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37588

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to increase the average hours a week of contracted education provided for 15 to 17 year olds in custody.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	187126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>At present 15-17 year olds in young offender institutions (YOIs) receive an average of only 12 hours contracted education a week. We have recently set out our plans for transforming youth custody and putting education at the heart of detention, and at the same time launched a competition for new education contracts in public sector YOIs which will more than double the time spend young people spend in education. In addition, we are seeking to put education at the heart of the YOI regime by bringing the head teacher overseeing education into the senior management team of the establishment.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

42273

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who (a) were given a non-custodial sentence and (b) were given their first custodial sentence in each year from 2004 had previously had (i) no criminal convictions, (ii) one criminal conviction, (iii) two criminal convictions, (iv) three criminal convictions, (v) four criminal convictions, (vi) five to 10 criminal convictions, (vii) 11 to 20 criminal convictions, (viii) 21 to 30 criminal convictions, (ix) 31 to 40 criminal convictions, (x) 41 to 50 criminal convictions, (xi) 51 to 75 criminal convictions, (xii) 76 to 100 criminal convictions and (xiii) more than 100 criminal convictions.
	tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
	tabling member printed	Graham Jones
	uin	191341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

42277

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2014, Official Report, column 641W, on reoffenders, what (a) offence type and (b) sentence length each offender with more than one fixed term recall is serving.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

42290

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of eligible (a) male and (b) female offenders were recalled on a fixed term recall instead of a standard recall (i) in 2008, (ii) in 2009, (iii) in 2010, (iv) in 2011, (v) in 2012 and (vi) since 3 December 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	191215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

39612

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria will be used to identify preferred bidders for probation contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
	uin	189000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>Under our Transforming Rehabilitation proposals we are opening up the market to a diverse range of new providers across the public, private and voluntary sectors to bring innovation to rehabilitative services and help deliver reductions in reoffending rates. We are currently engaged in a competition to appoint the 21 owners of the new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) which will be responsible for the provision of services to all but those offenders which pose the highest risk. We will assess the bids we receive over the summer, and appoint CRC owners later this year. Offers will be evaluated using quality and financial criteria. We expect the new owners to implement their new operating models during 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are taking a staged approach to implementation and are rolling out business readiness tests at key stages of implementation so that we can ensure we are managing the transition to the new system in a safe and measured way which maintains public protection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

39278

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many places are available in mother and baby units in the custodial estate in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
	uin	188790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>There is currently space for 64 mothers and 70 babies in mother and baby units in the custodial estate within England and Wales, which allows for multiple births.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

38810

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new criminal offences have been created in each year since May 2010; and what the predicted effect was on the number of prisoners for each such offence.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	188279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I have set out below the number of criminal offences in England and Wales created by government departments. The numbers are collated by the Criminal Offences Gateway which scrutinises proposals on new and amended criminal offences for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers are based on offences put through the Criminal Offences Gateway during the period 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2013 (the latest available data).</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in the New Criminal Offences England and Wales <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-new-criminal-offences-statistics-in-england-and-wales-june-2009-may-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-new-criminal-offences-statistics-in-england-and-wales-june-2009-may-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>The numbers of new criminal offences, which include entirely new offences and existing offences which have been extended or amended in some way, are published annually by my department in the statistical bulletin <em>New Criminal Offence</em>s. The new criminal offences enforce Government policy in a range of areas, including to contain the spread of serious animal diseases and to criminalise squatting in a residential building.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period covered</p></td><td><p>Number of legislative provisions (secondary &amp; primary) containing new offences</p></td><td><p>Total criminal offences created</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 June 2011 to 31 May 2012</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 June 2012 to 31 May 2013</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>327</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>712 criminal offences were created during the period 1 June 2009 to May 2010 which was the 12 months immediately prior to the establishment of the Criminal Offences Gateway.</p><p> </p><p>New offences are needed for a number of reasons, for example, to update legislation that is now out of date, to underpin delivery of government priorities and to set out clearly what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. The Government committed to putting in place a mechanism, an additional layer of scrutiny, for proposals to create new offences. This is the first time a Government has done so and committed to doing so publicly. The Government has repealed 140 offences in the 12 months ending May 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The information on the predicted effect on the number of prisoners for each relevant offence is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

41940

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in England and Wales originate from countries that are signed up to the EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	191088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement (Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA) entered into force on 5<sup>th</sup> December 2011.</p><p> </p><p>To date 18 Member States (including the United Kingdom) have implemented the Agreement. The number of foreign nationals in prison from these countries (as of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2013) is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Transfer under the EUPTA requires a deportation order and prisoners must have at least six months left to serve when transferred. Many shorter sentenced EU prisoners will therefore not be in scope for transfer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which sentenced</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Foreign Nationals from EU countries that have implemented the EUPTA <sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td><p>2,307</p></td><td><p>1,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>938</p></td><td><p>553</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) Includes Poland. Poland has implemented but has derogation from accepting compulsory prisoner transfers under the EU Prisoner Transfer Arrangement (PTA) until December 2016.</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Use of the EU PTA remains at an early stage, but we expect to see a significant increase in the number of prisoner transferred once the Agreement has been implemented by all Member States.</p><p>All foreign national offenders sentenced to custody are referred to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office" target="_blank">Home Office</a> for them to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 237 FNOs to date.</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> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

42822

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) magistrates' courts, (b) County courts and (c) County Court money claims centres use higher-rate telephone numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	191689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The information held centrally on how many and what proportion of (a) magistrates' courts, (b) County courts and (c) County Court money claims centres use higher-rate telephone numbers is as follows:</p><p>(a) Magistrates' courts: 33 out of 330 courts</p><p>(b) County Courts: 17 out of 216 courts</p><p>(c) The County Court Bulk Centre in Northampton which centrally</p><p>manages money claims, also uses higher rate telephone numbers.</p><p>Some of the individual numbers are used for more than one court.</p><p>As stated in previous answers to parliamentary questions, the Department's approach is not to use 084 or 087 for non-geographic numbers and instead, wherever possible, to assign 0300 numbers, for which the tariff is similar to calling an 01 or 02 (geographic) number, whether the caller is using a fixed line or a mobile phone —see: <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130423/text/130423w0004.htm#130423w0004. htm_wqn27" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130423/text/130423w0004.htm#130423w0004. htm_wqn27</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?ids2013-11-20a.175002.h&amp;s=Vaz+0845#g175002.q0" target="_blank">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?ids2013-11-20a.175002.h&amp;s=Vaz+0845#g175002.q0</a></p><p>The number of 08 numbers used by the department has fallen by 55% since December 2009.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

41937

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what length of custodial sentence was given to each foreign national returned to their home country as part of the EU Prisoner Transfer Agreement in each year since that agreement came into force; and how long each had left to serve at the time of the repatriation.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	191086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA (The EU PTA) entered into force on 5<sup>th</sup> December 2011.</p><p> </p><p>To date 18 Member States (including the United Kingdom) have implemented the Agreement. The European Court of Justice will have jurisdiction over the measure from 1 December 2014 and Member States may face infraction proceedings if they have not implemented the Agreement by then.</p><p> </p><p>Use of the EU PTA is an early stage and the number of prisoners transferred remains low. However, we expect to see a significant increase in the number of prisoner transferred once the Agreement has been implemented by all Member States.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To date 17 prisoners have been transferred to other jurisdictions.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the number of prisoners transferred from England and Wales to other EU Member States since the implementation of the EU PTA in December 2011.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Receiving State</p></td><td><p>Year of Transfer</p></td><td><p>Sentence Length</p></td><td><p>Time left to serve in the United Kingdom on the date of transfer</p></td><td><p>Offence Type</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8 Years</p></td><td><p>1016 days</p></td><td><p>Wounding with intent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5 years, 5 months</p></td><td><p>634 days</p></td><td><p>Facilitating illegal entry</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>9 Years</p></td><td><p>1135 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>10 years</p></td><td><p>882 days</p></td><td><p>Death by dangerous driving</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malta</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6 years</p></td><td><p>578 days</p></td><td><p>Sexual offences</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>7 years</p></td><td><p>1043 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>15 years</p></td><td><p>2098 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>10 years</p></td><td><p>1189 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6 years</p></td><td><p>544 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5 years, 3 months</p></td><td><p>437 days</p></td><td><p>Sex offences</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6 years, 6 months</p></td><td><p>793 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5 years, 6 months</p></td><td><p>608 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5 years, 6 months</p></td><td><p>638 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection</p></td><td><p>Not applicable</p></td><td><p>Sexual offences</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4 years, 8 months</p></td><td><p>355 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>7 years</p></td><td><p>705 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4 years</p></td><td><p>388 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the number of British nationals transferred from other EU Member States to England and Wales since the EU PTA entered into force in December 2011. 10 prisoners have been transferred.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Sentencing State</p></td><td><p>Year of Transfer</p></td><td><p>Sentence Length</p></td><td><p>Time left to serve in custody following transfer</p></td><td><p>Offence Type</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3 years, 11 months</p></td><td><p>415 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5 years</p></td><td><p>476 days</p></td><td><p>Human Trafficking</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8 years</p></td><td><p>1195 days</p></td><td><p>Sexual Offences</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>14 years</p></td><td><p>1324 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3 years</p></td><td><p>146 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2 years</p></td><td><p>124 days</p></td><td><p>Fraud</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5 year, 4 months</p></td><td><p>974 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>9 years, 6 months</p></td><td><p>1617 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2 years, 10 months</p></td><td><p>267 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>15 years, 4 months</p></td><td><p>1847 days</p></td><td><p>Drugs</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>*The figures given in the attached tables relate to England and Wales only. The transfer of prisoners to Scotland and to Northern Ireland is a devolved matter, and is therefore the responsibility of the relevant Minister. </em></p><p> </p><p><em>**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.</em></p><p>All foreign national offenders (FNOs) sentenced to custody are referred to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office" target="_blank">Home Office</a> for them to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p>The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which was introduced in May 2012, we have removed 231 FNOs to date.</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> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 191087 191092 191093 question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan