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1140160

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Teachers
	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 cumulative years experience of teachers working in prisons in (a) 2010 (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The information referred to is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility for education in adult prisons in England transferred from the Department for Education to the Ministry of Justice on 1 October 2016. Prior to that, prison education was managed and delivered by the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) under contracts held by the Skills Funding Agency.</p><p> </p><p>From 2016, revised OLASS arrangements placed responsibility on the OLASS contractor to ensure that competent and appropriately qualified staff were in place to deliver and assess learning delivered.</p><p> </p><p>New education delivery contracts in England are now in place: these were procured in succession to the OLASS arrangements that expired at the end of March. The new contracts require that all suppliers must operate a range of human resource and supplier personnel development arrangements that focus on establishing and maintaining a cadre of high-quality personnel capable of delivering an outstanding service</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/07/2019 15:41:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140162

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have paid Employment Tribunal Fees during the operation of that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>We do not collect information on the number of individual claimants who paid fees in the Employment Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>The number of fee payments received in the Employment Tribunals between 29 July 2013 (when fees were introduced) and 26 July 2017 is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017</a> . Fee payments do not directly correlate to the number of individual claimants because there could be multiple claimants named in single claim.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:41:34 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140163

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Recorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Recorders have sat to hear cases in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Information on how many Recorders have sat to hear cases in each year has only been held centrally since 2017/18. The below table, however, sets out the number of Recorders in post at 1<sup>st</sup> April of each year since 2010. We expect Recorders in post to have been offered the opportunity to sit.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Recorders<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>873</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><sup>1 </sup>Figures are at 1st April of each year.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Some Recorders hold more than one judicial appointment. In such cases, the appointment that the judicial office holder undertakes for the majority of their time is known as their primary appointment. In order to avoid double counting of judges, this table shows figures for primary appointments only and as such will not count judges whose appointment as a Recorder is not their primary appointment.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Figures are from the published Judicial Diversity Statistics which can be found here: <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/publication-type/statistics/" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.uk/publication-type/statistics/</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Recorders sit mainly in the Crown, County and Family Courts. Figures on court sitting days are published on Gov.uk and the latest information covering 2018 is available here. It is part of the Royal Courts of Justice Annual Tables (which contain at Tables 5.1 and 5.2 a breakdown of sitting days by type of work and level of judge): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2019</a>. This information covers both England and Wales and is published annually.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 02/08/2019 14:44:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140282

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Childbirth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in prison gave birth in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The information is not centrally held and could only be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, all pregnant women in custody have an individual care and management plan that is communicated to all staff and all pregnant women are seen by a mid-wife at least fortnightly or as required.</p><p> </p><p>Healthcare in prisons is provided by trained medics and nurses, but we have also made training on dealing with pregnant women available to all prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>We know it is extremely rare for a woman to give birth in prison - because every step is taken to get them to hospital - but those unique cases are invariably down to the unpredictability of labour.</p><p> </p><p>Our Female Offender Strategy made clear that we want fewer women serving short sentences in custody and more remaining in the community, making use of women’s centres to address needs such as substance misuse and mental health problems.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/07/2019 16:09:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140304

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have spent time in segregation by prison in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:24:18 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140306

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Segregation of Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average length of time and (b) longest number of days was that a prisoner spent in segregation in each prison in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 13:10:34 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140307

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of purposeful activity per prisoner were recorded on average in (a) each prison rated in the 2017-18 performance rating as performance is of serious concern and (b) each prisons that was rated as exceptional performance.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not currently collect data on the amount of time prisoners spend out of cell. We are examining the feasibility of developing such a measure and are exploring how this might be done, including working with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons to understand the methodology it uses in its inspections.</p><p>Data are published on GOV.UK on the number of prisoners who have completed accredited programmes in custody, the number of hours worked in prison industries, and the number of prisoners released from prison on a temporary licence.</p><p>The introduction of Offender Management in Custody, and the associated staffing, mean that prisons will be better equipped to run fuller regimes with more opportunities for purposeful activity. Our Education and Employment strategy launched last year will create a system where prisoners are on a path to employment, through increased opportunities to gain experience of work in communities while released on temporary licence.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:37:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140308

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	HM Inspectorate of Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve its procedures for implementing the recommendations made by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) has set up a new team within its assurance function that is responsible for co-ordinating the response to HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) reports.</p><p> </p><p>The team has developed a risk based, three-tiered approach to monitoring progress against HMIP recommendations. Establishments are now subject to self-assessment exercises, face to face challenge meetings, or in depth follow up audits to determine how well they have responded to recommendations from their most recent HMIP inspection. The analysis of this work is provided to the Prison Management Committee and the Agency Leadership Team, to inform HMPPS on how well prisons are responding to HMIP recommendations, and to identify areas where progress is of concern.</p><p> </p><p>The HMPPS assurance teams also carry out audit visits ahead of HMIP Independent Reviews of Progress and regularly meet with HMIP colleagues to review progress made on implementing recommendations</p><p> </p><p>The HMPPS Prison Group Director structure is designed to improve support to prisons through smaller groups with closer oversight and grip of assurance processes, including implementation of HMIP recommendations.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 279102 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:50:17 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140309

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Education
	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 15 July 2019 to Question 273816 on Prisons: Education, what the value by lot is of Dynamic Purchasing System contracts awarded to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The 17 Lots in the Prison Education Framework (PEF) have awarded the following cumulative values of contracts under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System (PEDPS) as at 19/07/2019.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Lot 01 - Avon &amp; South Dorset - £519,011.08</li><li>Lot 02 - Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire &amp; Norfolk - £429,911.68</li><li>Lot 03 - Cumbria &amp; Lancashire - £334,311.67</li><li>Lot 04 - Devon &amp; North Dorset – No contracts awarded currently</li><li>Lot 05 - East Midlands &amp; Morton Hall - £291,421.86</li><li>Lot 06 - Gt Manchester, Merseyside &amp; Cheshire - £786,416.84</li><li>Lot 07 - Hertfordshire, Essex &amp; Suffolk - £ 543,250.00</li><li>Lot 08 - Kent, Surrey &amp; Sussex - £1,625,170.20</li><li>Lot 09 – London - £19,100.00</li><li>Lot 10 - Long Term High Security North - £311,744.91</li><li>Lot 11 - Long Term High Security South - £242,380.99</li><li>Lot 12 - North Midlands - £6,840.00</li><li>Lot 13 - South Central - £311,959.91</li><li>Lot 14 - Tees &amp; Wear - £1,322,253.00</li><li>Lot 15 - West Midlands - £76,315.00</li><li>Lot 16 - Women’s Estate North - £203,702.00</li><li>Lot 17 – Yorkshire - £630,991.15</li></ul><p>We have overhauled the prison education system and implemented a new Prison Education Framework. Under the new system, governors control their budget, including the power to choose providers and deliver learning that will best support their prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Our Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), an innovation that brings in bespoke and short-term provision, is already proving popular, with over 230 providers signed up and over 20 contracts already awarded by governors.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:28:53 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1140310

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Education
	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 15 July 2019 to Question 273816 on Prisons: Education, which providers have been awarded Dynamic Purchasing System contracts to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	279100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>A total of 92 contracts have been awarded to 46 Suppliers under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System as at 19/07/2019.</p><p> </p><p>Contracts have been awarded to the following organisations:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>5 Step Startup School Ltd</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acorn Training Ltd</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Advanced Personnel Management Group (UK) Limited</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Adviza Partnership</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age UK Nottingham &amp; Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Astara Trianing Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beating Time (also known as &quot;Choirs Beating Time&quot;)</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire and Luton Education Business Partnership (Trading as Develop)</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Career Connect - Duplicate registration</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cathedral Training Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Changing Lives</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester College Group</p></td><td><p>x5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community Arts Projects UK</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cronin Music Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CXK Limited</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>First Point Training</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fusion21 Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Geese Theatre Company</p></td><td><p>x3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GLA Group</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Good Vibrations</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillsbridge Services limited</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>InHouse Records</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Karen Mackey Consultants</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life Cycle UK</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincoln College Group</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LTE Group (Trading as Novus)</p></td><td><p>x12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Magistra Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mainstream Training</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milton Keynes College</p></td><td><p>x8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>mybe awards Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>n-ergy Group Limited</p></td><td><p>x4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>N-Gaged Training &amp; Recruitment Ltd</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prospects Services</p></td><td><p>x5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RiseUp CiC</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RMF Construction Training Academy Ltd.</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Seetec Business Technology Cente Limited</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SevenThreeOne</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sharon Hardy IAG and Employment Services Adviser</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Giles Trust</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Standguide Ltd</p></td><td><p>x3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Forward Trust</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Growth Company Ltd</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Junction 42 Foundation</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TKO &quot;Training, Knowledge &amp; Opportunities&quot; Limited</p></td><td><p>x2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>User Voice</p></td><td><p>x1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weston College</p></td><td><p>x3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We have overhauled the prison education system and implemented a new Prison Education Framework. Under the new system, governors control their budget, including the power to choose providers and deliver learning that will best support their prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Our Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), an innovation that brings in bespoke and short-term provision, is already proving popular, with over 230 providers signed up and over 20 contracts already awarded by governors.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/07/2019 11:34:03 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon