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1304481

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were released from prison while serving a determinate sentence of 20 years or more in the last year that figures are available; and of these, how many have subsequently been recalled to custody.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL14433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2021 answer text <p>The total number of releases and subsequent recalls in the last year that figures are available is provided as follows, broken down by (1) determinate sentences of 20 or more years, (2) prisoners serving life sentences who have been in custody for 10 or more years, and (3) prisoners serving imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences who have been in custody for 10 years or more.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Sentence Type</p></td><td><p>Total released between 1 Oct 2019 and 30 Sept 2020</p></td><td><p>Total recalled since release</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Determinate – 20+ years</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life (10+ years in custody)</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IPP (10+ years in custody)</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders on licence in the community will be recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions in such a way as to indicate that their risk has increased to the level where it may no longer be managed effectively in the community, even by the imposition of additional licence conditions and other controls. Recall is a vital measure to protect the public from those who are assessed as likely to commit further offences causing serious harm if they were to remain in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Our primary responsibility is to protect the public. HMPPS remains committed to supporting all offenders recalled to custody to reduce their risk, so that the independent Parole Board (or, in the case of some determinate sentence offenders, the Secretary of State using executive powers) may direct their re-release as soon as it is safe to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL14436 question first answered 07/04/2021 12:46:22 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1304482

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people currently in prison serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence who have spent a total period of 10 years or more in custody have been (1) unreleased, and (2) recalled.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL14434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2021 answer text <p>The total number of life and imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence prisoners currently in prison, who have spent a total of at least 10 years in custody and who have either (1) never been released or (2) are in custody having been recalled, is provided below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Sentence Type</p></td><td><p>Unreleased</p></td><td><p>Recalled</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IPP (10+ years in custody)</p></td><td><p>1311</p></td><td><p>257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life (10+ years in custody)</p></td><td><p>3262</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p> </p><p>The total unreleased IPP population is reducing year on year - it stood at 1,849 as of 31 December 2020, down from 2,134 on 31 December 2019. IPP prisoners continue to have a high chance of a positive outcome from Parole Board hearings. In 2019/20 72% of Parole Board hearings resulted in either a recommendation for a progressive transfer to an open prison or release.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders on licence in the community will be recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions in such a way as to indicate that their risk has increased to the level where it may no longer be managed effectively in the community, even by the imposition of additional licence conditions and other controls. Recall is a vital measure to protect the public from those who are assessed as likely to commit further offences causing serious harm if they were to remain in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s primary responsibility is to protect the public. HM Prison and Probation Service remains committed to supporting the progression of those serving IPP and life sentences in custody, so that the Parole Board may direct their release or, as the case may be, re-release, as soon as it is safe to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL14484 question first answered 07/04/2021 12:45:26 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1304483

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners currently sentenced to imprisonment for public protection were convicted of theft.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL14435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2021 answer text <p>None. Offences contrary to section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 (“theft”) never qualified as serious specified offences within the meaning of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 for which a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) could have been imposed . However, a conviction for certain other offences within the Theft Act 1968, such as that for robbery or aggravated burglary, could have led to an IPP sentence. As of 31 December 2020, there were 714 (339 unreleased and 375 recalled) prisoners serving an IPP sentence who have a recorded offence in the category of “robbery” and 80 (34 unreleased and 46 recalled) prisoners serving an IPP sentence who have a recorded offence in the category of “theft offences”. But these data do not give an indication of the precise specific serious specified offence, or the context or severity of the crimes, which led to a Judge deciding that the case was so serious that it merited the imposition of an IPP sentence.</p><p> </p><p>The independent Parole Board determine whether it is safe to release prisoners serving an IPP sentence. Consequently, where a prisoner remains in custody, it is because the Parole Board has judged that their risk is too high for them to be safely managed in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s primary responsibility is to protect the public; however, HM Prison and Probation Service remains committed to supporter prisoners to reduce their risk to the level where the Parole Board will judge that they may now be safely supervised on licence in the community.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 07/04/2021 12:44:05 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1304484

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were released from prison in the last year that figures are available while serving (1) a life sentence, or (2) an imprisonment for public protection sentence, having spent at least 10 years in custody; and of these, how many have subsequently been recalled to custody.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL14436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2021 answer text <p>The total number of releases and subsequent recalls in the last year that figures are available is provided as follows, broken down by (1) determinate sentences of 20 or more years, (2) prisoners serving life sentences who have been in custody for 10 or more years, and (3) prisoners serving imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences who have been in custody for 10 years or more.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Sentence Type</p></td><td><p>Total released between 1 Oct 2019 and 30 Sept 2020</p></td><td><p>Total recalled since release</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Determinate – 20+ years</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life (10+ years in custody)</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IPP (10+ years in custody)</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures have been drawn from the Public Protection Unit Database held by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. As with any large-scale recording systems, the figures are subject to possible errors with data migration and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders on licence in the community will be recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions in such a way as to indicate that their risk has increased to the level where it may no longer be managed effectively in the community, even by the imposition of additional licence conditions and other controls. Recall is a vital measure to protect the public from those who are assessed as likely to commit further offences causing serious harm if they were to remain in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Our primary responsibility is to protect the public. HMPPS remains committed to supporting all offenders recalled to custody to reduce their risk, so that the independent Parole Board (or, in the case of some determinate sentence offenders, the Secretary of State using executive powers) may direct their re-release as soon as it is safe to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar grouped question UIN HL14433 question first answered 07/04/2021 12:46:22 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1304490

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Visits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to prioritise the use of videophones by prisoners with children while family visits are not possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and what plans they have for similar prioritisation for prisoners held at long-distance from their families when the restrictions in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic have ended.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL14442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2021 answer text <p>We are committed to continuing to offer secure video calling after the current Covid-19 restrictions have ended, and are considering future options in line with the recommendations of Lord Farmer’s reviews for maintaining family ties. We will continue to be guided by public health advice, and we will work with our stakeholders to inform our longer-term planning.</p><p> </p><p>Secure video calls are now running in all public and private prisons and Young Offender Institutions across England and Wales. This was introduced alongside other measures to support family engagement, such as additional mobile phone handsets and extra phone credit while social visits have been suspended. Social visits in the Youth Custody Service estate have continued and on compassionate grounds in the adult estate.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 07/04/2021 12:44:38 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

1304526

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce delays to court cases arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL14479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2021 answer text <p>We are keenly aware of the need to improve timeliness for both defendants and victims, and mitigate the impact of delays on victims and witnesses. Judges have been prioritising the most serious cases throughout the pandemic, including those involving vulnerable victims and witnesses as well as those with defendants nearing custody time limits.</p><p>We will continue to do more, and the recovery of our courts to full operational capacity is our highest priority in order to reduce waiting times within the justice system. The steps taken so far – to adjust court rooms to hold Covid-secure trials, to open more court rooms, and to move to virtual hearings where possible – have helped. Crown Court disposals increased from June 2020 and were higher than pre-Covid levels for the first two weeks of 2021. The increase has slowed slightly, with disposals throughout February consistently 5% below the pre-Covid baseline, and the outstanding caseload in Magistrates’ courts has reduced from the peak reached in August. As of the end of March 2021, we have created a total of 60 Nightingale courts.</p><p>We continue to work with partners across the justice system to assess what more can be done to improve the resilience of the courts during the pandemic, and to assist faster recovery. We recognise the particular impact of delays on victims and witnesses, and are providing £151m to victim and witness support services in 2021-22 to ensure victims receive the support they need.</p> answering member printed Lord Wolfson of Tredegar question first answered 07/04/2021 12:46:55 answering member 4901 label Biography information for Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1304579

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Iron and Steel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the level of UK-produced steel procured by his Department and associated departmental public bodies and agencies in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	173049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>Our procurement activities continue to follow Government guidance to ensure we take full account of the value provided by UK steel producers. We did not directly procure any steel.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 30/03/2021 15:34:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1304678

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Powers of Attorney
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many spot check investigations his Department has carried out to check Lasting Powers of Attorney are in line with the wishes of those in whose names an application is made, in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	172854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is the registering authority for Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) and has a statutory duty to maintain a register of Powers of Attorney and Deputyship orders. OPG has authority under Section 58 of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) to investigate concerns that are raised about the circumstances surrounding the execution of an LPA, either before or after registration.</p><p>While OPG does not conduct spot checks, the creation of an LPA requires witnessing and in addition a Certificate Provider must attest that the person making the LPA understands and consents to its contents.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/03/2021 13:45:12 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1304788

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation’s report, Caseloads, workloads and staffing levels in probation Services, published in March 2021, what assessment he has made of the effect of reintegration of community rehabilitation companies into the national probation service on the (a) mean caseloads and (b) distribution of caseloads for (i) probation services officers and (ii) probation officers.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	172931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>Our future model for the probation system is based on enabling our staff to deliver all elements of their role to protect the public and to help people live law abiding lives, rather than an average caseload per probation staff member. Consolidating probation services into one organisation will enable staff to work with a more diverse range of people on probation with different needs and develop a broader range of skills, which in turn will increase the flexibility of our workforce. All staff will deal with work and caseloads that have a range of complexity, matched to their level of training and expertise.</p><p>We are also increasing our recruitment of trainee probation officers to unprecedented levels in order to meet increased demand on the system. We have committed to recruiting 1,000 trainee Probation Officers in 2020/21, with 443 already started in July 2020 and further intakes planned throughout 2021. This increase will help to ensure that probation officers have the capacity to effectively manage their caseload.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/03/2021 13:56:22 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1304789

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation’s report, Caseloads, workloads and staffing levels in probation Services, published in March 2021, what steps he is taking to reduce the numbers of probation staff with caseloads in excess of (a) 50 cases and (b) 60 cases.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	172932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>A probation worker’s tasks are not based solely on the number of cases they are managing, but the level of supervision each case requires. Capacity of probation officers is regularly monitored by Senior Probation Officers and line managers. We have policies and guidance in place to support managers and staff who are deemed to have an excessive workload.</p><p>However, we know that workloads for many probation officers are too high, which is why we are ambitious in our recruitment of additional staff. We are committed to recruiting 1,000 trainee Probation Officers in 2020/21, with 443 already having started in July 2020 and further intakes planned for 2021.</p><p>Our planned reforms for the probation system will enable our staff to deliver all elements of their role, protect the public and help people live law abiding lives. All staff will deal with work and caseloads that have a range of complexity, matched to their level of training and expertise.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/03/2021 13:59:53 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown