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437381

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Christmas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent from the public purse on Christmas parties across the prison estate in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	19701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><br /><p>There are no centralised funds available for Christmas parties within the prison estate.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/12/2015 15:57:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

437204

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons he intends to close; and what consultation is taking place or is planned to take place on those closures.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>No decisions have yet been made on which prisons will be closed. After the announcement of a closure, the Ministry of Justice will work actively with stakeholders to ensure that we manage the local impact of a prison closure.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 17:42:42 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437210

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fraud: Solicitors
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 raise awareness amongst solicitors of the risks of their clients being targeted in scams by people purporting to operate in the name of their solicitor requesting transfer of funds; and what estimate he has made of the number of such scams that took place in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	19587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), as an independent regulator, is well aware of the risks identified by the honourable member. It regularly issues scam alerts and in July this year published a paper outlining key risks. This paper will be updated again next spring. The SRA has advised that in 2014 it issued 183 scam alerts.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 15/12/2015 13:06:53 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

437213

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children in England and Wales who have a parent in custody.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	19648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 16:43:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

437214

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many visits have been made by one or more children to a parent in custody in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	19647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 13:01:51 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

437215

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are employed in prisons in (a) the most recent period for which figures are available and (b) each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	19528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>We want prisons to be places of hard work, rigorous education and high ambition, with incentives for prisoners to learn and for prison staff to prioritise education and work.</p><br /><p>That is why all prisons provide opportunities for offenders to work and learn new skills which can help them find a job on release and support their rehabilitation. We work continuously with employers nationally and locally – including with other Government Departments - to create new opportunities in line with our code of practice.</p><br /><p>NOMS uses a specific definition of 'work' which is only used for commercial and industrial scale work and specific work activities[1].These figures do not include the substantial number of prisoners in other learning, vocational training and work opportunities within prison on tasks such as cooking, serving meals, maintenance and cleaning which can help them find a job on release and support their rehabilitation. The figures also exclude work placements undertaken by offenders on release from prison on temporary licence.</p><br /><p>Work in prisons continues to grow steadily, with 14.9 million working hours delivered in the year 14/15. In the same year, on average 11,500 prisoners and detainees were undertaking specific work activities<sup>1</sup> in custody at any one time across public sector prisons, privately-managed prisons and Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).</p><br /><p>As part of our programme of prison reform, we are determined to build on this, so that prisons can help offenders get the skills and qualifications to make a success of life on the outside. To do this we need to put the tools to drive this change in the hands of those at the frontline who best know what works. Prison Governors need freedom to innovate and find better ways of rehabilitating offenders, including through a focus on work, in a system geared towards innovation and local partnerships.</p><br /><p>Figures are published in the <em>NOMS Annual Report 2014/15: Management Information Addendum </em>on the Gov.uk website at the following location: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-performance-statistics-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-performance-statistics-2014-to-2015</a>.</p><br /><p>Table 17 of the publication shows the average number of prisoners working in industrial activities in public sector prisons only in the years 2010/11 to 2014/15. Figures for privately-managed prisons and IRCs are not available prior to 2014/15.</p><br /><p>[1] Including Enterprise/Contract Services, Engineering, Aluminium, Laundry, Newgate Furniture, Concrete, Plastics, Textiles, Woodwork, Food Packing, Commercial Land Based Activities, Braille, Charity, Printing, Data Entry, Signs, Desk Top Publishing, Retail, External Recycling and other workshops.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 17:55:29 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

437216

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison workshops have (a) opened, (b) closed and (c) changed function in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	19530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><br /><p>All prisons provide opportunities for offenders to work and learn new skills which can help them find a job on release and support their rehabilitation. We already work continuously with employers nationally and locally – including with other Government Departments - to create new opportunities in line with our code of practice.</p><br /><p>We want prisons to be places of hard work, rigorous education and high ambition. That is why we will put the tools to drive change in the hands of those at the frontline who know best.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 12:57:02 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

437218

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is on prison visit booking lines (a) in each prison and (b) overall.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	19507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/12/2015 12:57:23 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

437219

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new criminal offences have been (a) created and (b) proposed since May 2015; and if he will make an assessment of the (i) effect on and (b)cost to the prison estate of the creation of those offences.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	19524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><br /><p>My department has issued guidance on the making of new criminal offences, which is located here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/481126/creating-new-criminal-offences.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/481126/creating-new-criminal-offences.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/12/2015 16:47:30 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

437228

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officer grade staff were employed by NOMS on 31 March in each year since 2010; and how many such people were employed on the latest day for which statistics are available.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	19635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of Band 3 to 5 prison officers in post, and on the number who joined and left the public sector Prison Service, is published in the National Offender Management Service Workforce Statistics Bulletin. The 30 September edition of the bulletin can be found at the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics-september-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-offender-management-service-workforce-statistics-september-2015</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 19636 question first answered 15/12/2015 13:12:01 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon