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862059

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Interserve
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what employment services are provided by Interserve in prisons; in which prisons that company provides such services; and what the value is of each of those contracts.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	132478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Interserve have a contract with the Ministry of Justice operating through the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) for the management, sourcing and delivery of 90-100 employment positions for prisoners within Workshops at HMP Berwyn. Interserve’s service solution provides a 50-place contact centre and 45-place textile remanufacturing workshop. Access to high quality education and employment opportunities are an important part of our prison reform agenda and aimed at reducing re-offending.</p><p> </p><p>The contract duration is 5 months and the value is £235,767.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 16:36:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

862060

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Computers and Telephones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to roll-out the programme relating to the installation of telephones and basic computers in prison cells as a result of the conclusion of the pilot for that programme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice introduced telephones and basic computers into prison cells in two prisons: HMP Wayland and HMP Berwyn. HMP Berwyn already featured both capabilities when it opened on 27<sup>th</sup> February 2017. Telephones were introduced into HMP Wayland in December 2016 and computers in January 2017.</p><p>The purpose is for prisoners to manage some of their own day-to-day tasks that would normally be managed by officers on paper, freeing up officers to focus their time on the important task of reforming offenders.</p><p>All in-cell phones are limited to a number of preapproved phone numbers with robust restrictions in place. Prisoners are not given access to the internet.</p><p>The pilot is still running in both prisons. We are monitoring and evaluating the benefits to assess the impact on prisoner safety and rehabilitation, and on officers’ ability to do their jobs more effectively.</p><p>Ministers will want to see evidence that putting telephones and basic computers in prison cells has tangible benefits before making any decisions on rolling out further.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 16:38:53 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862081

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much money was paid in compensation to prisoners in December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The total compensation paid out to prisoners in the month of December 2017 was £249,629. The figure has been extracted from our compensation return forms and may be subject to adjustments when the 2017-18 final accounts are audited after the end of the financial year.</p><p> </p><p>We robustly defend all claims and are successful in two thirds of cases brought against us by prisoners. We are determined to do all we can to bring down the cost of compensation to the taxpayer, and are working to reduce costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 16:39:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862083

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies were contracted by his Department to provide training for prison staff in 2017; and how much his Department paid to each of those companies for such training.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Training across HMPPS and the prison estate is requested and supplied on a bespoke basis and tendered accordingly with providers</p><p>Spend figures for Learning and Development (L&amp;D) across the Prison Estate are presented as a singular amount. The cost data cannot be split out from total L&amp;D into Prison Staff L&amp;D only.</p><p> </p><p>To provide the information requested, the Ministry of Justice would need to manually check each requisition submitted in 2017 to identify the type of training provided and the cost. The information requested could therefore only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 17:47:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862084

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social security benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people won an appeal against the withdrawal of their (a) disability living allowance and (b) personal independence payment at a tribunal in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Information on how many people won an appeal against the withdrawal of their (a) disability living allowance and (b) personal independence payment at a tribunal in 2017 is not held centrally.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) collects data on various types of issue that may be disputed in an appeal before the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS). These include entitlement to, or rate of payment of, a particular benefit. However, the issue specified in Question 130495 (and 132503) - “withdrawal” of disability living allowance or personal independence payment - is not included in the list of categories recorded. HMCTS does not, therefore, hold the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the volumes and outcomes of appeals to the SSCS tribunal is published at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</a>.</p><p>The latest statistics, for the period October to December 2017, published on 8 March, can be viewed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 132510 question first answered 22/03/2018 14:56:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862085

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what financial deductions were levied against companies with which his Department had a contract during 2017; and if he will list for each financial deduction the (a) reason for that deduction and (b) company the deduction was made against.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not stored centrally. The MoJ would be required to manually check the records for all contracts currently held and collate into a single response. The information requested could therefore only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The MoJ regards well-managed contracts as fundamental to the proper functioning of the justice system, and a vital part of court and prison reform plans. The MoJ’s contract management teams closely monitor and robustly manage providers to ensure they fulfil their contractual commitments to maintain service delivery and value for money.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 132505 question first answered 19/03/2018 16:09:21 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Copy of Cost Calculator.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862087

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
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 16 November 2017 to Question 112641 on Ministry of Justice: Finance, what the projected change of his Department's budget for legal aid in real terms is in each year to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Legal Aid Agency’s 2010/11 to 2016/2017 budgeting measure of Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit in real terms is publicly available: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/legal-aid-statistics-july-to-september-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental level funding from HM Treasury up until 2019/20 was reported at the Spending Review, 2015, and subsequently updated at the Autumn Statement, 2016. Future years’ budget allocations within the department have not yet been confirmed and therefore it is not currently possible to provide a breakdown of this funding by business area. Legal aid is demand-led and the conditions for its availability are laid down in legislation, meaning the amount of the department’s budget allocated will depend upon that level of demand. MoJ will shortly be laying its Main Estimate in Parliament, which will provide further detail on our financial plans for the year 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/03/2018 16:31:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862088

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
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 16 November 2017 to Question 112641 on Ministry of Justice: Finance, what is the projected change of his Department's budget for prisons in real terms is in each year to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice’s funding from HM Treasury was reported at Spending Review 2015 to fall by 15% between 2015-16 and 2019-20. Taking into account additional resource funding agreed at the Autumn Statement 2016 for prison safety and wider reform, MoJ’s funding in real terms will reduce by 11% between 2015-16 and 2019-20. Future years’ budget allocations have not yet been confirmed and therefore it is not currently possible to provide a breakdown of this reduction by individual areas. MoJ will shortly be laying its Main Estimate in Parliament, which will provide further detail on our financial plans for the year 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>Budgets are subject to in year movement and organisational restructure. These are not comparable across the long term due to changes in accounting treatments and scope of business which do not provide a consistent basis. Therefore we have used the direct outturn costs for prisons for previous financial years.</p><p> </p><p>Information on actual direct prison expenditure for previous financial years are published and 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. This is set out in a summary table below, showing the direct published costs (nominal), the figures adjusted for GDP deflator (real terms) and the annual and cumulative percentage changes. The GDP figures are consistent with the OBR Spring Statement data as at 13 March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The figures from financial years 2010-11 to 2014-15 have been restated following the original publication to enable a more fair comparison between that and the preceding year. The 2017-18 figures are taken from the budget for the year as expenditure has not yet been finalised or published.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prison Budget (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>1,950</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prison Expenditure, nominal (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prison Expenditure restated (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Annual Change %</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>1,898</p></td><td><p>1,940</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,908</p></td><td><p>1,964</p></td><td><p>-1%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2,059</p></td><td><p>2,149</p></td><td><p>-9%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2,196</p></td><td><p>2,332</p></td><td><p>-8%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2,210</p></td><td><p>2,395</p></td><td><p>-3%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2,219</p></td><td><p>2,439</p></td><td><p>-2%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 17:33:52 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862089

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
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 16 November 2017 to Question Ministry of Justice: Finance, what is the projected change of his Department's budget for probation in real terms is in each year to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice’s funding from HM Treasury was reported at Spending Review 2015 to fall by 15% between 2015/16 and 2019/20. Taking into account additional resource funding agreed at the Autumn Statement 2016 for prison safety and wider reform, MoJ’s funding in real terms will reduce by 11% between 2015/16 and 2019/20. MoJ will shortly be laying its Main Estimate in Parliament, which will provide further detail on our financial plans for the year 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>Budgets are subject to in year movement and organisational restructure. These are not comparable across the long term due to changes in accounting treatments and scope of business which do not provide a consistent basis. Therefore we have used the actual outturn costs for previous years for probation services, and the expenditure includes probation boards/trusts prior to 2014-15 and National Probation Services/CRC’s from 2014-15 to 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>The probation services spend is set out in a summary table below, showing the outturn costs (nominal), the figures adjusted for GDP deflator (real terms). The GDP figures are consistent with the OBR Spring Statement data as at 13 March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017-18 probation figures are taken from the budget for the year as expenditure has not yet been finalised.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Years (£m)</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>878</p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Years</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Probation Expenditure, nominal (£m)</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Probation Expenditure Real (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>850</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>850</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>969</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>990</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>852</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>877</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>805</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>814</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>864</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>821</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>875</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>962</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/03/2018 17:50:56 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

862090

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Public Expenditure
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 16 November 2017 to Question Ministry of Justice: Finance, what the projected change of his Department's budget for courts in real terms is in each year to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	132509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice’s funding from HM Treasury was reported at Spending Review 2015 to fall by 15% between 2015-16 and 2019-20. Taking into account additional resource funding agreed at the Autumn Statement 2016 for prison safety and wider reform, MoJ’s funding in real terms will reduce by 11% between 2015-16 and 2019-20. Future years’ budget allocations have not yet been confirmed and therefore it is not currently possible to provide a breakdown of this reduction by business area. MoJ will shortly be laying its Main Estimate in Parliament, which will provide further detail on our financial plans for the year 2018-19. The table below shows the annual change in HMCTS’s funding from HM Treasury in real terms to 2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>17/18</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Resource DEL *</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,719,132</p></td><td><p>1,790,530</p></td><td><p>1,657,612</p></td><td><p>1,632,875</p></td><td><p>1,602,559</p></td><td><p>1,502,960</p></td><td><p>1,580,424</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Resource DEL (restated in 2017/18 prices)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,919,338</p></td><td><p>1,927,262</p></td><td><p>1,742,376</p></td><td><p>1,681,483</p></td><td><p>1,631,502</p></td><td><p>1,523,249</p></td><td><p>1,580,424</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Annual real terms increase/(decrease)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td><td><p>-9.6%</p></td><td><p>-3.5%</p></td><td><p>-3.0%</p></td><td><p>-6.6%</p></td><td><p>3.8%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>*2010/11 numbers excluded as HMCTS in its current form was only created when the Courts Service (HMCS) and Tribunal Service (HMTS) merged in 2011/12</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 22/03/2018 16:33:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon