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	registered interest
	date	09/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the national youth justice budget was in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	208784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer my honourable member to a previous answer of 26 November 2013 to question 176385, HC Deb 26 Nov 2013: Column 234W, which provides the Youth Justice Board’s budget for the past five years:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131126/text/131126w0003.htm#13112677002849" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131126/text/131126w0003.htm#13112677002849</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 12/09/2014 08:58:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

91125

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's strategy is on the future of the Probation Service.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	905255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>Overall reoffending rates have barely changed over the last decade. Under our Transforming Rehabilitation Reforms, we will draw on the best services from across the public, private and voluntary sectors so that we can deliver better rehabilitation support to more offenders, reduce the number of potential victims and make our communities safer. For the first time in recent history, virtually every offender released from custody will receive statutory supervision and rehabilitation in the community.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/09/2014 16:17:20 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

427796

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) maximum time taken by his Department to process applications for a warrant to transfer inmates to a (i) mental health unit and (ii) to a different ward within a mental health unit was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	15828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 18/11/2015 09:46:07 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

427242

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drones carrying contraband goods have been seized within prison grounds in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	15648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>There were no reported incidents of drones carrying contraband being seized within prisons in 2013; in 2014 there were two reported incidents; and between 1 January 2015 and 31 October 2015 there were eight reported incidents.</p><br /><p>This Government has made it a criminal offence under the Prison Act 1952 to throw, or otherwise project, any article of substance into prison without authorisation. This includes the use of a drone.</p><br /><p>These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/11/2015 11:45:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

425459

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions his Department has had with the Department of Health on the rate of people taking their own lives in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	14466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to reducing the rate of self-inflicted deaths in prisons.</p><br /><p>My department works closely with the Department of Health on measures to reduce suicide in prisons and in the wider community. Both the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Quality and I are members of the Ministerial Board on Deaths in Custody, which also includes the Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice and Victims, senior officials from our respective departments and a range of stakeholders. There was a detailed discussion of the recent data on self-inflicted deaths in prisons at the most recent meeting of the Board on 21 October and further consideration of this topic is planned at the February meeting.</p><br /><p>Healthcare staff in prisons play an important role in the identification and management of prisoners at risk of self-harm and suicide. Commissioners and providers of healthcare services are active partners with the National Offender Management Service in its work to prevent self-inflicted deaths in prisons.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 05/11/2015 09:35:28 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

425765

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cause of death was on each occasion when a person took their own life in prison in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	14517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2015 answer text <p>Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in prisons.</p><br /><p>Data on deaths in custody is included in the quarterly ‘Safety in Custody’ statistics, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a></p><br /><p>These are accompanied by more detailed annual data tables, including, table 1.12 showing the method used in all self-inflicted deaths in prison custody from 1999 to 2014.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 06/11/2015 13:19:42 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

427795

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) number of suicides took place and (b) what this number is as a proportion of the total by individuals who were not on the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork programme in prison in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	15827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in prisons. Information on all deaths in prison custody can be found in the Safety in Custody statistics which are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a>. The National Offender Management Service records “self-inflicted deaths” rather than “suicides” as a category of incident, as the intention of the prisoner may not be known reliably. These statistics are published quarterly, and the most recent publication contains information on deaths in custody up to 30 September. The next set of statistics will be published on 28 January 2016.</p><br /><p>Prisoners identified as being at heightened risk of suicide or self-harm are cared for under the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) process. An individual ‘care map’ will be put in place and kept under review to make sure it remains suitable.</p><br /><p>The table below shows most recently published statistics for the number of self-inflicted deaths in each period since 2010, and the number and proportion of prisoners not on an open ACCT at the time of death.</p><table><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="6"><p>12 months ending</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Sep 10</p></td><td><p>Sep 11</p></td><td><p>Sep 12</p></td><td><p>Sep 13</p></td><td><p>Sep 14</p></td><td><p>Sep 15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong>Number of self-inflicted deaths</p></td><td><p><strong>60</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>59</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>57</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>64</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>95</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br> Not on an open ACCT</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion not on an open ACCT</p></td><td><p><em>77%</em></p></td><td><p><em>69%</em></p></td><td><p><em>68%</em></p></td><td><p><em>66%</em></p></td><td><p><em>69%</em></p></td><td><p><em>59%</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Independent investigations into every death in custody are conducted by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, and, where applicable, the use of ACCT will be considered as part of these investigations. The reports are available at: <a href="http://www.ppo.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.ppo.gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 01/12/2015 16:23:06 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

438683

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: 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 there were of (a) self-harm, (b) attempted self-inflicted death and (c) self-inflicted death by prisoners on remand in each year since 2010; and what proportion of all prisoners on remand such incidents represented in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	20192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>Every death in custody is a tragedy, and we are committed to reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths and self-harm incidents in prisons. Since 2010 the number of self-harm incidents and self-inflicted deaths by prisoners on remand has fallen significantly. All prisons are required to have procedures in place to identify, manage and support people who are at risk of harm to themselves, and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has put in place additional resources to undertake this safer custody work. NOMS has also reviewed case management process for prisoners assessed as being at risk and will be acting on the recommendations in due course.</p><br /><p>The national statistics on safety in custody use the following categories: self-harm incidents are defined as “any act where a prisoner deliberately harms themselves irrespective of the method, intent or severity of any injury”; and self-inflicted deaths are defined as “any death of a person who has apparently taken his or her own life, irrespective of intent.” They do not include a separate category of “attempted self-inflicted death”, because the intent of the prisoner is often unknown. Some incidents are more likely to result in a fatality than others, but the point at which a self-harm incident becomes an attempted self-inflicted death is unclear. For this reason, the tables below include the answers to parts (a) and (c) of the question only. It is not possible to provide the proportion of prisoners that self-harm incidents relate to, as more than one incident may be attributed to the same individual. Instead, a rate per 1,000 prisoners has been provided.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Self-harm incidents by prisoners on remand, England and Wales, 2010 to 2014</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2010</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2011</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2012</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2013</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2014</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Number of incidents</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">7,746</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,302</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">3,820</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">3,688</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">3,913</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Incidents per 1,000 remand prisoners</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">596</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">413</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">327</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">332</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">325</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Self-inflicted deaths by prisoners on remand, England and Wales, 2010 to 2014</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2010</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2011</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2012</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2013</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2014</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Number of deaths</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">29</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">20</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">17</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">24</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">18</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Deaths per 1,000 remand prisoners</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2.2</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1.6</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1.5</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2.2</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1.5</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><br /> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 05/01/2016 11:47:26 question first ministerially corrected 06/01/2016 09:57:38 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous previous answer version 37398 answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

577606

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Secure Psychiatric Units
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners sent to secure mental health units for assessment or treatment subsequently returned to prison in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	45393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>This information is published on gov.uk</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 12/09/2016 16:20:14 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

433851

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners with mental health problems; how many and what proportion of such prisoners are (a) men and (b) women; and how many and what proportion of such prisoners identify as LGBT.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	18596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government has carried out a survey of prisoners assessing levels of mental health problems within the male and female estate. A link to that report can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220060/gender-substance-misuse-mental-health-prisoners.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220060/gender-substance-misuse-mental-health-prisoners.pdf</a></p><br /><p>We do not hold data on the proportion of the prison population who suffer from mental health problems and identify as LGBT.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 07/12/2015 17:48:29 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger