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999197

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, of 17 May 2018, Official Report, column 241WH, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of speaking events blocked by a university or students’ union, (b) books removed from university libraries and (c) changes to courses due to changes in equalities guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	186352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not collect data on the number of speaking events blocked by a University or Students’ Union, books removed from university libraries and changes to courses due to changes in equalities guidance</p><p> </p><p>​As set out in a statement on 17 May, we do not believe that measuring free speech on campus by events that happen is sufficient, as this does not evidence self-censorship or those events that do not happen in the first place. We are committed to defending free speech on campus to avoid a culture of censorship which risks leading to those outcomes to which the question refers. Comprehensive guidance on Freedom of Speech for the higher education sector is due to be published by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/11/2018 17:16:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

818971

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's policy is on the no-platforming at universities of (a) Al-Muhajiroun, (b) the British National Party, (c) the English Defence League, (d) Hizb-ut-Tahir, (e) the Muslim Public Affairs Committee and (f) National Action; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	121648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Al-Muhajiroun and National Action are proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. Membership is illegal and these groups should not be given a platform at universities.</p><p> </p><p>Universities have a legal duty to take reasonable steps to ensure freedom of speech, including for visiting speakers (under the Education Act (No 2) 1986). The government therefore, does not support blanket no-platforming of individuals or organisations who are legally exercising their right to freedom of speech; it is for universities to balance their legal duties on a case-by-case basis.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s position on this issue has been publicly stated on a number of occasions.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/01/2018 16:36:21 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

857038

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121648, what discussions he has had with the National Union of Students on his Department’s support for the right of (a) the English Defence League, (b) Hizb-ut-Tahir iii) the Muslim Public Affairs Committee to speak on university campuses in opposition to the NUS' position of no-platforming.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	131550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s support for freedom of speech within the law has been made clear publicly on a number of occasions. We will continue to relay that position in any discussions with NUS officers.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/03/2018 16:52:35 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

748743

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Cardiff Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are currently serving public protection sentences at HM Prison Cardiff.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	3234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2017, there were 3,528 prisoners serving a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). Of these, 542 were pre-tariff and 2,985 were post-tariff.</p><p> </p><p>Data concerning IPP prisoners is published in the quarterly offender management statistics: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the number of prisoners serving IPP sentences at prisons in Wales. This is also broken down to show the number of prisoners serving IPP sentences in HMP Cardiff and HMP Parc.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Table 1: Number of prisoners serving IPP sentences at prisons in Wales; as at 31 March 2017</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>31-Mar-17</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>102</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>of which:</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Cardiff</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Parc</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Data sources and quality</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p>The figures in this table have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Parole Board will continue to work together to improve the progression of IPP prisoners. This group continue to achieve release in high numbers, with 576 first time IPP releases in 2016, the highest figure since the sentence was introduced.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 3233 3259 3260 3261 question first answered 10/07/2017 16:27:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

693360

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Carillion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department carried out an impact assessment in the effect outsourcing repairs and maintenance in prisons to Carillion would have on the amount of work available to prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	65009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>Owing to the variability of work available to prisoners across over 100 individual prison establishments, it was not possible to undertake an impact assessment on the effect on the amount of work available to prisoners prior to the contracts being implemented.</p><p> </p><p>However, we have ensured that the contract with Carillion requires them to maximise the use of prisoner labour, subject to local security strategies agreed with the Governors for individual establishments. The specification for Prisoner Labour and Prison Industries in the contract requires Carillion to utilise as much prisoner labour in the delivery of services as was used prior to the contract coming into force.</p><p> </p><p>Under the maintenance contract Carillion are told how many prisoners are available for work on a daily basis and are required to provide the necessary support and supervision resource to oversee the work of the prisoners.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/02/2017 17:55:00 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

577620

	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	Community Rehabilitation Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has contingency plans for financial failure of community rehabilitation centres.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	45543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>Contingency plans have been prepared in case alternative arrangements are needed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/09/2016 10:02:57 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

577626

	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	Community Rehabilitation Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the ability of Working Links to provide a good quality service at Wales, Avon Bristol and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and Dorset Community Rehabilitation Centres since the acquisition of that company by Aurelius; and what contingency plans her Department has for ownership of those services being acquired by companies unsuited to delivering them.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	45556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Working Links Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) are continuing to provide services in accordance with their contracts and are being robustly managed by our contract management teams to make sure they fulfil their contractual obligations in relation to service delivery, reducing reoffending, protecting the public and providing value for money to the taxpayer. Nothing in the department’s contracts with the CRCs owned by Working Links has changed as a result of the sale.</p><p> </p><p>Due diligence investigations were carried out prior to the sale to make sure services will continue to be satisfactorily provided.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/09/2016 11:38:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

747761

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what changes his Department has made to the funding of community rehabilitation companies.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	2540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>We have undertaken an overarching review of probation, looking at the standards we set for providers and how we hold them to account. We have already made some changes to how CRCs are paid so they can focus on activities that best rehabilitate offenders and keep society safe. The details of these changes are commercially sensitive, however the contract modification notices are published online at the Official Journal for the European Union.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 06/07/2017 14:56:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

804381

	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	G4S: Electronic Tagging
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of G4S in fulfilling its contract to electronically tag offenders.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	118564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>G4S provide electronic monitoring hardware (tags and home monitoring units) under contract to the Ministry of Justice having ceased delivery of field services and monitoring operations in early 2014 when the contract was transferred to Capita. On 13th November 2017 a new contract with G4S for the supply of next generation electronic monitoring hardware devices was signed. The competition was fully in line with rigorous procurement regulations to ensure best value for the taxpayer. G4S was subject to stringent requirements throughout the process – including quality thresholds and financial standing. The hardware itself met strict technical specifications and was subject to a comprehensive testing regime. Capita continue to provide the field services and monitoring operations. Electronic monitoring is an important tool to improve supervision in the community and support offenders to change their lives. The contracts are subject to stringent specifications and the equipment has been rigorously tested to exacting performance standards. The Department has robust processes in place to monitor and manage contractors and will not hesitate to take action if standards fall short of those expected.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/12/2017 09:53:01 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

819131

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Medicine: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the yearly gross amount of public funding currently being invested in health research.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	121808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold data for total Departmental spend on health research. However, the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) have published their 2014 UK health research analysis at <a href="http://www.ukcrc.org/research-coordination/health-research-analysis/uk-health-research-analysis/" target="_blank">http://www.ukcrc.org/research-coordination/health-research-analysis/uk-health-research-analysis/</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/01/2018 12:47:30 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens