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226348

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals who have been convicted of a crime outside the UK and who currently live in the UK are being supervised by email by probation officers based in their native country.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	227009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of foreign national offenders who have been convicted of a crime outside the UK and are currently living in the UK and are being supervised by email by probation officers based in their native country is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/03/2015 17:36:11 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

226354

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department and its agencies have paid in ex-gratia payments to people convicted of a criminal offence to settle cases prior to litigation in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	226943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice and its Agencies each manage their ex-gratia payments separately and this data is not held centrally. To provide the information would require each prison establishment to manually search databases, which could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/03/2015 17:36:15 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

226365

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Radio
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Maya KA505A world receiver radios his Department has purchased since 2010; and how much such purchases have cost.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	226942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Departments central data records held show that this or similar wind up radio products have not been purchased by the Department during the defined period. These radios do not form part of any formal contract supply both currently and in the past.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/03/2015 17:29:41 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

106065

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Pay Television
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held in contracted-out prisons were eligible to have access to subscription channels provided by British Sky Broadcasting in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (c) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	212934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>As part of the review of the Incentives and Earned Privileges national policy framework, contracted-out prisons were required to remove subscription television services by 31 July 2013.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be possible to provide the information requested without incurring disproportionate cost. However, I am able to inform the hon Member that, as at 14 September 2012, an estimated 2976 prisoners in contracted-out prisons were eligible to access subscription channels provided by British Sky Broadcasting.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 06/11/2014 16:27:22 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

101194

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the date of closure was of each court building which closed but was not disposed of between May 2010 and 30 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	211999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department is committed to disposing of surplus property assets expeditiously and reducing holding costs.</p><p> </p><p>The date of operational closure of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010 is detailed below. The majority of these courts were closed as part of the Court Estate Reform Programme (CERP). CERP is expected to save the taxpayer £152m by 2015 while ensuring the courts continue to operate effectively. As of 29 October 2014 a total of 66 buildings closed under the programme have been sold attracting disposal receipts of £42.9m.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the courts announced for closure under CERP, the Ministry of Justice has closed and disposed of a number of court buildings as a result of the integration and co-location.</p><p> </p><p>The sale of former court buildings is dependent on a number of factors including the state of the market, potential future use of the property (including its development potential) and their location. Furthermore, some of the buildings are occupied in part by the police and local authorities, which can also delay or prevent swift disposal.</p><p> </p><p>When disposing of surplus property assets we will always seek best value for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: Date of operational closure of each court building which has been closed but not disposed of since May 2010 as at 30 June 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Court Building</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of operational closure <sup>1, 2</sup></strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Bishop Auckland Magistrates’ &amp; County Court <sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>13 July 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridgwater Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>30 March 2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bridport Magistrates' Court <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>18 March 2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burton-upon-Trent County Court</p></td><td><p>22 March 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cirencester Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coleford Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorking Magistrates' Court <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>18 March 2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epping Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>30 March 2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Flint Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Frome Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Goole Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>16 December 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haywards Heath (Mid Sussex) Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>30 March 2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honiton Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Houghton Le Spring Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Keighley (Bingley) Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>16 December 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewes Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lyndhurst Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Market Drayton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oswestry Magistrates' Court &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>07 October 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pontefract Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>22 March 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale Magistrates’ Court<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>22 December 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Selby Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>22 March 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sherborne Magistrates' Court <sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>18 March 2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>07 December 2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Totnes Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Towcester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weston Super Mare Magistrates’ Court <sup>6</sup></p></td><td><p>Not used since September 2006</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wimborne Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>01 April 2011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Witham Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>30 March 2012</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Footnotes:</strong></p><p>1. The date the building was decommissioned and available for disposal is not held centrally. Court buildings may have been used for administrative purposes following their operational closure until space could be found at alternative locations to facilitate this work</p><p>2. Where two courts shared the same building then the operational closure date of the last court to close is shown</p><p>3. The closures of Bridport Magistrates’ Court, Dorking Magistrates’ Court and Sherborne Magistrates’ Court were announced on 18 March 2010</p><p>4. Bishop Auckland Magistrates’ Court and County Court building was sold on 11 August 2014</p><p>5. Rochdale Magistrates’ Court was sold on 28 August 2014</p><p>6. Former Weston Super Mare Magistrates’ Court is integral with the police station. Avon and Somerset Policy Authority will lead on the future of the building</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 30/10/2014 16:07:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92893

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in each security category are missing, having absconded from each prison in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	210144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Absconds have reached record lows - down 80% over the last 10 years - but each incident is taken seriously, with the police contacted as a matter of urgency. Over 97% of prisoners who abscond are re-captured and returned to custody. Re-captured absconders will be returned to a more secure closed prison where they face either a criminal prosecution for absconding or an internal adjudication in prison in front of a visiting judge. In both cases they can receive additional time in prison.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below provide details of the security category and offence type of those absconders who are currently unlawfully at large having absconded between April 2004 and March 2014 (the most recent period that statistics are available). Information prior to April 2004 could only be collated by performing manual checks across different databases and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table1: Security category of absconders unlawfully at large from April 2004 to March 2014, as on 14 October 2014</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Current Security Category</p></td><td><p>Number of absconders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cat C<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cat D</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female Open</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration detainee <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Table2: Offence type of absconders unlawfully at large from April 2004 to March 2014, as on 14 October 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Offence Type</p></td><td><p>Number of absconders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft &amp; Handling</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud &amp; Forgery</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug Offences</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motoring offences</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other offences</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Held for Immigration Purposes <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> One Category C prisoner absconded from an accompanied absence whilst out of the Cat C prison.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Tables include absconds of immigration detainees from establishments operated as Immigration Removal Centres by NOMS under contract to the Home Office (one immigration detainee held in a Category D prison has been included as a Category D absconder in Table 1).</p><p> </p><p><em>These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</em></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 210145 question first answered 20/10/2014 15:32:57 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92894

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escapes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are missing, having absconded from prisons in England and Wales, by offence type.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	210145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Absconds have reached record lows - down 80% over the last 10 years - but each incident is taken seriously, with the police contacted as a matter of urgency. Over 97% of prisoners who abscond are re-captured and returned to custody. Re-captured absconders will be returned to a more secure closed prison where they face either a criminal prosecution for absconding or an internal adjudication in prison in front of a visiting judge. In both cases they can receive additional time in prison.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below provide details of the security category and offence type of those absconders who are currently unlawfully at large having absconded between April 2004 and March 2014 (the most recent period that statistics are available). Information prior to April 2004 could only be collated by performing manual checks across different databases and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table1: Security category of absconders unlawfully at large from April 2004 to March 2014, as on 14 October 2014</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Current Security Category</p></td><td><p>Number of absconders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cat C<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cat D</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female Open</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration detainee <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Table2: Offence type of absconders unlawfully at large from April 2004 to March 2014, as on 14 October 2014</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Offence Type</p></td><td><p>Number of absconders</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual Offences</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft &amp; Handling</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud &amp; Forgery</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug Offences</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motoring offences</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other offences</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Held for Immigration Purposes <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> One Category C prisoner absconded from an accompanied absence whilst out of the Cat C prison.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Tables include absconds of immigration detainees from establishments operated as Immigration Removal Centres by NOMS under contract to the Home Office (one immigration detainee held in a Category D prison has been included as a Category D absconder in Table 1).</p><p> </p><p><em>These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</em></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 210144 question first answered 20/10/2014 15:32:57 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

92043

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
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 2 July 2014 to Question 202937, when he expects to provide the information requested.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	209446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>I wrote to the honourable member on 25 September 2014 replying to Questions 202936, 202937 and 202938.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 15/10/2014 10:05:40 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

65157

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Driving Instruction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what offences were committed by each offender who took car driving lessons or tests while in prisons in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	203478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Temporary release can be an important tool in helping prisoners to re-adjust safely and productively to life in the community. It is allowed to prisoners only towards the end of their time in custody and only after a thorough risk assessment. We are changing the approach to temporary release to give even greater weight to public protection and the need for prisoners to demonstrate how the release will aid their rehabilitation and increase their chances of leading a crime free life on release.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners are only allowed to take driving lessons if the licence is required to help their rehabilitation, for example improving future employment prospects, thus reducing their likelihood of re-offending. Prisoners are expected to fund the lessons and tests out of their own pockets but may be offered some assistance in exceptional circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The following table details the number of prisoners who were released on temporary licence for driving lesson or tests in 2013 by offence type; ie the principal offence for the sentence that they were serving when temporarily released:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Offence group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Burglary</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft and Handling</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud and Forgery</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drugs</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motoring</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not known</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Data Sources and Quality</em>: These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>190 offenders were granted temporary release for driving lessons or tests in 2013, compared to 215 in 2008.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 23/10/2014 14:16:31 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

64548

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Driving Instruction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on car driving lessons and tests for prisoners in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	202938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>My officials are currently working to provide the information requested but it has not proved possible to produce it in the time allowed. I will write to you in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 202936 202937 question first answered 02/07/2014 15:58:53 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty