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732994

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who will be consulted about the content of the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	1303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government will consult with professionals, victims, experts and wider communities ahead of introducing a Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 05/07/2017 15:45:24 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

674885

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who the housing legal and providers are in (a) the Dwyfor Meirionydd constituency and (b) each provider area in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	60517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) reviews the provision of housing advice across England and Wales each quarter with a view to ensuring sufficient capacity in each area. Tenders for legal aid contracts are run in regular cycles, as well as on an ad hoc basis should any accessibility issue be identified in the interim.</p><p>The constituency of Dwyfor Meirionydd is located within the LAA’s North West Wales Housing Procurement Area. Shelter Cymru have three contracted offices in this procurement area, from where they deliver Housing advice. The table below shows the number of provider offices which hold a legal aid contract for housing in each procurement area in Wales.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Procurement Area (‘PA’)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Provider</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offices in PA</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgend, Cardiff and the Vale</p></td><td><p>DUNCAN LEWIS SOLICITORS LTD</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgend, Cardiff and the Vale</p></td><td><p>RIVERSIDE ADVICE LTD</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgend, Cardiff and the Vale</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Wales</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath Port Talbot and Swansea</p></td><td><p>GOLDSTONES SOLICITORS LTD</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath Port Talbot and Swansea</p></td><td><p>T. A. LAW</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Neath Port Talbot and Swansea</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Wales</p></td><td><p>ALLINGTON HUGHES LTD</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Wales</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Wales</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rhondda Cynon Taff &amp; Merthyr Tydfil</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Wales</p></td><td><p>HARDING EVANS LLP</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Wales</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West Wales</p></td><td><p>WELSH HOUSING AID LTD TA SHELTER CYMRU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald grouped question UIN 60511 60512 question first answered 26/01/2017 16:11:49 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

767624

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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, who the Government has consulted on the review of the Victim's Code which was announced on 18 January 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	106617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>On 18<sup>th</sup> January 2017 Baroness Williams of Trafford stated in the House of Lords that the Government was considering how to address a lack of awareness among victims of their rights under the code. Baroness Williams further stated that the Government is considering how compliance with the code might be improved or monitored, and exploring how those responsible for the delivery of rights and entitlements might be held accountable for failings. Baroness Williams then committed to the House that the Government would set out a strategy for victims.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that this Government is committed to publishing a strategy for victims in early 2018. We are engaging with engaging victims, victims’ groups, and criminal justice agencies. We are working with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners to better understand compliance with the Victims’ Code at a local level. We will be carrying out further engagement which we will announce in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 106616 question first answered 17/10/2017 16:29:49 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

711517

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which victims' organisations her Department's Ministers or officials have met since 1 January 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	68022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s Ministers and officials regularly engage with victims’ organisations in relation to victims’ policy matters, to listen to and understand issues and concerns as well as to make sure that they can contribute to policy work.</p><p> </p><p>In line with management of the policy on provision of emotional and practical support for victims of crime and witnesses, the Department also has regular business as usual and ad hoc meetings with the victims’ organisations on grant funds.</p><p> </p><p>Since 1 January 2017 Ministers and officials have met with a range of victims’ organisations on a number of topics. These are detailed in the attached.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 23/03/2017 13:53:10 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee attachment 1 file name 68022 - List of meetings with victims' org.doc title 68022 - List of meetings with victims' org
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

754858

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Welsh Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which online services provided by his Department are available in the Welsh language on request only.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	6662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>We consider requests for online information and service provision to be provided in line with the scoring system in our Welsh Language Schemes.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 05/09/2017 15:21:53 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

971368

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence and Self-harm
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which five prisons in the male local estate reported the highest number of (a) assaults and (b) self-harm incidents occurring in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	172527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2018 answer text <p>Reducing levels of assault and self-harm in prisons is a top priority for the Ministry of Justice. We are investing across the prison estate in extra staff, training and security measures so that we can provide full and purposeful regimes, improve staff-prisoner relationships and reduce the impact of drugs.</p><p> </p><p>Prisons with a high absolute number of incidents might not necessarily have the highest relative number or rate of incidents, because the number of prisoners and the nature of the population will vary between establishments. Because of this point, we have provided a list of the top 5 prisons with the highest rate of assault as a better means of comparing across prisons.</p><p> </p><p>The five prisons in the male local estate with the highest reported rate of assaults during 2017 were:</p><p>Prison (Incidents per 1,000 population)</p><ul><li>HMP Birmingham – (928 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Bristol – (841 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Leicester – (772 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Bedford – (756 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP &amp; YOI Chelmsford – (727 incidents per 1,000 population)</li></ul><p> </p><p>The five prisons in the male local estate with the highest rate of self-harm incidents during 2017 were:</p><p>Prison (Incidents per 1,000 population)</p><ul><li>HMP Exeter – (1041 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Woodhill – (945 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Peterborough Male – (893 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Leicester – (892 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Bristol – (820 incidents per 1,000 population)</li></ul> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/09/2018 16:57:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 76442 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

971367

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence and Self-harm
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which five prisons in the Male Category C estate reported the highest number of (a) assaults and (b) self-harm incidents occurring in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	172526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2018 answer text <p>Reducing levels of assault and self-harm in prisons is a top priority for the Ministry of Justice. We are investing across the prison estate in extra staff, training and security measures so that we can provide full and purposeful regimes, improve staff-prisoner relationships and reduce the impact of drugs.</p><p>Prisons with a high absolute number of incidents might not necessarily have the highest relative number or rate of incidents, because the number of prisoners and the nature of the population will vary between establishments. Because of this point, we have provided a list of the top 5 prisons with the highest rate of assault as a better means of comparing across prisons.</p><p>The five prisons in the Male Category C estate with the highest rate of assaults during 2017 were:</p><p>Prison (Incidents per 1,000 population)</p><ul><li>HMP/YOI Portland – (626 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP &amp; YOI Parc – (546 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Hindley – (541 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP &amp; YOI Swinfen Hall - (500 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP &amp; YOI Isis - (441 incidents per 1,000 population)</li></ul><p>The five prisons in the Male Category C estate with the highest rate of self-harm during 2017 were:</p><p>Prison (Incidents per 1,000 population)</p><ul><li>HMP &amp; YOI Parc (913 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Haverigg (691 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP &amp; YOI Swinfen Hall (668 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Moorland (604 incidents per 1,000 population)</li><li>HMP Buckley Hall (603 incidents per 1,000 population)</li></ul><p>Note:</p><p>HMP &amp; YOI Parc’s assault and self-harm incident numbers include incidents which occurred in the designated places for young people (aged 15-18 years old): this data cannot currently be separated from data attributable to adults.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/09/2018 16:56:07 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 76441 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

634174

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2016
	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, which body is appointed to investigate serious further offences in respect of probation services in England and Wales; and whether she has plans to change the arrangements for such investigations.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	52607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>The table below provides a breakdown of the figures of the Serious Further Offence Reviews (SFO) Reviews that were completed following investigations undertaken by probation services in England and Wales between 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan – 31 Dec 2012</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>443</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan – 31 Dec 2013</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan – 31 Dec 2014</p></td><td><p>384</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>404</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 Jan – 31 Dec 2015</p></td><td><p>471</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>494</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Currently the National Probation Service or the Community Rehabilitation Company responsible for the management of the offender is required to complete the internal review of a serious further offence. Internal reviews are completed by staff who were not involved in the management of the case. They are then independently scrutinised by senior operational staff in the National Offender Management Service to ensure that they are sufficiently thorough and identify all relevant lessons for the management of future cases. Ministers are currently considering future arrangements for the production of SFO reviews.</p><p>Where an offender under probation supervision is convicted of a further offence, the offender concerned bears the responsibility for that offence. The SFO review process is not a disciplinary or a capability investigation and such investigations do not fall in scope of the Probation SFO Review Procedures. Data on staff members who have been subject to disciplinary procedures following a wider investigation that had been prompted by the SFO review investigation are not held centrally in a readily accessible format for the last four years. To obtain these data would exceed cost limits.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 52606 52608 question first answered 21/11/2016 14:37:18 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

683418

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2017
	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, whether victims of crime will be invited to submit details of their experiences as part of the review of the victims code.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	62944
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>As we announced in the House of Lords last month, we will set out our strategy for victims within 12 months, and will take the appropriate action to give effect to the strategy, including bringing forward any appropriate primary legislation.</p><p>We have made some positive steps to improve the experience of victims of crime, to reduce unnecessary stress and lessen the emotional turmoil of attending court. For example, this year we began rolling out pre-trial cross-examination for vulnerable victims and witnesses in the Crown Court. However more can be done to further strengthen the rights of victims.</p><p>We are considering how compliance with the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (Victims’ Code) might be improved and monitored. We are also exploring how those responsible for delivery of rights and entitlements might be better held accountable for any failings.</p><p>On 6 February I met with the Victims’ Panel which has been re-established so that we can learn from the experiences of victims of crime. I also have regular meetings with the Victims’ Commissioner, Baroness Newlove, about her work in keeping under review the operation of the Victims’ Code. Plans to engage with and obtain views of victims and victims’ groups are being developed.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee grouped question UIN 62934 question first answered 09/02/2017 15:59:35 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

746755

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the sittings of domestic violence cases in Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales are arranged to enable independent domestic violence advisors to be in attendance as required.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	1956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>Listing of cases is the responsibility of the Judiciary, however in magistrates’ courts domestic violence cases are often listed together to enable Independent Domestic Violence Advisers to be available to support victims of domestic violence at court hearings.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 07/07/2017 13:27:06 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts