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1666294

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date	19/10/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Falkland Islands: Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are providing to the government of the Falkland Islands to assist with the provision of mental health services for young people.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL10696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care works with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, to provide health system support to all Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands.</p><p>The public health programme, led by UKHSA, has undertaken several initiatives related to youth mental health which the Falkland Islands have benefitted from, including: an upcoming project with experts in the United Kingdom to deliver support to Overseas Territories in designing and delivering a campaign to improve awareness and understanding of mental health and reduce stigma and discrimination in the community;regular sharing of the latest public health publications, reports and initiatives from the UK and around the world with colleagues in all Overseas Territories, some of which relate to mental health, such as the Every Mind Matters initiative; and establishing networks of health professionals, including clinical psychologists, health promotion leads, psychiatric nurses and school nurses, across the Overseas Territories.</p><p>The networks are a means of peer support for isolated health professionals and an effective approach for sharing good practice in what works in remote island contexts. The Falkland Islands have taken an active role in this network.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 25/10/2023 11:22:26 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1662296

registered interest
date	21/09/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	UNESCO: Membership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the value to the UK of its membership of UNESCO.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL10416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2023 answer text <p>UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) operates within a broad remit in culture, education, science and communication, and information. Research by the UK National Commission for UNESCO in 2020, a body funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, found that UNESCO projects in the UK, ranging from World Heritage Sites to Creative Cities, generate an estimated £151 million of financial benefit to local communities each year and help bring them together to protect and conserve some of the most important places across the country.</p><p>The financial value of the UK's UNESCO designations is only one measure. As a normative organisation it sets international standards across education, science, culture, information and communication, including in pursuit of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 09/10/2023 09:41:13 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1601050

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Life Expectancy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made any assessment of any difference in life expectancy of prisoners to the population a whole; and if so, what is that difference.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL6095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question of 6 March is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten</p><p>House of Lords</p><p>London</p><p>SW1A 0PW</p><p>8 March 2023</p><p>Dear Lord Patten,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking whether any assessment has been made of any difference in life expectancy of prisoners to the population as a whole; and if so, what is that difference (HL6095).</p><p>The ONS produces the National Statistics on life expectancy for the population as a whole, local areas of the United Kingdom and for socioeconomic classes. The ONS have not estimated the life expectancy of prisoners in its regular portfolio of life expectancy releases and would require new complex analyses to produce such statistics.</p><p>Currently, the Ministry of Justice provides official estimates of deaths in prison custody in England and Wales [1] as part of their Safety in custody statistics [2] , with reference to broad cause of death categories assigned prior to coroner’s inquest.</p><p>The ONS produce Experimental Statistics [3] on deaths in prisoners, by linking the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data together to give additional insight into suicide and drug-related deaths in prison custody [4].</p><p> </p><p>[1] Deaths in prison custody, Ministry of Justice.</p><p>[2] Safety in custody statistics, Ministry of Justice</p><p>[3] Experimental Statistics, ONS</p><p>[4] Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody in England and Wales: 2008 to 2019</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/03/2023 14:54:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name PQHL6095 (1).pdf title ONS Response
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1587324

registered interest
date	20/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Neurodiversity: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of prisoners who have neurodivergent conditions; and what plans they have, if any, to introduce a common screening system for these conditions throughout the criminal justice system.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL5704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>In December 2020 the Ministry of Justice commissioned the Justice Inspectorates to conduct ‘An Evidence Review of Neurodiversity in the Criminal Justice System’. The Evidence Review Report, published July 2021, suggests that potentially half of the adult prison population has some form of neurodivergence.</p><p> </p><p>Currently, on prison reception, prisoners are screened to identify neurodivergent need, with 22/23 figures suggesting that 31% of prisoners have some form of neurodivergent need. Full diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disorder, disability or cognitive impairment would be conducted by Healthcare in Prison, which is delivered by the National Health Service England.</p><p> </p><p>On 25 January 2023 the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a six-month update to the Cross-Government Neurodiversity Action Plan. The six-month update details agreement from all criminal justice agencies to adopt a needs identification approach to screening for neurodivergence. Instead of a focus on diagnostic criteria, criminal justice agencies should seek to identify what reasonable adjustments can be made to support neurodivergent people at each stage of the process and this information should be shared between agencies. However, whilst consistency of approach is necessary, it would be inappropriate to use a single tool universally across all agencies because the time available to identify an individual’s needs and the types of reasonable adjustment available will vary at every stage of the system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 06/03/2023 12:41:10 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1543848

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Abuse: Older People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of people aged over 65 who were victims of (1) physical, (2) psychological, and (2) sexual, abuse for the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL3614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.</p><p>A response to the Noble Lord’s Parliamentary Question: HL3614 is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/11/2022 15:03:00 question first ministerially corrected 06/12/2022 16:00:55 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name UKSA_Response_to_PQHL3614.pdf title UKSA Response to PQHL3614 previous answer version 37961 answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name UKSA_Response_to_PQHL3614 (1).pdf title Victims of Abuse
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1543757

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hourglass
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of (1) the work of the charity Hourglass, and (2) its helpline for older people.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL3565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>This government recognises that, although anyone can suffer from domestic abuse, for older victims, abuse may be more hidden and disguised or compounded by other age-related factors such as ill health.</p><p>When tackling domestic abuse, we also understand the importance of specialist and ‘by and for’ services (specialist services that are designed and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve) are vital in providing the tailored support that victims and survivors of domestic abuse need.</p><p>We work closely with and fund organisations providing this support, including Hourglass, which supports elder victims of abuse, including domestic abuse.</p><p>Since 2018, the Home Office has funded Hourglass to enhance their helpline, provide casework support, and train specialist Independent Domestic Violence Advisers. As with all our funded programmes, we hold regular monitoring meetings with Hourglass to understand the impact of this funding. In 2021/22, Hourglass supported over 3,000 cases.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 25/11/2022 11:10:38 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1504666

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Disposal
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the health risks, if any, posed by three-weekly rubbish collections during hot weather.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the health risks of three-weekly collections. Currently only a small minority of local authorities in England provide a three-weekly residual waste collection. The Government supports frequent and comprehensive rubbish and recycling collections. We want to ensure that householders are not inconvenienced by being unable to get rid of putrescent or smelly waste weekly or having insufficient capacity to recycle or to remove residual waste.</p><p>Through new powers in the Environment Act 2021, local authorities will be required to provide a separate food waste collection to every household in England. Local authorities must implement at least weekly food waste collections and should continue to provide residual waste collections at an appropriate frequency, to ensure they are meeting their legal duty and to prevent any build-up of waste that could be harmful to public health.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 26/09/2022 13:21:27 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1504740

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Labour Turnover
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the turnover of prison officers in each of the last five years, and (2) their ability to recruit prison officers needed to staff any planned new prisons.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The leaving rate for prisons officers can be accessed online through HMPPS workforce quarterly, the most recent of which was for June 2022. The table below contains the leaving rate for Band 3-5 Prison officers in each of past five years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Leaving Rate (%)[1]</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019</strong></p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020</strong></p></td><td><p>12.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021</strong></p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022</strong></p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022</strong></p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong><em>Source: HMPPS Workforce Quarterly, June 2022</em></strong></p><p>[1] Leaving rate denotes the percentage of staff with a permanent contract of employment who left HMPPS, including individuals who have retired early, but excluding staff who left due to voluntary early departure schemes and redundancy (VEDSR).</p><p>We are addressing recent increases in leaving rates via dedicated recruitment and retention efforts across the board. We are also working to improve the joining experience of new employees, via increased clarity in marketing materials and increased support for new joiners via Apprenticeship coaches and New Colleague Mentors (since April 2022).</p><p>We hope that the significant rises in pay for prison staff will also help to reduce leaving rates, and we are continuing to use localised market supplements to increase prison officer pay in 18 sites.</p><p>We are committed to providing the high-quality prison places that are needed over the coming years and ensuring that they are adequately resourced and supported by sufficient prison officer staffing levels, as well as other key members of the workforce such as teachers, instructors, chaplaincy and probation staff.</p><p>The staffing requirements for new establishments continue to be assessed and factored into vacancies up to 18 months in advance in order to ensure we recruit on time and build up the experience needed to deliver safe and secure regimes</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/09/2022 13:45:43 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1504741

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Rehabilitation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the quality of the (1) work, (2) education, and (3) training, undertaken by prisoners.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring quality education and work opportunities for prisoners. We use Ofsted inspections, Select Committee reports and other feedback, in addition to our own performance monitoring, to ensure a robust assessment of the quality of work, education and training.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our £200m a year investment to reduce reoffending and cut crime we are delivering a Prisoner Education Service. This will ensure prisoners improve skills such as literacy and numeracy, acquire relevant vocational qualifications, and access employment and training opportunities on release.</p><p> </p><p>This includes designing the next generation of education contracts and holding Governors to account to ensure His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and Ofsted recommendations are acted upon and performance targets are achieved. We are also introducing Employment Advisory Boards in 92 prisons, bringing in business leaders to chair these Boards and work with prisons to increase the employability of prisoners and introduce new job and work opportunities.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 20/09/2022 10:30:35 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1504743

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time that (1) adult prisoners, and (2) young offenders, are locked in their cells each day.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL2153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>(1) The information requested for adult prisoners is not held by the Ministry of Justice, as it would require the detailed daily monitoring of out of cell activity of each individual prisoner in each prison establishment. We undertake regular monitoring of regime levels in prisons and formally account for all time spent out of cell engaged in regime activities.</p><p>There is no current central instruction prescribing the amount of time prisoners should spend out of their cells, however, there is a clear commitment to the delivery and performance management of time spent in purposeful activity. Governors have the flexibility to deliver balanced regimes that maintain an appropriate level of time out of cell on a range of activities such as education and employment which meet the needs of the establishment’s population with a heavy focus on reducing reoffending. This is alongside basic access to time in the open air and domestic services such showers.</p><p>We do see impact on time spent out of cell that can result from staffing availability and from operational incidents.</p><p>This government has committed to prison regime reform in the Prison Strategy White Paper and will set clearer stands for time spent in prison. A new Purposeful Activity performance measure has been introduced for the 2022/23 performance period which will drive delivery. Additional measures are in place for attendance at work, education, interventions and services. These will over time give more detailed information than that currently available.</p><p>(2) While we do not collect information on time during which young people are locked in their rooms, information is held regarding time spent out of room. In July 2022, the average time out of room offered in Youth Offender Institutions was 5 hours 50 minutes: of that, an average of 5 hours 15 minutes was taken.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy question first answered 21/09/2022 15:31:09 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten