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1147753

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) contractors and (b) sub-contractors operated within the prison estate in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	293655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>This request can only be answered at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 293656 question first answered 07/10/2019 14:33:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1147754

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of (a) contractors and (b) sub-contractors operating within the prison estate in the most recent period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	293656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>This request can only be answered at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 293655 question first answered 07/10/2019 14:33:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1147755

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the trends in the number of fire events in prisons in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	293568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>We will never compromise on the safety of those in our care, and staff are trained to respond to emergency situations in a timely, appropriate manner. The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in custody. We have invested significantly in increased staff numbers, recruiting an additional 4,366 (full time equivalent) prison officers between October 2016 and June 2019, surpassing our original target of 2,500. We will continue to recruit officers to ensure prisons are safe and decent.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the numbers of all fires in prisons between 2016 – 2018. Data prior to 2016 was not collected centrally and, as such, no reliable data before that time exists. However, the figures below show a significant fall in the number of fires in 2018, which coincides with the implementation of smoke free prisons and our actions to improve safety in custody.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of fires</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reduction as a percentage of previous year’s total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2,314</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2,287</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>1,517</p></td><td><p>50.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 293574 question first answered 07/10/2019 14:47:25 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1147756

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether vape pens have been used to start fires in prisons; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	293569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>There is evidence, as part of wider data collected on fires in prisons, which confirms vape pens have been used as a source of ignition.</p><p> </p><p>We will never compromise on the safety of those in our care, and staff are trained to respond to emergency situations in a timely, appropriate manner. The Government is taking unprecedented action to improve safety in custody. We have invested significantly in increase staff numbers, recruiting an additional 4,366 (full time equivalent) prison officers between October 2016 and June 2019, surpassing our original target of 2,500. We will continue to recruit officers to ensure prisons are safe and decent.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/10/2019 16:22:38 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1147507

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Injuries Compensation: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of child sexual abuse have had an award by the Criminal Injuries and Compensation Scheme withheld because (a) of an unspent conviction, (b) the time limit for application was exceeded, (c) the victim was deemed to have consented and (d) the abuse did not involve physical contact.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	292917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The number of victims of sexual abuse who were under 18 at the time of the incident(s) giving rise to their injury and have had an award withheld because of (a) unspent convictions or (b) the time limit being exceeded is provided in the following table: <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of resolved child sexual abuse cases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Award withheld due to unspent convictions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Award withheld as time limit exceeded</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>476</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>26</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>82</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2588</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>46</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>113</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5619</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>140</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>411</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4972</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>111</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>52</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>The information provided relates to resolved applications which were submitted from 1 April 2015 onwards, this being the start of the first financial year after the application form for criminal injuries compensation was adapted to capture the incident type. Where an application was rejected for (a) unspent convictions or (b) exceeding the time limit this may not have been the sole reason for rejection. Information about whether the victim was deemed to have consented and whether the abuse did not involve physical contact could only be obtained through a manual search of case records at disproportionate cost.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 07/10/2019 15:07:47 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1147585

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of staff who applied for promotion within his Department from 1 September 2018 to 1 September 2019 and who identified as (a) BAME and (b) White, were successful by each grade in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	292943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The available information relating to the request is provided below and in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Number of internal<sup>3 </sup>applicants<sup>8</sup> known to have applied for promotion<sup>1</sup> into the Ministry of Justice (excluding HMPPS<sup>2</sup>), by ethnicity and grade of post advertised, for recruitment campaigns closed<sup>5</sup> between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 inclusive<sup>4</sup>:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Number of applications made on promotion<sup>1</sup>, by grade of post</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bands A-E<sup>9</sup></p></td><td><p>Band A<sup>7</sup></p></td><td><p>Band B</p></td><td><p>Band C</p></td><td><p>Band D</p></td><td><p>Band E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All</p></td><td><p>9,592</p></td><td><p>1,515</p></td><td><p>1,916</p></td><td><p>3,008</p></td><td><p>2,897</p></td><td><p>256</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BAME</p></td><td><p>3,829</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>740</p></td><td><p>1,320</p></td><td><p>1,203</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>5,091</p></td><td><p>897</p></td><td><p>1,017</p></td><td><p>1,496</p></td><td><p>1,525</p></td><td><p>156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not declared</p></td><td><p>672</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>169</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Number of successful<sup>6</sup> applications made on promotion<sup>1</sup>, by grade of post</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bands A-E<sup>9</sup></p></td><td><p>Band A<sup>7</sup></p></td><td><p>Band B</p></td><td><p>Band C</p></td><td><p>Band D</p></td><td><p>Band E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All</p></td><td><p>932</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>247</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BAME</p></td><td><p>234</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>660</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>169</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not declared</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Percentage of applications submitted that were successful in the recruitment process</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bands A-E<sup>9</sup></p></td><td><p>Band A<sup>7</sup></p></td><td><p>Band B</p></td><td><p>Band C</p></td><td><p>Band D</p></td><td><p>Band E</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BAME</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not declared</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/10/2019 16:19:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1147025

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if Her Majesty's Courts & Tribunals Service will publish (a) weekly data on the number of probate grants issued in England and Wales and (b) up to date data on the average time between application for and grant of probate.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	292207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Quarterly data on the number of probate grants issued in England and Wales are published within the Family Court Statistics Quarterly bulletin: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>. The latest publication was on 26th September, however the requested information for April-June 2019 has not yet been published while we investigate quality issues identified in the transition between two data systems.</p><p>Currently there are no plans to publish this data weekly but statisticians seek views from users as part of their regular consultation on the statistics to ensure they meet the Code of Practice for Statistics with regard to quality and value.</p><p>Statisticians are considering adding data on timeliness and will work in consultation with colleagues in Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and users of the data to confirm their plans prior to any publication.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:35:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1147026

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when waiting times for probate grants issued in England and Wales will return to below the historical average of three weeks.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	292208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has increased staffing levels and further improved the digital service to help reduce waiting times. HMCTS is committed to continuing to bring waiting times down further and aims to be back to normal waiting times for grants on new, complete, applications as soon as possible<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:36:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1147089

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts and Tribunals: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of the courts and tribunals, including the postcode locations, that have closed between 2010-11 and the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
uin	292101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Details of court and tribunal buildings closed between 2010-11 to 2016-17 was published in answer to Parliamentary Question 147811.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information for 2017-18 onwards is provided below</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2017-18 financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Crown Court</p></td><td><p>HP20 1XD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley Wellington House</p></td><td><p>S70 1WA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bicester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>OX26 2NZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham AIT (Sheldon Court)</p></td><td><p>B4 6DS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham Magistrates' Youth Court</p></td><td><p>B4 6BJ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>BL1 1UA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bow County Court</p></td><td><p>E15 4EG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol Vintry House</p></td><td><p>BS1 2BP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>BL9 0HX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caernarfon Civil and Family Court</p></td><td><p>LL55 2Df</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham Rivershill House - Cheltenham Tribunal</p></td><td><p>GL50 3EX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>PO19 1YE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby Derwent Court</p></td><td><p>DE1 1SG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>CT16 1BS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Parade - Sheffield Tribunal</p></td><td><p>S1 2ET</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastbourne Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>BN21 4UN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>W6 8DN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>LL65 1HG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kendal Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>LA9 4NF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering County Court</p></td><td><p>NN16 0BE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth County Court</p></td><td><p>SE11 4DZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster County Court</p></td><td><p>LA1 1JW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llangefni Civil and Family Court</p></td><td><p>LL77 7EN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham County Court</p></td><td><p>OL1 1NL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>ST16 3DW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent Tribunal Hearing Centre (Bennett House)</p></td><td><p>ST1 2QB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland AS Hylton Park</p></td><td><p>SR5 3HD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telford County Court</p></td><td><p>TF3 4JP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torquay Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>TQ1 4BP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>WD17 1ST</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woolwich County Court</p></td><td><p>SE18 6JW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2018-2019 financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court</p></td><td><p>OX16 2AW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Combined Court</p></td><td><p>PO19 1SX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chippenham Magistrates' &amp; Civil Court</p></td><td><p>SN15 3BF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>PR7 1RZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>SL6 8PB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury Crown Court</p></td><td><p>SY2 6LU</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland County Court</p></td><td><p>SR1 1RB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed between 1 April and 30 September 2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colchester County Court</p></td><td><p>CO3 3EG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court (sitting as a Family Hearing Centre)</p></td><td><p>FY7 6HJ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>CM20 1JA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northallerton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>DL7 8QZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend County Court</p></td><td><p>SS1 2AW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and when communities have reasonable access to alternative courts.</p><p> </p><p>We are reinvesting every penny raised from selling these underused buildings into modernising the justice system to provide swifter and easier access to justice for all.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:33:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1147128

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of phasing out six month custodial sentences in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	292120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Protecting the public will always be our priority. One of the first acts by this Prime Minister was to order an urgent review of sentencing. The focus of the review has been on the sentencing for the most serious violent and sexual offenders and the rules governing when and how those offenders are released. The review has also looked at changes to sentencing for the most prolific offenders which could help break the cycle of reoffending.</p><p>Based on the findings of the review, we will be bringing forward proposals shortly for a comprehensive package of legislative reform. This will include amending the automatic release point for the most serious sexual and violent offenders (where the offence carries a maximum life sentence) from the half-way point to two thirds of the sentence.</p><p>As part of this package of reform, we also plan to bring forward proposals for community penalties that offer an appropriate level of punishment, while tackling the underlying drivers of offending. We know that prolific offenders generally have multiple and complex needs which are linked to their offending behaviour, in particular drugs, alcohol and mental health needs. If we are to break the cycle of reoffending, solutions will often lie in community sentences, including those which address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, or provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 08/10/2019 15:49:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane