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1185691

	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	Theft: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions for theft from British shipwreck in (a) UK territorial waters and (b) international waters in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	30755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>Data held centrally does not identify the location of theft, nor the nationality of the shipwreck. However, there have been no prosecutions relating specifically to the principal offence of theft from a wreck in the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/03/2020 09:46:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1185695

	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	Prison Accommodation
	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 capacity of the prison estate in each of the next 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	30757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>Prison numbers can fluctuate, which is why we have a robust set of plans in place to ensure we will always have enough places for offenders sent to custody by the courts.</p><p> </p><p>Over the next 12 months, additional capacity will come in to use for a range of reasons. These reasons include new build prison accommodation, existing accommodation returning to use following the completion of essential maintenance or places coming into use following a change in function. Over the next 12 months around 260 further places are planned to come into use at HMP/YOI Berwyn as part of its staged ramp up to full capacity and around 220 further places are planned to come into use at HMP Haverigg following its change in function from a category C training prison to a category D open prison.</p><p> </p><p>Places can also be taken out of use for a number of reasons. These include the recent operational closure of a 200 place open unit at HMP Hewell following a deterioration in the standard and condition of the accommodation. Other decreases are the result of accommodation being taken out of use for essential maintenance/refurbishment.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing up to £2.5bn to provide 10,000 additional prison places to ensure we have the prison places we need to manage incoming demand. The new 10,000 additional places are on top of the 3,500 places we have already announced through the building of new prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva, and the opening of additional accommodation at HMP Stocken. Under our plans for the prison estate, additional capacity will be provided through our new prisons and the creation of purpose-built houseblocks to manage the projected population increase and transform the estate.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/03/2020 10:06:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1186174

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to isolate (a) convicted and (b) remand prisoners on the prison estate in the event that those prisoners have symptoms of covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	31487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2020 answer text <p>Prisons have existing, well-developed policies and procedures in place to manage outbreaks of infectious diseases. These policies and procedures are being built upon in response to the specific risks posed by COVID-19 and we have put in place robust contingency plans, which are informed by Public Health authorities. HMPPS has introduced a procedure for the protective isolation of both convicted and remand prisoners when it is considered that they may be potentially infected with the virus, this has been communicated to all prison staff.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 26/03/2020 13:20:37 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1186177

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Mortuaries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate has the Department made of the size of mortuary space in (a) England, (b) Greater London and (c) the London Borough of Barnet.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	31488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2020 answer text <p>Government is putting in place a range of measures to ensure the UK is prepared to manage the impacts of a Covid-19 outbreak. Part of this planning is ensuring we are prepared for higher numbers of people dying over the period of the pandemic.</p><p>Ensuring the deceased are treated with dignity and respect whilst minimising the risks to public health is at the forefront of Government planning. Measures underway will increase capacity at a local level to manage additional demand.</p><p>The Government’s Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan</a>) sets out planning principles that underpin the response to the Covid-19 outbreak. As part of this response, provisions have been included in the Coronavirus Bill which will ensure the sector can manage the impact of the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 27/03/2020 16:12:31 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1187477

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure security in prisons in the event that prison staff become infected with covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	34330
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>COVID-19 presents a unique set of challenges that we must address in order to maintain the provision of services in custody. As ever, the safety of our staff and those in our care remains of primary concern, and we are doing all that we can to protect them. Prisons have existing, well-developed policies and procedures in place to manage outbreaks of infectious diseases. We have also been working closely with Public Health and NHS services to put robust contingency plans in place in response to the specific risks posed by COVID-19.</p><p>Prisons are currently operating under temporarily restricted regimes so we can implement the Government’s measures to encourage the public to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. Staff are being re-deployed, where appropriate, from headquarters into operational roles. The Government also recently announced an extension of testing to prison and probation staff. Staff who had been self-isolating because they or a member of their household have symptoms of coronavirus will be able to return to work where they test negative.</p><p>In recognition of the importance of continued contact with family and to ensure stability in our jails, the Government has moved quickly to keep prisoners in touch with their family members. Around 60% of the prison estate now has access to in-cell telephony and for those that do not, we have rolled out 900 locked mobile phone handsets.</p><p>We have also worked with Prison Education Framework providers and local prison teams to collate distraction packs and in-cell activities.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 27/04/2020 13:14:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1194562

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many sexual assaults were committed on the prison estate by male-born prisoners who identify as women in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	45149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>Between 1 January and 31 December 2019, amongst the transgender people in custody who were born, and remain, legally male but self-identified as female there was the following involvement in sexual assaults:</p><ul><li>There was 1 sexual assault where someone who identified in this way was recorded as the assailant or suspected assailant;</li><li>There was 1 sexual assault where someone who identified in this way was recorded as a ‘fighter’ i.e. assault incidents in which there is no clear aggressor or victim; and</li><li>There were 11 sexual assaults where someone who identified in this way was recorded as the victim of the sexual assault.</li></ul><p>All of these assaults occurred in the male estate. All sexual assaults in prison are referred to the police and HMPPS have strong safeguards in place to manage risks to all those in custody, regardless of their gender.</p><p>HMPPS has robust processes in place to care for and manage transgender individuals in custody. The safety of all those in our care is of paramount importance. All known risks, both towards or presented by a transgender person in prison, will always be taken into account in their care and management. Individuals will be cared for and managed in the gender with which they identify, regardless of their location in a male or female prison.</p><p>An article in the Mail on Sunday on 10 May stated that the seven sexual assaults carried out by transgender prisoners between 2010 and 2018 in the women’s prison estate were by ‘trans women’ i.e. individuals who were born legally male but self-identified as female. This could not have been assumed from the data provided in response to that enquiry which covered the general definition of transgender, which includes not just those who were born male, but also, for example, those born as female who now identify as men, non-binary and intersex people.</p><p>Details of transgender prisoners were provided by public and private prisons in England and Wales, between 26 March 2019 and 24 April 2019 following an exercise to gather information from transgender individuals in custody. The figures give an estimate of the number of transgender prisoners based on that exercise and may underestimate the true number. Prisoners who have a full Gender Recognition Certificate are excluded from this dataset. Details of individuals who were identified within that dataset as having been born, and who remain, legally male but self-identified as female have been matched to the Incident Reporting System to provide the details of assaults in this response.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2020 15:24:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1195500

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Coroners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what additional resources her Department has allocated to coroners to help them to release bodies to next of kin in a timely manner to comply with religious orthodoxy.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	46617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2020 answer text <p>Coroners services are funded by local authorities. Councils can support their local coronial services using the £1.6bn of funding announced by Government on 18 April, which was made available to support local authorities with costs of responding to Covid-19, including the costs of death management.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 22/05/2020 14:06:19 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1199007

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Parking: Private Property
	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 of court cases in respect of the enforcement of parking disputes on private land in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	51891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 09/06/2020 09:54:49 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1200506

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) remand and (b) convicted prisoners have died on the prison estate in each of the last five years, by ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	54894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2020 answer text <p>Please see the attached table showing the number of prisoners who have died on the prison estate, by sentence type and ethnicity, from 2015 to 2019. Our condolences are with the family and friends of the prisoners who have died.</p><p>These figures are derived from the HMPPS Deaths in Prison Custody database. As classification of deaths may change following inquest or as new information emerges, numbers may change from time to time.</p><p>We have accepted and acted upon the vast majority of recommendations from Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigations into deaths in custody, and regularly disseminate the PPO’s thematic reports and lessons learned bulletins.</p><p>The Ministerial Board on Deaths in Custody is taking forward a programme of work aimed at minimising deaths in custody, and better supporting families if a death does occur.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/06/2020 13:45:48 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 54894.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1200508

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Judges: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were appointed as Queen’s Counsel in each of the last five years, by ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	54896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2020 answer text <p>As detailed in QCA’s annual reports into the QC competitions, and published on the QCA website, the breakdown of BAME and non-BAME application is below.</p><p> </p><p>2015-6 competition:</p><p>9 BAME applicants were appointed, out of a total of 107 appointments.</p><p> </p><p>2016-7 competition:</p><p>16 BAME applicants were appointed, out of a total of 113 appointments.</p><p> </p><p>2017-8 competition:</p><p>18 BAME applicants were appointed, out of a total of 119 appointments.</p><p> </p><p>2018-9 competition:</p><p>13 BAME applicants were appointed, out of a total of 108 appointments.</p><p> </p><p>2019-20 competition:</p><p>22 BAME applicants were appointed, out of a total of 114 appointments</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 11/06/2020 20:47:46 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord