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64387

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Deaths
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people died in (a) on adult and (b) youth custody in each year since 2010; what their age was at the time of death; whether each such person was on (a) remand and (b) serving a custodial sentence of what length; which offence each such person was convicted; what the offence they were convicted of; and what the cause of death was in each case.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice is committed to open and transparent reporting of data relating to deaths in custody, self-harm and assaults. It remains a priority to reduce the number of deaths and violence in custody. Prisons take the responsibility of keeping prisoners, staff and visitors safe extremely seriously.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Strenuous efforts are made to learn from each death and improve our understanding and procedures for caring for prisoners. Each death is subject to a thorough investigation by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, in addition to a Coroner's inquest.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Central deaths in custody records do not specifically include information on those who die in ‘adult' or ‘youth' custody. Where a site is shared between a Young Offender Institute and an adult prison, records are not held to identify in which part of the site the deceased was detained. However, information based on the offenders' ages at the time of death has been provided.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service makes a provisional classification of death based on apparent cause and records may change following inquest.</p><p /> <p>A range of statistics on deaths in prison custody is published annually in the Safety in Custody statistical bulletin supplementary tables on deaths with updates on the number of deaths of prison custody published quarterly. This bulletin is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a>.</p><p /> <p><br>The overall numbers of deaths in prison custody by age group are shown in table 1. <br><br></p><p /> <p>Table 1: Deaths in custody by age group</p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>198</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>192</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>192</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>215</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-20 year olds</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21 year olds and older</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>184</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The numbers of these deaths that were (a) on remand and (b) sentence length, the offence and cause of death have been placed in the library in the House. There were 74 self-inflicted deaths in custody in 2013, compared to 96 in 2004.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/07/2014 16:38:03 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

64388

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Repatriation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners were repatriated to their home countries to serve their custodial sentence in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The tables below sets out the number of prisoners who have transferred from a prison in England andWales to a prison in their state of nationality since 1 January 2009.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Transfers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The list includes one foreign national prisoner who was returned to a British Overseas Territory in 2011 under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1884.</p><p> </p><p>We remain determined to secure compulsory Prisoner Transfer Agreements wherever possible, in order to increase the number of foreign national prisoners who are able to transfer to prisons in their home countries. In January this year we signed a compulsory transfer agreement with Nigeria and last year we signed an agreement with Albania. We expect to see prisoner transfers to both these countries before the end of this year.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working hard to increase the number of foreign nationals who are removed from prison under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) and the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS). In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under TERS, which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 256 prisoners to date.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers reported here are drawn from a Prison Service Case Tracking System. Care is taken when processing these cases but the figures may be subject to inaccuracies associated with any recording system.</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> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/07/2014 16:48:14 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

64389

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
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, if he will publish the list of preferred bidders for the Tier 1 Community Rehabilitation Company contracts.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>Bids to run the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies are expected by the end of June, with contract winners being announced by the end of 2014. We will announce the list of preferred bidders when the evaluation has been concluded. We are committed to the roll out of payment by results by 2015.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 202768 question first answered 02/07/2014 16:11:48 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

64390

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Repatriation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners were repatriated under foreign prisoner transfer agreements to their home countries to serve their custodial sentence in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The tables below sets out the number of prisoners who have transferred from a prison in England andWales to a prison in their state of nationality since 1 January 2009.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Transfers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The list includes one foreign national prisoner who was returned to a British Overseas Territory in 2011 under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1884.</p><p> </p><p>We remain determined to secure compulsory Prisoner Transfer Agreements wherever possible, in order to increase the number of foreign national prisoners who are able to transfer to prisons in their home countries. In January this year we signed a compulsory transfer agreement with Nigeria and last year we signed an agreement with Albania. We expect to see prisoner transfers to both these countries before the end of this year.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working hard to increase the number of foreign nationals who are removed from prison under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) and the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS). In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under TERS, which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 256 prisoners to date.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers reported here are drawn from a Prison Service Case Tracking System. Care is taken when processing these cases but the figures may be subject to inaccuracies associated with any recording system.</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> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/07/2014 16:48:14 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

64391

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
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 the preferred bidders under the Transforming Rehabilitation process will be announced; when winning bidders will be announced; and when winning bidders will take over the running of the Tier 1 Community Rehabilitation Company contracts.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>Bids to run the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies are expected by the end of June, with contract winners being announced by the end of 2014. We will announce the list of preferred bidders when the evaluation has been concluded. We are committed to the roll out of payment by results by 2015.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 202763 question first answered 02/07/2014 16:11:49 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63924

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence; and what proportion of the overall staff of such bodies were contract or temporary employees.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 350 temporary staff <br>during the summer 2011. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of how many <br>contract/ temporary employees were employed for each year that CRD was in <br>existence. <br><br>The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) <br>staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. It is not <br>possible to break this down by how many were contract/temporary employees or <br>employed full time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the <br>proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of <br>an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 15:14:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63925

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 1300 caseworkers in <br>40 regional teams during its existence. It is not possible to provide a <br>breakdown by each year that CRD was in existence. <br><br>The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) <br>staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. FTE means that <br>part time employees are counted by the proportion of full time hours they work, <br>so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full time colleague would <br>count as 0.5 FTE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 15:09:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63926

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of renaming (a) the Case Resolution Directorate in 2011 and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>It is not possible to answer the question, as information is not held in the <br>appropriate format and to extract the data would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 16:04:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63932

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Border Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost was of running (a) the Case Resolution Directorate, (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit and (c) the Older Live Cases Unit in each year of those bodies' operations.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The operational costs of running the Case Resolution Directorate (excluding <br>enforcement costs, detention and removal escort costs or asylum and immigration <br>tribunal costs) was approximately £32 million per year. The costs are inclusive <br>of an outsourced administrative function in 2009-2011. Support costs for <br>applicants were accounted for separately for this period. <br><br>The total running costs of the Case Assurance and Audit Unit was £27.4 million <br>(2011/ 2012) and £19. 5million (2012/ 2013). The total running costs of the Older Live <br>Cases Unit was £7.8 million (2013/ 2014). The Older Live Cases Unit budget spend to <br>date for 2014/ 2015 is £1.87 million. Since setting up the Case Resolution Directorate, <br>operational running costs have decreased year on year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2014 14:35:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

63933

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the Older Live Cases Unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	202313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There were 208 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) temporary agency workers employed on <br>OLCU casework at the end of Q1 2014, this was equal to 62.7% of the overall <br>staff at the time. FTE means that part time employees are counted by the <br>proportion of full time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of <br>an equivalent full time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 15:08:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan