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1723603

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders (a) started and (b) completed Prison Education Service (i) catering and (ii) construction apprenticeships in 2023.
tabling member constituency	South Norfolk
tabling member printed	Ben Goldsborough
uin	1837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>The ability of prisoners to undertake apprenticeships was introduced in October 2022.</p><p>Apprenticeships for prisoners are primarily undertaken by prisoners eligible to be released on temporary licence, where they start their employment and training in the community and fully complete the apprenticeship after release.</p><p>No prisoners started or completed a catering or construction apprenticeship in 2023. One apprentice started a Commis Chef Level 2 apprenticeship in November 2022 and completed their apprenticeship in April 2024 after release.</p><p>Three prisoners have started apprenticeships in the catering industry this year including one in a closed prison, where we are trialling the potential of prisoners in the closed estate to also undertake apprenticeships.</p><p>Apprenticeships are one part of the current employment and training offer. We are developing plans to support prisons to link with more employers and the voluntary sector to increase the number of ex-offenders in employment.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 30/07/2024 11:02:21 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	5205

1723606

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the press release entitled New Prison Education Service to cut crime, published on 29 September 2023, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of giving prison governors in five prisons increased freedom to organise education, skills and work programmes in their prisons.
tabling member constituency	South Norfolk
tabling member printed	Ben Goldsborough
uin	1840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>Under the current Prison Education Framework, prison governors have the freedom to design and organise delivery of education, skills and work in their prisons. This is further enabled through the Dynamic Purchasing System, which allows for the commissioning of courses in accordance with local learner need. Governor freedoms over education, skills and work will continue under the new Prisoner Education Service. Heads of Education, Skills and Work have already been introduced in all prisons to ensure Governors have the specialist knowledge and skills to maximise impact of these freedoms.</p><p>Work to increase governor freedoms in five jails was paused earlier this year to ensure successful delivery of the new Prisoner Education Service. Once this is fully mobilised in 2025, consideration of localised provision of education, skills and work will be explored further.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 30/07/2024 11:05:13 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	5205

1723654

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Juries: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to help ensure that people carrying out jury duty do not suffer financial hardship; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of linking compensation to the real living wage.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Lewis Atkinson
uin	1888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>Juries are a vital part of our criminal justice system and undertake an important civic duty. The support provided to jurors includes measures to assist those who may suffer financial hardship. The Government will keep under review all support provided to jurors throughout their service.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 30/07/2024 11:00:34 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	5028

1723201

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) ACAS Early Conciliation Certificates and (b) Employment Tribunal cases (i) heard and (ii) settled before a hearing were found in the claimant's favour in (A) 2021, (B) 2022 and (C) 2023.
tabling member constituency	Poole
tabling member printed	Neil Duncan-Jordan
uin	1626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>All claims made to the employment tribunals after 6 May 2014 (with a limited number of exceptions) will include an Acas Conciliation certificate.</p><p>Publication of Employment Tribunal by jurisdiction ceased from April 2021 when Employment Tribunals moved to an interim database with limited management information. Employment Tribunals are now in the process of transitioning to a new case management system and work is in hand as part of the HMCTS data strategy to reintroduce the publication of Jurisdictional Outcome information at the end of this calendar year.</p><p>The data for 2020/21 is available in the published statistics (tab ET_3): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2023" target="_blank">Tribunals statistics quarterly: July to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p>The information for years for (A) 2021, (B) 2022 and (C) 2023 is not held.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 30/07/2024 10:59:22 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	5359

1723207

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many businesses have been found criminally liable for failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Phil Brickell
uin	1602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of convictions for criminal offences, however, offences specifically relating to ‘failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion’ are not separately identifiable from information held centrally. This information may be held on court records, but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 30/07/2024 15:47:48 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	5128

1723287

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Juries: Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to reform jury service expenses.
tabling member constituency	Chichester
tabling member printed	Jess Brown-Fuller
uin	1622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>Juries are a vital part of our criminal justice system and undertake an important civic duty. The Government will keep under review the support provided to jurors throughout their service.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 30/07/2024 10:57:34 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	5335

1722813

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many postmasters have been notified that their convictions have been quashed by the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	1307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>As of 26 July 2024, we have issued 10 letters confirming to postmasters that their convictions have been quashed by the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice, Northern Irish Executive and Scottish Government are taking all reasonable steps and are working at pace to identify those within scope of the legislation. To do this, the Government is examining data spanning multiple decades and from multiple sources, including but not limited to the Post Office, the Police National Record, and court files. It is necessary that this process is undertaken carefully.</p><p> </p><p>The previous Government said publicly that most letters confirming to individuals that their convictions have been quashed would be sent by the end of July. However, since then inconsistencies have been identified between the different datasets and the Government has therefore decided to conduct extra checks to ensure that all decisions on scope are correct.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 30/07/2024 09:44:35 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1722872

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted for breaching covid-19 restrictions since January 2022.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	1191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds data on convictions for breaching coronavirus regulations covering the period requested and this can be viewed in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6646118dbd01f5ed32793d44/outcomes-by-offence-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence tool: December 2023</a>.</p><p>Specific offences of note include the following HO codes:</p><p>16857 – Failure to comply with screening restriction/requirement (coronavirus)</p><p>16858 – Operator of Port fails to comply with direction under Coronavirus Act 2020</p><p>16859 – Offences by potentially infectious persons (coronavirus)</p><p>16860 – Breach of emergency period restrictions (coronavirus)</p><p>16861 – Offences in relation to events and gatherings (coronavirus)</p><p>These can be accessed by navigating to the ‘<em>Prosecutions and convictions</em>’ tab and using the <em>HO Offence Code</em> filter to select an above offence in the Outcomes by Offence data tool.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 30/07/2024 10:38:42 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1722963

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure a continuity of care for individuals released from prison via the early release scheme that were receiving treatment for (a) drug and (b) alcohol issues.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	1203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice is committed to working in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to ensure that continuity of care is in place for individuals leaving prison under the ECSL scheme and who have an ongoing drug and or alcohol treatment need.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 26/07/2024 11:46:12 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1723008

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to compel defendants to attend their sentencing.
tabling member constituency	Macclesfield
tabling member printed	Tim Roca
uin	1392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>Offenders who refuse to attend their sentencing hearings deny victims and their families the opportunity to explain how their crimes have impacted their lives. This Government wants victims to have faith that justice will be delivered and to see criminals face the consequences of their actions. That is why we intend to change the law so that courts have the powers to order the most serious offenders to attend their sentencing hearings.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 30/07/2024 10:40:40 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	5287