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1140895

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid by each private company with a contract with the Department in financial remedies and what the reason was for those financial remedies in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	280394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>This information can only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/07/2019 15:45:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140897

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	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: Overtime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of overtime were worked by Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service staff in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	280396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>A partial record is held centrally for operational prison staff at Bands 2 to 5 from April 2014 onwards. This is shown below and includes all rostered hours for Overtime and Payment Plus (a form of enhanced overtime payment).</p><p><strong>Numbers of Rostered Overtime hours for Operational Bands 2 to 5 in Public Sector Prisons and Youth Custody Services in England and Wales(Financial Year 2014/15 to 2018/19)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total hours rostered</p></td><td><p>Standard</p></td><td><p>Overtime / Payment Plus</p></td><td><p>OT / PP as % of total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 1415</p></td><td><p>44,300,947</p></td><td><p>2,962,774</p></td><td><p>6.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 1516</p></td><td><p>49,062,769</p></td><td><p>2,667,347</p></td><td><p>5.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 1617</p></td><td><p>47,636,938</p></td><td><p>3,076,554</p></td><td><p>6.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 1718</p></td><td><p>44,426,590</p></td><td><p>3,707,608</p></td><td><p>7.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 1819</p></td><td><p>55,543,540</p></td><td><p>3,488,762</p></td><td><p>5.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: My Detail – which holds rostered hours across Public Sector Prisons and Youth Custody Service Establishments</p><p> </p><p>There is no centrally held overtime record for (i) Prison staff at higher grades or in support roles, (ii) HMPPS headquarters staff or (iii) the National Probation Service that was formed in June 2014. To compile a record for these groups of staff would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 15:20:09 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140969

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement, Pay rise for prison officers 2019, published by his Department on 22 July 2019, how much additional funding the Treasury has allocated to his Department for the pay award.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	280424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice will seek to find efficiency and affordability savings to fund the cost of the award.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 15:23:22 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140971

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many additional prison officers have been recruited since 31 March 2017; and how many of those posts were funded by the additional funding allocated by the Treasury at that time; and what additional funding the Treasury has allocated for the recruitment of prison offices since 31 March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	280425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of new officers appointed to work in public sector prisons and youth custody establishments between 1 April 2017 and the 31 March 2019 is published in the Quarterly Workforce Statistics for HM Prison and Probation Service at table 8a -<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>Additional funding of £106m was announced by the Secretary of State on 3 November 2016, for an additional 2,500 prison officer posts, which have now been filled. With growth, the £100m equates to £112m for the 2019/20 financial year, £97m of which is for public sector prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Our recruitment drive continues to replace turnover in officer numbers and meet required staffing levels across the prison estate. We constantly monitor the need for further funding.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:45:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140160

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Teachers
	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 cumulative years experience of teachers working in prisons in (a) 2010 (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The information referred to is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility for education in adult prisons in England transferred from the Department for Education to the Ministry of Justice on 1 October 2016. Prior to that, prison education was managed and delivered by the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) under contracts held by the Skills Funding Agency.</p><p> </p><p>From 2016, revised OLASS arrangements placed responsibility on the OLASS contractor to ensure that competent and appropriately qualified staff were in place to deliver and assess learning delivered.</p><p> </p><p>New education delivery contracts in England are now in place: these were procured in succession to the OLASS arrangements that expired at the end of March. The new contracts require that all suppliers must operate a range of human resource and supplier personnel development arrangements that focus on establishing and maintaining a cadre of high-quality personnel capable of delivering an outstanding service</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 15:41:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140282

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Childbirth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in prison gave birth in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The information is not centrally held and could only be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, all pregnant women in custody have an individual care and management plan that is communicated to all staff and all pregnant women are seen by a mid-wife at least fortnightly or as required.</p><p> </p><p>Healthcare in prisons is provided by trained medics and nurses, but we have also made training on dealing with pregnant women available to all prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>We know it is extremely rare for a woman to give birth in prison - because every step is taken to get them to hospital - but those unique cases are invariably down to the unpredictability of labour.</p><p> </p><p>Our Female Offender Strategy made clear that we want fewer women serving short sentences in custody and more remaining in the community, making use of women’s centres to address needs such as substance misuse and mental health problems.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/07/2019 16:09:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140304

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have spent time in segregation by prison in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:24:18 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140306

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average length of time and (b) longest number of days was that a prisoner spent in segregation in each prison in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 13:10:34 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140307

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of purposeful activity per prisoner were recorded on average in (a) each prison rated in the 2017-18 performance rating as performance is of serious concern and (b) each prisons that was rated as exceptional performance.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not currently collect data on the amount of time prisoners spend out of cell. We are examining the feasibility of developing such a measure and are exploring how this might be done, including working with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons to understand the methodology it uses in its inspections.</p><p>Data are published on GOV.UK on the number of prisoners who have completed accredited programmes in custody, the number of hours worked in prison industries, and the number of prisoners released from prison on a temporary licence.</p><p>The introduction of Offender Management in Custody, and the associated staffing, mean that prisons will be better equipped to run fuller regimes with more opportunities for purposeful activity. Our Education and Employment strategy launched last year will create a system where prisoners are on a path to employment, through increased opportunities to gain experience of work in communities while released on temporary licence.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:37:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140308

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	HM Inspectorate of Prisons
	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 its procedures for implementing the recommendations made by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) has set up a new team within its assurance function that is responsible for co-ordinating the response to HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) reports.</p><p> </p><p>The team has developed a risk based, three-tiered approach to monitoring progress against HMIP recommendations. Establishments are now subject to self-assessment exercises, face to face challenge meetings, or in depth follow up audits to determine how well they have responded to recommendations from their most recent HMIP inspection. The analysis of this work is provided to the Prison Management Committee and the Agency Leadership Team, to inform HMPPS on how well prisons are responding to HMIP recommendations, and to identify areas where progress is of concern.</p><p> </p><p>The HMPPS assurance teams also carry out audit visits ahead of HMIP Independent Reviews of Progress and regularly meet with HMIP colleagues to review progress made on implementing recommendations</p><p> </p><p>The HMPPS Prison Group Director structure is designed to improve support to prisons through smaller groups with closer oversight and grip of assurance processes, including implementation of HMIP recommendations.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 279102 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:50:17 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon