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389068

registered interest
date	10/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to answer Question 3159 tabled on 18 June 2015 by the right hon. Member for Hammersmith.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Question 3159 was answered on 14 September 2015.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/09/2015 14:39:10 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

389069

registered interest
date	10/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2015 to Question 5439 on open prisons, how many prisoners had committed each offence.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	6518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>Open prisons provide an important opportunity for prisoners serving long sentences to be tested and to reintegrate into the community in a controlled manner prior to release. However, categorisation to open prison is never automatic. The Government has tightened the eligibility for open prisons, and only those who are assessed as a low risk are transferred to open prison. Prisoners serving a determinate sentence must be within 2 years of release before they can be considered for allocation to an open prison, and those serving determinate sentences will only be transferred following recommendation from the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>The number of prisoners held in open prisons as at 31 March 2015 and convicted of offences within the category of ‘violence against the person’, is set out in Table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Number of prisoners held in open prison as at 31 March 2015 by “violence against the person” offence type</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Offence Type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of prisoners as at 31/3/2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MURDER</p></td><td><p>329</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO INFLICT GBH</p></td><td><p>237</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>INFLICT GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM</p></td><td><p>152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WOUNDING (INFLICTING GBH)</p></td><td><p>95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MANSLAUGHTER</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ATTEMPTED MURDER</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING RTA 1988</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASSAULT OCCASIONING ABH</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH INTENT. ENDANGER LIFE</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OTHER VIOLENCE OFFENCES</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MAKING THREATS TO KILL</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>POSS FIREARM WI FEAR OF VIOLENCE (SECTION 16A)</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CRUELTY TO OR NEGLECT OF CHILDREN</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DEATH BY CARELESS DRIVING/DRINK DRUGS (SECTION 3A)</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>POSSESSION OF AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CARRYING A FIREARM WITH CRIM INTENT (SECTION 18)</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>POSS F/A TIME COMMIT/ARREST FOR OFF (SECTION 17/2)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>COMMON ASSAULT</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ADMINISTER POISON</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASSAULT OCCASIONING ABH (WHERE VICTIM IS A CHILD)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ATTEMPT TO CHOKE, SUFFOCATE OR STRANGLE</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HARASSMENT</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>INTIMIDATION OF WITNESS</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MAKE/KEEP EXPLO WI ENDANGER LIFE/PROP (SECTION 3)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MALICIOUS WOUNDING (SECTION 20)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RACIALLY OR RELIGIOUSLY AGG ASSAULT (CDA 1998 c37)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All</strong></p></td><td><p>1,099</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes to table:</p><p>· The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>· These figures have been based on predominant function of the prison and therefore excludes prisoners held in open wings of closed establishments.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/07/2015 13:50:10 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

389070

registered interest
date	10/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Secure Colleges: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2015 to Question 5710, what the cost to the public purse has been of his Department's spending on the Secure College programme to date.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>Total <ins class="ministerial">estimated </ins>spend on the Secure College pathfinder was £5.88m. This includes <ins class="ministerial">an estimated </ins>£1.56m resource<ins class="ministerial"> spend</ins> (mainly expenditure on staff pay and procurement) and <ins class="ministerial">an estimated </ins>£4.32m capital <ins class="ministerial">spend </ins>(mainly design fees and site preparation costs). <ins class="ministerial">These figures are subject to review by the National Audit Office in January 2016.</ins></p><br /><p>All services were procured through a competitive process and assessed as providing value for money to the department. The design work produced for the pathfinder could be used or adapted for alternative provision, and the prepared site at Glen Parva could be used for a range of developments.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/07/2015 13:13:22 question first ministerially corrected 07/12/2015 18:07:21 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous previous answer version 15194 answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

389071

registered interest
date	10/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Locks and Keys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of occasions when due to the loss or theft of keys, a prison has had to be relocked since May 2010; and what the cost to the public purse was of such incidents.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	6550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>Security is paramount within prisons and it is important that the risk of any potential key compromise is addressed as quickly as possible in order to protect the public. When a key/lock incident is reported an immediate investigation is undertaken to assess the risk and unless it is clear that security has not been compromised, then locking mechanisms and keys will be replaced and/or other necessary remedial action will be taken.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2010 there have been eight incidents that have necessitated partial or full relocking due to loss of keys, which resulted in costs of £514,584*. Between 2005 and May 2010 there were 16 relocks, which resulted in costs of £1,504,275.</p><p> </p><p>* Note: not included in this figure is a relock at Birmingham in October 2011 that was funded by G4S, the private contractor that operates the prison. The cost was £499,000.</p><p> </p><p><em>The figures quoted have been drawn from live administrative databases and may subsequently be amended. Due care is taken during processing and analysis, but the detail is subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</em></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/07/2015 14:25:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

389072

registered interest
date	10/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Missing Persons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation enabling families of missing people to protect financial and legal affairs of such people.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>My Department’s assessment of our proposals for legislation enabling families of missing people to protect their financial and legal affairs is set out in the consultation paper <em>Guardianship of the Property and Affairs of Missing Persons </em>published on 27 August 2014 and the response paper published on 23 March 2015. We will bring forward legislation when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/07/2015 15:11:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

388790

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Deaths in Custody Independent Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements they are making to evaluate and respond to each of the recommendations in the report of the Harris Review <i>Changing Prisons, Saving Lives</i>; when they plan to publish any response; and in the light of that review, what immediate action they are taking.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL1267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Our prisons must punish those who break the law, but they should also be places of rehabilitation that can help rescue offenders from a life of crime.</p><p> </p><p>The death of a young person whilst in prison custody, at a time when they can be at their most vulnerable, is a real tragedy. It is right that we look closely at any measures that could reduce such deaths.</p><p> </p><p>The government will consider Lord Harris’ recommendations very carefully and respond to the report in the autumn.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 21/07/2015 15:29:26 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

388791

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Improving Outcomes for Young Black and Muslim Men in the Criminal Justice System Review
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what arrangements they are making to evaluate and respond to the findings and recommendations in the report of the Young Review <i>Improving outcomes for young black and/or Muslim men in the Criminal Justice System</i>; when they plan to publish any responses; and in the light of that review, what immediate action they are taking.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL1268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Young Review was commissioned independently of government but has been used to inform equality-related priorities in the Department. At its publication in December 2014, the report was welcomed by the Department and its principle recommendation – the establishment of an Advisory Group of experts to work with NOMS and the Ministry of Justice – was accepted. The Ministry of Justice and NOMS participate actively in the Young Review Advisory Group which is taking forward the further recommended developments.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 20/07/2015 15:16:59 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

388811

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each of the last four years, how much was paid through legal aid to legal professionals advising asylum seekers and immigrants who had been charged with offences.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not record the immigration or asylum status at any stage of the billing or application process for criminal legal aid.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 20/07/2015 11:36:41 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

388825

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
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 Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list those persons appointed as chairs of non-departmental public bodies by the Ministry of Justice.
tabling member printed	Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
uin	HL1302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The Minister of State for Civil Justice, Ministry of Justice (Lord Faulks QC): Details of the Chairs of Ministry of Justice Non-Departmental Public Bodies have been lodged in the House library. These, and further details, are also available in a Cabinet Office publication, Public Bodies 2014, available at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-bodies-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-bodies-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-bodies-2014</a></p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 22/07/2015 15:06:58 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks attachment 1 file name HL1302 - Annex A.doc title Public Bodies 2014 - Chairs
tabling member	4150 label Biography information for Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

388970

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sobriety Orders: Pilot Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policy of the results of the Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirements scheme piloted in Croydon; and whether he plans to make this method of disposal available to the courts without restriction nationwide.
tabling member constituency	North West Hampshire
tabling member printed	Kit Malthouse
uin	6416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are currently running a pilot to test a delivery model of Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirements (AAMRs). Interim results are available on London.gov.uk and a full evaluation will be available at the end of the pilot.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set out in its manifesto that it would make sobriety orders available to all courts in England and Wales. We want to learn lessons from this pilot in order to inform national rollout.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/07/2015 14:02:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse