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1105468

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits of increasing the use of community service rather than short term prison sentences for minor offences.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	237660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>There is a strong case to abolish sentences of six months or less, with some exceptions. We are therefore exploring options to restrict the use of short custodial sentences, but we have not at this stage reached any conclusions.</p><p>There is persuasive evidence showing community sentences, in certain circumstances, are more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing reoffending. The MoJ study ‘The impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on re-offending’ published in 2015 found that over a 1-year follow up period, a higher proportion of people re-offended having been sentenced to custody of under 12 months without supervision on release than other similar people given community orders.</p><p>Unless we tackle the underlying causes of offending, we cannot protect the public from being victims of crime. Effective community orders can address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, and provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/04/2019 22:29:30 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1105610

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, much money it costs his Department on average to hold a claimant's tribunal relating to personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	237621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The cost of Personal Independence Payment and Employment and Support Allowance hearings is included in the overall cost of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support Appeal).</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/04/2019 16:45:22 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1105729

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions (a) police officers and (b) other additional support has had to be brought in to prisons in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	237780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held by the MoJ. Police Officers can perform a variety of roles in assisting Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) establishments ranging from Scenes of Crime preservation to Perimeter Security.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/04/2019 16:57:06 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1105150

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people working on developing HM Courts & Tribunals Service Reform are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	236991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>As at 27<sup>th</sup> March 2019 there are (a) 33 contingent labour, (b) supplier resource we cannot provide a response to this because our Suppliers provide services in a number of ways and as we are contracting for outcomes, the Supplier is responsible for assessing how they resource up to deliver this and (c) 356 civil servants currently working on developing HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service Reform.</p><p> </p><p>There is no allocation of workforce specific to Reform Re-provisioning unless by Re-provisioning the reference is to the Reform Programme as a whole in which case the above answers apply.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 236287 question first answered 02/04/2019 16:52:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1105151

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people working on developing Criminal Justice System Common Platform are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	236992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>As at 27 March 2019, HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) employed</p><p>(a) 8 contingent labour.</p><p>(b) You asked us to provide you with the amount of supplier resource working on reform. We currently contract with a number of suppliers to provide service to us in a number of different ways. Predominantly we contract with suppliers for outcome based deliverables and as such the supplier is responsible for assessing how many resources they need to deliver. This can be flexed and therefore we are unable to provide you with an exact number of supplier resources working across the Crime Programme.</p><p>(c) 60 civil servants are currently working on developing the Crime Programme.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/04/2019 16:47:34 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1105190

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Theft: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of Out of Court Disposals for shop theft.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	236997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that shoplifting is not a victimless crime. It causes cost and disruption to businesses, as well as damage to communities and consumers. We encourage all victims, including shop workers, to report these crimes to the police so that they can be recorded and dealt with accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>Out of Court Disposals are one important tool available in addressing shop theft – they allow the police to deal quickly and proportionately with low-level offending. Where an Out of Court Disposal is appropriate, we encourage the use of disposals which have a condition attached (be that rehabilitative, reparative, punitive or restrictive). This can achieve rapid compensation and/or divert vulnerable offenders with substance misuse or mental health issues into rehabilitative services to address the root causes of their offending behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>We pay attention to trends and changes in the use of Out of Court Disposals on an ongoing basis.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/04/2019 16:58:47 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1105263

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Ambulance Services
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 13 February 2019 to Question 217065 on Prisons: Drugs, how many ambulances attended each prison as a result of (a) injuries due to exposure to psychoactive substance and (b) all injuries in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	237181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Protecting the health and safety of our staff and prisoners is of the utmost importance. We take all reported incidents seriously and work hard to mitigate any risks that staff or prisoners face. Information on ambulance attendance at prisons could only be obtained from prison records at disproportionate costs as central records are not kept by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). HMPPS continues to develop with NHS and Public Health partners the use of data and evidence to support both health and justice outcomes for people in prison.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/04/2019 16:42:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1105305

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Ghana
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 out-of-country appeals from Ghana are conducted fairly and without prejudice to an appellant’s case; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	236989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Proceedings in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) are managed in accordance with the Chamber Rules which provide flexibility for dealing with individual cases. The Rules give the Tribunal Judge wide case management powers in order to ensure that cases are dealt with fairly and justly whether in country or out of country.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/04/2019 16:46:12 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1104646

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Arts and Literacy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they provide (1) funding, and (2) other support to prisons to run arts and literacy programmes; if so, what; and how they assess the impact of such programmes.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL14771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance is part-funded through the Ministry of Justice grant to CLINKS. Whilst there is no separate budget to fund arts and literacy programmes, such activity has for many years been funded at local level through prison education budgets. Both the new education commissioning routes available to governors from 1 April make explicit provision for arts, literacy and other cultural activity as a means of engaging prisoners in learning. The activity also enables progression to higher levels, develops human and social capital, and improves life skills, employability and wellbeing, thereby helping to prevent re-offending.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016, ‘<em>Arts, culture and innovation in criminal justice settings: a guide for commissioners</em>’, published by the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, set out and summarised a growing body of evidence that demonstrates the positive impact of the arts in criminal justice settings in engaging, motivating and providing opportunities for people to develop new skills, as well as discover new ways of behaving and relating to others. On Friday 22 March 2019, the Ministry of Justice published a tool which arts organisations can use to measure the intermediate outcomes from activity they deliver within the criminal justice system. This will support them in demonstrating their effectiveness to commissioners.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 02/04/2019 11:38:00 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1104691

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has (a) conducted or (b) commissioned on whether the correct legal procedures are being followed in relation to adjudications in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	236493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service conduct regular audits of prisons which include examining whether staff employed on adjudication duties are properly trained and competent to carry out these procedures. It also reviews whether or not governors are reviewing the conduct of adjudications to ensure that they are fair, lawful and just, that punishments are normally within locally published guidelines and proportionate, and that no prisoner is charged or punished for any other reason than their disciplinary behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>Any deficiencies feature in the audit report and contribute to the overall audit rating for the establishment. Prison Group Directors also use the audit report to monitor any remedial action and challenge poor practice.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/03/2019 16:58:56 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon