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391363

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date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families are in the Troubled Families programme; and what estimate he has made of the average cost to the public purse for each family which has participated in that programme to date.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	7919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>As was announced on the 22 June 2015, the original Troubled Families Programme (2012-2015) worked with and turned around the lives of 116,654 families. The new and expanded Troubled Families Programme was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and will reach up to a further 400,000 families with multiple problems. Details of how many troubled families are engaged in the new programme, in its first year of implementation, will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Research estimates that the cost to the public purse of the most troubled 120,000 families before engagement with the Troubled Families Programme was £9 billion in total; an average of £75,000 per family (DCLG: ‘The Fiscal Case for Working with Troubled Families’ (2013)). £8 billion of this spend was purely reacting to their problems. Information about the fiscal benefits resulting from that programme will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 07/09/2015 10:16:45 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

390268

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many emergency protection orders there were in England between 2010 and 2015; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the level of scrutiny for such orders.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	7326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The number of Emergency Protection Orders is published as part of the Family Court Statistics Quarterly publication. Data is available from 2011 up to January to March 2015 and can be found at:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On 24 June the Prime Minister announced a new Child Protection Taskforce chaired by the Secretary of State for Education. The Prime Minister’s announcement can be found online here: <a title="http://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection" href="http://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-taskforce-to-transform-child-protection</a>. The Taskforce will lead work to: extend and accelerate reforms to the quality of social work practice and leadership; develop better multi-agency working between children’s social care, the police, health and other local services; improve local authority performance and promote innovative practice; and strengthen governance and accountability in children’s social care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/07/2015 15:56:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

390418

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) murders of staff and prisoners, (b) riots, (c) assaults on staff, (d) instances of prisoner self-harm, (e) instances of prisoner suicide, (f) instances of improper mobile telephone use and (g) absconders from open conditions have occurred in prisons in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	7324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2015 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is committed to running safe establishments. Violence of any kind in prison is not tolerated and all assaults are treated extremely seriously. Any prisoner who commits an act of violence can expect to have action taken against them.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS has launched a new Violence Reduction project, which has been created to gain better understanding of the causes of the current levels of violence in prisons and to make sure that there is strengthened handling of it, in terms of both prevention and response.</p><p><br>There is no central record of persons having been convicted of Prison staff murders. On 29 June 2015 at Blackfriars Crown Court, Lorraine Barwell, a Serco Prisoner Custody Officer, was assaulted and sadly died of her injuries. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is currently undertaking an investigation into the incident. The NOMS Investigator is working with the Metropolitan Police to ensure that the ongoing Murder investigation is not compromised.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS Incident Reporting does not record riot as an incident type.</p><p> </p><p>Latest published figures on prisoner deaths (homicide and self-inflicted), self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales can be found in the safety in custody publication at <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-december-2014-and-annual</a> This publication provides statistics on deaths to the end of March 2015 and assaults and self-harm to the end of December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Latest published figures on absconds can be found in the prison and probation management information addendum at <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 24/07/2015 13:13:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

390470

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M20: Large Goods Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to end Operation Stack; and whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of that operation on the UK balance of trade.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	7325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>Operation Stack is the appropriate contingency arrangement to put in place when there is disruption to cross-channel traffic and is led by the Kent Police. It remains a last, not first, resort. The Department has not made any assessment of the effect of Operation Stack on the UK balance of trade, as any impact stems from the disruption to services – which this Government is determined to see resolved as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>European Gateway Group is reviewing short and longer term solutions to traffic management in Kent, including Operation Stack, and will report back to the Department. When this review is completed the Department will analyse their findings and decide how to respond to their recommendations.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/07/2015 14:08:50 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

388321

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Driving: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of convictions for driving whilst disqualified resulted in an immediate custodial sentence in each year since 2005; and how many people convicted of driving whilst disqualified who had been convicted of the same offence within the previous 10 years received an immediate custodial sentence in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	5882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2015 answer text <p>Information on sentencing and convictions from 2005-2014 for driving whilst disqualified can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website and it is available at the following link:-</p><p> </p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>Select and open ‘Motoring data tool: with criminal justice area’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the numbers of offenders sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified and the numbers sentenced to immediate custody for the same offence 2005-2014 in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong><em>Table 1: Number of offenders<sup>1</sup> sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified by the number of previous immediate custody received for the same offence in England and Wales, 2005 to 2014</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>year</em></p></td><td><p><em>Number of offenders<sup>1 </sup></em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em>Previous immediate custody received<sup>2</sup></em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2005</em></p></td><td><p><em> 9,925 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 5,012 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2006</em></p></td><td><p><em> 7,543 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 3,839 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2007</em></p></td><td><p><em> 5,754 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,820 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2008</em></p></td><td><p><em> 4,705 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,109 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2009</em></p></td><td><p><em> 3,724 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,590 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2010</em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,652 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,134 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2011</em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,309 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 944 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2012</em></p></td><td><p><em> 2,030 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 807 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2013</em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,847 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 696 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2014</em></p></td><td><p><em> 1,654 </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> 638 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Source:</em></strong></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Ministry of Justice, Police National Computer (PNC)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>1. Figures are based on counting the number of occasions an offender was sentenced to immediate custody for driving whilst disqualified in each year. An offender can appear more than once in the totals for each year if the offender was convicted on multiple occasions in a given year.</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>2. Number of previous immediate custody are counts of the number of separate occasions an offender has previously received an immediate custodial sentence and is calculated from the point of their latest conviction over the period. </em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>3. All data have been taken from the MoJ extract of the Police National Computer. This includes details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings given for recordable offences (see <a title="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made</a> for definition).</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>4. These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and are subject to revision in future editions.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 27/07/2015 14:35:50 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell