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448733

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what costs in each category of expenditure his Department incurred in relation to the proposed tender of criminal legal aid contracts.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 02/02/2016 17:19:52 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

448739

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to review his Department's priorities in the next six months.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>My Rt Hon friend, the Secretary of State for Justice, has a clear set of priorities for the Ministry of Justice. These priorities are regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 02/02/2016 16:22:59 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

448740

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many weapons have been confiscated in prisons in each year since 2010; and what the (a) number and (b) proportion of such weapons were firearms.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>Data on confiscation of weapons of all types for the period requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of real firearms found in prison over the 5 year period requested. In contrast there were 15 such incidents over the 5 year period from 2006 to 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Firearms reported on the Incident Reporting System (IRS)<sup>1,2</sup>, 2011 to 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Firearm description</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Real (Functional)<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Real (Non-Functional)<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(1) Includes NOMS operated Immigration Removal Centres.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(2) Excludes finds of toy guns or home-made replicas and imitation guns.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) “Functional firearms” were: a Taser mistakenly brought into a prison by police; youths shooting rabbits on prison grounds external to the prison; a CS Gas canister discovered in prisoner property sent in from court; a gun discovered in a bag brought in by a visitor.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(4) “Non-functional” firearm was found in a prison building outside the prison walls.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 02/02/2016 16:14:25 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

448744

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons the 4,568 assaults on staff took place, set out in the Safety in Custody Summary Statistics, England and Wales, deaths to 12 months ending December 2015, assaults and self-harm to 12 months ending September 2015, published in January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>Statistics for assaults on staff by prison are published on an annual basis by calendar year in the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin annual assaults tables (see table 3.15 at the link below). <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/495430/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-2014.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/495430/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-2014.xls</a>. Figures for 2015 are due for publication in April 2016.</p><p>Statistics for serious assaults on staff by prison are due for release on in April 2016 as part of the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin annual assaults tables. This publication will include breakdowns of serious assaults on staff by prison in each calendar year.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 24676 question first answered 02/02/2016 15:10:29 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

448745

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons the 595 serious assaults on staff took place, set out in the Safety in Custody Summary Statistics, England and Wales, deaths to 12 months ending December 2015, assaults and self-harm to 12 months ending September 2015, published in January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>Statistics for assaults on staff by prison are published on an annual basis by calendar year in the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin annual assaults tables (see table 3.15 at the link below). <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/495430/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-2014.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/495430/safety-in-custody-assaults-dec-2014.xls</a>. Figures for 2015 are due for publication in April 2016.</p><p>Statistics for serious assaults on staff by prison are due for release on in April 2016 as part of the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin annual assaults tables. This publication will include breakdowns of serious assaults on staff by prison in each calendar year.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 24675 question first answered 02/02/2016 15:10:30 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

448393

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers have taken severance and redundancy packages in each month since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>Information on the number of Band 3 Officers who received severance payments between May and September 2015 is contained in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Prison Officers Taking Severance Payments - May to September 2015</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Severance Leavers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jun</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Jul</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Aug</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sep<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>70</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Information on severance payments received in September 2015 is incomplete.</p><p>Severance payments include payments for voluntary exit, redundancy, and payments as compensation for ill health retirements.</p><p>No Band 3 Prison Officers received redundancy payments during this period.</p><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.</p><p> </p><p>~ denotes suppressed values of 5 or fewer or calculations based on a population of 5 or fewer. Low numbers are suppressed, in conjunction with the rounding policy to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 01/02/2016 16:13:11 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

448396

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Knives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many knives have been confiscated in prisons in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>Historic data on estimates of the number of knives confiscated in prisons is not collected in a form that can be assured to be of sufficient quality for publication. A new enhanced incident reporting system has recently been introduced which does collect this data and assured data will be available at the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 01/02/2016 17:25:56 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

447932

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support he is providing to the Inside Out programme run by Durham University.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>We want prisons to be places of hard work, rigorous education and high ambition, with incentives for prisoners to learn and for prison staff to prioritise education and work.</p><br /><p>The Inside Out programme run by Durham University in selected north east prisons during 2014-15 is an excellent example of an innovative local partnership, aimed at higher level prisoner learners.</p><br /><p>The National Offender Management Service supported the programme through re-prioritising prison staff resources to make sure the learning could take place.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 29/01/2016 14:50:43 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

447933

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many judges or magistrates have reported receiving threatening correspondence related to hearings they have presided over in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	24330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>There are around 20,000 judges and magistrates in England and Wales. The number of judges or magistrates who have reported receiving threatening correspondence related to hearings is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Judges or Magistrates</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We have a robust security and safety system in place to protect all court users. Any threats to judges or magistrates are taken extremely seriously and within Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service there is a security team to co-ordinate effective judicial security and incident investigation, working closely with senior judiciary and police agencies to provide the necessary support.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 29/01/2016 14:59:35 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

447276

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Secure Accommodation: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of staff employed in each secure children's home are qualified speech and language therapists.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	23823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally. However, certain roles within Secure Training Centres (STC) must be filled by qualified social workers. Qualification requirements for staff in Secure Children’s Homes (SCH) are set by the Department of Education.</p><p>All young people undergo a health and education assessment upon arrival into custody, whilst all staff undergo training in child and adolescent development and safeguarding. STC and SCH providers should ensure that they meet the needs of all detained persons including those with Special Education and Needs (SEN) requirements, and that all staff are suitably qualified to support young people and make referrals to other specialist support where this is appropriate.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 23825 23827 23828 question first answered 02/02/2016 15:33:23 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter