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1138654

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions prison staff in each prison had their pay deducted for not being able to complete a shift as a result of an assault in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	276574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>HMPPS does not deduct pay if an employee is sent home as a result of sickness or if they have been assaulted at work.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS is committed to safeguarding the safety and wellbeing of its staff. A comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme is available to all staff and systems are in place to deal with perpetrators of violence against staff quickly and robustly. Safety remains a top priority and we recently changed the law to double sentences for those that attack our hardworking staff. Additionally, we introduced body-worn cameras and are rolling out PAVA incapacitant spray to keep officers safe.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/07/2019 15:19:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1138529

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate Service: Length of Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of service for a member of staff at the Probate Service was in each of the last four quarters.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	276242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Q1 (JUL18-SEP18) (in years)</p></td><td><p>Q2 (OCT18-DEC18) (in years)</p></td><td><p>Q3 (JAN19-MAR19) (in years)</p></td><td><p>Q4 (APR19-JUN19) (in years)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BIRMINGHAM</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BRIGHTON</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CARDIFF/BRISTOL</p></td><td><p>13.65</p></td><td><p>13.65</p></td><td><p>13.65</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LEEDS</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LIVERPOOL</p></td><td><p>18.4</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LONDON</p></td><td><p>20.6</p></td><td><p>18.1</p></td><td><p>18.1</p></td><td><p>18.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MANCHESTER</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>21.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NEWCASTLE/IPSWICH</p></td><td><p>15.4</p></td><td><p>15.4</p></td><td><p>15.25</p></td><td><p>15.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OXFORD</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WINCHESTER</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>total</p></td><td><p>164.25</p></td><td><p>157.85</p></td><td><p>155.4</p></td><td><p>156.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>average</p></td><td><p>16.425</p></td><td><p>15.785</p></td><td><p>15.54</p></td><td><p>15.635</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 16/07/2019 11:06:17 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1138210

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions staff have had their pay deducted for not being able to complete a shift due to their incapacity following an assault in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	275792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>HMPPS does not deduct pay if an employee is sent home as a result of sickness or if they have been assaulted at work.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme. HMPPS has systems in place to deal with perpetrators of violence against staff quickly and robustly, with serious incidents referred to the police for prosecution.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/07/2019 10:23:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1138212

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Human Trafficking
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 January 2019 to Question 205340 on Prisoners: Human Trafficking, what estimate he has made of the cost of collating that information.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	275794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>In order to gather this information, the Department would need to check the c.4,000 individual records of women held in prison. We estimate that this would cost of approximately £16,700.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/07/2019 15:29:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1137118

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether each prison is required to maintain a record of the courses offered to prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	273806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Prisons are required to maintain a record of the courses offered to prisoners. All prisons under the Prison Education Framework (PEF) contract are required to agree an annual delivery plan which sets out the services to be provided. Once the delivery plan is finalised a copy of the curriculum is uploaded onto an HMPPS Management Information System which is then visible and available to all prisons to support better co-ordination of the offer prisoners receive.</p><p> </p><p>We want prisons to provide offenders with the tools they need for successful rehabilitation, including education opportunities that prepare them for employment on release.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2019 15:16:52 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1137119

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wellingborough Prison: Contracts
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 21 May 2019 to Question 253599 on Glen Pava Prison and Wellingborough Prison: Contracts, on what date his Department plans to launch the mini-competition for the operation of the prison at Wellingborough.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	273807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The number of people convicted for offences under s41 of the Dentistry Act 1984 (“Unregistered person carrying on the business of dentistry”) over the last 3 years was 2; 1 in each of 2016 and 2017. It is not possible to identify whether these offences were specific to teeth whitening in centrally held data on court proceedings. </del><ins class="ministerial">We launched the mini-competition for the operation of the first new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough on Friday 12 July 2019 and anticipate making the award to the successful operator in July 2020.</ins></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 15/07/2019 16:21:59 question first ministerially corrected 18/07/2019 09:47:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 129114 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1137120

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what safeguards his Department have put in place to ensure that claimants using the Litigant in Person portal are (a) informed of and (b) able to enforce their legal rights.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	273808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government is working closely with a broad group of expert stakeholders to develop a new accessible IT Service. This will support and enable both represented and unrepresented claimants to progress Road Traffic Accident related personal injury claims under the new small claims track limit of £5,000. The Government’s key design principle in approaching the development of the new IT service is that that the claimant and access to justice must be at the heart of the process and the new service must be as simple and efficient as possible for unrepresented claimants to make, progress and settle their claims online without the need to go to court. In addition, unrepresented claimants will also have access to a bespoke alternative dispute resolution scheme, which will enable them to gain, at no cost to themselves, an independent view on the liability decision made by the defendant insurer. The service will also provide claimants with guidance, so that claimants can understand and navigate the IT Service without unnecessary delay.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Claimants however, will not be precluded from having legal representation at any point of the process, but will be liable to pay for a lawyer.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/07/2019 16:35:42 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1137121

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	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 the cost to the public purse to date and; the full cost of introduction of the Litigant in Person portal.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	273809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working in partnership with its key delivery partner, the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, in designing and developing a new IT Service to enable injured claimants to progress their own Road Traffic Accident related personal injury claims under the new £5,000 small claims track limit.</p><p>The costs associated with this new service will be funded by the insurance industry. As such, there are no costs to the public purse arising from the design, build and annual operation of the new service.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 10/07/2019 16:27:33 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1137122

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Representation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timeframe is for the testing period of the Litigant in Person portal.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	273810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with its key delivery partner (the Motor Insurers’ Bureau) and a broad group of expert stakeholders from across the personal injury sector to develop a new accessible IT Service. This will enable both represented and unrepresented claimants to progress Road Traffic Accident related personal injury claims under £5,000.</p><p>Public testing of the IT Service is planned to begin in November 2019 and, in light of user’s experience, the Government will consider making some further modifications to the service before it goes live in April 2020, so that it is easy to understand and navigate.</p><p>In addition, the service will provide a significant amount of management information. The Government is committed to reviewing this management information and how the new service is operating to identify any required changes and improvements approximately eighteen months from implementation. This will include a full evaluation of all relevant data relating to the overall customer experience of claimants using the service.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 10/07/2019 16:27:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1137131

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Industrial Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department has issued to staff working in prisons on (a) reporting and (b) not reporting injuries sustained at work.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	273811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>HM Prison and Probation Service issues national guidance on the reporting of injuries sustained by staff. This can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2016/psi-02-2106-hs-arrangements-management-accident-reporting.doc" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2016/psi-02-2106-hs-arrangements-management-accident-reporting.doc</a></p><p> </p><p>This document outlines and clarifies the key duties to be undertaken by staff and managers reporting and recording work place accidents, injury and ill-health to employees and third parties and any associated litigation. It is designed to achieve more consistent standards, deliver pragmatic and effective legal compliance and reduce duplication of effort and documentation across the estate.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are aware of the requirement to record and report accidents and injuries arising from their work within prison service establishments. Managers also have a duty of care to ensure that necessary investigations are carried out in accordance with the policy.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2019 15:19:17 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon