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417576

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men were found to be using a television without a licence by inspectors in the most recent year for which information is available; and what proportion of (i) women and (ii) men were subsequently prosecuted for a television licence offence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>According to TV Licensing's data, in 2014 232,290 women and 114,347 men were interviewed under caution by TV Licensing officers in the course of investigating TV licence offences.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people prosecuted for licence fee evasion in 2014 is published here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls</a> From “offence” drop down list select 191A Television licence evasion. From “sex” drop down list select the male or female.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 11 men and 28 women were committed to prison for non-payment of a fine where the registered fine was for non-payment of the TV Licence. The average time spent in prison was 18 days for men and 20 days for women.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 9632 question first answered 16/09/2015 10:42:03 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417724

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women were committed to prison for the non-payment of a fine for a television licence offence in the most recent year for which information is available; and how many days each such offender spent in prison.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>According to TV Licensing's data, in 2014 232,290 women and 114,347 men were interviewed under caution by TV Licensing officers in the course of investigating TV licence offences.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people prosecuted for licence fee evasion in 2014 is published here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/428943/cjs-outcomes-by-offence-data-tool.xls</a> From “offence” drop down list select 191A Television licence evasion. From “sex” drop down list select the male or female.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 11 men and 28 women were committed to prison for non-payment of a fine where the registered fine was for non-payment of the TV Licence. The average time spent in prison was 18 days for men and 20 days for women.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 9560 question first answered 16/09/2015 10:42:03 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417770

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Dog Fighting: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for dog fighting in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>10 defendants were proceeded against at magistrates' courts, and five were found guilty at all courts of offences related to dog fighting in England and Wales, in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>This information was obtained from a manual review of court case files that centrally held data indicated may be relevant, and as such has not been through the same quality assurance processes as for routinely published data.</p><p> </p><p>These figures relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 14:28:44 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417746

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2015 to Question 6753, what estimate he has made of the duration of the development period referred to in that Answer.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>An update will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 14:48:07 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417760

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ford Prison: Prisoner Escapes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long Mark Chatfield had been at HMP Ford before he absconded; what proportion of his sentence he had served before being moved to HMP Ford; and whether an internal review has been conducted of the decision to move him to an open prison.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Mr Chatfield arrived at HMP Ford on 30 April 2015 and absconded on 2 July 2015. He was due for release in March 2016 and had served approximately a year of his sentence, including remand time. The circumstances of Mr Chatfield’s move to open conditions have been reviewed. He was transferred following a re-categorisation review board and there are no concerns with the process followed. Mr Chatfield was recaptured and returned to closed conditions. He received an additional 12 week sentence for absconding.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:58 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417763

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Open Prisons: Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners currently in open prisons previously breached the conditions of their temporary licence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>My officials are currently working to provide the information requested. I will write to you when the information becomes available.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 9553 question first answered 16/09/2015 10:24:06 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417741

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are held in open wings of closed prisons; and for which offences each such prisoner is serving their sentence.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Open units within closed prisons are a cost-effective means of providing regional resettlement opportunities for those prisoners who are risk assessed as been suitable for such accommodation. Progression to open prisons, or to open units within closed prisons, is never automatic, and prisoners must generally be within two years of release before they can be considered for allocation. Only those prisoners who are assessed as having reduced their risks of escape or abscond and risk of harm to the public and who are judged to be trustworthy in conditions of very low security will be allocated to open prison conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the offences for which prisoners held in open units were sentenced, as at 30 June 2015:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Number of prisoners held in open wings <sup>(1)</sup> of closed prisons by offence group in England and Wales as at 30 June 2015</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Offence Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Prisoners</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>511</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Violence against the person</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual offences</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Robbery</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Theft offences</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal damage and arson</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Drug offences</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Possession of weapons</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Public order offences</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Miscellaneous offences against society</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Fraud offences</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary non-motoring</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Summary motoring</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Offence not recorded</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>(1) This data includes prisoners held in open prisons that lie within a cluster of prisons.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Data Sources and Quality</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>These figures 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> </td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 13:58:55 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417762

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Newspaper Press
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many copies of each newspaper were delivered to prisons in the most recent year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners can use their own money to purchase newspapers at the discretion of governors and directors of contracted out prisons.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 10:32:24 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417737

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of times was that a person was received into prison in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 13:32:26 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417748

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Spring Hill Prison: Prisoner Escapes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether an internal review has been conducted of the case of Ross Underwood who absconded from HMP Springhill in May 2015; and if he will make statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	9426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>An internal review was commissioned into the case of Ross Underwood. It reported in July 2015 and all recommendations were accepted. Mr Underwood was recaptured on 2 June and returned to closed conditions. He received a 6 month sentence for absconding.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 16/09/2015 14:24:01 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies