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1718774

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appearances in magistrates courts were delayed on (a) 15 and (b) 16 May 2024 as part of Operation Early Dawn.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	26690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Operation Early Dawn is a contingency designed to mitigate impacts across the Criminal Justice System. We monitor system impacts but it is hard to say how many appearances in the magistrates courts were delayed because of Operation Early Dawn, as this data is not collected in our management information systems (because Operation Early Dawn is a contingency).</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice, across its agencies, is working to minimise any delays across the court system, which includes prioritising the most urgent cases.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:34:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718778

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential risk to public safety of Operation Early Dawn.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	26691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Operation Early Dawn is an existing contingency measure to ensure sufficient governance exists between HMPPS, the Prison Escort Custody Service (PECS) and HMCTS to maintain the effective management of prisoner transfers between courts and custody.</p><p> </p><p>It involves an operational assessment being made each morning by HMPPS on which prisoners can be transferred from police cells and taken to courts to ensure there is a safe and secure location if remanded to custody.</p><p> </p><p>At least a partial collection is made from every Police Station which allows Police (and HMCTS for subsequent collections) to identify priority collections, including those who pose a higher risk.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is carefully considered when taking decisions under Operation Early Dawn.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:34:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718781

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department consulted representatives of (a) magistrates and (b) solicitors before implementing Operation Early Dawn.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	26692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice engaged with key Criminal Justice System partners, including the judiciary and legal profession, in advance of the activation of Operation Early Dawn.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:36:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718815

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether beds of prisoners who have been released on temporary licence are counted as available for the purposes of determining capacity.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	26693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Where a prisoner is authorised to temporarily leave prison, including hospital visits and release on temporary licence (ROTL), their bed remains allocated to them. This reflects the fact that such absences are strictly time limited and the prisoner must return within the short term. Their bed is not therefore considered vacant for the purpose of determining available capacity.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2024 13:36:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1718532

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of court appearances that have been delayed as a result of Operation Early Dawn; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of Operation Early Dawn on court administration.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	26573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Operation Early Dawn is a contingency designed to mitigate impacts across the criminal justice system. We monitor system impacts but we cannot estimate how many court appearances are delayed because of Operation Early Dawn. This data is not collected in our management information systems (because Operation Early Dawn is a contingency).</p><p> </p><p>We can confirm that no court sessions were cancelled as a result of Operation Early Dawn.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice and its agencies are working to minimise any associated delays across the criminal justice system, which includes prioritising the most urgent cases, and to minimise the inevitable impact on court administration.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/05/2024 15:35:54 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1695969

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of, and what action they are taking to reduce, overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL3254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>In prisons where we have crowding in place, a rigorous cell certification process is undertaken that ensures the use of cells is subject to formal assessment of safety and decency.</p><p>We continue to pursue the package of longer-term measures the Lord Chancellor announced on 16 October 2023 to reform the justice system and continue to address the prison capacity challenges. The measures include: the extension of the Early Removal Scheme, introducing a presumption to suspend sentences of 12 months or less, curtailing the licence period for IPP sentences and extending the use of Home Detention Curfew. On 11 March, the Lord Chancellor announced the next steps in our plan, to allow us to go further and faster in removing foreign national offenders (FNOs). This includes expediting prisoner transfers with our priority partners such as Albania, and the creation of a new taskforce across the Home Office and Ministry of Justice to change the way we process FNO cases radically.</p><p>To meet pressing demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through our two new 1,700 places prisons, HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and c.590 Rapid Deployment Cells across 11 sites. By the end of 2025, we are on track to have delivered around 10,000 places in total.</p><p>The Government will continue to monitor the evolving situation with demand for prison places carefully, so that we can make sure we have the right approaches in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 26/03/2024 17:23:52 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1690607

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to combat overcrowding in prisons.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL2626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>In prisons where there is overcrowding, a rigorous cell certification process ensures that the use of cells is subject to a formal assessment of safety and decency.</p><p>On 16 October 2023, the Lord Chancellor announced additional, longer-term measures to reform the justice system and continue to address the prison capacity challenges. The measures announced include: extending the Early Removal Scheme, introducing a presumption to suspend sentences of 12 months or less, curtailing the license period for IPP sentences and extending the use of Home Detention Curfew.</p><p>To meet pressing demand, we are building c.20,000 modern, rehabilitative prison places – the biggest prison build programme since the Victorian era. We have already delivered c.5,900 of these, including through new prisons HMP Five Wells and HMP Fosse Way, and we have been rolling out 1,000 Rapid Deployment Cells across 18 prisons. By the end of 2025, we will have delivered over 10,000 in total.</p><p>The Government will continue to carefully monitor demand for prison places so that we can make sure we have the right approach in place to maintain the capacity required for a safe and effective criminal justice system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 05/03/2024 12:29:20 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1681746

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce overcrowding in adult male prisons (1) by extending the use of non-custodial sentences, (2) by reducing the remand and recall prison populations, and (3) by improving public understanding surrounding current (a) levels of crime, and (b) sentence lengths.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL1543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>In certain circumstances, there is persuasive evidence that community orders and suspended sentence orders are more effective than sentences of immediate custody in reducing reoffending. In the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament, the Government is introducing a presumption to suspend short custodial sentences. The offender would then serve their sentence in the community.</p><p>In terms of the remand and recall populations, we are working with our partners across the criminal justice system to safely manage the system and protect the public. This includes raising awareness of, and removing barriers to, the use of bail where appropriate as an alternative to remanding defendants in custody, including on 2 August 2023 publishing a new EM Court Bail Protocol. For recall, we have issued guidance to probation staff to ensure all safe alternatives to recall are considered before a decision is taken, and we have re-invigorated the Secretary of States power, under Section 255(B) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, to release recalled offenders following a risk assessed recall review without reference to the Parole Board.</p><p>Upholding public confidence in the criminal justice system is a core priority and we continue to work to deliver this. Whilst improving public understanding is a valuable and important goal, it does not, by itself, affect the prison population.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 24/01/2024 12:24:11 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner

1675120

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a police cell was used as part of Operation Safeguard in 2023 by (a) region and (b) police force.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	5060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>Operation safeguard is a planned contingency measure which was implemented in February 2023 and operated up until November 2023 in relation to the adult male estate. It is used to hold adult male prisoners in police custody suites temporarily as needed.</p><p>The tables below provide a breakdown of police cell usage as part of Operation Safeguard in 2023 by region and police force.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="7"><p>North East</p></td><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>485</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5"><p>South West</p></td><td><p>Avon &amp; Somerset</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon &amp; Cornwall</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>Eastern</p></td><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>17</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>North West</p></td><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire`</p></td><td><p>261</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Wales</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>923</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5"><p>South East</p></td><td><p>Hampshire &amp; IOW</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>58</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>Central</p></td><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>51</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Met</p></td><td><p>London Met</p></td><td><p>136</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>136</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Police force</p></td><td><p>Number of cells</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Dfyed-Powys</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Gwent</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 07/12/2023 15:00:45 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1675122

registered interest
date	04/12/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether officials in his Department plan to review the value for money of triggering Operation Safeguard in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	5062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The deployment of Operation Safeguard remains under constant review for value for money.</p><p>Operation Safeguard is an effective contingency that has allowed us to keep serving the courts and, in certain regions, to meet an acute, localised rise in the prison population.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 12/12/2023 13:02:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury