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date	26/01/2024
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults against prison staff took place in England in 2023, broken down by prison.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	11640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>We publish the number of assaults against prison staff, broken down by prison, as part of our Safety in Custody statistics, in Table 8e of the summary tables, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-september-2023" target="_blank">Safety in custody: quarterly update to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p>Figures up until September 2023 have been published at the above link, however figures for the whole of 2023 are not due for publication until April 2024 and cannot be released at this time.</p><p>We are committed to making prisons a safe place to work and providing prison officers with the right support, training and tools to empower them to do their jobs.</p><p>To protect staff and prisoners in very serious assaults, we are continuing to roll out PAVA – a synthetic pepper spray – for use by prison officers in the adult male estate. Staff are able to use the PAVA spray where there is serious violence or an imminent or perceived risk of it.</p><p>We have rolled out a new Body Worn Video Camera system which has increased the overall number of cameras across public sector prisons to over 13,000. This enables every operational band 3-5 officer on shift to wear a camera. They are supported by a new Policy Framework which mandates the wearing of the cameras.</p><p>The new Body Worn Video Camera system will be fully networked and accessible via current prison IT improving access to footage and the ability to share it with other agencies, with the overall aim of increasing use and transparency. The cameras will provide high-quality evidence to support prosecutions against prisoners who commit assaults.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/01/2024 16:24:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1685261

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wandsworth Prison: Prison Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many days of time off in lieu are prison officers at Wandsworth Prison owed in total as of 25 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	11641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Time off in lieu is given in respect of additional duties performed in excess of an officer’s weekly hours, where such duties cannot be covered effectively by other means.</p><p>At HMP Wandsworth, as of 25 January 2024, an average of 13.4 hours was owed per Band 3 prison officer.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/01/2024 16:25:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1685309

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Recovery of Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will undertake a review of the fixed recoverable costs scheme.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	11659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>Fixed recoverable costs (FRC) was extended for new cases on 1 October 2023. The Government will review the extended FRC regime in October 2026, three years after implementation. More information about the nature and scope of the review will be set out nearer the time.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 05/02/2024 15:50:13 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1685314

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page one of the Government response to the First Report of the Justice Select Committee of Session 2021-22 on The Coroner Service, HC 675, published on 10 September 2021; what his Department's planned timetable is to respond to the Committee's 11 outstanding recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	11592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>We have successfully delivered or are taking forward some of the recommendations which we committed to consider further in our 2021 response to the Justice Committee’s Inquiry into the Coroner Service. However, other priorities, including our key involvement in delivering cross-cutting Government reforms in the death management sector, have meant that we have not been able to progress some of these issues as far as we would have liked. We remain committed to doing so as soon as practicable.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 02/02/2024 14:42:46 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1685316

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Barnardo's report entitled Double discrimination: Black care-experienced young adults navigating the criminal justice system, published on 21 September 2023, whether he has made an assessment of discrimination affecting Black care-experienced young adults who have involvement with the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	11593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>We are grateful for the work Barnardo's have done to highlight the challenges faced by young black care-experienced people in our criminal justice system, and I was delighted to meet with them on 30 January to discuss the Double Discrimination report. We look forward to working with them further to ensure we are tackling these issues.</p><p>Across the criminal justice system, we are taking forward an extensive programme of work to tackle unexplained disparities where they are identified. The Inclusive Britain strategy is central to the development of this work and contains some of our flagship efforts.</p><p>We are also updating our strategy for people with care experience in the criminal justice system, to ensure we are using care-experienced people’s time in the criminal justice system to support them to lead crime-free lives. In this work, we will be building on the work done by Barnardo’s to focus on race and its role in shaping the experiences and outcomes of those with care experience in the criminal justice system, and developing proposals to address this.</p><p>We are aiming to publish this strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/02/2024 09:51:23 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy