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1197476

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to protect (a) prison staff and (b) prisoners who are unable to socially distance.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	49628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>Social distancing has been used in prisons since 24 March through the implementation of a restricted regime and is promoted through regular communications.</p><p>Situations where social distancing is not possible are controlled through safe operating procedures developed in line with public health advice. Safe operating procedures identify the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items required in each situation and the method of use. There is currently adequate stock and forward supply of all PPE items in accordance with public health advice.</p><p>Basic hygiene is also a key part of tackling the virus and hand-washing facilities are available to all prisoners and staff, and we have worked closely with suppliers to ensure adequate supply of soap and other cleaning materials.</p><p>These measures form part of our comprehensive approach to supporting the health and safety of our staff and prisoners in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, also encompassing our compartmentalisation strategy for prisoners to protect the sick, shield the vulnerable and quarantine new arrivals as well as boost the resilience of staffing at the frontline and roll-out of further testing.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 49629 question first answered 02/06/2020 16:50:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1197477

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
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 protect the health and safety of prison staff during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	49629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>Social distancing has been used in prisons since 24 March through the implementation of a restricted regime and is promoted through regular communications.</p><p>Situations where social distancing is not possible are controlled through safe operating procedures developed in line with public health advice. Safe operating procedures identify the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items required in each situation and the method of use. There is currently adequate stock and forward supply of all PPE items in accordance with public health advice.</p><p>Basic hygiene is also a key part of tackling the virus and hand-washing facilities are available to all prisoners and staff, and we have worked closely with suppliers to ensure adequate supply of soap and other cleaning materials.</p><p>These measures form part of our comprehensive approach to supporting the health and safety of our staff and prisoners in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, also encompassing our compartmentalisation strategy for prisoners to protect the sick, shield the vulnerable and quarantine new arrivals as well as boost the resilience of staffing at the frontline and roll-out of further testing.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 49628 question first answered 02/06/2020 16:50:11 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1197539

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
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 18 May 2020 to Question 45068 on Prisoners: Home Detention Curfew, if he will breakdown the (a) violence against the person, (b) theft, (c) drug and (d) miscellaneous crimes against society offence groups into the number of each of the individual offences in that group for each year.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	49621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested in your first question can be found in the table attached.</p><p>The information requested in your second question could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Release on HDC is subject to a risk assessment to ensure that there is a plan in place to manage offenders safely. It is only available for certain offenders who receive sentences of less than four years. If offenders breach their curfew, or any other conditions of their licence, they can be recalled to prison.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 49623 question first answered 02/06/2020 16:48:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 49621_final.xlsx title Table 1
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1197540

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of using recently closed courts such as Camberwell Green Magistrates Court to help increase capacity that will be needed in the future as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	49622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The former Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court building was sold and ownership transferred to the purchaser on 24 April 2020.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service officials are considering whether any recently closed courts which are still owned by HMCTS are suitable for reopening to provide increased capacity.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 02/06/2020 15:54:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1197541

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offences were committed by offenders on home detention curfew after being released before the halfway point in their sentences in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	49623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested in your first question can be found in the table attached.</p><p>The information requested in your second question could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Release on HDC is subject to a risk assessment to ensure that there is a plan in place to manage offenders safely. It is only available for certain offenders who receive sentences of less than four years. If offenders breach their curfew, or any other conditions of their licence, they can be recalled to prison.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 49621 question first answered 02/06/2020 16:48:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 49621_final.xlsx title Table 1
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1197550

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
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 ensure that legal aid for refugees and asylum seekers is effective in providing fair and high quality representation and advice.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	49588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Every practitioner who provides immigration and asylum advice in the UK is required to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. These bodies ensure that practitioners are competent and act in the best interest of the client.</p><p>To hold a legal aid contract, an individual must also be accredited under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation scheme, ensuring a high standard and competency for practitioners advising on immigration and asylum law.</p><p>Legal aid contracts explicitly set out quality standards, including additional requirements for those advising child clients or where their client is in immigration detention.</p><p>Providers are monitored by the Legal Aid Agency in meeting these requirements on a regular basis, including through an independent peer review of case files.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 08/06/2020 15:39:03 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1197567

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Visitors: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to facilitate contact between prisoners and their families during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	49865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>As of 24 March, social visits in prisons in England and Wales are temporarily suspended to enable us to ensure the safe and secure functioning of our prisons, while enforcing social distancing. These measures are part of the nationwide efforts to fight Covid-19 and we will review the restrictions in line with updates to public health advice.</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of the importance of continued contact with family, we have moved quickly to keep prisoners in touch with their family members. This includes the provision of 900 locked mobile phones to establishments that do not yet have in-cell telephony.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, on 15 May, we announced that secure video calls will be introduced to some prisons and Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) across England and Wales to maintain vital family contact for prisoners and young offenders during the Covid-19 outbreak.</p><p> </p><p>Following a successful trial at HMP Berwyn, HMPPS is installing the technology at 10 institutions with a wider rollout in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/06/2020 15:15:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1197576

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crime: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure victims of crime can continue to access support during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Simon Baynes
uin	49867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring victims and witnesses receive the support they need during this challenging time.</p><p>We have been working across government, with the sector and local bodies through our Covid-19 Victims and Witnesses Silver Group, which has helped to identify needs to ensure support is available for victims and witnesses.</p><p>We have secured £25million as part of the £76million government package for charities supporting vulnerable people including victims of sexual violence and domestic abuse, made almost £600k of funding available to assist helpline services and committed £3million per annum to Independent Sexual Violence advisers until 2022.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 08/06/2020 15:39:58 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes

1197578

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Law Commission will publish its consultation paper on hate crime; and whether the review has been delayed from its original time frame of 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	49672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Law Commission continues to make good progress on the Hate Crime Consultation Paper, although some delay is inevitable given the impact of Covid-19.</p><p>The Law Commissioners are considering when to publish consultations on a case-by-case basis, based on whether they will be able to undertake sufficiently open and transparent consultation during the current circumstances. That is an essential aspect of the way they work. It is particularly important in relation to the Hate Crime project.</p><p>The Commissioners are keeping the situation under review and they will announce their decision on publication as soon as they can.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 02/06/2020 16:29:14 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1197061

registered interest
date	19/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to lift the covid-19 lockdown measures in place across the prison estate.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	48972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>Our roadmap for easing restrictions in prisons has been guided by public health advice alongside an operational assessment of what can be achieved in custodial settings while keeping staff and those in our care safe.</p><p>Over the coming weeks and months we will look to bring back aspects of the prison regime, such as visits and work, in some cases adapted for safety, delivering our responsibilities and learning from the best available evidence.</p><p>Our National Framework, which sets out in detail how we will take decisions about easing coronavirus-related restrictions in prisons, has been published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-national-framework-for-prison-regimes-and-services" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/06/2020 15:11:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns