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1015353

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Dangerous Dogs Act 1991: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people served a sentence of imprisonment for convictions under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	196140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, in England and Wales from 2015 to 2017 (the latest currently available data), can be obtained from the ‘Experimental Statistics: Principal Offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool’ in the annual criminal justice statistics publication, linked below. Select the below offence codes from the ‘offence code’ drop down box:</p><p> </p><p>821 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place injuring any person</p><p>822 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non-public place and injure any person</p><p>11112 Breeding or breeding from a fighting dog</p><p>11113 Selling, exchanging, offering, advertising or exposing for sale a fighting dog</p><p>11114 Giving or offering to give a fighting dog or dangerous dog</p><p>11115 Allowing a fighting dog to be in a public place without a muzzle or a lead</p><p>11116 Abandoning, or allowing to stray, a fighting dog</p><p>11117 Possess or have custody of a fighting dog</p><p>11118 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place, without injury being caused</p><p>11119 Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non- public place causing reasonable apprehension of injury to a person</p><p>11125 Owner / person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control - no injury</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/12/2018 16:19:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1015369

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful prosecutions were made under section 121 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 in each year since its commencement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	196215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Figures on the number of defendants prosecuted at magistrates’ courts and the outcomes of those prosecutions at all courts under section 121 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 can be found in the ‘Outcomes by Offence data tool’</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733981/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733981/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p>Search ‘Offence’ for ‘36.1 Forced marriage’ from the offence drop down list.</p><p>It is important to remember that these figures are on a principle offence basis. When a defendant has been prosecuted for two or more offences, the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty would be imposed.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/12/2018 16:34:54 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1015392

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the conviction rates were for (a) sexual offences and (b) rape in the 12 months to June (i) 2018 and (ii) in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	196111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The conviction ratio for sex offences for year ending June 2008 to 2018 can be found in published table Q3.3 in the Overview Tables found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756067/overview-tables-june-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756067/overview-tables-june-2018.ods</a></p><p>The latest published number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts for rape offences from 2007 to 2017 relate to the year ending December 2017 and can be found in the Outcomes by offence data tool in the annual Criminal Justice Statistics publication, found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733981/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733981/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p>Search for ‘rape’ in the ‘Offence’ drop down box and select the following offences:</p><ul><li>19C Rape of a female aged 16 or over</li><li>19D Rape of a female aged under 16</li><li>19E Rape of a female child under 13 by a male</li><li>19F Rape of a male aged under 16</li><li>19G Rape of a male aged 16 or over</li><li>19H Rape of a male child under 13 by a male</li></ul><p>To calculate the conviction ratio, divide the number of convictions by the number of prosecutions for each year. Final court proceedings data for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 03/12/2018 16:38:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1015433

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of offenders who are in paid work at the time of being sent to prison.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	196156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>We collect data on the pre-imprisonment status employment status of individuals within 72 hours of them entering custody using the Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCS). For the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, these figures are set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>BCS Q B4.12: Were you working before you came to custody?</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count of Assessments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employed</p></td><td><p>22177</p></td><td><p>21.77%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unemployed</p></td><td><p>61586</p></td><td><p>60.44%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unavailable for work</p></td><td><p>10797</p></td><td><p>10.60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retired</p></td><td><p>1168</p></td><td><p>1.15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Self-employed</p></td><td><p>6161</p></td><td><p>6.05%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count:</p></td><td><p>101889</p></td><td><p>100.00%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It should be noted that these figures are compiled from information the prisoners have provided the assessor to enter into the BCS, and include not only prisoners sentenced in respect of a criminal offence, but also those received into custody on remand. Given the information is provided by the prisoners themselves and is not assessed, there will always be a margin of error in the figures. A proportion of prisoners will enter custody multiple times each year and may provide different answers to these questions over time.</p><p> </p><p>Reoffending is costing society approximately £15 billion a year. Effective rehabilitation needs prisoners to be willing to commit to change, take advice, learn new skills and take opportunities to work. For those individuals willing to engage, the prison system must deliver. That is why we launched the Education and Employment strategy to create a system where each prisoner is set on a path to employment from the outset. We are empowering governors to commission education provision that leads to work, we are engaging with employers to take on ex-prisoners via the New Futures Network (NFN) and have consulted on proposals to increase the opportunities available to prisoners to gain experience in real workplaces through ROTL.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/12/2018 16:42:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1015468

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral evidence of the Executive Director, Prison Estate Transformation Programme, HM Prison and Probation Service of 13 November 2018 to the Justice Select Committee inquiry on Prison Population 2022: planning for the future, Question 495, HC 483, whether it is his Department's policy that running in-house bids for the operation of new-build prisons is divisive.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	196267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has recently launched a competition to establish a framework of prison operators, from which the operators of the new prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva will be selected. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will not be bidding in the competition. There will instead be a ‘public sector benchmark’, against which potential operators’ bids can be assessed. Where bids do not meet sufficient quality or value for money thresholds the public sector will act as the provider.</p><p>We have taken this approach as, rightly, our current focus is on getting the basics right by addressing the significant challenges we face in improving safety and decency in our prisons. We have learned from past experience that establishing an internal bid team was an unnecessarily complex way to manage a competition.</p><p>This approach will enable us to undertake rigorous financial and operational assessment of bids put forward by any existing or potential operator to ensure they are of sufficient quality, value and affordability compared to a public sector comparator.</p><p>The Government is committed to a diverse market of prison operators and competition for custodial services remains an important way of achieving that and driving quality of operations and innovation across the system.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 196268 196269 question first answered 03/12/2018 17:48:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1015469

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral evidence of Simon Boddis, Executive Director, Prison Estate Transformation Programme, HM Prison and Probation Service to the Justice Committee on Prison Population 2022, planning for the future on 13 November 2018, Question 495, HC 340, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of the statement that running in-house bids for the operation of new-build prisons is a waste of money.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	196268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has recently launched a competition to establish a framework of prison operators, from which the operators of the new prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva will be selected. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will not be bidding in the competition. There will instead be a ‘public sector benchmark’, against which potential operators’ bids can be assessed. Where bids do not meet sufficient quality or value for money thresholds the public sector will act as the provider.</p><p>We have taken this approach as, rightly, our current focus is on getting the basics right by addressing the significant challenges we face in improving safety and decency in our prisons. We have learned from past experience that establishing an internal bid team was an unnecessarily complex way to manage a competition.</p><p>This approach will enable us to undertake rigorous financial and operational assessment of bids put forward by any existing or potential operator to ensure they are of sufficient quality, value and affordability compared to a public sector comparator.</p><p>The Government is committed to a diverse market of prison operators and competition for custodial services remains an important way of achieving that and driving quality of operations and innovation across the system.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 196267 196269 question first answered 03/12/2018 17:48:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1015470

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral evidence of Simon Boddis, Executive Director, Prison Estate Transformation Programme, HM Prison and Probation Service to the Justice Committee on Prison Population 2022, planning for the future on 13 November 2018, Question 495, HC 340, what estimate he has made of the cost of running in-house bids for the operation of new-build prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	196269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has recently launched a competition to establish a framework of prison operators, from which the operators of the new prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva will be selected. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will not be bidding in the competition. There will instead be a ‘public sector benchmark’, against which potential operators’ bids can be assessed. Where bids do not meet sufficient quality or value for money thresholds the public sector will act as the provider.</p><p>We have taken this approach as, rightly, our current focus is on getting the basics right by addressing the significant challenges we face in improving safety and decency in our prisons. We have learned from past experience that establishing an internal bid team was an unnecessarily complex way to manage a competition.</p><p>This approach will enable us to undertake rigorous financial and operational assessment of bids put forward by any existing or potential operator to ensure they are of sufficient quality, value and affordability compared to a public sector comparator.</p><p>The Government is committed to a diverse market of prison operators and competition for custodial services remains an important way of achieving that and driving quality of operations and innovation across the system.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 196267 196268 question first answered 03/12/2018 17:48:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1015534

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the 23 November 2018 Government news release on new search teams to disrupt and deter violence in prisons, whether those teams will be placed in prisons in South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	196299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>A dedicated search team (DST) will be in place to cover Yorkshire and Humberside. These measures, together with our unrelenting focus on rehabilitation, will help to ensure prisons are places where offenders can turn their backs on crime, and ultimately prevent future victims.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/12/2018 16:08:30 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1015540

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wales Office: Procurement
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 27 November 2018 to Question 194070 on Wales Office: Procurement, what proportion of procurement contracts his Department awarded to SMEs in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	196134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not record the percentage of contracts awarded each financial year with Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) companies. However, the MoJ does have a commitment that a percentage of its spend each year will be with SME’s. The below table provides the spend with SME’s for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 against the MoJ’s target percentage.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Procurement Spend (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Direct Spend with SMEs (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Direct Spend with SMEs as %</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Indirect Spend with SMEs (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Indirect Spend with SMEs as %</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total SME Spend as %</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Central Government Target Percentage</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>£4,362</p></td><td><p>£1,386</p></td><td><p>29.9%</p></td><td><p>£196</p></td><td><p>4.2%</p></td><td><p>34.2%</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16/17</p></td><td><p>£4,305</p></td><td><p>£1,257</p></td><td><p>29.2%</p></td><td><p>£317</p></td><td><p>7.4%</p></td><td><p>36.6%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The figures for the MoJ spend with SME’s for 2017/2018 are currently going through the governance and approval process ahead of being published and therefore cannot be released yet. The MoJ target percentage for spend with SMEs will be set out in the MoJ Action Plan due to be published shortly. Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search”</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 03/12/2018 16:13:27 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1015557

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Stockport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals were heard at tribunal for (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment and support allowance in the Stockport constituency in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	196136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Information about the volumes and waiting times for appeals, including (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and (b) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not record data based on constituencies. SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the volumes and waiting times for PIP and ESA appeals for individual hearing venues including the Stockport venue where appeals from constituents living in the Stockport area would be heard.</p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of the appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier for its final disposal.</p><p>Latest figures (to June 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.5 million decisions have been made, and of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at Tribunals. For ESA, 3.5m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made between April 2014 and March 2018 and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 196137 question first answered 03/12/2018 16:40:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey