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971623

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Altcourse Prison: 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 Custody Officers were certified in HMP Altcourse as at 1 April (a) 2010, (b) 2012, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	173593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>HM Prison and Probation do not hold data on the number of Prison Custody Officers certified. This table displays the number of funded posts at each privately managed prison for January each year. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>416.21</p></td><td><p>393.21</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>488</p></td></tr></tbody></table>This table displays the population at each privately managed prison for 31<sup>st</sup> March each year, prison population figures are published regularly.<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>1,133</p></td><td><p>1,177</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMP Ashfield</strong></p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Operators of privately managed prisons are required to deliver sufficient recruitment and training of staff to ensure they maintain a safe, decent and secure prison as per their contractual obligation. The performance of all providers continues to be robustly managed. We will not hesitate to take action if and when standards fall short.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 173607 173608 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:44:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

971640

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Altcourse Prison: Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the population in HMP Altcourse was on 1 April (a) 2010, (b) 2012, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	173607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>HM Prison and Probation do not hold data on the number of Prison Custody Officers certified. This table displays the number of funded posts at each privately managed prison for January each year. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>416.21</p></td><td><p>393.21</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>488</p></td></tr></tbody></table>This table displays the population at each privately managed prison for 31<sup>st</sup> March each year, prison population figures are published regularly.<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> HMP Altcourse</strong></p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>1,133</p></td><td><p>1,177</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMP Ashfield</strong></p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>404</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Operators of privately managed prisons are required to deliver sufficient recruitment and training of staff to ensure they maintain a safe, decent and secure prison as per their contractual obligation. The performance of all providers continues to be robustly managed. We will not hesitate to take action if and when standards fall short.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 173593 173608 question first answered 09/10/2018 16:44:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1003766

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Birmingham Prison: Prisoners' Transfers
	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 19 October 2018 to Question 178353 on Birmingham Prison: Prisoners' Transfers, how many of the 300 prisoners moved out of HMP Birmingham at that time went to each other prison in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	189761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>As set out in my response to PQ178535, one of the measures Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) implemented after stepping in to run HM Prison Birmingham was to temporarily reduce the operational capacity by 300 places. The capacity reduction was not immediate and was delivered over time with the gradual reduction of the prison’s population through a combination of: end of sentence releases, diversion of court allocations to other prisons in the region and routine allocations of sentenced prisoners to other establishments as part of their sentence progression as is normal for a prison with a ‘local’ function.</p><p>Men who were transferred were subject to the same criteria as all prison moves, taking into account a range of factors such as security category, resettlement needs and release address, offending behaviour needs and personal circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/11/2018 15:38:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1022968

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Birmingham Prison: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times HMP Birmingham has been placed in special measures in each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	200703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Unlike public sector prisons, privately managed prisons are not placed in special measures but are instead subject to contractual mechanisms when there are performance concerns.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of HMP Birmingham, we issued two Improvement Notices in March 2018, and Outstanding Issues Notices for each in June and August 2018 respectively. Despite this time, performance at HMP Birmingham remained unacceptable prompting us to exercise our right under the contract to ‘step-in’ in August 2018. HMP Birmingham was also scored as a Level 1 prison, as published in our annual performance ratings for year 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>We are clear that prisons should be places of safety and reform and are working closely with G4S to improve conditions for prisoners at HMP Birmingham. Details of our action plan to improve Birmingham can be found on the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/urgent-notification-for-hmp-birmingham" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/urgent-notification-for-hmp-birmingham</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/12/2018 17:15:09 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

825494

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Carillion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what savings his Department has made through its contract with Carillion compared with the projected cost of continuing to provide maintenance in-house in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	123633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>There was an underestimation of the historical costs of maintenance and services, which meant that more of the award has been spent on maintenance and services rather than efficiency savings. As a result, the contract has not delivered the anticipated savings.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 26/11/2018 17:48:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1104767

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Probation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload is per probation officer in each community rehabilitation company.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	236515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Figures on the average caseload of probation officers are not collected centrally. A probation worker’s tasks are not based solely on the number of cases they are managing, but the level of supervision each case requires.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes statistics showing the total caseload of the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) as well as the National Probation Service (NPS). Figures for total probation caseload are published quarterly in the Offender Management Statistics Bulletin, England and Wales: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the latest published figures with all offenders supervised in the community on 30th September 2018 at all 21 CRCs.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Durham and Cleveland CRC</p></td><td><p>3,719</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria CRC</p></td><td><p>3,679</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire CRC</p></td><td><p>5,233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire CRC</p></td><td><p>3,699</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire CRC</p></td><td><p>7,831</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire and Greater Manchester CRC</p></td><td><p>11,776</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria and Lancashire CRC</p></td><td><p>5,502</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside CRC</p></td><td><p>6,156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire CRC</p></td><td><p>8,677</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire and West Midlands CRC</p></td><td><p>12,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia and Warwickshire CRC</p></td><td><p>2,976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London CRC</p></td><td><p>29,549</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire CRC</p></td><td><p>7,234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex CRC</p></td><td><p>4,022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk and Suffolk CRC</p></td><td><p>2,999</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent, Surrey and Sussex CRC</p></td><td><p>8,652</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire CRC</p></td><td><p>3,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley CRC</p></td><td><p>4,312</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset and Wiltshire CRC</p></td><td><p>6,317</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC</p></td><td><p>4,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales CRC</p></td><td><p>8,899</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/03/2019 17:25:09 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 110847 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1104768

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Probation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation officers worked at over 110% capacity at some point during 2018 in each community rehabilitation company.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	236516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Figures on the caseloads of probation officers are not collected centrally. A probation worker’s tasks are not based solely on the number of cases they are managing, but the level of supervision each case requires.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/03/2019 18:39:38 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1010654

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Staff
	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 trends in staffing levels in community rehabilitation centres from their introduction until the end of the 2016-17 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	193550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>Public protection is our top priority and the contracts contain robust provisions requiring each Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) to ensure that it employs a sufficient level of staff to deliver their contractual obligations. We are taking decisive action to improve CRCs by ending current contracts early, investing £22m in through the gate services, and we have consulted on how best to deliver probation services in the future. We have also recently changed CRC contracts to improve reporting on workforce trends and will use this information to inform contract management activity.</p><p> </p><p>Our Contract Management Teams closely monitor and robustly manage providers on a local basis, taking into account the regional context, to make sure they fulfil their contractual commitments to reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/11/2018 10:38:10 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1104762

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the current number of vacancies is in each community rehabilitation company.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	236510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) contracts require each CRC to maintain a sufficient level of staff and ensure that its workforce is competent and adequately trained. CRCs have the authority to manage staff numbers as per their business and operating models. Robust assurance of performance is provided through operational contract management backed up by regular Operational Assurance audits, and Internal Audit activity as required. There is regular monitoring of service delivery, including a focus on validating published performance management information. CRC performance information showing services levels against a range of measures is released quarterly as part of the Community Performance Quarterly Management Information.</p><p> </p><p>We take seriously concerns raised by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) and others over staffing levels, particularly for resettlement work with prisoners nearing the end of their custodial term. The contract changes we agreed with CRCs last year include £22m per year in additional funding for Through The Gate services, which will mean approximately 500 more staff working with offenders in prison after April 2019. We are currently proposing further changes to probation after the existing CRC contracts come to an end in 2020. The proposed changes include measures to ensure the probation workforce is better supported to build their careers and deliver a high-quality service to offenders, such as introducing a standard training framework for staff and a national professional register to recognise the specialism and value of probation work.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/03/2019 16:56:22 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997576

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Coroners: Legal Representation
	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 his Department's annual spend on legal representation for prisons and probation staff at inquests on deaths in prison in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	185683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The sums spent on legal representation for Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) at inquests into deaths in prison custody in each of the last five calendar years are set out below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£2,826,566.02</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£2,734,183.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£2,874,906.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£3,591,634.26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£4,198,893.32</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These are the costs of representation for both HMPPS and its staff. In the vast majority of cases the legal representatives are acting for both the agency and all members of its staff called as witnesses, and the respective costs cannot therefore be separated. In a very small number of cases separate representation is provided for one or more members of staff.</p><p> </p><p>These costs relate to the representation provided for public-sector prisons and their staff, and, since its creation in April 2014, the National Probation Service and its staff. The costs of representation for contracted prisons and their staff are met by the provider. Before April 2014 each Probation Trust met its own representation costs, and since then each Community Rehabilitation Company has done likewise.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 08/11/2018 16:54:30 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon