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1718306

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps their Department is taking to support the Disability Confident scheme; how many officials in their Department work directly on supporting that scheme; what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of that work in supporting the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of disabled people in their Department; and what further steps they are taking to support their Department’s recruitment and retention of disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	26437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The enablement of the Disability Confident scheme is embedded throughout the employee lifecycle, and the teams that support the employee lifecycle.  This is in line with the Ministry of Justice’s new HR operating model whereby strategic Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) activity is mainstreamed into the department’s HQ People Function.  This approach assures that any related Ministry of Justice workforce activity is aligned to Civil Service reform priorities and the strategic objectives of the Civil Service People Plan and Civil Service D&amp;I Strategy, including recent, updated Ministerial guidance on EDI activity in the Civil Service.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice’s approach to the delivery of the Civil Service People Plan and Civil Service D&amp;I Strategy includes the ongoing assessment of work to support recruitment and retention of disabled staff. The Ministry of Justice has been taken part in the Disability Confident scheme since 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Further steps to recruit and retain disabled staff that are aligned to the Disability Confident scheme include:</p><ul><li><p>Information in job adverts about the Disability Confident scheme, how to request a reasonable adjustment to the application process and the Disability Confident interview scheme, which provides candidates with an option to “opt-in” to be considered for an interview as a disabled candidate if they meet the minimum criteria for the role.</p></li><li><p>The Ministry of Justice provides individual focused support to ensure our disabled staff have workplace adjustments they require, including an in-house workplace adjustment service. The department seeks to continually review the effectiveness of this offer.</p></li><li><p>The Ministry of Justice values the talent of all staff, including those with a disability. The department participates in the Civil Service ‘Future Leaders Scheme’ Disability Empowers Leadership Talent (DELTA) scheme and is piloting a new in-house talent offer for disabled staff in 2024.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/05/2024 12:39:42 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1718311

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of staff diversity networks in his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	26341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government has audited the cost-effectiveness of all equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) activities, through the review of EDI spending announced last June.</p><p>On 14 May, the Minister without Portfolio made a <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-05-14/hcws464" target="_blank">written statement</a> on the latest findings from the review.</p><p>In response to these findings, the Cabinet Office is publishing the Civil Service EDI Expenditure Guidance. This includes an end to all external spending on EDI activity, unless cleared and authorised by Ministers.</p><p>Further guidance on diversity staff networks is being developed, and we will seek to publish additional data on historic spending to assist transparency in this area.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/05/2024 12:37:16 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1718392

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
uin	26314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F66293e533b0122a378a7e725%2FPrison-releases-2023.ods&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">table 3_A_28</a> available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2023" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26315 26316 26317 question first answered 23/05/2024 08:06:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2024-05-23 PQ 26314 26315 26316 26317 Table.xlsx title PQs_table
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1718393

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred to Category D prisons in each year since 2015, by category of the original prison.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
uin	26315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F66293e533b0122a378a7e725%2FPrison-releases-2023.ods&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">table 3_A_28</a> available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2023" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26314 26316 26317 question first answered 23/05/2024 08:06:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2024-05-23 PQ 26314 26315 26316 26317 Table.xlsx title PQs_table
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1718394

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred to Category C prisons in each year since 2015, by the category of the original prison.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
uin	26316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F66293e533b0122a378a7e725%2FPrison-releases-2023.ods&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">table 3_A_28</a> available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2023" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26314 26315 26317 question first answered 23/05/2024 08:06:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2024-05-23 PQ 26314 26315 26316 26317 Table.xlsx title PQs_table
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1718395

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred from Category A prisons in each year since 2015, by the category of their destination prisons.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
uin	26317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F66293e533b0122a378a7e725%2FPrison-releases-2023.ods&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">table 3_A_28</a> available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2023" target="_blank">Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26314 26315 26316 question first answered 23/05/2024 08:06:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2024-05-23 PQ 26314 26315 26316 26317 Table.xlsx title PQs_table
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1718526

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released under the End of Custody Supervised License scheme in each of the last five years, by category of offence they were originally convicted for.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	26567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence began in October 2023. Analysis of its use will be based on at least one year’s worth of data and published in line with the same approach we take for other statistical releases, such as deaths of offenders in the community.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26569 question first answered 23/05/2024 14:44:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1718527

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria are used to determine the eligibility of prisoners for early release under the overcrowding alleviation scheme.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	26568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>There is no such thing as the overcrowding alleviation scheme. HMPPS uses crowding where necessary and appropriate to ensure there is sufficient prison capacity to lock up offenders.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 24/05/2024 08:09:28 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1718528

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released early under the overcrowding alleviation scheme have subsequently been recalled to custody in each of the last five years; and what the reasons for recall were.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	26569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>End of Custody Supervised Licence began in October 2023. Analysis of its use will be based on at least one year’s worth of data and published in line with the same approach we take for other statistical releases, such as deaths of offenders in the community.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 26567 question first answered 23/05/2024 14:44:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1718529

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department takes to ensure that prisoners released under the End of Custody Supervised License scheme (a) are adequately supervised and (b) do not pose a risk to public safety.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	26570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>ECSL brings forward the normal release of some offenders. There are strict eligibility criteria which exclude the most serious and dangerous offenders, including all sexual and serious violent offenders. Offenders who may be eligible for release under these arrangements will be subject to the same set of licence conditions that would apply had they been released automatically. Unlike Labour’s early release scheme, which ran for three years and released over 80,000 prisoners, all offenders released under ECSL are subject to strict licence conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Those licence conditions will reflect the risk management release plan prepared by probation staff and what is necessary to safely manage the offender in the community. The offender can be immediately recalled to prison if they do not comply or otherwise behave in a way that is assessed to be putting the public at risk.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/05/2024 11:15:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi