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1126088

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were rescheduled in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Greater London due to insufficient court space in the months of (i) February, (ii) March and (iii) April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	253550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Published data for criminal cases show the number of trials which were vacated or ineffective (and therefore do not go ahead) in the criminal courts and for ineffective trials, the reasons why the trial was ineffective. One of these is ‘court administrative issues including a lack of court time and court accommodation failures’, – however it is not possible to identify instances where this is specifically due to reasons of ‘insufficient court space’.</p><p> </p><p>Available data on vacated and ineffective trials is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics are currently published up to December 2018. Data for January – March 2019 are due to be published on 27 June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Information relating to rescheduled cases and the reasons for them in the civil and family courts are not held by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/05/2019 11:19:54 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1125787

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Injuries
	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 people in prison with traumatic brain injuries.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The MoJ does not hold information on the number of prisoners who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. NHS England commission health care services in prison and include questions on head injury in the secondary health screen which all prisoners receive.</p><p> </p><p>Recent studies that have examined the prevalence of traumatic brain injury in prisons in England and Wales indicate this may affect between 46 to 70 per cent of the male population. On 6<sup>th</sup> February 2019, The Disabilities Trust published their ‘<a href="https://www.thedtgroup.org/media/163299/making-the-link-female-offending-and-brain-injury-brief.pdf" target="_blank">Making the Link’</a> Evaluation Report on their service to support female offenders with acquired brain injury in HMP Drake Hall. The report found that, of the 173 female offenders screened at HMP Drake Hall, 64% reported a history indicative of a brain injury. Additionally, in 2017-2018, The Disabilities Trust ran a Brain Injury Linkworker pilot at six sites in the adult male estate. It is expected that the evaluation from this pilot will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>MoJ has formed a cross-government group on Acquired Brain Injury with colleagues from NHS England, DHSC, the Home Office and HMPPS. This group will consider the findings from both pilots, alongside other emerging evidence, to help determine next steps to better support this cohort of vulnerable offenders.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 12:57:43 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125784

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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 prison officers have been transferred (a) into and (b) out of each prison in the 10 prisons project since August 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Prison officer transfers are an important part of our approach to flexibly managing the workforce and enabling the sharing of best practice.</p><p> </p><p>Several Band 3-5 prison officers have transferred in and out of the 10 prisons since August 2018. A breakdown of transfers in each of the 10 prisons is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1 - HMPPS band 3-5 officers<sup>1</sup> who transferred <sup>2,3</sup> in each prison in 10 prison project, from 1st August 2018 to 28 February 2019</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Transfer In</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Transfer Out</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lindholme</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moorland</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wealstun</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ranby</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isis</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><strong>1</strong> Includes band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), band 4 / Supervising Officer and band 5 / Custodial Managers.</p><p><strong>2</strong> Figures only include where the individual was a prison officer both before and after the move ie. ignoring transfers due to promotion or regrading.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as part of the 10 Prisons Project, we are piloting the new Standards Coaching Team initiative, in which experienced officers from across the estate are being temporarily transferred to the 10 prisons to provide coaching and support to new recruits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:23:43 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125783

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers vacancies were not filled in each prison in (a) May 2018 (b) May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The table attached provides the vacancies for Band 3-5 prison officers, by establishment (full time equivalent) on 31 March 2018 and 31 March 2019 – the most recent date for which statistics are available.</p><p>Retaining and recruiting engaged and motivated staff is critical to delivering the solutions to drive improvement across the service.</p><p>We met our target to increase prison officer numbers by 2,500 early last year and have now almost doubled that.</p><p>We continue to run targeted recruitment campaigns to boost frontline staff for some of our most difficult to recruit sites, fill our remaining vacancies and stay on top of attrition.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:50:25 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name HMPPS Vacancies for Band 3-5 prison officers, by establishment (full time equivalent)1,2, March 2018 and March 2019.docx title Table
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125782

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of hours out of cell was for each prisoner in each prison in the 10 prisons project in each month since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p><p> </p><p>The 10 prisons in the 10 Prisons Project were selected across three regions in the prison estate as some of our most challenging establishments, particularly in respect of drugs and violence. We are working closely with them to understand how adaptable different approaches are to types of different prison environment so that we can share best practice and seek to replicate elsewhere what works.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 11:44:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125781

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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 hours of detached duty have been provided to each of the prisons in the 10 prisons project in each month since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Detached Duty (DD) is one of the sensible and proportionate measures we take to ensure we run safe and decent regimes in prisons and respond appropriately to any operational issues that arise. The deployment of staff between prisons on DD is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing; the number of Prison Officers deployed on DD varies from one week to the next in order to reflect operational circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Annex A attached shows the number [and cycle] of staff deployed to the six of the prisons in the 10 prisons project (Isis, Hull, Moorland, Nottingham, Ranby and Wormwood Scrubs) for a period since 2015. Detached Duty is allocated on a cycle (4 week average) rather than on a month by month basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:14:21 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name ANNEX A.docx title Annex A tables
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125779

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison and Probation Service: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the baseline for the permanent leavers as a percentage of average staff changed from the workforce statistics bulletin published in November 2018 to the bulletin published in February 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>There has been no change to the methodology used in producing the HMPPS workforce bulletin published in November 2018 to that of the HMPPS workforce bulletin published in February 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/05/2019 13:39:54 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125778

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his plans are for the responsibility for procurement under the new model of probation proposed for Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government set out its response to the consultation ‘Strengthening probation, building confidence’ on the 16th May 2019.</p><p>This consultation response confirmed that we intend to bring the supervision of medium and low risk offenders, currently supervised by the Community Rehabilitation Company, into the National Probation Service across England and Wales. Recognising the unique delivery landscape in Wales, we are seeking to achieve this by the end of 2019 so that advice to court, risk and need assessments, sentence planning and managing enforcement and recall will all sit within a single organisation.</p><p>Responsibility for delivering unpaid work, running accredited programmes, and provision of “Through-The-Gate” resettlement services will remain with the Community Rehabilitation Company until the end of the current contract. A competitive procurement process will be run over the coming months to re-procure delivery of these services once the current contracts end</p><p>A number of market engagement events have been held in Wales to help inform the design of the future services and the procurement process. We are keen to work with a range of providers including both the private and voluntary sector. Work is ongoing to finalise the competitive process for procuring unpaid work, accredited programmes and resettlement services and we aim to have new contracts signed by the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 252667 question first answered 17/05/2019 13:10:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125777

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which services currently managed by community rehabilitation services will be run by the National Probation Service under the new model of probation proposed for Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government set out its response to the consultation ‘Strengthening probation, building confidence’ on the 16th May 2019.</p><p>This consultation response confirmed that we intend to bring the supervision of medium and low risk offenders, currently supervised by the Community Rehabilitation Company, into the National Probation Service across England and Wales. Recognising the unique delivery landscape in Wales, we are seeking to achieve this by the end of 2019 so that advice to court, risk and need assessments, sentence planning and managing enforcement and recall will all sit within a single organisation.</p><p>Responsibility for delivering unpaid work, running accredited programmes, and provision of “Through-The-Gate” resettlement services will remain with the Community Rehabilitation Company until the end of the current contract. A competitive procurement process will be run over the coming months to re-procure delivery of these services once the current contracts end</p><p>A number of market engagement events have been held in Wales to help inform the design of the future services and the procurement process. We are keen to work with a range of providers including both the private and voluntary sector. Work is ongoing to finalise the competitive process for procuring unpaid work, accredited programmes and resettlement services and we aim to have new contracts signed by the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 252668 question first answered 17/05/2019 13:10:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1125776

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	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, what assessment he has made of the number of years it will take for the cumulative number of years experience of prison officers to return to 2010 levels.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	252666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>Band 3-5 prison officers’ cumulative length of service for 2010 and 2018 are provided in table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1 - Band 3-5 Prison Officers<sup>1</sup>, staff in post (full time equivalent) and total cumulative length of service<sup>2</sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>FTE</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Cumulative Length of Service (Years)<sup>2</sup></p></td><td colspan="9"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>31st December 2010</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>24,501</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>329,353</p></td><td colspan="9"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>31st December 2018</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>22,722</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>248,008</p></td><td colspan="9"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Notes:</p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="15"><p>1. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers. 2. Length of service in HMPPS calculated from most recent hire date. Where staff have transferred in from another Government Department or have transferred in through HMPPS taking over a function, length of service is calculated from entry to HMPPS.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>No assessment has been made of the number of years it will take for the cumulative number of years’ experience of prison officers to return to 2010 levels.</p><p>Recruiting and retaining engaged and motivated staff is crucial to driving improvements across the estate.</p><p>We gave officers an increased pay award last year and have provided additional training and support to all staff, offering services including 24/7 counselling, trauma support and occupational health assessments.</p><p>We know that retention of staff will take more than a ‘one size fits all’ approach, and specific action is being taken where needed.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 252665 question first answered 17/05/2019 13:07:13 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon