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91824

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Driving: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to bring into force section 137 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL1882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is working to put the necessary computer changes and other processes in place to allow for the commencement of section 137 of the Coroner and Justice Act 2009, which requires a court to extend a driving ban to take account of the period an offender spends in custody.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 20/10/2014 10:44:32 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

91828

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Glen Parva Young Offender Institution
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with NHS England regarding the design of the proposed secure college at HM Young Offender Institution Glen Parva, and with what outcome.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL1886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has placed great emphasis on the importance of healthcare provision in the Secure College Pathfinder and has engaged NHS England officials throughout the design process. NHS England continues to play an integral role in the project. As a result, modifications have been made to the location and layout of the healthcare facilities in the design to ensure young people will have safe and timely access to healthcare and to better replicate healthcare provision found within the community.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 20/10/2014 10:44:09 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

91829

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Secure Colleges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what healthcare provision is planned for secure colleges; and who will provide it.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL1887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning all healthcare services for people in detention (including youth custodial establishments) in England and this will include healthcare provision for the Secure College Pathfinder.</p><p> </p><p>There will then be competition for a healthcare provider for the Secure College Pathfinder in 2015. The priority will be to secure a provider who has the expertise and experience to provide young people in custody with appropriate services to meet the specific needs of this cohort of children so they can access and receive the same quality and range of healthcare services as provided in the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>The healthcare provision at the Secure College Pathfinder will be commissioned following a Health and Well-Being Needs Assessment and in line with the Intercollegiate Healthcare Standards (June 2013).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 21/10/2014 14:20:00 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

91830

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many contracts they have entered into on the same or similar basis as the proposed contracts with private sector providers of the probation service, containing penal clauses requiring 100 per cent compensation in the event of cancellation.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL1888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>In this instance to provide you with the information you ask would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold. Individual contract managers would need to search through hundreds of contract files to confirm whether the clauses in each one of their contracts are on the same or a similar basis to the clauses within the draft Transforming Rehabilitation contracts.</p><p> </p><p>I can however tell you that voluntary termination is a standard clause in government contracts which is designed to provide flexibility for government while maintaining the balance of value for money for the tax payer.</p><p> </p><p>Voluntary termination compensation would only be payable to the contractor if a contract is terminated through no fault of the contractor.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 15/10/2014 12:47:31 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

92029

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many freedom of information requests his Department received in each month since January 2013.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly and annual statistical reports on the handling of requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reports include statistics on the number of requests received by the Department each quarter since 2010. These reports can be accessed via the following webpage: <a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/foi/implementation" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/foi/implementation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 14/10/2014 13:58:45 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92030

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many freedom of information requests received by his Department were (a) responded and (b) not responded to within the statutory period in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly and annual statistical reports on the</p><p>handling of requests for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The reports, which date back to 2010, include statistics on the number of requests where the Department responded within the statutory period. These reports can be accessed via the following webpage:</p><p><a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/foi/implementation" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/statistics/foi/implementation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 18/11/2014 13:40:03 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92031

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Offensive Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of (a) knives, (b) firearms and (c) other weapons in (i) magistrates and (ii) Crown courts there were in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The number of confiscated knives, firearms and other weapons in Magistrates and Crown Courts are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Knives</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Firearms (incl. Replicas)</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Other weapons **</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Crown</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>Crown</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p>Crown</p></td><td><p>Magistrates</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>12/13*</strong></p></td><td><p>322</p></td><td><p>1252</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>246</p></td><td><p>2325</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>13/14</strong></p></td><td><p>705</p></td><td><p>3108</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>1002</p></td><td><p>6418</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>1027</p></td><td><p>4360</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>1248</p></td><td><p>8743</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>* </strong>Figures for 2012/13 include data for an additional 8 week period from 1 February 2012 when the Total Facilities Management (TFM) contract was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>** ’Other weapons’ are items Security deem could be used as a weapon</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Department takes the issue of security within courts extremely seriously and has a robust security and safety system to protect all court users and the Judiciary.</p><p> </p><p>This system includes mandatory bag searches, metal detectors and surveillance cameras, as well as court security officers who have the legislative powers to protect all those in the court building. The powers of a court security office includes the power to request the surrender of a prohibited item or, if the request is refused, to seize the item.</p><p> </p><p>Our security system is continually monitored to ensure that it is effective and proportionate and mitigates against the risks faced.</p><p> </p><p>The figures provided do not cover the period prior to 1 February 2012 as there was no consolidated reporting of items confiscated from court users prior to the introduction of the Total Facilities Management contract.</p><p> </p><p /> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 18/11/2014 17:53:49 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92032

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of (a) mephedrone, (b) BZP, (c) spice and (d) ketamine there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. We do not tolerate drugs in prison and anyone caught with them will be punished and could face further prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The success of NOMS Drug Strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse - as measured by the random mandatory drug testing programme - which has declined by 17.0 percentage points over the past 17 years (positive rates were 24.4% in 1996/7 and 7.4% in 2013/14) despite the fact that more drugs are being tested for.</p><p> </p><p>New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a recent issue affecting many parts of society, both here and abroad, including our prisons. NOMS is working with its partners to develop methods for testing for NPS and preventing them from entering establishments. Work is also taking place to increase levels of understanding about the risks that NPS present to offenders, with a view to providing them and those who work with them in prisons and the community with appropriate information, guidance and support.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently introduced an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to expand prisons' powers to test prisoners for non-controlled drugs. This would allow prison staff to conduct mandatory drug tests on prisoners for non-controlled drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and medicines, if the required tests were available.</p><p> </p><p>All figures in this answer have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. The data has been extracted by searching for the exact terms given in the question and not any slang or alternative spellings. The data are not subject to audit.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of seizures in prisons in England and Wales in the timeframe requested of Mephedrone, BZP, Spice and Ketamine, and described exactly as such on the database.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014 to 31 July</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mephedrone</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BZP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spice</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ketamine</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>138</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>267</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>436</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The term “Legal Highs” represents hundreds of different substances of which spice is just one. To try to calculate the instances of all such substances being confiscated would therefore only be possible at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/10/2014 10:53:54 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92033

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of legal highs there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. We do not tolerate drugs in prison and anyone caught with them will be punished and could face further prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>The success of NOMS Drug Strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse - as measured by the random mandatory drug testing programme - which has declined by 17.0 percentage points over the past 17 years (positive rates were 24.4% in 1996/7 and 7.4% in 2013/14) despite the fact that more drugs are being tested for.</p><p> </p><p>New psychoactive substances are a recent issue affecting many parts of society, both here and abroad, including our prisons. NOMS is working with its partners to develop methods for testing for NPS and preventing them from entering establishments. Work is also taking place to increase levels of understanding about the risks that NPS present to offenders, with a view to providing them and those who work with them in prisons and the community with appropriate information, guidance and support.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently introduced an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to expand prisons' powers to test prisoners for non-controlled drugs. This would allow prison staff to conduct mandatory drug tests on prisoners for non-controlled drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and medicines, if the required tests were available.</p><p> </p><p>All figures in this answer have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. The data has been extracted by searching for the exact terms given in the question and not any slang or alternative spellings. The data are not subject to audit.</p><p> </p><p>The table below gives the number of seizures in prisons in England and Wales in the timeframe requested of Mephedrone, BZP, Spice and Ketamine, and described exactly as such on the database.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014 to 31 July</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mephedrone</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BZP</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spice</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ketamine</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>138</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>267</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>436</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The term “Legal Highs” represents hundreds of different substances of which spice is just one. To try to calculate the instances of all such substances being confiscated would therefore only be possible at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 21/10/2014 11:17:40 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

92034

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Probation Service for England and Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) permanent full-time staff, (b) temporary full-time staff, (c) part-time staff, (d) agency staff and (e) consultants have been recruited by the National Probation Service headquarters since 1 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	209422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The number of permanently employed, temporarily employed and staff employed through an agency in the National Probation Service (NPS) working in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) as at 30 June 2014 (the date of the first published NPS staffing information) can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Permanent, Temporary and Agency National Probation Service in NOMS as at 30 June 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Division</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Permanent</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Temporary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agency*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,190</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlands Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,460</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,520</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>1,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,210</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East and Eastern Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,220</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West and South Central Probation Service</p></td><td><p>1,070</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales Probation Service</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>8,160</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>8,390</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Information as at 1 June</p><p>Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 in line with the department’s policy for presenting staffing data. Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.</p><p>The symbol ~ represents 5 or fewer.</p><p> </p><p>The National Probation Service is part of NOMS: it has no separate headquarters. NOMS headquarters includes NPS staff based there as well as other NOMS staff who provide central support for the NPS. It therefore follows that there were no staff in post or recruits into the NPS headquarters.</p><p> </p><p>Between the 1 June and 30 June 2014, the date of the latest published figures, the number of permanent or temporary staff recruited to the NPS, including any central functions relating to the NPS was five or fewer. In the same period 20 agency staff began working in the operational functions of the NPS.</p><p> </p><p>The NPS and CRCs were resourced to deliver their core duties at the point of transfer to the new structures and will maintain necessary levels through workforce planning to meet future staffing needs.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 209415 209420 209421 question first answered 20/10/2014 15:54:52 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan