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1179553

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens' Rights Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the nomination process and timetable is for the appointment of members to the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizen’s Rights Agreements, as proposed in the Withdrawal Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	18842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>Under the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020, the Secretary of State is to appoint the chair and the other non-executive members of the IMA. My Rt. Hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor will ensure that these appointments are made in good time, before the end of the transition period. Once appointed, the non-executive members will need to appoint certain executive members. The 2020 Act also empowers the Secretary of State to appoint an interim chief executive of the IMA.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 28/02/2020 14:45:43 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1177388

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on ensuring more effective prosecutions of cases involving (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	14774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Justice and the Director of Public Prosecutions meet regularly to discuss a number of joint workstreams in the Criminal Justice System, including rape prosecutions, and most recently met in January. Both the Secretary of State for Justice and the Director of Public Prosecutions are committed to working together to ensure rape and other sexual offences are prosecuted more effectively. It is encouraging that the CPS is working with the police to develop new ways of working to improve case progression, digital capability and disclosure, expertise, supporting victims, and stakeholder engagement.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/02/2020 13:34:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1176541

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Self-harm
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 reduce incidents of self-harm among adult prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	13053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Far too many prisoners are self-harming and we know that relationships between staff and prisoners plays an important role in tackling this. We have therefore invested in the recruitment of over 4,500 more prison officers since 2016, an increase which has helped us to roll out the key worker scheme in the adult male estate. Key workers provide a consistent individual prison officer with whom prisoners can establish a relationship, build trust and receive encouragement.</p><p> </p><p>We have delivered improved Introduction to Self-Harm and Suicide training to over 25,000 new and existing staff, and we are investing an extra £2.75 billion to modernise prisons, combat drug use and improve the environment in which prisoners live. We’ve recently issued further guidance to help staff support those who self-harm.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing our partnership with the Samaritans, awarding a grant of £500k each year for the three years to 2021. This supports the excellent Listeners scheme, through which selected prisoners are trained to provide emotional support to their fellow prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>We have also sought to revise and update the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) care planning process designed to manage prisoners at risk of self-harm. Changes to ACCT were piloted between February and June 2019 and, following a full evaluation of the pilot, a revised version will be rolled out across the estate later in the year.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/02/2020 12:55:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1176542

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on publishing a health and justice plan; what the timetable is for publishing that plan; and which (a) Government departments, (b) arms-length bodies and (c) external stakeholders are involved in publishing that plan.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	13054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2020 answer text <p>The health and justice partners include: Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHSE/I, and Public Health England (PHE). In English prisons, this relationship has been formally set out in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/767832/6.4289_MoJ_National_health_partnership_A4-L_v10_web.pdff" target="_blank">National Partnership Agreement for Prison Healthcare in England</a>, which has been in place since April 2018. Its associated workplan sets out a detailed programme of work, agreed by health and justice partners, to deliver safe, decent, effective healthcare for offenders.</p><p> </p><p>Changes in Ministers in both Departments over the past six months, followed by the General Election, means we have been reconsidering how we best deliver our objectives in this area.</p><p> </p><p>In order to improve health outcomes and tackle the root causes of offending it is essential we take a whole system approach to healthcare provision for people in the criminal justice system. The Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health and Social Care are continuing to work together and with partners to articulate a coherent picture of how healthcare is delivered throughout the criminal justice pathway, from the point of arrest through to release.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/02/2020 11:06:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1037926

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Infectious Diseases: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans the Government has to ensure that people reporting crimes involving the deliberate infection of (a) HIV and (b) other diseases can access specialised support services whilst investigations are undertaken and completed.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	206381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>All victims of crime are entitled to receive appropriate support to help them, as far as possible, cope and recover. Under the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (Victims’ Code), the police must conduct a needs assessment of a victim and refer them to victim support services, unless the victim chooses not to be. This may include referral to services which specialise in supporting people diagnosed with HIV and sexual transmission of infections.</p><p> </p><p>In the Victims Strategy, published in September last year, we committed to consulting on a revised Victims’ Code to ensure that the entitlements better reflect victims’ needs.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 16/01/2019 17:12:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1035090

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people entering prison were homeless before custody in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	205283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Table 1 below provides data on the number of prisoners that declared their accommodation status as of ‘No Fixed Abode’ on their reception into custody, April 2016 – June 2018. The system for collecting this information did not exist prior to 2015 and so data for 2012 – 2015 is not available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1</p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018 (Jan - Jun)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total prisoner receptions into custody (Basic Custody Screening Tool)</p></td><td><p>105,782</p></td><td><p>103,225</p></td><td><p>50,198</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of homeless prisoners</p></td><td><p>24,942</p></td><td><p>26,700</p></td><td><p>13,755</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage</p></td><td><p>23.58%</p></td><td><p>25.87%</p></td><td><p>27.40%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em></p><ol><li><p>The Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCS) is completed on entry to custody for all prisoners. It therefore will include a mix of those received into custody on remand and those sentenced from court. Using just the BCS, there is no way to determine which of those received into custody on remand were released un-convicted, therefore it is important to stress that this data covers prisoners, and can’t be used to describe offenders, as some of those counted will ultimately not have been found guilty of any offence.</p></li><li><p>The BCS Part 1 is completed by the prison with no input from a Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) as they complete Part 2 of the BCS.</p></li><li><p>These questions from the BCS Part 1 are recorded as per the prisoner’s answers and are not assessed.</p></li><li><p>The total number of prisoners shown is for the number of fully completed BCS Part 1s for each year, based on the Reception Date for each prisoner.</p></li><li><p>A proportion of prisoners will enter custody multiple times each year and for this PQ all responses have been included as a prisoner may provide different answers to these questions over time.</p><p> </p><p> </p></li></ol><p>The Government published its Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018, launching a £100 million initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England. As part of this strategy, MoJ and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), will be investing approximately £6m in a pilot scheme to support ex-offenders secure suitable accommodation upon release; the pilots will operate in HMPs Pentonville, Bristol and Leeds. Staff in both Community Rehabilitation Companies and the National Probation Service continue to work together with local authorities and other providers of accommodation with the aim of ensuring all offenders under our supervision have accommodation, especially when they are released from prison.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2019 14:15:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

964830

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people requiring a psychiatric assessment before a court case can proceed; and what information he holds on the cost of such assessments.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	169395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Information on the numbers and cost of psychiatric assessments is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/09/2018 13:10:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

757782

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been for knife crimes in each London borough in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	8599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of defendants proceeded against for knife crime offences by Local Justice Area in London, from 2010 to 2016, can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:24:09 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab attachment 1 file name PQ 8599 table.xls title Defendants Proceeded Against for Knife Crime
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

756692

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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, what the average wait time is for personal independence payment appeals to be heard by the Courts and Tribunals Service.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	7868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The average waiting time for Personal Independence Payment appeals between April 2016 and March 2017 (the latest period for which figures are available) was 15.6 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/09/2017 16:53:59 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

654467

registered interest
date	07/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions appeal cases for hearing at tribunals have been adjourned as a result of the Department for Work and Pensions not providing sufficient information on universal credit in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	56468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 12/12/2016 17:33:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle