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851024

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce overcrowding in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	130217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that prisons are safe, decent and support rehabilitation.</p><p> </p><p>We are modernising the prison estate, closing older prisons that are not fit for purpose and creating in their place high-quality, rehabilitative establishments. We have started to redevelop the prisons at Glen Parva (Leicestershire) and Wellingborough (Northamptonshire). We are building a new houseblock at Stocken prison (Rutland).</p><p> </p><p>The Verne, a former HM Prison and Probation Service operated immigration removal centre in Dorset, will be reopening as a prison later this year and is expected to hold 580 offenders.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/03/2018 14:59:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

818811

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to reduce overcrowding on the prison estate in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	121575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Prison numbers can fluctuate, which is why we have a robust set of plans in place to ensure we will always have enough places for offenders committed to custody by the courts. This includes modernising the estate and building new accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>We will modernise the prison estate, closing older prisons that are not fit for purpose and creating in their place high-quality, rehabilitative establishments. We have started to redevelop the prisons at Glen Parva (Leicestershire) and Wellingborough (Northamptonshire). We are building a new houseblock at Stocken prison (Rutland). Additionally, we plan to build four modern prisons which includes the development of sites at Full Sutton (East Yorkshire), Hindley (Greater Manchester), Rochester (Kent) and Port Talbot (Neath Port Talbot, South Wales).</p><p>The Verne, a former HM Prison and Probation Service operated immigration removal centre in Dorset, will be reopening as a prison as early as possible this year and is expected to house 580 offenders.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2018 17:28:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 33552 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

804364

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in excess of Certified Normal Accommodation there have been in the prison estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate the Government has made of that number in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Information on how many prisoners in excess of Certified Normal Accommodation there have been in the prison estate in England and Wales in each of the last five years is set out in the following table. This information can also be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-population-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-population-statistics</a> We do not forecast CNA levels.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>In Use Certified Normal Accommodation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners in excess of In Use Certified Normal Accommodation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012</p></td><td><p>79,450</p></td><td><p>86,352</p></td><td><p>6,902</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>77,730</p></td><td><p>83,796</p></td><td><p>6,066</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>76,017</p></td><td><p>85,582</p></td><td><p>9,565</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>77,220</p></td><td><p>86,028</p></td><td><p>8,808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2016</p></td><td><p>76,819</p></td><td><p>85,130</p></td><td><p>8,311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2017</p></td><td><p>76,026</p></td><td><p>85,863</p></td><td><p>9,837</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Note:</strong> CNA, or uncrowded capacity, is the HM Prison Service’s own measure of accommodation. CNA represents the good, decent standard of accommodation that the Service aspires to provide all prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>We will always have enough prison places for those sent to us by the courts. Our reforms will close ageing and ineffective prisons and replace them with buildings fit for today’s demands. Our prison estate will have modern prison places that create the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:24:26 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

800860

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to reduce overcrowding in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	902750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Most of our prison estate is uncrowded. However we recognise crowding is an issue and in 2016-17 the average percentage of prisoners in crowded accommodation was 24.5%.</p><p>Our reforms will see us close down and redevelop ageing prisons and deliver high-quality, modern establishments fit for today's demands. Our new prison estate will have up to 10,000 modern prison places that create the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes.</p><p>Reducing overcrowding is a central aim of the estate modernisation and the new prisons will be designed with this in firmly in mind.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/12/2017 17:34:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

455412

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken to reduce overcrowding on the prison estate in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	28486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State has said, the prison estate is overcrowded and out of date. That’s why we have announced that we will close down aging and ineffective prisons, replacing them with new facilities fit for the modern world.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £1.3 billion to reform and modernise the prison estate to make it more efficient, safer and focused on supporting prisoner rehabilitation. In our new prisons we will design out those features that facilitate bullying, drug-taking and violence.</p><p> </p><p>We are also constructing a modern 2,106 place prison, HMP Berwyn, in North Wales, that will be opened in 2017 and are building two new house-blocks at existing prison sites Stocken and Rye Hill.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to ensuring that there are enough places for offenders sentenced to custody by the courts and making sure that these places are safe, decent and secure.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 02/03/2016 12:17:02 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

381034

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), which prisons had been misinterpreting overcrowding figures between 2008 and 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Falconer of Thoroton
uin	HL482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 – 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.</p><p> </p><p>The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Aylesbury</p><p>Blundeston</p><p>Brinsford</p><p>Bristol</p><p>Brixton</p><p>Bullwood Hall</p><p>Bure</p><p>Channings Wood</p><p>Chelmsford</p><p>Coldingley</p><p>Dorchester</p><p>Dovegate</p><p>Foston Hall</p><p>Full Sutton</p><p>Garth</p><p>Highpoint</p><p>Holloway</p><p>Leicester</p><p>Lewes</p><p>Lindholme</p><p>Littlehey</p><p>New Hall</p><p>Northumberland</p><p>Parc</p><p>Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)</p><p>Peterborough</p><p>Portland</p><p>Reading</p><p>Risley</p><p>Rye Hill</p><p>Shrewsbury</p><p>Swinfen Hall</p><p>Thameside</p><p>Wandsworth</p><p>Wayland</p><p>Wellingborough</p><p>Wetherby</p><p>Whatton</p><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.</p><p> </p><p>The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL483 HL484 HL485 question first answered 29/06/2015 16:44:35 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2758 label Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton

381035

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), what urgent steps have been taken to ensure that future figures will be subjected to rigorous quality control.
tabling member printed	Lord Falconer of Thoroton
uin	HL483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 – 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.</p><p> </p><p>The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Aylesbury</p><p>Blundeston</p><p>Brinsford</p><p>Bristol</p><p>Brixton</p><p>Bullwood Hall</p><p>Bure</p><p>Channings Wood</p><p>Chelmsford</p><p>Coldingley</p><p>Dorchester</p><p>Dovegate</p><p>Foston Hall</p><p>Full Sutton</p><p>Garth</p><p>Highpoint</p><p>Holloway</p><p>Leicester</p><p>Lewes</p><p>Lindholme</p><p>Littlehey</p><p>New Hall</p><p>Northumberland</p><p>Parc</p><p>Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)</p><p>Peterborough</p><p>Portland</p><p>Reading</p><p>Risley</p><p>Rye Hill</p><p>Shrewsbury</p><p>Swinfen Hall</p><p>Thameside</p><p>Wandsworth</p><p>Wayland</p><p>Wellingborough</p><p>Wetherby</p><p>Whatton</p><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.</p><p> </p><p>The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL482 HL484 HL485 question first answered 29/06/2015 16:44:35 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2758 label Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton

381036

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), when and how it became apparent that some prisons had been misinterpreting overcrowding figures between 2008 and 2015.
tabling member printed	Lord Falconer of Thoroton
uin	HL484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 – 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.</p><p> </p><p>The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Aylesbury</p><p>Blundeston</p><p>Brinsford</p><p>Bristol</p><p>Brixton</p><p>Bullwood Hall</p><p>Bure</p><p>Channings Wood</p><p>Chelmsford</p><p>Coldingley</p><p>Dorchester</p><p>Dovegate</p><p>Foston Hall</p><p>Full Sutton</p><p>Garth</p><p>Highpoint</p><p>Holloway</p><p>Leicester</p><p>Lewes</p><p>Lindholme</p><p>Littlehey</p><p>New Hall</p><p>Northumberland</p><p>Parc</p><p>Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)</p><p>Peterborough</p><p>Portland</p><p>Reading</p><p>Risley</p><p>Rye Hill</p><p>Shrewsbury</p><p>Swinfen Hall</p><p>Thameside</p><p>Wandsworth</p><p>Wayland</p><p>Wellingborough</p><p>Wetherby</p><p>Whatton</p><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.</p><p> </p><p>The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL482 HL483 HL485 question first answered 29/06/2015 16:44:35 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2758 label Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton

381037

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Faulks on 11 June (HLWS22), whether erroneous figures on overcrowding have informed decisions by the Ministry of Justice; if so, which decisions; and whether those decisions will now be subject to review.
tabling member printed	Lord Falconer of Thoroton
uin	HL485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Further to my WMS of 11 June the errors in crowding figures began in 2008 – 2009, under the then Lord Chancellor Jack Straw.</p><p> </p><p>The following is a list of prisons whose previously published crowding figures required correction in respect of at least one monthly figure during the period 2008-09 to 2013-14 as a result of misinterpretation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Aylesbury</p><p>Blundeston</p><p>Brinsford</p><p>Bristol</p><p>Brixton</p><p>Bullwood Hall</p><p>Bure</p><p>Channings Wood</p><p>Chelmsford</p><p>Coldingley</p><p>Dorchester</p><p>Dovegate</p><p>Foston Hall</p><p>Full Sutton</p><p>Garth</p><p>Highpoint</p><p>Holloway</p><p>Leicester</p><p>Lewes</p><p>Lindholme</p><p>Littlehey</p><p>New Hall</p><p>Northumberland</p><p>Parc</p><p>Parkhurst (part of Isle of Wight)</p><p>Peterborough</p><p>Portland</p><p>Reading</p><p>Risley</p><p>Rye Hill</p><p>Shrewsbury</p><p>Swinfen Hall</p><p>Thameside</p><p>Wandsworth</p><p>Wayland</p><p>Wellingborough</p><p>Wetherby</p><p>Whatton</p><p>Wormwood Scrubs</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Offender Management Service has taken action to ensure that future figures will be subject to more rigorous quality assurance. This includes strengthening the monitoring guidance for establishments to address common errors of interpretation, and adding further automatic checks to the management information system to pick up anomalies between prisoner population, cell capacity and reported crowding. NOMS will also issue an instruction to Governors to make sure that staff are clear about the definition of crowding and their responsibilities to quality-assure the data they submit.</p><p> </p><p>The errors came to light as a result of an internal check of the crowding returns in addition to the processes already in place for validating data ahead of the end-of-year publication of outturns in the NOMS Annual Report.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on the future size of the prison estate reflect the current and projected prison population. Therefore previously understated levels of crowding have not informed any capacity-based decisions made by the Ministry of Justice.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL482 HL483 HL484 question first answered 29/06/2015 16:44:35 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2758 label Biography information for Lord Falconer of Thoroton