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1140894

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sentence length in months was for people who pleaded guilty and received an immediate custodial sentence for (a) violence against the person (b) theft, (c) drug offences, (d) robbery, (e) common assault and battery, (f) burglary in a dwelling, (g) production, supply and possession with intent to supply a controlled drug - Class A, (h) possession of article with blade or point and (i) assaulting, resisting or obstructing a constable or designated officer and who had (i) no, (ii) between one and four, (iii) between five and nine, (iv) between 10 and 15, (v) between 16 and 25, (vi) between 26 and 50, (vii) between 51 and 75, (viii) between 76 and 100 and (ix) 101 or more previous convictions in each of last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	280393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on the average sentence length for offenders with a specified number of previous convictions for any offence who pleaded guilty to and received an immediate custodial sentence for a specified offence, covering the period 2009 – 2018, can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:48:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 280393 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1140895

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid by each private company with a contract with the Department in financial remedies and what the reason was for those financial remedies in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	280394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>This information can only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/07/2019 15:45:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140971

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many additional prison officers have been recruited since 31 March 2017; and how many of those posts were funded by the additional funding allocated by the Treasury at that time; and what additional funding the Treasury has allocated for the recruitment of prison offices since 31 March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	280425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of new officers appointed to work in public sector prisons and youth custody establishments between 1 April 2017 and the 31 March 2019 is published in the Quarterly Workforce Statistics for HM Prison and Probation Service at table 8a -<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>Additional funding of £106m was announced by the Secretary of State on 3 November 2016, for an additional 2,500 prison officer posts, which have now been filled. With growth, the £100m equates to £112m for the 2019/20 financial year, £97m of which is for public sector prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Our recruitment drive continues to replace turnover in officer numbers and meet required staffing levels across the prison estate. We constantly monitor the need for further funding.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:45:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1141084

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the mean average salary for a Band 3-5 prison officer in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	280328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The requested figures are available for years going back to 2013 and are presented below.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012 HM Prison Service introduced modernised pay and grading arrangements. A number of staff recruited prior to this continue to be employed on legacy pay and grading arrangements. Two sets of figures are therefore presented. Those for modernised terms are influenced by staff turnover and position within pay range much more so than for legacy terms (for which all staff are now at pay range maximum).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Modernised Terms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£19,784</p></td><td><p>£26,272</p></td><td><p>£24,527</p></td><td><p>£24,804</p></td><td><p>£25,179</p></td><td><p>£24,531</p></td><td><p>£24,989</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Legacy Terms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£28,493</p></td><td><p>£28,708</p></td><td><p>£29,336</p></td><td><p>£29,560</p></td><td><p>£29,536</p></td><td><p>£29,896</p></td><td><p>£30,468</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for legacy arrangements are for a contractual 39 hour working week. Figures for modernised arrangements are for a contractual 37 hour week (although Band 3 Prison Officers can opt to work additional hours).</p><p> </p><p>All figures are based on the national rate of pay and include a premium for required unsocial hours working. There are additional uplifts for the Outer and Inner London Zones (typically £4,250 and £3,100 for legacy arrangements and £2,659 and £4,046 for modernised arrangements).</p><p> </p><p>While not reflected in the figures presented, HMMPS has recently announced for a second year in a row above inflation pay rises of over 2%. These increase are expected to be paid (and backdated to April) in the Autumn. On top of that, we have made further pledges to recruit and retain prison officers and managers, helping to make our prisons safer and reduce reoffending.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:56:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1141085

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the mean average salary for a band 3-5 prison officer with less than one year's experience in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	280329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The requested figures are available for years going back to 2013 and are presented below.</p><p> </p><p>Figures are for a contractual 37 hour week (although Band 3 Prison Officers can opt to work additional hours). Direct recruitment to Bands 4 and 5 is relatively rare. Those with less than one year’s experience are therefore almost always Band 3 Prison Officers.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£18,720</p></td><td><p>£18,860</p></td><td><p>£19,049</p></td><td><p>£20,545</p></td><td><p>£21,121</p></td><td><p>£21,836</p></td><td><p>£22,265</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are based on the national rate of pay and include a premium for required unsocial hours working. There are additional uplifts for the Outer and Inner London Zones (typically £4,250 and £3,100 for legacy arrangements and £2,659 and £4,046 for modernised arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>While not reflected in the figures presented, HMMPS has recently announced for a second year in a row above inflation pay rises of over 2%. These increase are expected to be paid (and backdated to April) in the Autumn. On top of that, we have made further pledges to recruit and retain prison officers and managers, helping to make our prisons safer and reduce reoffending.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:55:26 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1141086

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the mean average salary for a band 2 prison officer in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	280330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>Operational prison service staff in Band 2 are not prison officers but Operational Support Grades (OSGs). The requested figures are available for years going back to 2013 and are presented below.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012 HM Prison Service introduced modernised pay and grading arrangements. A number of staff recruited prior to this continue to be employed on legacy pay and grading arrangements. Two sets of figures are therefore presented.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Modernised Terms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£16,795</p></td><td><p>£17,337</p></td><td><p>£17,251</p></td><td><p>£18,186</p></td><td><p>£18,571</p></td><td><p>£19,115</p></td><td><p>£19,463</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Legacy Terms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£18,284</p></td><td><p>£18,511</p></td><td><p>£18,865</p></td><td><p>£18,905</p></td><td><p>£19,938</p></td><td><p>£19,343</p></td><td><p>£19,730</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures for legacy arrangements are for a contractual 39 hour working week. Figures for modernised arrangements are for a contractual 37 hour week</p><p> </p><p>All figures are based on the national rate of pay and include a premium for required unsocial hours working. There are additional uplifts for the Outer and Inner London Zones (typically £4,250 and £3,100 for legacy arrangements and £2,659 and £4,046 for modernised arrangements).</p><p> </p><p>While not reflected in the figures presented, HMMPS has recently announced for a second year in a row above inflation pay rises of over 2%. These increase are expected to be paid (and backdated to April) in the Autumn. On top of that, we have made further pledges to recruit and retain prison officers and managers, helping to make our prisons safer and reduce reoffending.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:52:55 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1141087

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the mean average salary for a band 2 prison officer with less than one year's experience in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	280331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>Operational prison service staff in Band 2 are not prison officers but Operational Support Grades (OSGs). The requested figures are available for years going back to 2013 and are presented below. Figures are for a contractual 37 hour week.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£16,076</p></td><td><p>£16,216</p></td><td><p>£16,379</p></td><td><p>£17,386</p></td><td><p>£17,561</p></td><td><p>£18,358</p></td><td><p>£18,726</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are based on the national rate of pay and include a premium for required unsocial hours working. There are additional uplifts for the Outer and Inner London Zones (typically £4,250 and £3,100 for legacy arrangements and £2,659 and £4,046 for modernised arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>While not reflected in the figures presented, HMMPS has recently announced for a second year in a row above inflation pay rises of over 2%. These increase are expected to be paid (and backdated to April) in the Autumn. On top of that, we have made further pledges to recruit and retain prison officers and managers, helping to make our prisons safer and reduce reoffending.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/07/2019 14:50:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1140247

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Proceedings: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department has implemented the parts of the plan entitled, Handling civil legal cases that involve EU countries if there’s no Brexit deal.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has laid 13 Statutory Instruments to put into effect the approach set out in the paper “Handling civil legal cases that involve EU countries if there is no Brexit deal”. These Statutory Instruments ensure that the statute book will function effectively in the area of civil judicial cooperation if we leave without a deal. We have also provided guidance on the website ‘gov.uk’, for both legal practitioners and the public on how cross border civil and family cases will be handled in the event of a no deal:</p><ul><li><strong>Guidance for legal professionals on family law after Brexit</strong> (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals</a>)</li><li><strong>Guidance for legal professionals on civil and commercial law after Brexit </strong>(<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals/cross-border-civil-and-commercial-legal-cases-after-brexit-guidance-for-legal-professionals</a>)</li><li><strong>Guidance for members of the public involved in family law disputes</strong>:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-law-disputes-involving-eu-after-brexit</a>.</li></ul> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/07/2019 15:48:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1140427

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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 BAME staff are employed at (a) grade 7, (b) grade 5 and (c) grade 3 in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	279055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In the MoJ (including HMPPS) on 31 March 2019, excluding staff on unpaid leave:</p><p> </p><p>There were 2,424 Grade 7 and Grade 6 staff, of whom 1,989 had declared their ethnicity; of these 224 were BAME. This means that 11.3% of Grade 7 and Grade 6 staff with known ethnicity were BAME.</p><p> </p><p>There were 230 Grade 5 staff, of whom 200 had declared their ethnicity; of these 11 were BAME. This means that 5.5% of Grade 5 staff with known ethnicity were BAME.</p><p> </p><p>There were 54 Grade 3 staff, of whom 46 had declared their ethnicity; the number of these who were BAME was less than three.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is based on staff voluntarily recording their ethnicity data on the HR system (SOP).</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/07/2019 15:49:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1139934

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Slavery: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of victims of modern slavery in prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	278558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government introduced a statutory defence for victims of modern slavery (both under and over the age of 18), to protect those very vulnerable people who were previously being unfairly prosecuted for crimes they were forced to commit by their exploiters – notably cannabis cultivation. We are aware of concerns from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police that the defence is open to abuse from opportunistic criminals who are not victims, to escape justice for their crimes. That is why my rt hon Friend the Home Secretary asked the independent review of the Modern Slavery Act to examine how the statutory defence was working in practice.</p><p> </p><p>The report of the review was published in May. It found that the defence strikes the correct balance between protecting genuine victims and preventing misuse from opportunistic criminals. My rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is considering the review’s findings, and the Home Office will work closely with the CPS and law enforcement agencies to take the report’s recommendations forward. A copy of the final report of the Independent Modern Slavery Act Review can be found via the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report</a></p><p> </p><p>To determine how many people who at some point in their lives have been victims of modern slavery are currently in custody would require a search of individual records and could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 278559 question first answered 29/07/2019 15:46:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon