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1461494

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Services: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the contract notice of 31 August 2021 for Youth Education Service Provision, on what date she plans to announce the new supplier of that provision.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>The department is completing a competitive tender exercise for the education contracts in public Young Offender Institutions in England. Once confirmed we will announce the new suppliers of the provision.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/05/2022 16:07:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1219328

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Restraint Techniques
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement of 18 June 2020, Youth Custody, HCWS302, when he plans to place in the Library the two reports on the use of restraint and separation in the secure youth justice estate.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	66951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2020 answer text <p>Copies of these reports have now been deposited in the Library. They can also be viewed via the following links on GOV.UK:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-use-of-pain-inducing-techniques-in-the-youth-secure-estate" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-use-of-pain-inducing-techniques-in-the-youth-secure-estate</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/separation-of-children-in-young-offender-institutions--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/separation-of-children-in-young-offender-institutions--2</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 06/07/2020 15:19:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1345329

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Location
	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 English child prisoners are living in custodial establishments in (a) Wales and (b) Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	29864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2021 answer text <p>The Youth Custody Service (YCS) does not hold central figures which break down whether children under their care were born in England. Any child sentenced in England or Wales would be held in an English or Welsh establishment.</p><p> </p><p>The criminal justice system of Scotland is devolved to the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice does not hold any information about children born in England who are subsequently held in the Scottish secure estate.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 13/07/2021 15:01:11 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1061124

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Working Links
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Working Links who hold the contract to supervise offenders on supervision in Wales and South West England has ceased to trade.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	221803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the written statement the Secretary of State made to the House on 18 February. Our central priority is of course to protect the public, ensuring that we have the right supervision of offenders in place, and that probation staff are supported in their important work.</p><p> </p><p>Working Links (Employment) Limited and its three Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRC): Wales CRC; Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire CRC; and Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC went into administration on 14 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>As a part of its contingency approach to this pending event the MOJ undertook a competitive process inviting participation from all those CRCs that could take on the additional services in Wales and the South West without breaching the 25% Market Share Cap applied in the original Transforming Rehabilitation procurement in 2014. This led to the selection of Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) CRC as our preferred provider with whom we then conducted detailed commercial negotiations prior to entering into contract on Friday 15 February.</p><p> </p><p>In line with plans for future probation delivery in Wales, we intend for offender management services in Wales to be transferred to HMPPS before the end of the current contractual period and we will work with KSS to accelerate this process. We will announce plans later this year for the future of the probation system as a whole, following termination of CRC contracts in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 221805 question first answered 21/02/2019 16:41:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1061125

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Working Links
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that employees of Working Links in Wales and South West England will continue to be paid if their employer ceases to trade.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	221804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the written statement the Secrtary of State made to the House on 18 February. Our central priority is of course to protect the public, ensuring that we have the right supervision of offenders in place, and that probation staff are supported in their important work.</p><p> </p><p>You will be aware that Working Links (Employment) Limited and its three Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRC): Wales CRC; Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire CRC; and Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC went into administration on 14 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>In order to maintain service continuity, we transferred the services previously provided by the Working Links’ CRCs to Kent, Surrey and Sussex CRC (owned by Seetec) on 15 February 2019. Provision is in place to ensure that all former Working Links CRC staff will be paid as normal this month.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/02/2019 16:42:14 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1061126

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Working Links
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether in the event of Working Links ceasing to trade there will be a tendering process for the continued supervision of offenders in Wales and the South West of England.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	221805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the written statement the Secretary of State made to the House on 18 February. Our central priority is of course to protect the public, ensuring that we have the right supervision of offenders in place, and that probation staff are supported in their important work.</p><p> </p><p>Working Links (Employment) Limited and its three Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRC): Wales CRC; Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire CRC; and Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC went into administration on 14 February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>As a part of its contingency approach to this pending event the MOJ undertook a competitive process inviting participation from all those CRCs that could take on the additional services in Wales and the South West without breaching the 25% Market Share Cap applied in the original Transforming Rehabilitation procurement in 2014. This led to the selection of Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) CRC as our preferred provider with whom we then conducted detailed commercial negotiations prior to entering into contract on Friday 15 February.</p><p> </p><p>In line with plans for future probation delivery in Wales, we intend for offender management services in Wales to be transferred to HMPPS before the end of the current contractual period and we will work with KSS to accelerate this process. We will announce plans later this year for the future of the probation system as a whole, following termination of CRC contracts in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 221803 question first answered 21/02/2019 16:41:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1216977

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Prisons: Self-harm
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of self-harm have been recorded in women’s prisons since 31 March 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	63447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>We publish data on the number of incidents of self-harm recorded across the prison estate as part of our Safety in Custody statistics. Figures for the period up to 31<sup>st</sup> March 2020 will be published on 30th July 2020.</p><p>The most recent quarterly figures (up to December 2019), showed an increase in self-harm incidents in women’s prisons with 3243 incidents recorded, compared with 2995 incidents in the quarter up to September 2019.</p><p>The level of self-harm in women’s is too high and we are determined to address this. Our women’s estate psychology services (WEPS) have previously developed specialist interventions designed to support the most complex women within our care, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic they have continued to support both staff and residents where it is safe to do so.</p><p>We are continuing to provide care and support to people at risk of self-harm or suicide through ACCT (Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork) case management. We have issued guidance to establishments during the pandemic so they can ensure that ACCT processes continue during the restricted regimes.</p><p>Across the prison estate, we have also given over 25,000 staff better training to spot and prevent self-harm and are investing an extra £2.75 billion to modernise prisons, combat drug use and improve the environment in which prisoners live.</p><p>As well as this, we have refreshed our partnership with the Samaritans which supports the excellent Listeners scheme, through which selected prisoners are trained to provide emotional support to their fellow prisoners.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 29/06/2020 14:10:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1697491

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Women's Centres: Swansea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on establishment of the residential women’s centre in Swansea.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	19654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Planning approval for the Residential Women’s Centre at the Trehafod site in Cockett, Swansea, was granted by the Welsh Government’s Planning Environment Decisions Wales in August 2023, following an appeal by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Due to delays and uncertainty in securing this planning approval, the MoJ has a number of ongoing steps to re-mobilise the project and continues to work closely with partners in Wales.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/03/2024 15:24:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1132943

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Winchester Prison: Occupational Health
	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 13 June 2019 to Question 260703 on Prisons: Occupational Health, how many occupational health assessments have been carried out in HMP Winchester in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	266239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Prison</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedford</p></td><td><p>Chelmsford</p></td><td><p>Lindholme</p></td><td><p>Long Lartin</p></td><td><p>Wincester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-18</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-18</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-18</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-18</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-18</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Totals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>226</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>287</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>246</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>339</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>306</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These data have been collated from all Occupational Health Assessments, including</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 266238 266240 266241 266242 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:56:52 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1468153

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Vagrancy Act 1824: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) charged and (b) prosecuted under the Vagrancy Act 1824 in each police force area in Wales each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	13794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government accepts that the Vagrancy Act 1824 is outdated and has recently consulted on proposed replacement legislation for the Act. The Act will be repealed with delayed commencement under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities are working on replacement legislation.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions for offences under the Vagrancy Act 1824, by police force area, for 2017 to 2021, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx</a>.</p><p>The same information back to 2013 is available in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code’ data tool, available here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063892/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020-revised.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063892/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020-revised.xlsx</a>.</p><p>Please see the attached table for the number of prosecutions by police force areas in Wales for 2012.</p><p>In the data tool linked above, you can use the ‘Offence code’ filter to select the offences of interest. The following is a list of offences that fall within the Vagrancy Act 1824:</p><ul><li>10431 – Resisting or obstructing a constable in execution of duty - offences under the Vagrancy Act 1824</li><li>18200 – Wandering abroad or being in any street etc to beg or gather alms or causing or procuring any child so to do</li><li>18300 – Wandering abroad and lodging in any barn, outhouse, deserted or unoccupied building, etc. or in the open air, etc.</li><li>18501 – Being on enclosed premises for an unlawful purpose</li><li>18801 – Any petty chapman or peddler trading without a licence</li><li>18805 – Collecting alms or endeavouring to procure charitable contributions by fraudulent pretence</li></ul><p>To isolate data for each police force area in Wales, use the ‘Police force area’ filter to select:</p><ul><li>North Wales</li><li>South Wales</li><li>Dyfed-Powys</li><li>Gwent</li></ul><p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on charges given.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 13/06/2022 16:50:50 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 2022-06-13 PQ 13794 -2012 table .xlsx title 13794_table
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts