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I undertook to write to you when the information had been received.<\/p>
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The table contained within Annex A details the live contracts that the Department holds with Capita, G4S, Serco, GeoAmey, Sodexo and MITIE. The table provides you with details on the start and end dates of these contracts, the estimated value of the contract as advertised when the procurement process was initiated, extension options and whether there is a break clause. Where information pertaining to any of these questions is already in the public domain, you will find for ease of reference links to the Hansard extracts.<\/p>
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There are no contracts between the Department and A4E.<\/p>
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The table within Annex A provides details on financial penalties where this information is already available in the public domain. To obtain this information for all the contracts listed would incur disproportionate costs.<\/p>
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The details for the legacy Electronic Monitoring contracts between the Department and G4S and Serco have not been provided to you due to the ongoing criminal investigation into issues relating to these contracts.<\/p>
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The Ministry of Justice has taken a number of steps to improve commercial capability across the department. We regularly review suppliers' performance against key performance indicators and have recently embarked on a programme aimed at introducing a more robust approach to contract management, to ensure that contracts deliver best possible value for the taxpayer.<\/p>
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The table below features the ten largest contracts let by the Ministry of Justice since the financial year 2010/11, and provides details of savings and of any under- or overspend in each financial year.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1560", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Kenilworth and Southam"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jeremy Wright"} , "attachment" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/33663/answer/attachment/1", "fileName" : {"_value" : "183913.doc"} , "title" : "Table 1"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-04-07", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-04-07T12:00:00.00Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "54"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : ""} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : ""} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-01-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's 10 largest contracts let since the financial year 2010-11 are; what savings have been made in such contracts; what the level of overspend or underspend was in each such contract; and what steps his Department has taken to monitor the performance of each supplier of such contract following the contract award.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/422", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Nottingham East"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Chris Leslie"} ], "uin" : "183913"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/38810", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/38810/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
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I have set out below the number of criminal offences in England and Wales created by government departments. The numbers are collated by the Criminal Offences Gateway which scrutinises proposals on new and amended criminal offences for England and Wales.<\/p>
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The numbers are based on offences put through the Criminal Offences Gateway during the period 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2013 (the latest available data).<\/p>
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Further information can be found in the New Criminal Offences England and Wales https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-new-criminal-offences-statistics-in-england-and-wales-june-2009-may-2013<\/a><\/p> <\/p> The numbers of new criminal offences, which include entirely new offences and existing offences which have been extended or amended in some way, are published annually by my department in the statistical bulletin New Criminal Offence<\/em>s. The new criminal offences enforce Government policy in a range of areas, including to contain the spread of serious animal diseases and to criminalise squatting in a residential building.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Period covered<\/p><\/td> Number of legislative provisions (secondary & primary) containing new offences<\/p><\/td> Total criminal offences created<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011<\/p><\/td> 33<\/p><\/td> 174<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 1 June 2011 to 31 May 2012<\/p><\/td> 52<\/p><\/td> 292<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 1 June 2012 to 31 May 2013<\/p><\/td> 60<\/p><\/td> 327<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> 712 criminal offences were created during the period 1 June 2009 to May 2010 which was the 12 months immediately prior to the establishment of the Criminal Offences Gateway.<\/p> <\/p> New offences are needed for a number of reasons, for example, to update legislation that is now out of date, to underpin delivery of government priorities and to set out clearly what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. The Government committed to putting in place a mechanism, an additional layer of scrutiny, for proposals to create new offences. This is the first time a Government has done so and committed to doing so publicly. The Government has repealed 140 offences in the 12 months ending May 2013.<\/p> <\/p> The information on the predicted effect on the number of prisoners for each relevant offence is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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The overriding priority is to protect the public from harm and prevent re-offending.<\/p> <\/p> The recall of offenders on licence is designed to protect the public by removing an offender from the community who, by breaching his licence conditions, is considered to present an increased risk of re-offending and where the Probation Service recommends that this is the most effective response to the increased risk, in order to protect the public.<\/p> <\/p> Behaviour that can result in recall includes: the commission of further offences or charges being laid; behaviour which indicates that further offending is imminent; or breaches of licence conditions which undermine the Probation Service's ability to provide effective supervision, such as not living at the address stipulated on the licence or failing to attend probation appointments.<\/p> <\/p> Once recalled, it is the responsibility of the police to apprehend offenders, although all agencies closely co-operate to ensure that they are swiftly returned to custody.<\/p> <\/p> Data on those offenders who had committed minor breaches of licence, were warned, and not recalled to prison are not collected centrally. Those offenders whose breach of licence has resulted in a recall to prison are published quarterly in the Ministry of Justice's Offender Management Statistics Quarterly Bulletin. This may be found at the following web address:<\/p> <\/p> Financial year<\/p><\/td> Number of recalls<\/p><\/td> Prisoners who remain unlawfully at large<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2001/02<\/p><\/td> 5,086<\/p><\/td> 29<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2002/03<\/p><\/td> 8,406<\/p><\/td> 29<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2003/04<\/p><\/td> 11,268<\/p><\/td> 55<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2004/05<\/p><\/td> 11,171<\/p><\/td> 30<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2005/06<\/p><\/td> 11,450<\/p><\/td> 73<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2006/07<\/p><\/td> 13,411<\/p><\/td> 60<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2007/08<\/p><\/td> 13,252<\/p><\/td> 65<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2008/09<\/p><\/td> 13,467<\/p><\/td> 76<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009/10<\/p><\/td> 15,004<\/p><\/td> 89<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010/11<\/p><\/td> 15,631<\/p><\/td> 79<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011/12<\/p><\/td> 16,591<\/p><\/td> 118<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012/13<\/p><\/td> 16,307<\/p><\/td> 127<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Apr-September 2013<\/p><\/td> 8,847<\/p><\/td> 146<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Data on the number of releases on temporary release licence (ROTL) since 1995-6, and temporary release failures since 2004-5 are published in the NOMS Prison Performance Digest. This may be found at the following web address:<\/p> <\/p> Financial year<\/p><\/td> Release on temporary licence<\/p><\/td> Recorded temporary release failures<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2001/02<\/p><\/td> 273,569<\/p><\/td> 293<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2002/03<\/p><\/td> 294,112<\/p><\/td> 312<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2003/04<\/p><\/td> 342,742<\/p><\/td> 395<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2004/05<\/p><\/td> 397,969<\/p><\/td> 366<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2005/06<\/p><\/td> 407,199<\/p><\/td> 360<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2006/07<\/p><\/td> 409,139<\/p><\/td> 306<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2007/08<\/p><\/td> 434,728<\/p><\/td> 248<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2008/09<\/p><\/td> 431,351<\/p><\/td> 277<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009/10<\/p><\/td> 419,016<\/p><\/td> 274<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010/11<\/p><\/td> 431,178<\/p><\/td> 281<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011/12<\/p><\/td> 488,158<\/p><\/td> 404<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012/13<\/p><\/td> 518,862<\/p><\/td> 431<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Not all temporary release failures are recorded on central administrative systems. Those that are not recorded centrally are more likely to be low-level failures including, for example, returning with unauthorised possessions. These failures are managed locally. Where failures are recorded, the central administrative system only allows for one reason to be recorded; where it is a failure to return this takes priority.<\/p> <\/p> The number of prisoners unlawfully at large (UAL) having failed to return from release on temporary licence for each financial year since 2004/05 is shown in the table below.<\/p> <\/p> Financial year<\/p><\/td> Number of prisoners who remain UAL following failure to return from ROTL<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2004/05<\/p><\/td> 15<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2005/06<\/p><\/td> 10<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2006/07<\/p><\/td> 10<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2007/08<\/p><\/td> 4<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2008/09<\/p><\/td> 5<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009/10<\/p><\/td> 7<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010/11<\/p><\/td> 3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011/12<\/p><\/td> 7<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012/13<\/p><\/td> 7<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> To provide the number of temporary release failures where the prisoner has failed to return and remains unlawfully at large prior to this date would require the manual interrogation of 1,000 temporary release records which could be done only at disproportionate cost.<\/p> <\/p> These figures have all been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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