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1007484

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Childbirth
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many female prisoners gave birth in custody in each of the last five years; and, of those, how many did so in cells.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL11487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The information is not centrally held and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, all pregnant women in custody have an individual care and management plan that is communicated to all staff and all pregnant women are seen by a mid-wife at least fortnightly or as required.</p><p>Healthcare in prisons is provided by trained medics and nurses, but we have also made training on dealing with pregnant women available to all prison officers.</p><p>We know it is extremely rare for a woman to give birth in prison - because every step is taken to get them to hospital - but those unique cases are invariably down to the unpredictability of labour.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 28/11/2018 13:55:32 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1007488

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average annual cost of incarcerating a prisoner in (1) 2015, (2) 2016, and (3) 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL11490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>An average cost per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales are routinely published by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. This information is produced on an annual basis and is published after the end of each financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Information on prison expenditure can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each financial year on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website. Prison unit costs can be found within the Excel document titled Costs per prison place and cost per prisoner by individual prison establishment under the ‘Cost by Establishment’ tab.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent published figures for financial year 2017-18 can be accessed on the www.gov.uk website from the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the average annual overall cost per prisoner for financial years 2015-16 to 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Annual Overall Cost per prisoner</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£37,543</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£35,371</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£33,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>To note within the table:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>1. Figures are expressed in nominal terms as per published for respective years.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2. Figures are not always comparable across a period due to changes in accounting treatments and scope of business which do not provide a consistent basis.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>3. Overall costs include the direct establishment costs plus expenditure met at regional or national level by HMPPS/MOJ.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 28/11/2018 13:56:25 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1005645

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice on 5 November (HCWS1066), what assessment they have made of the estimate by the Institute for Legacy Management that the proposed rise in probate fees could cost charities £10 million a year in lost legacy income.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL11416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>We acknowledge the benefit of assessing this impact and we are already aware of the assessment made by the Institute for Legacy Management. As far as we are aware, the Institute for Legacy Management have not shared the detail behind their data with us. However, we would be very happy to carefully consider any detail behind the assessment should they be open to sharing this with the department.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 26/11/2018 15:50:27 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1002256

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Slavery: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many compensation orders under section 130 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 have been made in respect of offences flagged as modern slavery offences by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the last five years; and what was the (1) total, and (2) average amount of those compensation awards.
tabling member printed	Lord McColl of Dulwich
uin	HL11277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Modern Slavery was introduced as a specific offence as part of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Therefore, data related to this offence is only available from 2015. Centrally held data relates to the number of individuals sentenced to pay compensation for modern slavery offences.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2015, there have not been any individuals ordered to pay compensation as part of their sentence for a modern slavery offence.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 14/11/2018 17:02:10 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	1892 label Biography information for Lord McColl of Dulwich

1002262

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prosecutions of women there have been for non-payment of the BBC licence fee in the last 12 months; how many of those have led to a prison sentence; and what proportion of all women prisoners this represents.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL11283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>There were 98,999 females prosecuted for TV licence evasion in the year ending December 2017, the latest published data.</p><p> </p><p>No prosecutions resulted in a custodial sentence.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 19/11/2018 16:41:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1002263

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bail
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the new procedure in Magistrates' Courts routinely not to provide bailed defendants with written details of their bail conditions and future court dates on the number of defendants who (1) break their bail conditions, and (2) fail to appear at court; and whether they intend to monitor and track the impact of that change.
tabling member printed	Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
uin	HL11284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The procedural requirement in Magistrates’ Courts for the provision to defendants of written details of their bail conditions, and future court dates, has not changed. The Criminal Procedure Rules require the court to serve notice of a decision about bail on the defendant. This notice can be either personally served on the defendant at court, or sent by post following the hearing.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 13/11/2018 17:16:38 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3154 label Biography information for Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

998904

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Juries: Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what overnight allowance is paid to jurors in trials in the High Court who have to stay overnight in London to attend a trial.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL11156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The High Court has not conducted a jury trial since 2016. Use of juries in High Court trials is rare. When juries are used, the jurors are called from within Greater London through the Jury Central Summonsing Bureau. No overnight allowance is payable and the need for overnight accommodation is not envisaged.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 08/11/2018 14:51:24 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

994701

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Ministry of Justice policies have been assessed against the Family Test; and whether they have published the outcome of any such assessments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL11017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Ministers. The Ministry of Justice does not collect information on the number of Family Test assessments completed. There is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 07/11/2018 12:39:31 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

994726

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Suicide
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of suicide rates among offenders on licence and in prisons; what assessment they have made of whether the number of offenders in the prison system contributes to those suicide rates; and whether they have plans to reduce the number of offenders in the prison system.
tabling member printed	Lord Patel of Bradford
uin	HL11042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government publishes data on the number of deaths among offenders being supervised in the community, and on the number and rates of deaths in prisons. The most recent statistics were released on 25 October 2018. In the year to March 2018, among offenders under post-release supervision there were 1.4 self-inflicted deaths per 1,000 offenders, down from 1.7 per 1,000 in the previous year. This rate is calculated against a snapshot of the number of offenders under supervision on 31 March, not against the total number who had been supervised during the year. The rate of self-inflicted deaths in prison in the year to September 2018 was 1.0 per 1,000 prisoners: up from 0.9 per 1,000 in the previous 12 months, but below the rate in each of the three years before that. The Government takes very seriously its responsibility to keep staff and prisoners safe, and we are committed to reducing the incidence of self-harm and suicide across the estate. This is why we have established a prison safety programme through which we are taking forward a comprehensive set of actions to improve safety in custody. They include:<ul><li>investing in over 3,000 additional staff in order to deliver consistent, purposeful regimes;</li><li>introducing the new key worker role, under which staff can give prisoners more effective support;</li><li>rolling out revised and improved training for staff in assessing and managing the risk of suicide and self-harm amongst prisoners (this has already reached more than 17,000 staff);</li><li>improving support for prisoners in their early days in custody;</li><li>revising the ACCT case management process for those identified as being at risk; and</li><li>renewing our partnership with the Samaritans by confirming a further three years' grant funding for their valuable Listeners Scheme.</li></ul>We want to see prison numbers come down, but not by setting an arbitrary figure for reduction. Custody should achieve justice, by holding offenders whose crime is so serious that no other penalty will do, or who would pose a danger to the public if released. It must also rehabilitate those prisoners, because society is entitled to expect them to make a fresh start when they get out. We are determined to do better by offenders who are sent to prison, to make them less likely to return. There is persuasive evidence that short custodial sentences do not achieve that, and that community sentences can be more effective at reducing re-offending. We will therefore look at what more we can do to emphasise that short custodial sentences should be viewed as a last resort.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 08/11/2018 16:42:10 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3798 label Biography information for Lord Patel of Bradford

994735

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection and who continue to protest their innocence are denied access to rehabilitative courses which may lead to their release.
tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
uin	HL11051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>Maintaining innocence is not a barrier to progression, and there are a number of offending behaviour programmes available to prisoners who maintain their innocence, including those serving sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection.</p><p> </p><p>It is not mandatory for prisoners to complete offending behaviour programmes in order to achieve release. It should also be borne in mind that completion of a programme is no guarantee that risk has been reduced.</p><p> </p><p>The independent Parole Board consider all the available evidence when assessing prisoners’ risks and their suitability for release.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 08/11/2018 14:50:36 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne