scheme for all marriages that is simple, fair and consistent.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission report was published in July 2022 and contains 57 recommendations for extensive legislative reform. The Government is carefully considering these recommendations, and a response will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 16/10/2023 14:30:14 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1586620

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who have been convicted of rape are housed in the female estate; and how many and what proportion of those prisoners are in possession of a gender recognition certificate.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	147338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The number of prisoners in the women’s estate convicted of rape can be found in the mid-year prison population detailed characteristics published in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly, in Table 1.5i found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094517/Population_30June2022_Annual.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094517/Population_30June2022_Annual.ods</a>.</p><p>To note that under English law, accessories to a crime are charged as principal offenders, and therefore biological women can be convicted of rape. Data disclosure rules mean we cannot disclose whether any of these prisoners have gender recognition certificates, as the answer is 5 or fewer (including 0).</p><p>HMPPS have a range of processes in place to manage the risk posed by prisoners convicted of sexual offences, including through structured risk assessments, security measures in prisons such as cell sharing risk assessments, sentence planning and offending behaviour programmes and interventions.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 147342 question first answered 27/02/2023 13:54:02 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1586621

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been transferred from the male estate to the female estate in each year since 2004.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	147339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>Our records on transfers from the men’s estate to the women’s estate start in 2016. In each year since then, 5 or fewer (including 0) prisoners were transferred from the men’s estate to the women’s estate.</p><p>Since 2016, 5 or fewer (including 0) prisoners convicted of a sexual offence as their principal offence had been transferred from the men’s estate to the women’s estate.</p><p>Data disclosure rules mean that where the answer to a question would disclose a number of prisoners which is 5 or fewer, this figure must be suppressed as it could be used to identify individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 147340 question first answered 27/02/2023 13:56:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1586622

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners convicted of sexual offences have transferred from the male estate to the female estate since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	147340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>Our records on transfers from the men’s estate to the women’s estate start in 2016. In each year since then, 5 or fewer (including 0) prisoners were transferred from the men’s estate to the women’s estate.</p><p>Since 2016, 5 or fewer (including 0) prisoners convicted of a sexual offence as their principal offence had been transferred from the men’s estate to the women’s estate.</p><p>Data disclosure rules mean that where the answer to a question would disclose a number of prisoners which is 5 or fewer, this figure must be suppressed as it could be used to identify individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 147339 question first answered 27/02/2023 13:56:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1586624

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Prisoners
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 monitor prisoners housed in the female estate who have been convicted of (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences against women.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	147342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The number of prisoners in the women’s estate convicted of rape can be found in the mid-year prison population detailed characteristics published in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly, in Table 1.5i found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094517/Population_30June2022_Annual.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094517/Population_30June2022_Annual.ods</a>.</p><p>To note that under English law, accessories to a crime are charged as principal offenders, and therefore biological women can be convicted of rape. Data disclosure rules mean we cannot disclose whether any of these prisoners have gender recognition certificates, as the answer is 5 or fewer (including 0).</p><p>HMPPS have a range of processes in place to manage the risk posed by prisoners convicted of sexual offences, including through structured risk assessments, security measures in prisons such as cell sharing risk assessments, sentence planning and offending behaviour programmes and interventions.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 147338 question first answered 27/02/2023 13:54:02 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1541792

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Disability and Neurodiversity
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 train prison staff on the additional needs of prisoners with disabilities, including for neurodiverse prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	86561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>On 30 June 2022, the Government published our Action Plan in response to the Evidence Review on Neurodiversity in the Criminal Justice System, setting set out a number of steps we are taking to increase support for neurodivergent people encountering the criminal justice system (CJS), including those on remand.</p><p>The action plan includes a number of steps specifically focused on training staff:</p><ul><li><p>we are on track to have a dedicated Neurodiversity Support Manager in every prison across England and Wales by March 2024. A key part of their role is to deliver awareness sessions to upskill staff, and to improve prisoners’ access to education, skills and work;</p></li><li><p>by the end of 2022, we will have developed and launched a National Neurodiversity Training Toolkit available for all prison and probation staff; and</p></li><li><p>HM Prison and Probation Service has commissioned the organisation Skills for Justice to develop an ‘Adult Health, Care and Wellbeing Core Capabilities Framework’ for frontline staff, to set out what skills, knowledge and behaviour are required to support offenders with health requirements, including neurodivergent need.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 86562 question first answered 21/11/2022 10:46:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1541793

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners on Remand: Disability and Neurodiversity
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 train prison staff on the additional needs of people in prison on remand with disabilities, including for neurodiverse people.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	86562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>On 30 June 2022, the Government published our Action Plan in response to the Evidence Review on Neurodiversity in the Criminal Justice System, setting set out a number of steps we are taking to increase support for neurodivergent people encountering the criminal justice system (CJS), including those on remand.</p><p>The action plan includes a number of steps specifically focused on training staff:</p><ul><li><p>we are on track to have a dedicated Neurodiversity Support Manager in every prison across England and Wales by March 2024. A key part of their role is to deliver awareness sessions to upskill staff, and to improve prisoners’ access to education, skills and work;</p></li><li><p>by the end of 2022, we will have developed and launched a National Neurodiversity Training Toolkit available for all prison and probation staff; and</p></li><li><p>HM Prison and Probation Service has commissioned the organisation Skills for Justice to develop an ‘Adult Health, Care and Wellbeing Core Capabilities Framework’ for frontline staff, to set out what skills, knowledge and behaviour are required to support offenders with health requirements, including neurodivergent need.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 86561 question first answered 21/11/2022 10:46:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404323

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biologically male transgender prisoners housed in the male estate have been subjected to assault and to sexual assault in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>These figures have been drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System, which records the legal gender of prisoners. They are based on snapshot data collections from March 2018, 2019 and 2021. There was no collection in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is not available for 2017. This is because legal gender did not form part of the central data collection in that year.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 38 assaults and 14 sexual assaults on legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 16 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults. In 2020-21 there were fewer than 5 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 332 self-harm incidents involving legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 159. In 2020-21 there were 228. Data on attempted suicide is not available.</p><p>We have trained more than 25,000 staff in suicide and self-harm prevention as part of our drive to tackle these issues, and we continue to develop initiatives to better support people in custody.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107675 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:43:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404324

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of self-harm and attempted suicide have been recorded for biologically male transgender prisoners housed in the male estate in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>These figures have been drawn from the HMPPS Incident Reporting System, which records the legal gender of prisoners. They are based on snapshot data collections from March 2018, 2019 and 2021. There was no collection in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is not available for 2017. This is because legal gender did not form part of the central data collection in that year.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 38 assaults and 14 sexual assaults on legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 16 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults. In 2020-21 there were fewer than 5 assaults and fewer than 5 sexual assaults.</p><p>In 2017-18 there were 332 self-harm incidents involving legally male transgender prisoners in the men’s prison estate. In 2018-19 there were 159. In 2020-21 there were 228. Data on attempted suicide is not available.</p><p>We have trained more than 25,000 staff in suicide and self-harm prevention as part of our drive to tackle these issues, and we continue to develop initiatives to better support people in custody.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 107674 question first answered 24/01/2022 17:43:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1404325

registered interest
date	19/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Body Searches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the revised protocol on searching of the person will be published; whether prison officers of the male sex who identify as transgender, with or without a gender recognition certificate, will be permitted to rubdown or strip search female offenders; and whether the revised protocols will also apply to youth custody services.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	107676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The national policy on the searching of prisoners, staff and visitors (PSI 07/2016 – Searching of the Person) is currently under review, and to allow for extensive consultation, is expected to be published later this year.</p><p>The updated policy will include directions on transgender staff, with and without Gender Recognition Certificates, conducting searches.</p><p>In reviewing the policy, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is consulting with the Government’s Legal Department, HMPPS Equalities Team and representatives from external women’s and transgender groups. The new policy will be compliant with the Equality Act 2010, Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the European Convention of Human Rights.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/01/2022 15:16:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi