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1196901

registered interest
date	18/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the average quantity of personal protective equipment required on a daily basis by the prison service, broken down by type of equipment; and if they have not made such an assessment, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL4612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2020 answer text <p>The supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required by the prison service is kept under regular review by the department. These requirements will fluctuate according to the changing situation in individual prisons and we will continue to monitor the situation closely.</p><p> </p><p>Typical PPE items for tasks involving a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19 include fluid resistant surgical masks; aprons; gloves; hand sanitisers; and eye protection.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 03/06/2020 14:59:49 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

984277

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many responses they have received to their consultation Transforming the response to domestic abuse; and when they will publish their response.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL10485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The joint Home Office and Ministry of Justice consultation <em>Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse</em> was launched on 8 March and ran for 12 weeks until 31 May. During this period, we received over 3,000 responses. We expect to publish a formal Government response later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 18/10/2018 11:50:01 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

899948

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cloud services contracts that were previously delivered by British cloud services providers for the Ministry of Justice are now delivered by multinational cloud service providers; what is the value of those contracts; and what are the names of the previous providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL7611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2018 answer text <p>Only a small number of services were previously hosted with a British cloud service provider (UK Cloud, formerly SkyScape, £241,000, 1 year, 3 services) and have now been moved onto a wider multinational public cloud service provider (Amazon Web Services, £2.5million, 2 years, ~50 services).</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 18/05/2018 11:28:52 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

890704

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Ministry of Justice's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL7225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>We estimate that 90% of the data held by the MOJ is hosted in the UK, and the remaining 10% overseas. No standard methodology exists for calculating this figure, and as such a significant margin of error should be assumed.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/05/2018 13:37:31 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

810430

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which prisons and young offenders institutions have confined prisoners to their cells for more than 22 hours per day on any day in the last three months; and what was the number of days in each instance.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL4398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The Government is fully committed to making our prisons safe so that they can provide the maximum time out of cell for meaningful and purposeful activity to give prisoners the training, skills and work experience needed on release.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/01/2018 17:11:13 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

810431

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which prisons and young offenders institutions have cancelled educational activities as a result of staff shortages on any day in the last three months; and what was the number of days in each instance.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL4399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. A key priority for HMPPS is to make our prisons safe so that they can provide the maximum time out of cell for meaningful and purposeful activity to give prisoners the education, training, skills and work experience to enable them to obtain employment on release to their home areas. The new consistent core day models optimise the time available to provide appropriate regimes and to staff them efficiently.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/01/2018 17:11:52 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

810432

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many medical appointments have been missed by prisoners as a result of a shortage of escort staff in each prison and young offender institution in each of the last three months.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL4400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The Government is fully committed to making our prisons deliver safe and decent regimes and is actively taking the measures necessary to ensure that. External escorts which include hospital appointments are profiled based on the agreement between the individual establishment and the healthcare provider.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold data showing missed medical appointments and would need to request this from each establishment.</p><p> </p><p>We are boosting the number of prison officers by 2,500 and we have already reached the halfway mark.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 09/01/2018 17:25:19 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

428864

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Council Tax: Non-payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, in how many instances people have been imprisoned for defaulting on payment of their council tax.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Data showing how many people were imprisoned for non-payment of council tax in 2012, 2013 and 2014 are presented in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>These data are sourced from the Libra Management Information System (MIS). As such this data set is not subject to the same levels of quality assurance as national statistics</p><p>In extracting this data only offences of complaint for council tax committal application have been included where the court hearing date occurred within each year reported (i.e. between 1 January and 31 December).</p><p>It should also be noted that, although committals to prison are reported as occurring within a particular financial year, the non-payment of council tax itself may relate to a previous financial year or even a period covering more than one financial year.</p><p>Committal to prison for non-payment of council tax can be challenged through a judicial review in the High Court. The table below shows the number of judicial reviews relating to imprisonment for non-payment of council tax in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the outcomes.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Judicial Reviews</p></td><td><p>Upheld</p></td><td><p>Refused</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>These data were obtained from a manual check of judicial reviews carried out specifically to answer this question.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL3589 question first answered 26/11/2015 12:41:17 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

428865

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Council Tax: Non-payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, what was the estimated cost to the public purse of people being imprisoned for defaulting on payment of their council tax.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The department routinely publishes average costs per prisoner and prison place based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison, and in summary form the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales on an annual basis after the end of each financial year. These can be found on Gov.uk. answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 25/11/2015 13:50:03 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

428866

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Council Tax: Unpaid Taxes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, how many cases of individuals imprisoned for defaulting on their council tax were appealed to the High Court, and in how many of those cases the appeals were upheld.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Data showing how many people were imprisoned for non-payment of council tax in 2012, 2013 and 2014 are presented in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>These data are sourced from the Libra Management Information System (MIS). As such this data set is not subject to the same levels of quality assurance as national statistics</p><p>In extracting this data only offences of complaint for council tax committal application have been included where the court hearing date occurred within each year reported (i.e. between 1 January and 31 December).</p><p>It should also be noted that, although committals to prison are reported as occurring within a particular financial year, the non-payment of council tax itself may relate to a previous financial year or even a period covering more than one financial year.</p><p>Committal to prison for non-payment of council tax can be challenged through a judicial review in the High Court. The table below shows the number of judicial reviews relating to imprisonment for non-payment of council tax in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the outcomes.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Judicial Reviews</p></td><td><p>Upheld</p></td><td><p>Refused</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>These data were obtained from a manual check of judicial reviews carried out specifically to answer this question.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks grouped question UIN HL3587 question first answered 26/11/2015 12:41:17 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey