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<p><del class="ministerial">Following their introduction in July 2015, there have
been 222 applications and 205 orders made for Female Genital Mutilation Protection
Orders, up to 31 December 2017.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">In this
period no breaches of an FGM Protection order have been dealt with in the criminal
courts. In the Family Courts, proceedings for breach would be dealt with as a contempt
of court matter and are not recorded separately. The information could therefore only
be obtained at disproportionate cost.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Statistics
on FGM Protection Orders are publicly available as part of the Family Courts Statistics
Quarterly series at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly.
The next publication of Family Court Statistics Quarterly is due on 28 June 2018.
This will provide data up to the end of March 2018.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As
part of the Prison Safety and Reform White Paper published in November 2016, the Government
committed to an increase of 2,500 Prison Officers by the end of 2018.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">Between the end of October 2016 (the closest data point in time
to when the commitment was made) and the end of March 2018, the number of Band 3 to
5 prison officers (headcount) increased from 18,713 to 21,824; a net increase of 3,111.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">It is anticipated that 90 per cent of the new recruits will be
on the landings by the summer and all of them will be operational by the end of the
year.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The first cohort of 52 graduates from the
Unlocked scheme, which encourages the brightest graduates to consider a career in
HMPPS, entered the HMPPS workforce in August last year – 15% higher than had been
anticipated. Due to the popularity of the programme, up to 115 candidates will be
recruited for the 2018 cohort. They are due to join the service in July 2018.”</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">Under the Prison Safety and Reform agenda, Governors have been
given greater responsibility for workforce planning and determining their local organisational
structure. This includes the number of officers they employ and Governors can implement
changes to shift arrangements and resource deployment providing they remain within
the agreed funding envelope.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This empowerment
of the Governor’s position is intended to enable them to make best use of resources
to support prison safety and develop strategies to reduce reoffending. HMPPS does
not set workforce planning arrangements for Scotland and Northern Ireland, as this
is a matter for devolved Governments.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The recruitment
drive continues across the prison estate, with the same urgency that has secured this
remarkable influx of new staff.</ins></p>
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