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1000239

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number places in residential women's centres that were funded by the Government in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	187366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The publication of the female offender strategy on 27 June is the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders at all points of the justice system. It sets out our vision to see fewer women in custody, especially on short-term sentences, and a greater proportion of women managed in the community successfully.</p><p> </p><p>Our vision for the ‘residential women’s centres’ pilot is the provision of an intensive residential support package in the community for women at risk of, or having served, short custodial sentences. The intention is to divert them from custody where appropriate and support them to address the underlying causes of their offending behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>We are not aware of any past or existing provision that fully accords with this, therefore we are unable to provide any information about how many places in women’s residential centres were funded by the Government in each year since 2010. However, there are several similar small-scale models such as Willowdene Farm, Anawim and Threshold Housing First, whose experiences and knowledge will be used to inform the work undertaken in the residential women’s centres pilot.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 12/11/2018 17:22:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1010652

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
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 12 November 2018 to Question 187366, how many places in residential women's centres were funded by the Government in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	193548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>As I said in the answer to 187366, our vision of residential women’s centres is new we are not aware of any past or existing provision which fully accords with it. We therefore did not fund any places in residential women’s centres in 2016.</p><p>The Government is looking to develop a residential women’s centre pilot in at least five sites across England and Wales as part of its commitments within the female offender strategy.The aim of the pilot will be to develop a robust evidence base about what could be effective, sustainable and scalable models for improving outcomes for female offenders and reducing the numbers and frequency of women entering and re-entering custody on short custodial sentences.We will take a consultative approach for designing and delivering the pilot models, engaging with potential providers, partners, and investors, both nationally and locally. We want to ensure that the models we take forward are sustainable, credible and appropriate for the local context of each site.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/11/2018 14:50:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1111193

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to improve the management of female offenders in the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	243451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>In June 2018, the Government published its Female Offender Strategy which set out the vision to see fewer women coming into the criminal justice system, a greater proportion managed successfully in the community, and better conditions for those in custody.</p><p> </p><p>Since publishing the strategy, the Government has invested £5m to support community provision for female offenders and women at risk of offending. In December 2018, we published updated operational instruction and guidance with the ‘Women’s Policy Framework’ and we plan to publish a national concordat on female offenders this summer.</p><p> </p><p>In the strategy we committed to developing a ‘residential women’s centre’ pilot in at least 5 sites across England and Wales. We have recently concluded our first phase of consultation with stakeholders, partners and providers to inform our scoping and will continue to consult with partners as we refine the design and delivery of the pilot.</p><p> </p><p>We also look forward to receiving the findings and recommendations from Lord Farmer’s review on the importance of family ties for women in custody and community, which is due to be reported to Ministers in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/04/2019 13:15:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1136969

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to (a) disseminate and (b) monitor the implementation of the police guidance entitled Managing vulnerability: women, fact pack.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	273386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>In June 2018, the Government published its Female Offender Strategy which set out the vision to see fewer women coming into the criminal justice system, a greater proportion managed successfully in the community, and better conditions for those in custody. To support these aims, the Government, together with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), also published guidance for the police on working with vulnerable women.</p><p> </p><p>The NPCC shared the police guidance with chief officers, for dissemination within their forces and the APCC have circulated the guidance to all Police and Crime Commissioners. The MoJ will work with the APCC and NPCC to evaluate the impact of the guidance and consider any next steps.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 11/07/2019 12:53:34 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1142785

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the female offender strategy.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	284426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Female Offender Strategy set out our vision to see fewer women coming into the criminal justice system and in custody, and better conditions for those women who need to be in custody. The strategy launched an ambitious programme of work which will take will take several years to deliver. We are committed to monitoring progress over time and taking action to deliver the outcomes we set out to achieve.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken stock of progress in the first year and published an update on our progress in a Written Ministerial Statement on 27 June 2019: https://www.parliament.uk/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-06-27/HCWS1662 . A number of key achievements are set out below:</p><p>• In December 2018, we published a new Women’s Policy Framework to replace Prison Order 4800. It sets out the duties, rules and general guidance for prison and probation staff who work with women</p><ul><li>A new modular training package, POWER, has been devised and rolled out to develop the skills and knowledge of staff working with women in a custodial and community setting.</li><li>New female pathways have been introduced by NHS England within their Liaison and Diversion services.</li><li>On 18 June 2019, we published Lord Farmer’s Review on the importance of family ties for women. We commissioned Lord Farmer to undertake a follow-up review into the importance of family ties for female offenders.</li><li>Across government, we have invested £5m in women’s centres and other community services for women in 2018/19 and 2019/20. This includes funding to support the almost 60% of female offenders who have experienced domestic abuse. This funding will help to sustain and enhance existing services, and will create new services where there is currently a gap.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We continue to monitor the impact of the strategy and be scrutinised on progress in its delivery through the Advisory Board on Female Offenders, a minister-led board of external stakeholders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 11:34:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

1149039

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Queen's speech 2019, whether his Department's priorities for the Female Offender Strategy have changed.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>We are clear that sentencing must match the severity of a crime and public protection is our priority. The Sentencing Bill, announced in the Queens Speech, will contain a range of measures targeted at the most serious violent and sexual offenders to ensure their punishment reflects the severity of their crimes. It will also contain proposals for community penalties that offer an appropriate level of punishment, while tackling the underlying drivers of offending. While custody should be available as a last resort, if we are to break the cycle of reoffending, solutions will often lie in community sentences, including those which address offenders’ behaviour, answer their mental health and alcohol or drug misuse needs, or provide reparation for the benefit of the wider community.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to the vision and aims set out in our Female Offender Strategy (June 2018); which aims to see fewer women in custody. There is persuasive evidence that many women, particularly on short custodial sentences, can be better supported in the community on robust and effective community sentences. Where a woman needs to be in custody, we want to provide rehabilitative regimes specifically tailored to women’s needs to break the reoffending cycle. However, we know that for many vulnerable women, with the right support at the right time, there are opportunities to prevent them from entering the criminal justice system at all. Publication of the Strategy was the start of a new and significant programme of work to deliver better outcomes for female offenders that will take some years to deliver.</p><p> </p><p>Lord Farmer’s review, The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders' Family and other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime, continued his work on the importance of family ties in improving outcomes for offenders, by looking at the issues for female offenders in the community and custody. We welcome the findings and recommendations of the review and we are committed to taking this important area of work forward. The 33 recommendations cover a number of Government departments, and officials are working at pace to see how we can best give effect to them in both the short and longer term. We have accepted Lord Farmer’s recommendation for this work to be embedded into joint policy and operational Family Strategy Working Group (FWSG), which is already taking forward implementation of the original Farmer Review. We are reporting to Lord Farmer with progress on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 367 368 369 question first answered 23/10/2019 16:35:30 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1178455

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
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 the development a national concordat on female offenders.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	2053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>In the Female Offender Strategy, published in June 2018, we committed to publish a National Concordat on Female Offenders. We are making good progress and aim to publish the Concordat in the next few months. On 6 February, we held a workshop with members of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders where we shared our current working draft. We received many helpful comments and constructive feedback and are revising the document to take those suggestions into account.</p><p>The Concordat will set out how national organisations as well as local partners and services should be working together in partnership to identify and respond to the often multiple and complex needs of women who are in contact with, or at risk of coming into contact with, the criminal justice system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/02/2020 13:57:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1185797

registered interest
date	17/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what community-based pilot schemes for women-only offenders are in operation; what the reasons are for such schemes; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	30716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>There is currently one community based pilot scheme for women offenders only. This is the Women’s Offender Management Complexity Pilot. The Pilot is operating in 2 Probation Delivery Units (PDUs) in Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The rationale for this pilot is that existing Offender Management (OM) models have been derived from information about the whole offender population of which women make up only a tiny proportion. They are therefore more representative of male offending patterns than female.</p><p>Learning from this Pilot is being shared with the Probation Reform Programme, to inform the future design of probation services, and the learning is also being tested for its relevance to the whole (ie male and female) caseload.</p><p> </p><p>There are other community based pilots ongoing that are looking at the whole of the probation caseload, but that include cohorts of women. These are:</p><ul><li>The Bail Information Service pilots which will operate across seven locations in the North West (Liverpool, Bolton, Manchester x 2, Blackburn and Preston Magistrates Court as well as HMP Styal). This Pilot is for men and women. The Pilot sites will be promoting and providing a bail information service, with the aim of diverting suitable defendants from remand in custody.</li><li>The Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) Pilots - Through the Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) Programme, health and justice partners are working together to improve access to timely and appropriate mental health and substance misuse services for the offenders who need them. The Programme aims to ensure greater use is made of mental health, alcohol and drug treatment requirements as part of community sentences, supporting efforts to reduce reoffending. The pilots are for men and women, operating from 12 sites including 5 women only sites.</li></ul><p> </p><p>It remains our intention to Pilot residential women’s centres, as set out in our Female Offender Strategy.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/03/2020 10:14:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1192900

registered interest
date	04/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress his Department has made on the implementation of the Female Offender Strategy.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	42961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The Female Offender Strategy (2018) set out our vision to see fewer women entering the justice system and reoffending; fewer women in custody, particularly on short custodial sentences, with more managed successfully in the community; and a custodial environment that enables rehabilitation. The strategy launched an ambitious programme of work to improve outcomes for female offenders and make society safer by tackling the underlying causes of offending and reoffending. This will take several years to deliver.</p><p>Almost two years on from publication of the Strategy we are making good progress. We have invested £5.1 million Strategy funding in 30 different women’s services across England and Wales, helping to sustain and enhance existing services, fill gaps in provision, and provide properties for new women’s centres. Other achievements include publication of a new Women’s Policy Framework; roll-out of new training for staff working with women in custody and the community; improvements to the preparation of pre-sentence reports; publication and ongoing implementation of the recommendations in Lord Farmer’s review into family ties for female offenders; undertaken a review of police forces’ responses to our guidance on working with vulnerable women; piloting a new offender management model for women under supervision in the community; commissioning research to inform our policy on BAME female offenders; and a review of the operational policy on Pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units, and Mothers separated from children under the age of 2 in prison which is due to report shortly.</p><p>On 5 May 2020, we announced the investment of a further £2.5m in women’s community services in England and Wales in 2020/21, supporting them to tackle the root causes of offending and help women to turn their lives around. We also announced that the first site of our residential women’s centre pilot will be located in Wales. This will provide accommodation for vulnerable women with complex needs who would otherwise be sentenced to custody, enabling them to stay closer to home and maintain important family ties, and will directly tackle the issues which often underlie offending, like substance misuse and mental health. We will now work with Welsh Government and partners in Wales to identify a provider and site, with the aim of opening the centre by the end of next year.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 13/05/2020 16:13:59 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1221599

registered interest
date	07/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to implement the Female Offender Strategy 2018 and support women’s transition back into the community through securing employment.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	70444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The Female Offender Strategy (2018) set out our vision to see fewer women entering the justice system and reoffending; fewer women in custody, particularly on short custodial sentences, with more managed successfully in the community; and a custodial environment that enables rehabilitation. The Strategy contained an ambitious programme of work that will take several years to deliver.</p><p>Two years on from publication of the Strategy we are making good progress. Achievements to date include: publication of a new Women’s Policy Framework; roll-out of new training for staff working with women in custody and the community; improvements to the preparation of pre-sentence reports; publication and ongoing implementation of the recommendations in Lord Farmer’s review into family ties for female offenders; undertaken a review of police forces’ responses to our guidance on working with vulnerable women; piloting a new offender management model for women under supervision in the community; commissioning research to inform our policy on BAME female offenders; and a review of the operational policy on Pregnancy, Mother and Baby Units, and Mothers separated from children under the age of 2 in prison, which is due to report shortly.</p><p>In the last two years, we have invested £5.1 million of Strategy funding in 30 different women’s services across England and Wales, helping to sustain and enhance existing services, fill gaps in provision, and provide properties for new women’s centres.</p><p>The Strategy recognised that work can provide a foundation for a different kind of life for offenders and our funding has supported this approach. For example, the Good Loaf in Northampton received Strategy funding to extend its social enterprise bakery, offering more employment opportunities for female offenders and ex-offenders.</p><p>Most recently on 5 May 2020, we announced the investment of a further £2.5m in women’s community services in England and Wales in 2020/21 and that the first site of our residential women’s centre pilot will be in Wales.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/07/2020 16:17:01 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris