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657221

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many extra days imprisonment have been given to prisoners for assaults committed on (a) fellow prisoners and (b) prison staff in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	56955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>We want our prisons to be places of safety and reform, and so it is right that offenders who break prison rules are properly punished. Where this amounts to a criminal offence, prisoners should expect to be investigated by the police and face more serious sanctions.</p><p>We are committed to improving safety across the prison estate and are already taking action. This includes tackling the use of drugs, mobile phones and drones, while recruiting new staff and improving protection for staff.</p><p>Information on the number of additional days awarded to prisoners as a result of adjudications for assaults against staff and prisoners in each of the last five years can be found in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/12/2016 17:43:03 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2017 13:57:50 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name 56955 - table.xlsx title assaults against staff & prisoners - adjudications previous answer version 26782 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

758810

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) e-cigarettes and (b) tobacco products were sold in prison shops in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	9456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Numbers of units of e-cigarettes, vaping products and tobacco items sold in prisons in England and Wales in each month for the last year are as set out in the attached annex.</p><p>Prisons are rolling out the smoke free policy, subject to a series of assessments which will test the operational stability, readiness and health readiness of the prisons to implement the policy in a safe, decent and secure way. HMPPS’ health partners in England and Wales are fully involved in supporting prisoners with appropriate smoking cessation services in place.</p><p>The open estate across England and Wales has been smoke free indoors since October 2015.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/09/2017 10:59:45 question first ministerially corrected 15/09/2017 15:01:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name 9456 Annex A.docx title Number of Products Sold in Prisons previous answer version 11646 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name 9456 Annex A.docx title Number of Products Sold in Prisons
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

804361

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Custodial Treatment: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2017 to Question HL 3476, on Custodial Treatment: Private Sector, how much was paid out of the public purse to private providers in each year since 2010 for the management of custodial sentences; what the total planned expenditure to private providers will be in each year up to 2020 and which private companies he estimates will receive the largest amount of funding in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	118434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Full Year Forecast (At end of November 2017)</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Draft </strong><strong>Medium Term Financial Planning (MTFP) Budgetary Estimates, for planning purposes and not yet agreed or allocated as budgets</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£469,511,861</p></td><td><p>£479,914,867</p></td><td><p>£492,105,132</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The provider projected to receive the largest sum over the years in question is G4S as the operator in a total of five of the fourteen privately managed prisons in England and Wales. The amounts shown in the summary above are inclusive of payments to Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) which act as the prime contractors for three of those five privately managed prisons and pay G4S to operate them.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 16:23:47 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

793926

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Resignations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State, how many and what proportion of prison officers have resigned from the service in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	115015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The number of Band 3-5 officers who have resigned from HMPPS each year since 2010 can be found in table 11b in the latest set of HMPPS workforce Statistics bulletin at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-september-2017</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/11/2017 17:30:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

792984

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State what the original estimated contract value was for each Community Rehabilitation Company contract; what the initial contract value was for each Community Rehabilitation Company prior to the interim agreement modifications; what the actual contract value was for each Community Rehabilitation Company before the second contract modifications; and what the contract value was for each Community Rehabilitation Company after the second modifications.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	114769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>We have made changes to how CRCs are paid for future years so they can focus on activities that best rehabilitate offenders and keep society safe. This additional investment will see projected payments to providers being no higher than originally budgeted for at the time of the reforms.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/11/2017 17:29:48 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name PQ 114769 Richard Burgon CRC Contract Values - Table.doc title 114769 - Table
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

715729

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement of 22 March 2017 on plans to create additional prison places, for how long HMP (a) Hindley and (b) Rochester will be closed during their rebuild; and to which prisons prisoners and prison staff will be relocated to in the first instance.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	69999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>We will close down ageing and ineffective prisons, replacing them with buildings fit for today’s demands. We are investing £1.3bn to build up to 10,000 modern prison places with better education facilities and other rehabilitative services. On 22 March 2017, my Rt Hon friend, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice announced plans for the building of four new prisons in England and Wales, replacing old and overcrowded establishments with new, fit for purpose buildings.</p><p> </p><p>We expect that the redevelopment work at HMP Hindley and HMP Rochester will take around two and a half years.</p><p> </p><p>We will work with HMP Rochester’s and HMP Hindley’s management teams to make sure the prison’s staffing is sufficient to run the establishment safely and effectively until it closes. Retaining highly skilled, committed staff is hugely important to the success of the Prison Service, so we will seek to permanently redeploy staff into posts in other locations, but they are free to apply for jobs that are advertised through normal vacancy filling arrangements. We expect to be able to transfer all staff to other establishments.</p><p> </p><p>Once we have a planned date for closure we will then identify those prisoners that will require a move to another prison.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has had a number of discussions with the relevant MPs and Councils in developing its plans for the new and redeveloped prison sites. The Government welcomes feedback on the development of its plans for the prison estate and will undertake public engagement events within the local areas relevant to the locations made in the announcement of 22 March 2017. Opportunities for local residents, businesses and stakeholders to provide additional feedback is also available through the formal local planning application process. We will work with Parliamentary colleagues in the development of these plans.</p><p> </p><p>We will work closely with Local Authorities; NHS trusts; and police forces to ensure services such as Health, Education, Social Services and Accommodation are involved in planning for the new prison right from the start.</p><p> </p><p>At this stage it is too early to give an estimate of the cost of designing and building the new prison but we will seek to ensure value for money for taxpayers. We are currently developing the operating specifications for new prisons.</p><p> </p><p>No decision has been taken on the future operation of these sites but we will be considering this issue and make a decision in good time for their opening.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 70003 70004 70007 question first answered 18/04/2017 11:17:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

715725

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement of 22 March 2017 on plans for four new prisons, whether those prisons will be operated by HM Prisons and Probation Service.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	70007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>We will close down ageing and ineffective prisons, replacing them with buildings fit for today’s demands. We are investing £1.3bn to build up to 10,000 modern prison places with better education facilities and other rehabilitative services. On 22 March 2017, my Rt Hon friend, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice announced plans for the building of four new prisons in England and Wales, replacing old and overcrowded establishments with new, fit for purpose buildings.</p><p> </p><p>We expect that the redevelopment work at HMP Hindley and HMP Rochester will take around two and a half years.</p><p> </p><p>We will work with HMP Rochester’s and HMP Hindley’s management teams to make sure the prison’s staffing is sufficient to run the establishment safely and effectively until it closes. Retaining highly skilled, committed staff is hugely important to the success of the Prison Service, so we will seek to permanently redeploy staff into posts in other locations, but they are free to apply for jobs that are advertised through normal vacancy filling arrangements. We expect to be able to transfer all staff to other establishments.</p><p> </p><p>Once we have a planned date for closure we will then identify those prisoners that will require a move to another prison.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has had a number of discussions with the relevant MPs and Councils in developing its plans for the new and redeveloped prison sites. The Government welcomes feedback on the development of its plans for the prison estate and will undertake public engagement events within the local areas relevant to the locations made in the announcement of 22 March 2017. Opportunities for local residents, businesses and stakeholders to provide additional feedback is also available through the formal local planning application process. We will work with Parliamentary colleagues in the development of these plans.</p><p> </p><p>We will work closely with Local Authorities; NHS trusts; and police forces to ensure services such as Health, Education, Social Services and Accommodation are involved in planning for the new prison right from the start.</p><p> </p><p>At this stage it is too early to give an estimate of the cost of designing and building the new prison but we will seek to ensure value for money for taxpayers. We are currently developing the operating specifications for new prisons.</p><p> </p><p>No decision has been taken on the future operation of these sites but we will be considering this issue and make a decision in good time for their opening.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 69999 70003 70004 question first answered 18/04/2017 11:17:53 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

715731

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement of 22 March 2017 on plans for four new prisons, what the (a) certified normal accommodation and (b) operating capacity at each establishment will be; and what the benchmarked numbers for (i) prison officers and (ii) operational support grade staff will be at each such establishment.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	70004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>We will close down ageing and ineffective prisons, replacing them with buildings fit for today’s demands. We are investing £1.3bn to build up to 10,000 modern prison places with better education facilities and other rehabilitative services. On 22 March 2017, my Rt Hon friend, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice announced plans for the building of four new prisons in England and Wales, replacing old and overcrowded establishments with new, fit for purpose buildings.</p><p> </p><p>We expect that the redevelopment work at HMP Hindley and HMP Rochester will take around two and a half years.</p><p> </p><p>We will work with HMP Rochester’s and HMP Hindley’s management teams to make sure the prison’s staffing is sufficient to run the establishment safely and effectively until it closes. Retaining highly skilled, committed staff is hugely important to the success of the Prison Service, so we will seek to permanently redeploy staff into posts in other locations, but they are free to apply for jobs that are advertised through normal vacancy filling arrangements. We expect to be able to transfer all staff to other establishments.</p><p> </p><p>Once we have a planned date for closure we will then identify those prisoners that will require a move to another prison.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has had a number of discussions with the relevant MPs and Councils in developing its plans for the new and redeveloped prison sites. The Government welcomes feedback on the development of its plans for the prison estate and will undertake public engagement events within the local areas relevant to the locations made in the announcement of 22 March 2017. Opportunities for local residents, businesses and stakeholders to provide additional feedback is also available through the formal local planning application process. We will work with Parliamentary colleagues in the development of these plans.</p><p> </p><p>We will work closely with Local Authorities; NHS trusts; and police forces to ensure services such as Health, Education, Social Services and Accommodation are involved in planning for the new prison right from the start.</p><p> </p><p>At this stage it is too early to give an estimate of the cost of designing and building the new prison but we will seek to ensure value for money for taxpayers. We are currently developing the operating specifications for new prisons.</p><p> </p><p>No decision has been taken on the future operation of these sites but we will be considering this issue and make a decision in good time for their opening.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 69999 70003 70007 question first answered 18/04/2017 11:17:53 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

715730

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement of 22 March 2017 on plans for four new prisons, what discussions she has had with the (a) local authority, (b) NHS trusts and (c) police force in each relevant location.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	70003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>We will close down ageing and ineffective prisons, replacing them with buildings fit for today’s demands. We are investing £1.3bn to build up to 10,000 modern prison places with better education facilities and other rehabilitative services. On 22 March 2017, my Rt Hon friend, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice announced plans for the building of four new prisons in England and Wales, replacing old and overcrowded establishments with new, fit for purpose buildings.</p><p> </p><p>We expect that the redevelopment work at HMP Hindley and HMP Rochester will take around two and a half years.</p><p> </p><p>We will work with HMP Rochester’s and HMP Hindley’s management teams to make sure the prison’s staffing is sufficient to run the establishment safely and effectively until it closes. Retaining highly skilled, committed staff is hugely important to the success of the Prison Service, so we will seek to permanently redeploy staff into posts in other locations, but they are free to apply for jobs that are advertised through normal vacancy filling arrangements. We expect to be able to transfer all staff to other establishments.</p><p> </p><p>Once we have a planned date for closure we will then identify those prisoners that will require a move to another prison.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has had a number of discussions with the relevant MPs and Councils in developing its plans for the new and redeveloped prison sites. The Government welcomes feedback on the development of its plans for the prison estate and will undertake public engagement events within the local areas relevant to the locations made in the announcement of 22 March 2017. Opportunities for local residents, businesses and stakeholders to provide additional feedback is also available through the formal local planning application process. We will work with Parliamentary colleagues in the development of these plans.</p><p> </p><p>We will work closely with Local Authorities; NHS trusts; and police forces to ensure services such as Health, Education, Social Services and Accommodation are involved in planning for the new prison right from the start.</p><p> </p><p>At this stage it is too early to give an estimate of the cost of designing and building the new prison but we will seek to ensure value for money for taxpayers. We are currently developing the operating specifications for new prisons.</p><p> </p><p>No decision has been taken on the future operation of these sites but we will be considering this issue and make a decision in good time for their opening.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 69999 70004 70007 question first answered 18/04/2017 11:17:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

786449

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Government's paper, Deaths of offenders in the community, published on 26 October 2017, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the incidents of deaths classified as self-inflicted of people under the supervision of community rehabilitation companies.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	112148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>In 2016/17 there were 233 self-inflicted deaths of offenders in the community. This represents a decrease of 9% on the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>Probation services are now supporting an additional 40,000 offenders each year after release from custody. Probation staff work hand-in-hand with other agencies – including local authorities and health services, and in higher-risk cases the Police – to help ensure offenders with mental health or substance misuse issues have the right level of support. We have developed a joint protocol with the Department of Health setting out how probation, health and treatment services should work together to provide treatment and support to offenders. We will be trialling the protocol in test-bed areas in England later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/11/2017 11:54:45 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon