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1653838

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Criminal Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many rape cases were awaiting trial in the Crown courts in (a) June 2020, (b) June 2021, (c) June 2022 and (d) June 2023.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	194792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The volume of outstanding ‘for trial’ rape cases at the Crown Court in England and Wales, as at end of June 2020 – 2022 has been provided (as attached).</p><p>‘For trial' cases relates to the case type at the point of receipt into the Crown Court - these are the cases that could go to trial, but they may not necessarily result in a trial (i.e. if a guilty plea is entered).</p><p>The latest published data is available to March 2023 only.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/07/2023 10:10:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-07-26 PQ 194792 table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1653849

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
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 17 July 2023 to Question 193050 on Prisons: Crimes of Violence, what weighting is given to the rate of (a) prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and (b) assaults on staff relative to other KPIs when assigning annual prison performance ratings.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	194654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>For the performance year 2022/23, we will publish the Annual Prisons Performance Ratings on 27 July 2023. This publication will provide the weightings given to a wide range of KPIs used by the framework that enables us to monitor the performance of the prison system, including prisoner on prisoner assaults and assaults on staff. The weightings will be published in the publication guidance documentation.</p><p>Performance targets were not set for individual prisons for 2021-22 because prisons were still recovering from the pandemic, however, HMPPS still monitored performance in order to drive continuous improvement.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 194655 question first answered 25/07/2023 10:07:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1653850

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
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 17 July 2023 to Question 193050 on Prisons: Crimes of Violence, if he will provide the 2021-22 Prisons Performance Framework target levels for each prison for the KPIs of (a) prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and (b) assaults on staff.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	194655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>For the performance year 2022/23, we will publish the Annual Prisons Performance Ratings on 27 July 2023. This publication will provide the weightings given to a wide range of KPIs used by the framework that enables us to monitor the performance of the prison system, including prisoner on prisoner assaults and assaults on staff. The weightings will be published in the publication guidance documentation.</p><p>Performance targets were not set for individual prisons for 2021-22 because prisons were still recovering from the pandemic, however, HMPPS still monitored performance in order to drive continuous improvement.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 194654 question first answered 25/07/2023 10:07:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1653950

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Vocational Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding his Department has allocated for vocational education in prisons in financial year 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	194805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>Funding is not allocated specifically to vocational education. Prison governors will spend their allocated education budget flexibly during the year to fund provision to meet particular local needs (including vocational education) via the Dynamic Purchasing System and Prison Education Framework.</p><p>HMPPS continues to ensure prisoners improve skills such as literacy and numeracy, acquire relevant vocational qualifications, and access employment and training opportunities on release.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/07/2023 10:11:06 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1653951

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Vocational Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners gained vocational qualifications in each of the last 12 years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	194806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Since 2019, the Ministry of Justice has centrally recorded the number of educational courses completed by prisoners, however the information collected does not differentiate between vocational qualifications and other types.</p><p>Statistics on the number of course completions are published on gov.uk, in table 2.3 here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-education-and-accredited-programme-statistics-2021-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-education-and-accredited-programme-statistics-2021-2022</a>.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/07/2023 10:12:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1653952

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what commercial companies were involved in working with HM Prison Service to train prisoners for employment as of 18 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	194807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>As of 18 July, 87 organisations were actively involved in working with HM Prison &amp; Probation Service in training prisoners.</p><p>The New Futures Network is the team in HM Prison &amp; Probation Service responsible for working with businesses to secure jobs for prison leavers. Information about the commercial relationships it has developed is available at this link: <a href="https://newfuturesnetwork.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/New-End-of-year-sales-21-22.pdf" target="_blank">New-End-of-year-sales-21-22.pdf (newfuturesnetwork.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/07/2023 10:12:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1654089

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Bar Standards Board: Complaints
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 implications for his policies of changes in the level of complaints made to the Bar Standards Board by criminal law barristers over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	194951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has not carried out an assessment on any factors affecting the level of complaints made to the Bar Standards Board about barristers. The regulators of the legal profession in England and Wales, including the Bar Standards Board, are independent of Government.</p><p> </p><p>There are two routes for complaints about barristers in England and Wales - the Legal Ombudsman and the Bar Standard Board. The Legal Ombudsman deals with complaints about the service provided to the complainant by an authorised person, while the Bar Standards Board deals with complaints where a barrister is alleged to be in breach of the Bar Standards Board’s codes of conduct. The Bar Standards Board publishes data on its complaints in its Regulatory Decision-making Annual Report.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 25/07/2023 09:01:46 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1653354

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his timeline is for delivering the 20,000 additional modern prison places announced by his Department on 18 February 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	194333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>So far c.5,400 places have been delivered. This includes two new c.1,700 place prisons, HMP Five Wells, which opened last year, and HMP Fosse Way, which accepted its first prisoners at the end of May. At least 6,400 prison places are anticipated to be delivered by the end of May 2024, rising to over 8,000 by the end of May 2025, including places already delivered to date. In addition to these places, we have extended the lease at HMP Dartmoor, maintaining 680 places from December 2023.</p><p>Our prison builds are complex capital projects, which are being delivered within challenging market conditions. Securing planning permission is a significant factor in timelines; we have submitted planning appeals following refusal of three applications for sites in Lancashire, Leicestershire, and Buckinghamshire and await decisions. Given the planning appeals are ongoing and subject to a recovered decision by DLUHC, it would not be appropriate to comment further. If planning is successful, these prisons would open as soon as possible to meet the pressing demand on prison places.</p><p>We will push for earlier delivery of places wherever possible, and we are continuing to press ahead with further options to delivery capacity across the estate.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2023 12:28:16 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1653383

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests in coroners’ courts have been opened and adjourned for longer than two years in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Barnet as of 17 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	194381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics" target="_blank">Coroner Statistics</a> each May covering the preceding calendar year. The information is collated from data provided by each of the 81 coroner areas across England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Data from the published statistics is set out in the table below, across all coroner areas for each of the last five years, on the total number of inquests recorded, the average length of inquests, the total number of inquests open for more than two years, and the total number of inquests suspended and not resumed. The requested information for inquests adjourned for longer than two years in England, London and Barnet only is not collated as part of the annual statistics. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1155711/coroners-statistics-2022-csvs.zip" target="_blank">Table CSV</a> included in the annual publication provides further information for adjourned inquests by coroner area.</p><p>The published statistics also record the average length of an inquest in individual coroner areas and Barnet is part of the North London Coroner area with Brent, Harrow, Haringey and Enfield. Table 13 collates this information by region.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not have a target for the length of time an inquest should take. Coroners are independent judicial office holders and the way they manage their caseload is a matter for them. Following the Covid-19 pandemic the Chief Coroner issued <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/chief-coroners-guidance-no-39-recovery-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/" target="_blank">guidance</a> to coroners on how their services can best recover and tackle backlogs that accumulated in some areas.</p><p> </p><p>Regulation 26 of the Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013 require coroners to notify the Chief Coroner of any investigation which has not been completed or discontinued within a year of the death being reported to them, and provide reasons for this. They must also notify the Chief Coroner when such investigations are completed or discontinued.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of inquests recorded </strong></p></td><td><p>36,273</p></td><td><p>32,762</p></td><td><p>31,991</p></td><td><p>29,969</p></td><td><p>29,094</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Average length of inquest </strong></p></td><td><p>30 weeks</p></td><td><p>31 weeks</p></td><td><p>27 weeks</p></td><td><p>27 weeks</p></td><td><p>26 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Inquests open for more than 2 years at year end </strong></p></td><td><p>1,760</p></td><td><p>1,366</p></td><td><p>1,104</p></td><td><p>601</p></td><td><p>472</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Inquests suspended due to criminal proceedings and not resumed </strong></p></td><td><p>748</p></td><td><p>729</p></td><td><p>599</p></td><td><p>849</p></td><td><p>834</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 194382 194383 194384 194385 194390 question first answered 25/07/2023 09:48:26 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1653384

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many inquests have remained open for more than two years in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	194382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics" target="_blank">Coroner Statistics</a> each May covering the preceding calendar year. The information is collated from data provided by each of the 81 coroner areas across England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Data from the published statistics is set out in the table below, across all coroner areas for each of the last five years, on the total number of inquests recorded, the average length of inquests, the total number of inquests open for more than two years, and the total number of inquests suspended and not resumed. The requested information for inquests adjourned for longer than two years in England, London and Barnet only is not collated as part of the annual statistics. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1155711/coroners-statistics-2022-csvs.zip" target="_blank">Table CSV</a> included in the annual publication provides further information for adjourned inquests by coroner area.</p><p>The published statistics also record the average length of an inquest in individual coroner areas and Barnet is part of the North London Coroner area with Brent, Harrow, Haringey and Enfield. Table 13 collates this information by region.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not have a target for the length of time an inquest should take. Coroners are independent judicial office holders and the way they manage their caseload is a matter for them. Following the Covid-19 pandemic the Chief Coroner issued <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/chief-coroners-guidance-no-39-recovery-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/" target="_blank">guidance</a> to coroners on how their services can best recover and tackle backlogs that accumulated in some areas.</p><p> </p><p>Regulation 26 of the Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013 require coroners to notify the Chief Coroner of any investigation which has not been completed or discontinued within a year of the death being reported to them, and provide reasons for this. They must also notify the Chief Coroner when such investigations are completed or discontinued.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of inquests recorded </strong></p></td><td><p>36,273</p></td><td><p>32,762</p></td><td><p>31,991</p></td><td><p>29,969</p></td><td><p>29,094</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Average length of inquest </strong></p></td><td><p>30 weeks</p></td><td><p>31 weeks</p></td><td><p>27 weeks</p></td><td><p>27 weeks</p></td><td><p>26 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Inquests open for more than 2 years at year end </strong></p></td><td><p>1,760</p></td><td><p>1,366</p></td><td><p>1,104</p></td><td><p>601</p></td><td><p>472</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Inquests suspended due to criminal proceedings and not resumed </strong></p></td><td><p>748</p></td><td><p>729</p></td><td><p>599</p></td><td><p>849</p></td><td><p>834</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 194381 194383 194384 194385 194390 question first answered 25/07/2023 09:48:26 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord