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758816

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers recruited in the last 12 months have subsequently resigned from their post.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	9373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>In the 12 months to 30 June 2017, 2,640 band 3-5 prison officers joined HMPPS. Of these, 123 (4.7%) subsequently resigned from their post.</p><p>Latest information on the number of newly recruited prison officers can be found in Table 8a in the HMPPS workforce statistics bulletin, at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-june-2017</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 12/09/2017 11:07:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

722528

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
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 assessment she has made of the financial and service viability of community rehabilitation companies.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	71281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, through the Probation System Review, has been working proactively with all Community Rehabilitation Companies. The review has been looking at both the contractual arrangements and the effectiveness of service delivery.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 24/04/2017 16:20:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

712492

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to answer Question 62919, tabled on 2 February 2017 by the hon. Member for Coventry South on prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	68549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Question 62919 tabled on 2 February 2017 by the hon. Member for Coventry South was answered on 23 March 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/03/2017 17:34:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

709403

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoner Escorts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to review the level of compliance with prison service instructions on prisoner escort.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	67066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The instructions on the external escort of prisoners is set out in Prison Service Instruction 33/2015. This provides comprehensive security procedures to be applied when a prisoner is to be escorted outside the establishment. These procedures are subject to local monitoring and approval. In addition to this, all security compliance is monitored through a central programme of audit and assurance. All serious breaches of security during escort (including prisoner escape) are investigated, and any resulting recommendations carefully considered.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners are only moved outside the security of the prison when necessary and where the purpose of the escort cannot be met within the prison. The overwhelming majority of escorts pass without incident.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/03/2017 18:05:56 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

709404

registered interest
date	08/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of guidelines for tougher sentences for knife crimes on the numbers of people imprisoned for such crimes.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	67064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>After the introduction of our two strikes legislation, people caught carrying a knife a second time are now more likely than ever before to go to prison.</p><p> </p><p>The government continues to monitor sentencing for bladed and offensive weapon offences. On 9 March the latest knife possession sentencing quarterly statistics bulletin was published and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly-brief-october-to-december-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly-brief-october-to-december-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Sentencing Guidelines are produced by the independent Sentencing Council. The Council has developed a draft guideline on sentences for knife possession and threat offences which they consulted on between 6 October 2016 and 6 January 2017. The draft guideline is available from the Sentencing Council’s website: <a href="http://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk" target="_blank">www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/03/2017 11:22:48 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

708836

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Procedure Rule Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to make a decision on whether to run a recruitment competition for the lay member of the Family Rule Procedure Committee.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	66879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Ministers will consider whether to run an external recruitment campaign for the lay member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, in the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>The decision will take into account the future needs of the Committee and consider factors such as the balance of new and existing members. .</p><p> </p><p>Any future external recruitment campaign will be published on the Cabinet Office’s website for public appointments.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 13/03/2017 12:52:29 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

694260

registered interest
date	24/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the reasons why prison officers left employment in England in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	65495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of prison officers leaving the prison service and their reasons for leaving is published quarterly in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Workforce Statistics Bulletin, available on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 02/03/2017 16:52:08 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

685571

registered interest
date	06/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the effect of charges levied for a doctor's letter as evidence of domestic violence on the number of domestic violence claims; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	63210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government is absolutely clear that victims of domestic violence must have access to the help that they need, including access to legal aid.</p><p> </p><p>Legal aid is available for the purpose of obtaining urgent protection via the courts and this funding is not subject to evidence requirements. Legal aid is also available, to those affected by domestic violence, for private family matters such as child contact and financial arrangements following separation. In these cases objective evidence is required and a letter from a health professional, which does not have to be a GP, is one of the types of evidence that can be accepted. We are aware that a small number of GPs have been charging for this but we do not believe that there is a need to do so.</p><p> </p><p>In July to September of 2016 the number of applications for legal aid for private family matters in which evidence of domestic violence is required was 26% higher than the same quarter of the previous year and the proportion of applications granted has increased to over 75% in the last three quarters.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/02/2017 17:43:43 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

683417

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
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 assessment she has made of trends in the number of prisoners temporarily released on resettlement overnight release licences in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	62943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>Data on the number of prisoners released on temporary license (ROTL), of which resettlement overnight release is one type, is published quarterly, and data for each year going back to 2002 is published on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>We reviewed the approach to ROTL in 2013 to ensure risks are being managed effectively and there is now a greater focus on: linking the ROTL activity to the individual’s sentence plan; countering any presumption to temporary release; and, an improved risk assessment and management approach, particularly with the most serious offenders. This has, however, had an unintended consequence – restrictions to improve risk management of the most serious offenders, have resulted in lower risk offenders not being able to benefit from ROTL.</p><p> </p><p>We will maintain the improvements made while allowing governors greater discretion in how they tailor their ROTL regime to the circumstances of each offender. We know that three of the most powerful factors helping to keep ex-offenders from re-offending are a good job, strong family ties and a stable place to live - ROTL makes all of them easier to achieve. Public protection is our top priority and we have no intention of changing the full risk-assessment offenders on ROTL must undergo and any non-compliance will be dealt with robustly.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/02/2017 17:17:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

683430

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of prisoners who have been imprisoned over 100 miles from their home in England in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	62919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) seeks to hold prisoners in the most appropriate security conditions, in prisons that are able to meet the need presented by their individual case, at each stage of their time in custody.</p><p> </p><p>On 30 September 2016 there were 12,678 prisoners with a recorded origin address in England held in prisons over 100 miles from their home address. The home address can include an address to which offenders intend to return on discharge or next of kin address. If no address is given, an offender’s committal court address is used as a proxy for the area in which they are resident and these figures are included in the answer.</p><p> </p><p>All data has been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/03/2017 17:30:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham