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65537

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date	02/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when community rehabilitation companies are planned to begin providing post-release supervision to offenders serving sentences of under 12 months in prison.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	203845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>We are opening up delivery of probation services to a diverse range of new organisations in order to tackle repeat reoffending which blights our communities. As part of our reforms, we will extend post-release supervision to offenders released from custodial sentences of less than 12 months. We plan to commence the relevant provisions of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 at the point when ownership of the new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) transfers to successful bidders. We will do this in line with the Government's commitment to roll out these important reforms by 2015.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 16:56:28 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

65538

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training prison officers receive to enable them to detect incidents of sexual assault inside prison.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	203841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>During their initial training prison officers learn how to identify and respond to a prisoner exhibiting signs of distress or a change in their normal behaviour. Prison staff also receive training in assessing and managing offenders' risk of harm, including the risk of harm from others.</p><p> </p><p>Officers receive training about prevention of violence in prisons and to complement this, specific training about sexual violence will be included in the revised Prison Officer Entry Level Training (POELT) course which will be introduced from January 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 16:54:40 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64819

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Police Cautions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cautions have been issued for offences of (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) sexual assault, (d) robbery and (e) burglary in (i) each year between 2010 and 2013 and (ii) each month since January 2013.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	203136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of offenders (including young people) cautioned, for offences of rape, sexual assault, robbery and burglary, by months in England and Wales from 2010 to 2013 (latest available) can be viewed in the table. There were no cautions administered for murder.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Simple cautions (previously police cautions) are a non-statutory disposal available to the police to dispose of any offence committed by an adult and designed for dealing with low level, mainly first time offending. The Government does not believe that cautions are appropriate for serious offences. We issued new guidelines on 14 November 2014 following a detailed review of how cautions were being used by police forces, and are strengthening the law to prevent cautions being used for serious offences.</del></p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police and the CPS when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. This guidance states that the use of a simple caution for indictable only offences, such as rape, should only be given following authorisation by the CPS. These will be cases where there were exceptional circumstances which would mean that it was not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The overall number of simple cautions issued has halved since 2007. The cautioning rate, that is, the number of offenders cautioned as a percentage of offenders who were either cautioned or convicted, in 2013 was 20 per cent; this has declined from a peak of 31 per cent in 2007.</p><p>The Government is clear that serious offences should always be brought to court and to ensure that there is increased public confidence in the justice system last year announced limits on the use of simple cautions. These changes restrict the use of cautions for indictable only offences and certain serious either way offences unless there are exceptional circumstances and a senior police officer, as well as the CPS for certain cases, has agreed that a caution should be administered.</p><p>The MOJ guidance on Adult Simple Cautions was amended in November last year to reflect these changes, and we are currently legislating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to place statutory restrictions around their use.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 07/07/2014 15:20:18 question first ministerially corrected 28/08/2014 11:45:56 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13 previous answer version 9230 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64826

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ratio of prison officers to prisoners was in (a) HM Prison Swansea, (b) HM Prison Lincoln, (c) HM Prison Preston, (d) HM Prison Leicester, (e) HM Prison Exeter, (f) HM Prison Wandsworth, (g) HM Prison Kennet, (h) HM Prison Bedford, (i) HM Prison Cardiff and (j) HM Prison Doncaster in each year between 2010 and 2013.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	203159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Tooting on 4 Mar 2014, Official Report, 805W.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/07/2014 14:17:24 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

49205

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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 prison officers were serving on detached duty in each month from January 2011 to January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	197293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Information on the number of officers serving on detached duty before the introduction of the national scheme is not available. The full-time equivalent of officers provided on detached duty from the beginning of the nationally co-ordinated scheme until the 31 December 2013 is contained in the table below. Some allocations outside of the national scheme continued after October 2013 but is not included in the information provided. London region particularly allocated staff within their own region. Information collected on the staffing allocated. On occasions the resource is not actually deployed due to changes in local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required. On average over the three month period (October to December 2013), less than 1% of staff were provided on detached duty. A large proportion of the capacity was available from prisons that were in the process of closure or going through a re-role. This process temporarily releases a number of officers who are not supplied for specific occasions but are sent and received on a shift pattern throughout the week.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent of Officers Working on Detached Duty <sup>1</sup></strong></p><p><strong>- 21 October 2013 to 31 December 2013</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent Officers Provided on Detached Duty </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scheme started in October so no data available for earlier period</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013 (Data relates to part month from 21 October)</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>205</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Detached duty figures are not published but other staffing data is published up to 31 December 2013 and therefore information is only presented up until that date.</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	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

49206

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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 was spent by his Department on travel and accommodation costs for prison officers serving on detached duty in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	197294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Identifying total travel and accommodation costs for prisons serving detached duty would require manual collation of data from online expenses systems and travel providers, which would incur disproportionate cost.</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	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

49207

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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 members of staff in each prison in England and Wales were serving on detached duty in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	197292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Information on the number of officers serving on detached duty before the introduction of the national scheme is not available. The full-time equivalent of officers provided on detached duty from the beginning of the nationally co-ordinated scheme until the 31 December 2013 is contained in the table below. Some allocations outside of the national scheme continued after October 2013 but is not included in the information provided. London region particularly allocated staff within their own region. Information collected on the staffing allocated. On occasions the resource is not actually deployed due to changes in local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required. On average over the three month period (October to December 2013), less than 1% of staff were provided on detached duty. A large proportion of the capacity was available from prisons that were in the process of closure or going through a re-role. This process temporarily releases a number of officers who are not supplied for specific occasions but are sent and received on a shift pattern throughout the week.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent of Officers Working on Detached Duty <sup>1</sup></strong></p><p><strong>- 21 October 2013 to 31 December 2013</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Full Time Equivalent Officers Provided on Detached Duty </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scheme started in October so no data available for earlier period</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2013 (Data relates to part month from 21 October)</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>205</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Detached duty figures are not published but other staffing data is published up to 31 December 2013 and therefore information is only presented up until that date.</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	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington