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1718774

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appearances in magistrates courts were delayed on (a) 15 and (b) 16 May 2024 as part of Operation Early Dawn.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	26690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Operation Early Dawn is a contingency designed to mitigate impacts across the Criminal Justice System. We monitor system impacts but it is hard to say how many appearances in the magistrates courts were delayed because of Operation Early Dawn, as this data is not collected in our management information systems (because Operation Early Dawn is a contingency).</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice, across its agencies, is working to minimise any delays across the court system, which includes prioritising the most urgent cases.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:34:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718778

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential risk to public safety of Operation Early Dawn.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	26691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Operation Early Dawn is an existing contingency measure to ensure sufficient governance exists between HMPPS, the Prison Escort Custody Service (PECS) and HMCTS to maintain the effective management of prisoner transfers between courts and custody.</p><p> </p><p>It involves an operational assessment being made each morning by HMPPS on which prisoners can be transferred from police cells and taken to courts to ensure there is a safe and secure location if remanded to custody.</p><p> </p><p>At least a partial collection is made from every Police Station which allows Police (and HMCTS for subsequent collections) to identify priority collections, including those who pose a higher risk.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is carefully considered when taking decisions under Operation Early Dawn.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:34:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718815

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether beds of prisoners who have been released on temporary licence are counted as available for the purposes of determining capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	26693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Where a prisoner is authorised to temporarily leave prison, including hospital visits and release on temporary licence (ROTL), their bed remains allocated to them. This reflects the fact that such absences are strictly time limited and the prisoner must return within the short term. Their bed is not therefore considered vacant for the purpose of determining available capacity.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:36:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718781

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department consulted representatives of (a) magistrates and (b) solicitors before implementing Operation Early Dawn.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	26692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice engaged with key Criminal Justice System partners, including the judiciary and legal profession, in advance of the activation of Operation Early Dawn.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:36:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718866

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation Service: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many vacancies there are in the probation service by region.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	26694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The workforce position, at 31 March 2024, was 20,758 FTE Staff in Post working in Probation Service grades (including those working in Approved Premises). This is an increase of 728 FTE (3.6%) since 31 March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment and retention remain a priority across the Probation Service and we have injected extra funding of more than £155 million a year since 2021 to deliver more robust supervision, recruit more staff and reduce caseloads to keep the public safer.</p><p> </p><p>We have recruited 4,582 trainee Probation Officers between 2020/21 and 2023/24. Many of these trainees have already qualified and taken up Probation Officer posts and we expect the remainder of these intakes to qualify by the end of 2025 and begin to take on Probation Officer caseloads. We will continue to run centralised recruitment campaigns in priority regions to help bolster the number of applications.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table One: Vacancies across Probation Service Regions, March 2024, all Probation Service grades.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Probation Service Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Vacancies (FTE)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS East Midlands</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS East of England</p></td><td><p>204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS Kent, Surrey &amp; Sussex</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS London</p></td><td><p>446</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS North East</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS North West</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS South Central</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS South West</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS Wales</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS West Midlands</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS Yorkshire &amp; the Humber</p></td><td><p>109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PS Approved Premises</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol><li><em>Data shows average resource across the month, adjusted for joiners and leavers within the month. Data shown as of March 2024, aligning with the most recent HMPPS Workforce Quarterly publication. More recent data cannot be provided due to potentially pre-empting future statistical publications.</em></li><li><em>Vacancies have been calculated as Target Staffing (Full Time Equivalent - FTE) minus Staff in Post (FTE). </em></li><li><em>Where the number of Staff in Post (FTE) in a region exceeds Target Staffing (FTE), the number of vacancies has been shown as 0 FTE. Summing the figures in the table will not give the overall number of vacancies across the Probation Service due to the surpluses in some regions that haven’t been shown in the table. </em></li><li><em>Vacancies have been netted off between grades and business units. As a result, the overall vacancy figures presented mask the presence of vacancies at both grade and business unit level. </em></li><li><em>Data have been taken from the Workforce Planning Tool and are subject to inaccuracy as a result of the manual nature with which returns are completed. This approach differs from the published statistics, which uses data from the Single Operating Platform (our departmental HR system). </em></li><li><em>Staff in Post (FTE) has not been adjusted for long-term absences (e.g., Trainee Probation Officer training time). In addition, we have not factored in loans / temporary cover / agency and sessional. The actual resourced position will therefore differ as a result of these. </em></li><li><em>Trainee Probation Officers are included in the data. Trainees spend a proportion of their time training and the remainder of their time carrying out work at a Band 3 Probation Services Officer level. Both training time and time spent delivering caseload are included in the Staff in Post (FTE) calculations, which means that number of vacancies is lower than the actual gap between Target Staffing and frontline delivery.</em></li></ol> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:37:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718750

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the secondment of police officers to cover shifts in Wandsworth Prison in the last 30 days.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	26710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>No police officers have been seconded to cover shifts in HMP Wandsworth in the last 30 days.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:38:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1718841

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	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 people released on an End of Custody Supervised Licence were subsequently (a) recalled back to prison and (b) subject to a Death Under Supervision Review in each month since October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	uin	26793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) began in October 2023. Analysis of its use will be based on at least one year’s worth of data and published in line with the same approach we take for other statistical releases such as deaths of offenders in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) carries out independent investigations into complaints and deaths in custody. This includes deaths of recently released prisoners that occur within 14 days of release from prison (except homicide).</p><p> </p><p>Fatal Incident reports are published on the PPO website - <a href="https://ppo.gov.uk/document/fii-report/" target="_blank">Fatal Incident reports | Document Types | Prisons &amp; Probation Ombudsman (ppo.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:38:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1718842

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Self-harm
	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 people released on End of Custody Supervised Licence were assessed as posing a high risk of harm in each month since October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	uin	26794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) began in October 2023. Analysis of its use will be based on at least one year’s worth of data and published in line with the same approach we take for other statistical releases such as deaths of offenders in the community.</p><p> </p><p>There are strict eligibility criteria for release on ECSL.</p><p> </p><p>Only some offenders due for automatic release on licence at the half-way point of their sentence are eligible to be considered for release under these arrangements. Offenders whose release is a matter for the Parole Board to assess are not in scope.</p><p> </p><p>It remains at the discretion of the prison service to prevent the ECSL release of any prisoners where releasing an offender earlier presents a heightened risk than if they were released at their automatic release date. HMPPS senior leaders will take decisions over exclusions following advice from HM Prison and Probation Service staff.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:39:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1718843

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of prisoners that were released under the End of Custody Supervised License scheme who were homeless upon their release from prison in each month since October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	uin	26795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) began in October 2023. Analysis of its use will be based on at least one year’s worth of data and published in line with the same approach we take for other statistical releases such as deaths of offenders in the community. We cannot provide any breakdowns of the ECSL cohort ahead of publication because they would give an early indication of that cohort and hence these statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Release under ECSL follows the same planning and arrangements as release at the normal automatic release point and that includes making suitable arrangements for accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We know that having a safe place to stay helps cut crime which is why we are investing in our ground-breaking transitional accommodation service so prison leavers can have a guaranteed 12 weeks of basic, temporary accommodation to provide a stable base on release.</p><p> </p><p>His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service has a statutory duty in England to refer someone at risk of homelessness to a local authority for assistance and we have worked closely with DLUHC on the design and delivery of its Accommodation for Ex-Offenders scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022/23, 86% of prisoners were accommodated on first night of release, up from 80% in 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:40:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1718844

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	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 people released on an end of custody supervised licence were subject to a serious further offence review in each month since October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
	uin	26796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) began in October 2023. Analysis of its use will be based on at least one year’s worth of data and published in line with the same approach we take for other statistical releases such as deaths of offenders in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Figures on the number of serious further offence (SFO) reviews for 2023/24 will be published in October 2024. Figures will be accessible using the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:41:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins