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1150330

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Domestic Abuse
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 women in prison have been perpetrators of domestic violence.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/10/2019 16:04:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1150332

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
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 assaults on prison staff were (a) dealt with by the prison and (b) charged as an offence in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>HMPPS has been working closely with the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure they understand the impact of crimes committed within prison. HMPPS published the revised Crime in Prison Referral Agreement in May 2019. This Agreement sets out how crimes in prison will be referred, investigated and prosecuted and aims to provide a more consistent approach to managing crimes committed within prison. The Crime in Prison Referral Agreement specifies that all assaults against members of staff, unless there is little or no injury should be referred to the police.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify the proportion of assaults on prison staff has been charged as an offence in each of the last five years as this information is not held centrally. Detailed information may be held on court record but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/10/2019 16:40:21 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1150355

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
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 band 3 to 5 prison officers were employed in each male local prison in (a) March 2010 and (b) the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	1741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The number of prison officers that were employed in male local prisons as at 31 March 2010 to 30 June 2019 is provided in the accompanying excel file.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/10/2019 16:36:49 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 1741 prison officers in male local prisons final file.xlsx title Prison Officers in Male local prisons table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1150357

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many repairs were outstanding in each prison in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	1742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. I refer the Hon Member to PQ 165647 for repairs outstanding in 2010, and PQ 291005 for repair work orders from September 2018 to August 2019</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 1743 1744 question first answered 22/10/2019 16:40:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1150358

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the estimated cost of the repairs backlog was in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	1743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. I refer the Hon Member to PQ 165647 for repairs outstanding in 2010, and PQ 291005 for repair work orders from September 2018 to August 2019</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 1742 1744 question first answered 22/10/2019 16:40:20 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1150359

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost of outstanding repairs is by prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	1744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. I refer the Hon Member to PQ 165647 for repairs outstanding in 2010, and PQ 291005 for repair work orders from September 2018 to August 2019</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 1742 1743 question first answered 22/10/2019 16:40:20 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1150362

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his oral contribution at the Justice Select Committee on 16 October 2019, what the total funding applied for by the Department was in the Spending Round 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	1747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In our Spending Round 2019 request, the Ministry of Justice sought funding for the department’s key priorities. This included funding to prepare for Brexit, to ensure the effective operation of the courts and tribunals system, to deliver a strong probation service, and to support a prisons system which provides decent and safe accommodation, and reduces reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry was successful in securing a 4.9% real term increase in our fiscal resource funding for the next financial year, having agreed a settlement of £8.142bn. In addition to our resource budget we also agreed a capital settlement for 2020-21 of £620m.</p><p> </p><p>We have subsequently agreed additional funding for 2020-21 of £156m to further invest in custodial maintenance. Our revised settlement for 2020-21 is £8.198bn fiscal resource and £720m capital. We are now in the process of setting internal budget allocations to ensure this budget delivers our priorities as effectively as possible.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/10/2019 15:07:25 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1150575

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many equal pay reviews there have been in his Department since 2010; what the dates were of those reviews; and whether his Department plans to undertake an equal pay review in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	1726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice conducts regular equality impact assessments on all proposed pay and policy changes and implementation. The MoJ operates a pay and grading structure where pay is defined by job weight and content.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS is responsible for preparing and submitting the Government’s annual evidence on Prison Officer’s pay to the independent Prison Service Pay Review Body. As part of this process, HMPPS looks at all equality issues based on the proposals and monitor the diversity of the remit group from available data. A full review was conducted in 2012 which resulted in the introduction of a new pay and grading structure and new ways of working (Fair and Sustainable) for Prison Officer grades. Fair and Sustainable was introduced to support pay equality, with salary determined by the requirements of the role based on the Job description.</p><p> </p><p>An Equality Impact Assessment on pay in the National Probation Service was carried out in September 2018 as part of a project to reform its pay structure.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/10/2019 15:51:35 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1149856

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Witnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the adequacy of witness testimony.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to helping all witnesses give their best possible evidence so that offenders are brought to justice. As part of the cross-government Victim’s Strategy (published in September 2018), the Government committed to the wider provision of special measures for vulnerable and intimated witnesses, both when giving evidence and during cross-examination.</p><p>These measures include:</p><ul><li>the use of video recorded police interviews (called ABEs – Achieving Best Evidence)</li></ul><p>instead of written statements;</p><ul><li>the removal of wigs and gowns by judges and barristers;</li><li>cross examination at court via a live video link</li><li>video-recorded evidence-in-chief and cross examination behind a screen or curtain, so</li></ul><p>that they are shielded from sight of the defendant</p><ul><li>the support of a Registered Intermediary for witnesses who require communication assistance when giving evidence.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Victim’s Strategy also reaffirmed our commitment to rolling out pre-recorded cross examination, as provided for in section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, for vulnerable witnesses such as child witnesses under 16 or witnesses vulnerable due to physical or mental disability. By June 2019 this has commenced at nine Crown Court centres in England and Wales. In June 2019 we also extended section 28 to intimidated witnesses who are a victim of crime in sexual and modern slavery offences by testing the provision in the Crown Court centres at Leeds, Liverpool, and Kingston upon Thames.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 23/10/2019 15:50:54 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1149864

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Energy Supply
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 2 October 2019 to Question 291004 and to the Answer of 1 October 2019 to Question 290324, if he will introduce the same policy as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and switch to an electricity provider that supplies electricity solely from renewable resources within the next 12 months; and for what reason his Department has not already ensured its electricity is supplied solely from renewable resources.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	1004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Government departments are mandated to use Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Energy frameworks for the supply of electricity. EDF is the current supplier and the current arrangement lasts until March 2022.</p><p> </p><p>We are exploring with CCS how to increase the percentage of energy sourced from renewables. This includes the feasibility of changing the current percentage mix, the costs of securing matched renewable energy through obtaining Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origination (REGOs), and the timescales for doing so.</p><p> </p><p>To date the Department has prioritised energy efficiency and spend to save investment on its estate. But as part of the MoJ’s commitment to achieve net zero by 2050 or sooner, the Department is exploring options for increased on-site renewable energy generation, and low and no carbon energy supply.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/10/2019 14:46:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin