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1035026

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date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions internal bids have been evaluated as providing the best quality and value for money compared to private-sector bids for the operation of prisons since 1999.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	205269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold information prior to 2009 about internal bids relating to the operation of prisons as previous competitions were the responsibility of the Home Office and undertaken by them.</p><p>Since 2009, there has been one instance where the Public Sector has been awarded a contract (in the form of a Service Level Agreement) and that was for HMP Buckley Hall in 2011.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2019 15:57:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1035027

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
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 21 November 2018 to Question 194129 on Prisons: Contracts, what steps he is taking to ensure transparency in the assessment of (a) quality and (b) value for money of potential operators’ bids compared to the public-sector benchmark.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	205270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has recently launched a competition to establish a framework of prison operators, from which the operators of the new prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva will be selected.</p><p>The competition will use a ‘public sector benchmark’, against which the quality and cost of potential operators’ bids will be assessed. The public sector benchmark was developed in consultation with subject matter experts across HMPPS and directly informed the delivery requirements including cost and quality thresholds that form part of the draft contractual documentation for the competition. Where bids received do not meet these thresholds, there will be no contract award and the public sector will act as the provider.</p><p>The MoJ will, in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations and relevant Government policies, take into consideration the past record and performance of companies involved in the tender process before considering any bids. We will make sure that the tender process ensures that the companies bidding for any of the contracts to operate new prisons have the capability, credibility, legitimacy and capacity to run the contracts effectively. The evaluation methodology included in the framework competition documentation has been designed to establish the most robust bids based on published quality, value and affordability criteria, and compared to a public sector comparator for each call off contract. Following the conclusion of the tender process any contract awarded will be published.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2019 14:29:45 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1035264

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders entered employment within six weeks of the end of their sentence in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	205286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>We will be publishing data in due course on the number of offenders who entered employment on release from custody for the period 2018/19 as part of the Community performance release.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2019 15:53:49 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1035266

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders who finished their sentence in 2018 did not have the equivalent of five GCSEs graded A* to C.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	205288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education publishes data on prison education participation and completion rates and details on the academic years 2010/11 to 2017/18 can be found at the following link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761349/201718_Nov_MAIN_OLASS_Particpation_FINALv1.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761349/201718_Nov_MAIN_OLASS_Particpation_FINALv1.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 205289 question first answered 14/01/2019 15:56:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1035267

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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 prisoners released in 2018 did not complete any education or employment training while in prison.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	205289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education publishes data on prison education participation and completion rates and details on the academic years 2010/11 to 2017/18 can be found at the following link: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761349/201718_Nov_MAIN_OLASS_Particpation_FINALv1.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761349/201718_Nov_MAIN_OLASS_Particpation_FINALv1.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 205288 question first answered 14/01/2019 15:56:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1035338

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Personal Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of compensation claimed for loss or damage to prisoners' property held by the prison service in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	205354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The total compensation payments made to prisoners for loss or damage to their property in respect of successful claims in the last five financial years are shown in the table below. The information held is in respect of public sector prisons in England and Wales and does not include private (contracted out) prisons.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of successful payment claims</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>£152,914</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>£313,347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>£190,191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>£199,086</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018</p></td><td><p>£220,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>To note within the table:</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>1. The figures have been drawn from our central recording system and although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected on occasions, may be subject to the inaccuracies in any large-scale recording system.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2. Some of the value of payments made will include an element of legal costs and the figures are subject to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We successfully defend two thirds of all litigation claims brought against us by prisoners. A programme of work is under way to prevent the causes of claims to allow us to better protect taxpayers’ money.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/01/2019 14:32:58 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon