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806730

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners convicted of murder were held in an open prison in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL4190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 04/01/2018 14:21:09 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

782004

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people currently in prison are (1) citizens of other EU member states, and (2) non-EU citizens.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to removing Foreign National Offenders from the United Kingdom, with a record number of over 6,300 removed from prisons, immigration removal centres (IRCs) and the community in 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>As at 30 September 2017, there were 4,125 (non-British) EU nationals in the prison population in England &amp; Wales (including the HMPPS run IRCs); and a further 5,821 non-EU Foreign Nationals.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 13/11/2017 14:52:32 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

643761

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many offenders were transferred from prisons in England and Wales to prisons in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The table below gives the number of prisoners transferred from prisons in England and Wales to Northern Ireland and from prisons in Northern Ireland to England and Wales in the last 3 calendar years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>YEAR</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FROM ENGLAND AND WALES TO NORTHERN IRELAND</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FROM NORTHERN IRELAND TO ENGLAND AND WALES</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The transfer of prisoners between UK jurisdictions is governed by the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997. Prisoners are able to apply to serve their sentences in their own jurisdiction close to home if they wish to do so. Few prisoners do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL3522 question first answered 08/12/2016 17:28:38 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

643762

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prisoners sentenced in Northern Ireland have been transferred to prisons in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The table below gives the number of prisoners transferred from prisons in England and Wales to Northern Ireland and from prisons in Northern Ireland to England and Wales in the last 3 calendar years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>YEAR</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FROM ENGLAND AND WALES TO NORTHERN IRELAND</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FROM NORTHERN IRELAND TO ENGLAND AND WALES</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The transfer of prisoners between UK jurisdictions is governed by the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997. Prisoners are able to apply to serve their sentences in their own jurisdiction close to home if they wish to do so. Few prisoners do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley grouped question UIN HL3521 question first answered 08/12/2016 17:28:38 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

600953

registered interest
date	13/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Basic Skills
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the estimated (1) numeracy, and (2) literacy, rate among prisoners in each of the last three years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>Prisons should be places of safety and reform. I am determined to make sure that we achieve better outcomes for all prisoners including in education, and I want to see much clearer accountability for prison governors for the education delivered in prison and the results prisoners achieve. Mandatory education assessments were introduced for the first time in August 2014, for all new receptions to custody in England. This shows that in the year to September 2015 fewer than half the people entering prisons had basic standards of English and maths, and around a third had identified learning difficulties or disabilities. Data prior to August 2014 is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Prison education is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 27/10/2016 13:47:27 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

455130

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: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they have taken over the past five years to disrupt and intercept the supply of illicit drugs into UK prisons.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL6435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Prisons in England and Wales take a zero tolerance approach to illicit drugs. We have a comprehensive range of security measures and searching techniques in place to detect drugs, and to prevent smuggling into prisons. We are about to pilot the use of body scanners to reveal drugs concealed within the body, we have introduced specific dog training to allow dogs to detect new psychoactive substances (NPS) and will introduce widespread drug testing of prisoners for NPS as part of the national mandatory drug testing programme in April 2016. We have also made it illegal to smuggle NPS into prisons. We are working with the Department of Health and others to improve our understanding of the risks NPS present for offenders and to provide appropriate information, guidance and support to offenders and those working with them in prison. Anyone caught with any drugs in prison will be severely dealt with. Punishments available include closed visits, loss of privileges and up to 42 days added to their time in custody. Where prisoners are caught with controlled drugs, we will work with the police to consider prosecution and a further sentence.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 10/03/2016 15:29:56 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

450514

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prisoners were in open prisons in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>Progression to open prisons is never automatic, and prisoners must generally be within two years of release before they can be considered for allocation. Public protection is paramount, so the only prisoners transferred to open prison are those whose risk of escape/abscond and risk of causing harm to the public are assessed as capable of being effectively managed in an open prison.</p><p> </p><p>Indeterminate sentence prisoners are, with few exceptions, transferred to open conditions only following a positive recommendation by the Parole Board. The Board will make such a recommendation after a robust risk assessment, based on reports provided by offender managers, offender supervisors and, where appropriate, by psychologists, with the overriding priority being the safety of the public.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of male and female prisoners held in dedicated open prisons as at the last Friday in June in each of the last five years. The data below do not include the number of male and female prisoners held in category D units in otherwise closed prisons.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Population</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2011</p></td><td><p>4,808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2012</p></td><td><p>4,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2013</p></td><td><p>4,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>5,087</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>5,020</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 18/02/2016 09:18:24 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

446640

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Discipline
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many extra days or weeks imprisonment have been given to prisoners for assaults committed on (1) fellow prisoners, and (2) prison staff, in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL5296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The table attached shows the numbers of awards of additional days in prison establishments as a result of adjudications in each year since 2011, for breach of prison discipline involving violence, including the number of adjudications where awards of added days were as a result of an assault against (1) another prisoner or (2) a member of prison staff.</p><p> </p><p>Violence in prison has increased in recent years. The nature of offenders currently in custody and the widespread availability of new psychoactive substances have both contributed to making prisons less safe. There is no single, simple solution to improving safety in prisons but we are making progress.</p><p> </p><p>We are trialling the use of body worn cameras and training sniffer dogs to detect New Psychoactive Substances. We have made it an offence to smuggle New Psychoactive Substances into prison, but ultimately the only way to reduce violence in prisons is to give governors and those who work in prisons the tools necessary to reform and rehabilitate offenders more effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Data for 2015 - 2016 is not yet available.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 04/02/2016 17:51:17 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks attachment 1 file name HL5296 - Table.xlsx title Extra Days of imprisonment table
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

423146

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidance is provided to magistrates and judges about when it is appropriate to apply the maximum tariff available in cases of animal cruelty.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>Animal cruelty is a summary offence with a maximum penalty of a level 5 (unlimited) fine and/or 6 months’ imprisonment. The maximum penalty for any offence is set by Parliament to deal with the most serious possible cases. Guidance on sentencing for this offence is contained in the Magistrates’ Courts Sentencing Guidelines, which are published by the independent Sentencing Council.</p><br /><p>These are the sentencing starting points from the guidelines for animal cruelty, based on a first time offender pleading not guilty:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Examples of nature of activity</em></p></td><td><p><em>Starting point Range</em></p></td><td><p><em>Range</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>One impulsive act causing little or no injury;</p></td><td><p>short term neglect</p></td><td><p>Band C fine Band B fine to medium level community</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Several incidents of deliberate ill-treatment/frightening</p></td><td><p>High level community order</p></td><td><p>Medium level community order to 12 weeks custody</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Attempt to kill/torture; animal baiting/conducting or permitting cock-fighting etc.; prolonged neglect</p></td><td><p>18 weeks custody</p></td><td><p>12 to 26 weeks custody</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 02/11/2015 14:26:44 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

388811

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each of the last four years, how much was paid through legal aid to legal professionals advising asylum seekers and immigrants who had been charged with offences.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL1288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) does not record the immigration or asylum status at any stage of the billing or application process for criminal legal aid.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 20/07/2015 11:36:41 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont