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805101

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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, with reference to the Supreme Court's ruling on 26 July 2017, what his Department's policy in on reintroducing employment tribunal fees at a lower level than the Supreme Court deemed unlawful in July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is considering the judgment very carefully and will set out any proposals for future fees in due course.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 19/12/2017 14:28:32 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805128

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many females who were resident in Wales are serving jail sentences.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	118800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>On 30 September 2017, 227 women with a Welsh origin address are serving a custodial sentence.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to stress that it is not possible to infer from an address in Wales that an individual considers themselves Welsh. HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) cannot identify English and Welsh prisoners as information is not collated in this way.</p><p> </p><p>Around 97% of prisoners have an origin location - i.e. addresses that are recorded in our central IT system. If no address is given, an offender’s committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident.</p><p> </p><p>The numerical information provided has been drawn from administrative IT systems, which as with any large scale recording system are subject to possible error with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 20/12/2017 11:16:02 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

805171

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons use the Basic Custody Screening Tool; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the data collected by that too in the last 12 months with personally identifiable information removed.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	118843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>We have an established network of resettlement prisons which are used to facilitate the transition from custody into the community, to enable Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) to work with those prisoners returning to their local area. The Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCST) is completed in all of these resettlement prisons at the beginning of a prisoner’s custodial sentence. It is not completed in non-resettlement prisons. A list of resettlement prisons is attached.</p><p> </p><p>From the BCST records held centrally, removal of personally identifiable information could only be carried out at disproportionate cost. As you will appreciate it would not be appropriate to release the raw data as recorded, given the potential sensitivity of those records and indeed the regulations of the Data Protection Act.</p><p> </p><p><strong>List of resettlement prisons in England and Wales</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>HMP Altcourse</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Kirklevington Grange</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Askham Grange</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Lancaster Farms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Bedford</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Leeds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Belmarsh</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Leicester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Berwyn</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Lewes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Birmingham</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Leyhill</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMPYOI Brinsford</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Lincoln</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Bristol</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Liverpool</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Brixton</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Low Newton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Bronzefield</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Manchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Bullingdon</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Moorland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Cardiff</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Mount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Channings Wood</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP New Hall</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Chelmsford</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP North Sea Camp</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Coldingley</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Northumberland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Doncaster</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Norwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Dovegate</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Nottingham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Downview</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Oakwood</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Drake Hall</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Onley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Durham</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Parc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP East Sutton Park</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Pentonville</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Eastwood Park</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Peterborough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Elmley</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Portland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Exeter</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Preston</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Featherstone</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Ranby</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMPYOI Feltham</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Risley</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Ford</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Rochester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Forest Bank</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Send</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Foston Hall</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Standford Hill</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Grendon/Spring Hill</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Stoke Heath</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Guys Marsh</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Styal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hatfield</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Sudbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Haverigg</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Swansea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hewell</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Thameside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP High Down</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Thorn Cross</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Highpoint</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Usk / Prescoed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hindley</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Wandsworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hollesley Bay</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Wayland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Holme House</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Wealstun</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hull</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Winchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Humber</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Woodhill</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Isis</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Wormwood Scrubs</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>HMP Kirkham</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/12/2017 13:19:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

805172

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the results of the Measuring the Quality of Prison Life survey from the last five years and the reports generated for each prison based on that survey.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	118844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service carry out Measuring the Quality of Life surveys of individual prisons on a rolling programme.</p><p> </p><p>On Thursday 26 October, the Ministry of Justice launched Justice Data, a new public facing platform for presenting published performance data. The website will be accessible at <a href="https://www.data.justice.gov.uk/prisons" target="_blank">https://www.data.justice.gov.uk/prisons</a> and includes a year of MQPL performance on Safety and Decency.</p><p> </p><p>Until 2016/17 the scores for some dimensions of the prisoner surveys were included in the Prison Rating System (PRS) which was published annually. The results for 2016/17 can be found on gov.uk at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-annual-performance-ratings-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-annual-performance-ratings-2016-to-2017</a> and previous years will be available in the PRS reports at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The PRS has been replaced with the Custodial Performance Tool and certain dimensions of the prisoner survey such as safety are part of this assessment. I have no plans to publish the reports of the Measuring the Quality of Life surveys as they are produced purely for management information.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/12/2017 13:08:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

805240

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Mother and Baby Units
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 have been refused a place in a mother and baby unit in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	118912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The table below details the number of applications that were made for a place on a prison mother and baby unit in the last five financial years, together with the number of applications approved and refused.</p><p><strong>Table: Mother &amp; Baby Units (MBU) Management Information, by year 2010/11 to 2016/17<sup>1</sup></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of applications received for admission to MBU</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of applications approved by a board<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of applications refused by a board<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(1) Figures are management information drawn from administrative data systems. They are provisional figures and subject to change following final quality assurance. 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>(2) Not all applications to MBUs will be approved or refused, many will not proceed for other reasons. Applications may not be assessed in the month in which they are received.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 20/12/2017 11:17:31 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

805341

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners on Remand
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparative assessment he has made of the outcomes of remand hearings conducted (a) in court and (b) via video link.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	119013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The MoJ has not conducted an assessment of outcomes of sentencing hearings depending on whether video was used. Sentencing outcomes are a matter for the judiciary.</p><p> </p><p>MoJ does not collect data centrally that distinguishes between video or in court hearings. To collect this data would require significant manual intervention and would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab grouped question UIN 119045 question first answered 20/12/2017 16:06:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805344

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Temporary Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many agency staff work in HM Courts and Tribunal Service.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	119016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The current number of agency staff working for HM Courts and Tribunals Service as at 30<sup>th</sup> September 2017 was 2005.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/12/2017 13:12:16 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805345

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Temporary Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many agency staff have been employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	119017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The numbers of agency staff employed by HM Courts and Tribunals Service from 2010 is</p><ul><li>2011 – 270</li><li>2012 – 461</li><li>2013 - 829</li><li>2014 – 819</li><li>2015 – 992</li><li>2016 – 1193</li><li>2017 – 2005</li></ul><p> </p><p>Agency staff numbers in HMCTS have increased since 2012 partly because of the reform programme and our workforce strategy to maintain appropriate levels of workforce flexibility. We expect the number of agency staff to significantly reduce as we implement the reform programme, redeploy staff, and recruit to vacancies arising from the new structure.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 20/12/2017 14:24:46 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805347

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children had at least one parent who was imprisoned in each year for the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	119019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting prisoners to establish or maintain relationships with their families where appropriate. Lord Farmer published his report in August on improving family relationships for those in prison. Work has already commenced on taking forward some of the important recommendations from this review.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the number of children who have a parent in prison. An MoJ longitudinal study of adult prisoners estimated that there were around 200,000 children who had a parent in prison at some point during 2009.</p><p>In 2015, MoJ published analysis which estimated that in 2012 between 13-19% of women serving an immediate custodial sentence had at least one dependent child in their care. On average, this group of women had 1.8 children each.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/465916/female-offenders-child-dependents-statistics.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/465916/female-offenders-child-dependents-statistics.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/12/2017 11:48:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805348

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload has been for each Community Rehabilitation Company in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	119020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Caseloads for Community Rehabilitation Companies are published on gov.uk as part of the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly which can be accessed via the following link: <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> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/12/2017 14:24:08 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon