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778269

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Restraint Techniques
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, will reference to his Department's press release, Increased security measures to give prison officers right tools for job, published on 22 October 2017, how many police-style handcuffs and restraints will be provided to prison officers.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	109983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>We are determined to ensure the safety of our staff in our prisons. We are therefore issuing the rigid bar handcuffs to all front line staff who currently carry a baton. As part of the roll out, staff will be required to be trained in the use of the handcuffs which will be carried out during their annual control and restraint refresher training. We have begun the procurement of the new handcuffs and will deliver these, alongside the necessary training, to all frontline staff as quickly as practicable.</p><p>We are fully committed to addressing violence and assaults by increasing staffing levels and improving prisoner-staff relationships. We are making swift progress in strengthening the frontline, with 20,003 individual prison officers in post at the end of August – an increase of 1,290 since October 2016. Alongside this, we are moving to a new key worker model which will mean every residential prison officer supporting a caseload of around 6 prisoners. This will mean prisoners have a consistent, named officer to challenge and support them away from violence and reoffending.</p><p>We have also invested in 5,600 body-worn cameras across the prison estate, rolled out alongside training in staff interaction with prisoners, to support better relationships and give high-quality evidence to support prosecutions where assaults do take place.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 109982 question first answered 03/11/2017 14:43:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778268

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to introduce a dementia strategy for older prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	110004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I recognise the challenges to prisons presented by the continuing rise in the number of older prisoners. My Department has established a working group to consider, with our partners in health and social care, how we can best meet the needs of this group, including those who have needs related to dementia.</p><p> </p><p>Prison staff already have the benefit of operational guidance to assist them in identifying and caring for men and women in prison with dementia.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to enhance our knowledge about the health and social needs of older prisoners. Our work will include taking on expert advice and considering what changes we might need to make to the prison estate or to the regimes within prisons.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/11/2017 14:42:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778266

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Medical Records
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to enable the mutual sharing of prison and NHS mental health records between those two organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	110002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service does not hold clinical mental health records for prisoners. All clinical records, including on mental health are held by NHS providers. Information on individuals is shared between health providers and prison staff to promote safety and to protect life. I am please that NHS England is taking steps to improve the sharing of clinical records between custodial and community settings.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 02/11/2017 21:37:08 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778270

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Restraint Techniques
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the roll-out of police-style handcuffs and restraints to prison officers will (a) begin and (b) be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	109982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>We are determined to ensure the safety of our staff in our prisons. We are therefore issuing the rigid bar handcuffs to all front line staff who currently carry a baton. As part of the roll out, staff will be required to be trained in the use of the handcuffs which will be carried out during their annual control and restraint refresher training. We have begun the procurement of the new handcuffs and will deliver these, alongside the necessary training, to all frontline staff as quickly as practicable.</p><p>We are fully committed to addressing violence and assaults by increasing staffing levels and improving prisoner-staff relationships. We are making swift progress in strengthening the frontline, with 20,003 individual prison officers in post at the end of August – an increase of 1,290 since October 2016. Alongside this, we are moving to a new key worker model which will mean every residential prison officer supporting a caseload of around 6 prisoners. This will mean prisoners have a consistent, named officer to challenge and support them away from violence and reoffending.</p><p>We have also invested in 5,600 body-worn cameras across the prison estate, rolled out alongside training in staff interaction with prisoners, to support better relationships and give high-quality evidence to support prosecutions where assaults do take place.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 109983 question first answered 03/11/2017 14:43:59 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778261

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	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 steps he is taking to ensure that all new prisons will have adequate accommodation for the provision of mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	109995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>Our prison estate reforms will benefit prisoners with mental health concerns through replacing up to 10,000 old and unsuitable places with modern and fit for purpose ones and through reconfiguration. This includes pushing ahead with plans to close or redevelop older prisons and open new accommodation in this parliament.</p><p>This will help deliver prisons that are safer and more secure, so our staff can work more closely with offenders to change their lives and turn their back on crime for good.</p><p>My Department has taken expert advice from clinicians, commissioners and social care experts on the design of the new prisons to ensure that we create the right environment for treatment and care. We continue to work closely with our health partners to support the commissioning of high quality services in all prisons.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 02/11/2017 21:38:37 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778267

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	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 proportion of prisoners wait longer than the 14 day target for transfer to a secure hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	110003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>About 24% of prisoners transferred from prison to hospital since 2016, under sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983, waited longer than 14 days from the date the Ministry of Justice received two medical assessments indicating transfer was appropriate to the actual date of admission to hospital. The Ministry of Justice has a target of 24 hours within which to provide a transfer warrant, once both medical reports and all other relevant information is received. This target is met in 95% of cases.</p><p> </p><p>These figures have been derived from an administrative IT system which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. This figure may not agree with similar figures provided through NHS England since NHS England calculates waiting times from different transfer pathway stages. MoJ are working closely with NHS England to improve our joint understanding of measurement of waiting times.</p><p> </p><p>We take the mental health of prisoners extremely seriously, which is why we have increased the support available to vulnerable offenders – especially during the first 24 hours in custody – and invested more in mental health awareness training for prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>But we recognise that more can be done and continue to work in partnership with HMPPS, NHS England and Public Health England to improve mental health services for offenders at all points of the criminal justice system.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 02/11/2017 21:35:46 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778263

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Smuggling
	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 instances of drone use in smuggling in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	109993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the member to PQ 4436, answered on 17 July 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/11/2017 14:42:57 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778265

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Vetting
	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 (a) average and (b) longest time for a new recruit to receive a full security check and begin work in prison.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	110006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>The average time for a new prison officer recruit to receive a full security check in 2017 is 46 calendar days. This is for new officer recruits who are recorded as starting work in a Prison (data up to the end of September 2017), who applied between the 1<sup>st</sup> January and 30<sup>th</sup> September 2017.</p><p>The longest time for a new prison officer recruit to receive a full security check in 2017 is 141 calendar days. This is for new officer recruits who are recorded as starting work in a Prison (data up to the end of September 2017), who applied between the 1<sup>st</sup> January and 30<sup>th</sup> September 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/11/2017 14:49:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

778276

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Cameras
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will publish the findings of recent trials of body cameras for prison officers.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	109830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The pilot was comprehensively evaluated using both quantitative and qualitative measures of impact. The evaluation of the pilot is still being completed and a formal report prepared. Once that has been done it has always been the intention to make this available. We will publish the report in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/11/2017 17:13:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain