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| <\/td> | 2010<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2011<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2012<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2014 to 31 July<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Mephedrone<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 3<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> BZP<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Spice<\/p><\/td> 15<\/p><\/td> 86<\/p><\/td> 133<\/p><\/td> 262<\/p><\/td> 430<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Ketamine<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 3<\/p><\/td> 5<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td> 4<\/p><\/td><\/tr> TOTAL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 16<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 90<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 138<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 267<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 436<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The term \u201cLegal Highs\u201d represents hundreds of different substances of which spice is just one. To try to calculate the instances of all such substances being confiscated would therefore only be possible at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of (a) mephedrone, (b) BZP, (c) spice and (d) ketamine there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/92033/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) takes the issue of all contraband in prisons extremely seriously and deploys a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect items of contraband both at the point of entry to the prison and concealed within the prison. We do not tolerate drugs in prison and anyone caught with them will be punished and could face further prosecution.<\/p> <\/p> The success of NOMS Drug Strategy is illustrated by the reduction of drug misuse - as measured by the random mandatory drug testing programme - which has declined by 17.0 percentage points over the past 17 years (positive rates were 24.4% in 1996/7 and 7.4% in 2013/14) despite the fact that more drugs are being tested for.<\/p> <\/p> New psychoactive substances are a recent issue affecting many parts of society, both here and abroad, including our prisons. NOMS is working with its partners to develop methods for testing for NPS and preventing them from entering establishments. Work is also taking place to increase levels of understanding about the risks that NPS present to offenders, with a view to providing them and those who work with them in prisons and the community with appropriate information, guidance and support.<\/p> <\/p> The Government recently introduced an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to expand prisons' powers to test prisoners for non-controlled drugs. This would allow prison staff to conduct mandatory drug tests on prisoners for non-controlled drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and medicines, if the required tests were available.<\/p> <\/p> All figures in this answer have 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. The data has been extracted by searching for the exact terms given in the question and not any slang or alternative spellings. The data are not subject to audit.<\/p> <\/p> The table below gives the number of seizures in prisons in England and Wales in the timeframe requested of Mephedrone, BZP, Spice and Ketamine, and described exactly as such on the database.<\/p> <\/p> 2010<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2011<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2012<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2014 to 31 July<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Mephedrone<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 3<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td><\/tr> BZP<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Spice<\/p><\/td> 15<\/p><\/td> 86<\/p><\/td> 133<\/p><\/td> 262<\/p><\/td> 430<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Ketamine<\/p><\/td> 1<\/p><\/td> 3<\/p><\/td> 5<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td> 4<\/p><\/td><\/tr> TOTAL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 16<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 90<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 138<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 267<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 436<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The term \u201cLegal Highs\u201d represents hundreds of different substances of which spice is just one. To try to calculate the instances of all such substances being confiscated would therefore only be possible at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of legal highs there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/92061/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " There were a total of 70 adult prisons which had one or more directly employed Muslim chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 65% of all adult establishments. 14 establishments in the youth secure estate had one or more directly employed Muslim Chaplain on 30 June 2014, representing 93% of the establishments. This information includes both public and private sector establishments.<\/p> <\/p> Access to Muslim Chaplains is more widespread than it appears from these figures. There are The number of prison chaplains that were directly employed in the Prison Service of England and Wales as at 30 June 2014 can be found in the table below. The information covers both the public and private sectors. Where directly employed Chaplains are not available religious services are also provided by Chaplains engaged on a sessional basis.<\/p> <\/p> Table: Directly Employed Prison Service Chaplains - as at 30 June 2014<\/strong><\/p> Religion<\/p><\/td> Headcount<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Christian<\/p><\/td> 240<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Muslim<\/p><\/td> 100<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Sikh<\/p><\/td> ~<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Hindu<\/p><\/td> ~<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Buddhist<\/p><\/td> ~<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Unknown / Others<\/p><\/td> 40<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Total<\/p><\/td> 390<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 in line with the department\u2019s policy for presenting staffing data. Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.<\/p> The symbol ~ represents 5 or fewer<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison chaplains there are of each faith.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/91646/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The victim personal statement (VPS) was introduced in 2007, and provides victims with a valuable opportunity to tell the Parole Board how the prisoner\u2019s offence has affected them or their family and what the impact of the prisoner\u2019s release will be on them.<\/p> <\/p> Victims can submit a VPS in writing, or they can apply to the Parole Board to read it in person, with the presumption that the Parole Board will agree to this. The right to make a VPS to the Parole Board, and to apply to read it in person, was enshrined in the new Victims Code which was implemented in December 2013.<\/p> <\/p> The National Offender Management Service is committed to ensuring that victims are provided with support and information to help them decide whether they wish to make a VPS to the Parole Board.<\/p> <\/p> The National Offender Management Service does not record information centrally in relation to the number of victims who make a VPS, and has not made an estimate of this number. The Government has made a commitment to monitor criminal justice agencies\u2019 compliance with the Victims\u2019 Code and in \u201cOur Commitment to Victims,\u201d published on 15 September 2014, we announced that criminal justice agencies will publish information on how they have improved services for victims from April 2015.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of victims who made personal statements at parole hearings in each of the last 10 years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4243", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dan Jarvis"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dan Jarvis"}
], "uin" : "209134"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/91521/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The table below sets out the amounts spent on electronic monitoring services provided by G4S and Serco for the years requested.<\/p> <\/p> 2011-12<\/p><\/td> £116,906,087<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012-13<\/p><\/td> £107,684,810<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013-14<\/p><\/td> £36,987,915<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The 2013-14 figure is significantly lower as we withheld payment in 2013 once we became aware of long-standing anomalies in the billing arrangements on these contracts. We have since recovered all money owed on the contracts from the suppliers.<\/p> <\/p> In April 2014 Capita took over the management of the electronic monitoring service, on an interim basis until the new service comes into operation. Under these interim arrangements, G4S and Serco no longer have a direct role in delivering the service on the ground \u2013 and we have far greater oversight of costs and charging than previously, with direct access to the suppliers\u2019 systems. We continue to manage these arrangements robustly.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on its contract for offender electronic monitoring in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/91525", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Justice"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/91525/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " We are currently implementing major reforms to probation services in order to bring about a reduction in reoffending, with contracts to transfer ownership of the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) on track to be signed by the end of 2014.<\/p> <\/p> The two main elements of the payment mechanism for CRCs are the Fee For Service (FFS) and Payment by Results (PbR). The FFS is primarily paid for mandated activities that deliver the sentence of the court and licence conditions. PbR is paid for the achievement of reductions in reoffending against the baseline historical level and is designed to incentivise bidders to continuously innovate and improve performance throughout the life of the contract.<\/p> <\/p> PbR measurement will be based on a series of offender \u201ccohorts\u201d. These are the groups of offenders whose reoffending will determine the providers\u2019 success or otherwise at reducing reoffending rates. Cohorts will be built up on a quarterly and annual basis and will include offenders released from a custodial sentence and offenders who begin a community order (CO) or a suspended sentence order (SSO). Cohorts will exclude offenders not subject to any of the above disposals, and offenders allocated to the National Probation Service. They will also exclude offenders on a CO or SSO which includes only a single electronically monitored requirement (as CRCs will not be responsible for supervising this group) and offenders who are subject only to an unpaid work requirement (as for this group, the court will not have imposed an additional rehabilitative intervention).<\/p> <\/p> CRCs will be paid for reducing reoffending rates significantly beyond historic levels. Those historic baselines are modelled to exclude the same types of offender that are excluded in the CRCs\u2019 cohorts, thereby allowing a like-for-like comparison.<\/p> <\/p> We have consulted widely on the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms and received and responded to a balance of views. The design of the payment mechanism has been set out in the draft payment mechanism design overview and draft payment mechanism contract schedule, copies of which were deposited in the Library of the House and published on the MoJ website in February 2014.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library copies of all representations he has received on the consequences of excluding low risk offenders under community service orders from the payment by results model; and what estimate he has made of the potential effect of that conclusion on re-offending rates.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Helen Jones"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/91199/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " I am unable to disclose the information requested. Disclosure of this sensitive personal data could lead to individual prisoners being identified due to the low numbers matching the criteria.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held in HMP Belmarsh for what offences were (a) over 70, (b) in a wheelchair, (c) using a walking frame and (d) recorded as having hernia problems from 23 December 2013 to 9 January 2014.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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