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1147753

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
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, how many (a) contractors and (b) sub-contractors operated within the prison estate in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	293655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>This request can only be answered at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 293656 question first answered 07/10/2019 14:33:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1147754

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
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, if he will publish a list of (a) contractors and (b) sub-contractors operating within the prison estate in the most recent period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	293656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>This request can only be answered at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 293655 question first answered 07/10/2019 14:33:04 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1146121

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the longest waiting time was in weeks for a trial where the defendant entered a not guilty plea for rape in each Crown Court in England and Wales in (a) 2010 and (b) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	290940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The information requested about the longest Crown Court waiting times for a trial where the defendant entered a not guilty plea for rape in 2010 and 2018 can be found in the attached Excel document.</p><p> </p><p>This maximum measure can be unrepresentative of the group, and will be affected by extreme results lying outside the normal range.</p><p> </p><p>Performance, demand and waiting times in the courts are constantly reviewed to balance sitting days with waiting times, disposals and receipts. Resources are adjusted when appropriate. Demand has been falling in recent years and sitting days have been reduced accordingly. The abolition of committal hearings in 2013 transferred the file preparation period from the magistrates’ court to the Crown Court and so comparisons between pre-2013 data and post-2013 data do not compare like with like.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to review demand and performance in the Crown Courts and will ensure they have the resource they require.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 30/09/2019 16:13:40 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton attachment 1 file name Table for PQ 290940.xlsx title Table for PQ 290940
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1146242

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, to publish the repair completion rate for each prison in each year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	291005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The table attached shows the available information on repair work orders which covers the period of September 2018 to August 2019 by establishment. Some of these tasks cannot be completed in the time period for a variety of reasons which can lead to duplication of a task. The figures provided include these duplicate tasks, which account for part of the apparent 'backlog'.</p><p> </p><p>Performance has improved recently against completion on time and against the number of works which are left outstanding. We ensure that works are completed with close monitoring of performance through regular contract meetings where providers are challenged, and concerns can be escalated. Further to this statutory and mandatory compliance checks are conducted. Where necessary financial penalties are applied to commercial contractors where work orders are not completed on time as per contractual requirements. Action plans to reduce outstanding remedial works have also recently been requested. Our priority is to stabilise and improve service delivery, with an improved focus on cleanliness and decency.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/09/2019 16:52:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ291005 - Table v2.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1146244

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were employed in each high-security prison in each quarter since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	291156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The number of prison officers that were employed in each high-security prison in each quarter from 30 March 2010 to 30 June 2019 is provided in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>We have recruited more than 4,700 additional prison officers since October 2016 and across the estate staffing levels are now at their highest since 2012.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/09/2019 16:54:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of Copy of PQ 291156 final file (002).xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1146245

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list and place in the Library all research his Department has undertaken into short sentences in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	291157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published a range of research publications with a focus on short-term prison sentences in the last two years:</p><ul><li>The relationship between offender characteristics and the impact of short custodial sentences and court orders on reoffending (2018): <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706597/do-offender-characteristics-affect-the-impact-of-short-custodial-sentences.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/706597/do-offender-characteristics-affect-the-impact-of-short-custodial-sentences.pdf</a></li><li>The impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on reoffending (2019): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/impact-of-short-custodial-sentences-community-orders-and-suspended-sentence-orders-on-reoffending" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/impact-of-short-custodial-sentences-community-orders-and-suspended-sentence-orders-on-reoffending</a></li></ul><ul><li>The economic and social costs of reoffending (2019): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-and-social-costs-of-reoffending" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-and-social-costs-of-reoffending</a>.</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/09/2019 16:50:54 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1146282

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women received a custodial sentence of (i) six months or less and (ii) more than six months in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	291160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on the number of male and female offenders sentenced to immediate custody and the length of these sentences in the “Outcomes by Offence data tool” at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Use the ‘Sex’ filter to see data for males and females. Custodial sentence lengths can be found from row 56 onwards.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/09/2019 16:59:13 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1145273

registered interest
date	06/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Recruitment
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 30 July 2019 to Question 280425, whether funding for the additional prison officers recruited is from (a) existing funding from his Department or (b) additional funding from the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	287921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2019 answer text <p>Additional funding announced by the Secretary of State in November 2016, for an additional 2,500 prison officer posts, was agreed with HM Treasury as part of the Autumn Statement 2016.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/09/2019 14:56:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1145176

registered interest
date	05/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what additional funding was allocated for the recruitment of additional prison officers his Department’s 2019-20 Main Estimate Memorandum.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	287675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2019 answer text <p>Since October 2016 we have recruited over 4,700 additional prison officers with extra funding provided by the Treasury for 2,500 of these. While no further funding has been specifically provided for this purpose in 2019/20 by the Treasury, prison officer recruitment continues and is being funded from the Prison Service budget in 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/09/2019 15:00:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1144250

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department’s press release of 9 November 2015, Prison building revolution announced by Chancellor and Justice Secretary relating to the 2015 Spending Review, how much of the Government's planned £1.3 billion capital investment to transform the prison estate has been spent since the 2015 Spending Review; which (a) new prisons have been successfully opened and (b) prisons have closed since the 2015 Spending Review; and how many (i) new prison places and (ii) additional prison places have been created since the 2015 Spending Review.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	286299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Since the 2015 Spending Review we have:</p><p> </p><ul><li>opened HMP&amp;YOI Berwyn, a new rehabilitative male prison in North Wales, in February 2017. As we build up to full occupancy this will provide 2106 places.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>closed a total of four prisons (Holloway, Kennet, Glen Parva, and Blantyre House) and one immigration removal centre (IRC) (Dover) since October 2015. On 8 March this year we announced the sale of the former HMP&amp;YOI Holloway site to social housing group Peabody in partnership with London Square Ltd</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>created new houseblocks in HMP Peterborough, HMP Parc, HMP The Mount, HMP Thameside and HMP Stocken which has delivered an additional 1,465 prison places.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Of the £1.3 billion planned capital investment, the total spent to date (i.e. to the end of July 2019) has been around £0.25 billion. This has been spent on the early stages of long-term projects including the building of the new prison at HMP Wellingborough and the start of work at Glen Parva. Significant further spend is expected in future years to complete these projects.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 13:13:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon