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385580

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date	24/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Palestinians: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of the recommendations of the report published in March 2012 and funded by his Department on Palestinian children in military custody have been carried out.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	4142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>Since the publication of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office-funded independent report on Children in Military Custody in June 2012, there has been some progress on the issue of children held in military detention. This includes a pilot to use summons instead of night-time arrests, changes to standard operating procedures on methods of restraint, and steps to reduce the amount of time a child can be detained before seeing a judge.</p><p>On 2 June, the Minister of State, my noble Friend, the right hon. Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE, met the Israeli Military Advocate General and the Israeli Ambassador to London. They discussed the issue of child detention. She made clear that, while we welcome the improvements to date, we continue to push for the full implementation of the changes recommended in the report.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 03/07/2015 13:44:10 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

385581

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the efforts of his French counterpart to encourage new peace talks between Israel and Palestine.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	4138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>We see merit in a balanced UN Security Council resolution at the right moment, setting out parameters for a political settlement. Any resolution must command the full support of the Security Council. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) has regular discussions with his French counterpart on the Middle East peace process. We will judge any proposal on the basis of whether it supports further progress in that process.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 03/07/2015 14:30:51 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

385582

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Gaza
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on support he is giving to EU proposals to promote sea access to Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	4042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK supports EU efforts to develop options for easing movement and access into and out of Gaza. This includes the possibility of EU assistance in establishing a sea-link from Gaza to another international port. The UK and EU have consistently called on the Government of Israel to ease movement and access restrictions, and will continue to do so.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 03/07/2015 11:52:00 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

384793

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to ensure access to justice regardless of ability to pay.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	900503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government's reform programme is intended to deliver a simpler justice system that is more accessible to the public. Changes in scope for Legal Aid protect funding for those who really need legal advice.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms also aim to support people in resolving their disputes by means of more informal and less costly remedies than going to court.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 23/06/2015 15:10:26 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

225240

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Mother and Baby Units
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women with home postcodes in Wales who have children and are held in English prisons (a) have applied to be placed in mother and baby units in English prisons, (b) were successful in their application and (c) were refused in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Ten women with home postcodes in Wales applied for a place in a Mother and Baby Unit in the last six months. Of those, six applications were successful, two applications were withdrawn and two have yet to be considered by an Admissions Board.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:09:48 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225241

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) Welsh language library books and (b) other facilities there are for women in English prisons whose home postcode is in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Prison library providers make sure that the range of reading and reference material available in each library reflects the diverse needs of the prisoners held. Prison Service Instruction 02/2015, published in February 2015, has an expectation that the language needs of prisoners should be met where this is reasonably possible. The number of books available in any given language will be proportionate to the population's requirement.</p><p> </p><p>An inter-library loan request service, facilitated by the librarian or library assistant, enables prisoners to request books in the same way as library users in the community. Welsh speakers can ask for Welsh language books to be provided via this service.</p><p> </p><p>Information about what particular Welsh language library books are stocked in female prisons in England is not held centrally and will need to be collated through enquiries at these prisons. At HMP Eastwood Park, which holds the largest number of women with home postcodes in Wales, and also at HMP Styal, I have enquired about the availability of Welsh language books and seen Welsh language books in both libraries. I will write to the hon Member when we have been able to obtain any additional information about Welsh language books in other women’s prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Women prisoners whose home postcode is in Wales have the same access to facilities as all other women prisoners, to support their appropriate rehabilitation and their resettlement back to Welsh communities. This includes the provision of Welsh language services, under the Welsh Language Scheme, for prisoners whose preferred language is Welsh.</p><p> </p><p>There are strong links between HMP Eastwood Park and the National Offender Management Service in Wales. A number of initiatives provide resettlement support to Welsh women prisoners there. These include the Integrated Offender Management Cymru: Women's Pathfinder project, which is seeking to design and deliver a women-specific, integrated, whole-system approach to working with those who come into contact with the criminal justice system in Wales and which includes other relevant female prisons.</p><p> </p><p>HMP Styal, which holds women whose home is in North Wales, also has strong links with Wales. As a member of the Women’s Pathfinder Project Board along with HMP Eastwood Park, Styal is involved in the development of the project, which is due to be piloted in North Wales from April 2015 and which will link directly with the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The new arrangements for transforming rehabilitation are expected to strengthen the links between women offenders whose homes are in Wales, and all the prisons in which they serve their sentence.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:28:42 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225242

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women who have home postcodes in Wales were (a) remanded in and (b) sent to English prisons in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The following table shows the number of remanded and sentenced female prisoners who have a reported address in Wales on four dates in 2014.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of remanded and sentenced female prisoners who have a reported address in Wales in 2014</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Status</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>June 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>254</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>September 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>260</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>December 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>Remand</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sentenced</p></td><td><p>203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>257</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on offenders is provided by them on reception in prison and recorded on a central IT system. Reported addresses can include a home address, an address to which offenders intend to return on discharge or the address of their next of kin. No address has been reported and no court information is available for around 3% of all offenders and therefore these figures are excluded from the answer.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 11/03/2015 14:50:33 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225243

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service
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 of English prisons are Welsh speakers.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many staff of the National Offender Management Service speak Welsh is not held centrally and to collate this information to answer this question would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/03/2015 14:32:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

225244

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of Welsh female prisoners held in English prisons in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	226245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not separate annual costs of imprisoning Welsh women prisoners held in England prisons. NOMS does not analyse cost by prisoner nationality and costs recorded on the NOMS central accounting system do not allow identification of costs attributable to individual prisoners.</p><p>However, the Department routinely publishes average costs for each prisoner and prison place based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison.. This includes the women’s custodial estate and is available in summary form for the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales, on an annual basis after the end of each financial year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The most recently published figures for financial year 2013-14 is published alongside the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts and available at: <a 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><p>You may wish to note detailed costs of custody for women prisoners can be found at the above link within the file named: costs per place and cost for each prisoner 2013-14 - supplementary information. A copy of this is also placed in the House library.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department is committed to delivering prison capacity changes designed to modernise the prison estate and, where possible, reduce prison costs, whilst maintaining a high quality service.</p><p>From the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14 there was a real terms reduction of 17% in the overall average cost for each prisoner, with a reduction of 5% achieved during the last financial year 2013-14.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 09/03/2015 16:28:18 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James

177991

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Housing: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Mrs Siân C. James
uin	907453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>We have extended our successful Energy Company Obligation out to 2017 and have reformed the Green Deal with changes such as the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Together, ECO and the Green Deal have helped more than one million homes become more energy efficient, and as I have informed the House already, yesterday I laid regulations to require landlords to bring their properties up to a minimum level of energy efficiency from 1 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>If the House agrees these new, tough rules for the private rented sector, we estimate that around one million tenants will benefit from warmer and cheaper to heat homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingston and Surbiton answering member printed Mr Edward Davey grouped question UIN 907446 question first answered 05/02/2015 14:58:48 answering member 188 label Biography information for Ed Davey
tabling member	1573 label Biography information for Mrs Siân C. James