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50015

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much in total his Department expects to have spent on mothballing the closed wings at HM Prison Hull and HM Prison Chelmsford by the time they re-open.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>We will always have enough prison places for those sent to us by the courts and continue to modernise the prison estate so that it delivers best value for the taxpayer</p><p> </p><p>This Government has a long term strategy for managing the prison estate. We will have increased the adult male prison capacity so that we have more places than we inherited from the previous Government.</p><p> </p><p>The retention of significant spare prison capacity over and above what is required is expensive and cannot be justified given the current financial climate. The mothballing of spare capacity at HM Prisons Chelmsford and Hull saved the taxpayer £3.6m in the financial year 2013-14. This compares to the significantly lower cost of maintaining this accommodation on a mothballed basis, so that it could be reactivated if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>We have reviewed the refurbishment requirements at both sites and believe that, with minor investment, they can now be reopened on a contingency basis without carrying out a full refurbishment. These costs are anticipated to be around £132k by the time they have reopened. From the end of March to date, around £12k has been spent on Chelmsford, and around £107k has been spent on Hull.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to certification, Hull will create 282 places and Chelmsford 148 places, with prisoners due to start arriving this summer.</p><p> </p><p>The reactivation of these places is a prudent and good value for money response to an increased prison population. Under the previous administration, police and court cells were turned into temporary prisons, with over 50,000 prisoners held in these cells in 2007-08 alone.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

50016

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were on (a) entry, (b) basic, (c) standard and (d) enhanced status in each prison on 1 May 2014.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures for 2013-14 will be available after the publication of NOMS' annual performance results and management information on 31 July 2014 on the Gov.uk website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics</a>). The figures for 2014-15 will be available 12 months later.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

50017

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners currently serving custodial sentences from EU member states are eligible for repatriation under the EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>We estimate that 473 prisoners are eligible to be considered for transfer under the EUPTA as at 31 March 2014, and we are working with the Home Office to obtain the necessary deportation orders to enable transfer.</p><p> </p><p>This figure is calculated on the basis of the number of prisoners from EU Member States who have implemented the EUPTA, meet the criteria to be automatically considered for deportation and have at least 6 months left to serve on their sentence (which is required by the EUPTA). We have not included Poland (315 prisoners) in these figures. Poland has implemented the EUPTA but has derogation from accepting compulsory transfers until December 2016. Ten Member States have yet to implement the agreement but are expected to do so by December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders (FNOs). When transfers take a considerable time it can become more efficient to remove shorter-sentenced prisoners under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS). The number of FNOs deported under this mechanism has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed over 240 FNOs to date.</p><p> </p><p>Whereas this Government has begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

50019

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any approved bidders for community rehabilitation companies have (a) been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of business and (b) committed an act of grave misconduct, in the last five years; and what process would be followed should such offences occur.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Final bids to run the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) will be rigorously assessed against robust quality, legal, commercial and financial criteria. In the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ), bidders were required to declare that they had no convictions in relation to criminal offences relating to the conduct of their business or profession and acts of grave misconduct. As set out in the Invitation to Negotiate, bidders are required to notify the department of any changes to the position set out in their declarations or anything that may affect their continued participation in the competition. The Department reserves the right to undertake a full re-assessment and, if grounds for rejection exist, exclude the bidder from further participation in the competition.</p><p> </p><p>MoJ has also undertaken extensive due diligence of bidders on a range of matters, including legal compliance issues. Consequently, we have a robust and diverse market and are confident that the bidders who passed the first stage of the competition – the PQQ - are credible organisations.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49641

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration appeal hearings lost by the Government her Department failed to send a presenting officer in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>I will write to the Rt Hon Member.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 9167 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49642

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 28 February 2014, Official Report, columns 556-7W, on Serco, what liability his Department has for termination payments to Serco for its surrender of the contract for running community payback in London; and how much his Department will have to pay to Serco for its surrender of that contract.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the Honourable MP to the response sent to him in 28<sup>th</sup> February 2014 under PQ 187896, PQ 187897, PQ 187898, and PQ 187894 which can be found on Hansard under the reference columns 556-7W, for ease of reference, the link is:</p><p><a title="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140228/text/140228w0003.htm" href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140228/text/140228w0003.htm" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140228/text/140228w0003.htm</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49643

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to how many immigration appeal hearings the Home Office failed to send a presenting officer in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>I will write to the Rt Hon. Member.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 9168 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49644

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent in each of the last four years on counsel fees related to inquests into the deaths of those in custody.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is able to identify fees paid to counsel for inquest cases funded under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (“LASPO”) Act 2012 from April 2013 onwards. For the financial year 2013-14, the total value of counsel fees paid relating to inquests into the deaths of those in custody under the LASPO Act totalled £10,574.40.</p><p> </p><p>This figure represents only those cases under the LASPO Act where payment has been made during 2013-14. Very few inquests that have been funded under the LASPO Act have been billed and paid in that period, as many are ongoing. Cases typically take over a year from approval of funding to payment of the final bill.</p><p> </p><p>The total figure of £10,574.40 does not include information recorded in the LAA's new costs management system, upon which a small pilot group of providers are currently processing their claims. The volume of claims being processed through this system represents around 1% of all claims.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency does not hold the information requested centrally for cases funded under the Access to Justice Act 1999 (i.e. cases originally submitted prior to April 2013). Under the Access to Justice Act, ad hoc payments were made aggregating fees for the instructed solicitors and counsel on the case, and it is not possible to disaggregate the costs without checking each individual file.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49646

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum is a prisoner can earn per (a) week, (b) month and (c) year from working while serving a custodial sentence.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Maximum rates of pay for prisoners are not set centrally. Governors have responsibility for setting rates of pay in each establishment, which should reflect regime priorities. NOMS Prisoners' Pay policy is set out in Prison Service Order 4460, a copy of which is held in the House of Commons library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

49647

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which police station cells were used to keep prisoners in overnight in February and March 2014; and on how many occasions.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	197630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of prisoners held overnight in a police cell has come down to below 1,200 in 2013-14, after reaching a peak of over 50,000 in 2007-08.</p><p>Prison numbers fluctuate throughout the year and we have sufficient accommodation for the current and expected population. We will always have enough prison places for those sent to us by the courts. There will be more adult male prison capacity in May 2015 than there was at the start of this Parliament.</p><p>Police cells, under Operation Safeguard, have not been used since 22 September 2008 and no police cells under Operation Safeguard have been on stand by since the end of October 2008. Court cells have not been used since 28 February 2008 and have been stood down since March 2008.</p><p>As part of standard logistical arrangements, there are occasions where prisoners may be temporarily held overnight in police cells. These largely consist of situations where escort contractors are unable to transport the prisoner to a suitable prison following a court appearance, where it would be impossible to transfer a prisoner to a prison in the time available. This is solely for overnight accommodation by the police before collection and onward transmission to the prison establishment the following working day. This is not the same as using Operation Safeguard.</p><p>The following table shows the number of prisoners who were temporarily held overnight in police cells in February and March 2014. The totals include adults, young adults (18 to 20-year-olds) and young people (15 to 17-year-olds). In order to identify individual police station locations it would require a manual check of each record in February and March and this could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>February 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>March 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>372</p></td><td><p>175</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan