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1132147

registered interest
date	13/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Mentally Disordered Offenders: Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for the transfer of offenders to mental health hospitals under sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	264365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>We are determined to improve the process of transfer from prison to hospital under the Mental Health Act to ensure delays are reduced. We take the mental health of prisoners extremely seriously, which is why we have increased the support available to vulnerable offenders, especially during the first 24 hours in custody. We are updating the mental health training for prison officers and so far over 24,000 new and existing prison staff have completed at least one module of the revised suicide and self-harm prevention training. HMPPS is working with NHS England and Public Health England to improve and redesign services for people in prison with mental health needs. This includes revising approaches to secure hospital transfers under section 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act when a person needs to be in a hospital setting for their mental health assessment and treatment. HMPPS and NHS England have worked together to collect new evidence and have increased understanding of where transfers work well and how delays arise, identifying areas for improvement. NHS England are currently consulting on an updated version of DHSC’s good practice guidance on transfers and remissions, which will inform our approach. In addition, the independent review of the Mental Health Act, published in December 2018, made recommendations in relation to patients in the criminal justice system, which require detailed consideration in the context of transfers from prison to hospital and we will respond to these in due course. Officials in the Mental Health Casework Section (MHCS) in HMPPS issue transfer warrants on behalf of the Secretary of State. MHCS has an internal target to produce a transfer warrant within 24 hours of receipt of all necessary information. In the vast majority of cases (96%), transfer warrants are issued within 24 hours of MHCS receiving all necessary information. By holding partners to account where information is missing, MHCS has recently reduced the average time from initial notification to the issue of a warrant from 14 calendar days to 3 calendar days.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/06/2019 13:49:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1110721

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving community sentences were referred to a mental health service between October 2017 - September 2018 asa (a) raw number and (b) percentage of total release broken down by CRC.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	242736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The mechanism by which those sentenced to a community order will access mental health treatment is through a treatment requirement. The table below shows the number of Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in England and Wales in 2016 and 2017. Data for 2018 will be available later this month. We are unable to provide a breakdown by CRC area.</p><p> </p><p>Year Number of MHTRs commenced <br> 2016 669 (less than 1% of all requirements commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in 2016)</p><p>2017 538 (less than 1% of all requirements commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in 2017)</p><p><br>There is no available published data for offenders released on licence. Other means of referrals into mental health treatment and/or services include GPs and Prison Healthcare providers however data for people released from short sentences is not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England on a protocol to support the greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements in courts, including MHTRs. The Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) protocol sets out what is expected from all relevant agencies to ensure improved access to treatment for offenders who need it. It focuses on reducing reoffending by addressing the health needs of offenders that may be contributing to their offending behaviour.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 242737 question first answered 17/04/2019 16:28:06 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1110722

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people under post-prison supervision as part of a 6 months sentence or less were referred to a mental health service between October 2017- September 2018 as a (a) raw number and (b) percentage of total release broken down by CRC.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	242737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The mechanism by which those sentenced to a community order will access mental health treatment is through a treatment requirement. The table below shows the number of Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in England and Wales in 2016 and 2017. Data for 2018 will be available later this month. We are unable to provide a breakdown by CRC area.</p><p> </p><p>Year Number of MHTRs commenced <br> 2016 669 (less than 1% of all requirements commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in 2016)</p><p>2017 538 (less than 1% of all requirements commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in 2017)</p><p><br>There is no available published data for offenders released on licence. Other means of referrals into mental health treatment and/or services include GPs and Prison Healthcare providers however data for people released from short sentences is not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England on a protocol to support the greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements in courts, including MHTRs. The Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) protocol sets out what is expected from all relevant agencies to ensure improved access to treatment for offenders who need it. It focuses on reducing reoffending by addressing the health needs of offenders that may be contributing to their offending behaviour.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 242736 question first answered 17/04/2019 16:28:06 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1110723

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving prison sentences have previously been in care as (a) a raw number and (b) a proportion of total population with the data shown separately for (i) women and (ii) men.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	242738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Prison NOMIS system records 3,087 currently serving prisoners who are care leavers, 2,790 of these are men, 296 are women, and one did not specify a gender. This alert field is not mandatory, and has only been available since 2014, so we cannot be certain it captures all those in custody who have been in care.</p><p> </p><p>Total weekly prison population figures can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>We cannot at this time calculate which of these prisoners were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment because of the way the prison case management system (NOMIS) takes account of recall.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 242739 question first answered 17/04/2019 09:36:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1110726

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men serving short prison sentences of under six months have been in care.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	242739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Prison NOMIS system records 3,087 currently serving prisoners who are care leavers, 2,790 of these are men, 296 are women, and one did not specify a gender. This alert field is not mandatory, and has only been available since 2014, so we cannot be certain it captures all those in custody who have been in care.</p><p> </p><p>Total weekly prison population figures can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-figures-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>We cannot at this time calculate which of these prisoners were sentenced to less than six months’ imprisonment because of the way the prison case management system (NOMIS) takes account of recall.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 242738 question first answered 17/04/2019 09:36:58 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1110729

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Durham Prison: Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) male and (b) female prisoners released from HMP Durham were released into homelessness in each month since April 2016.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	242740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>This information requested is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms to probation are designed to encourage long-term rehabilitation and ultimately reduce reoffending – and the first step in this is ensuring that everyone leaving prison has access to secure and stable accommodation. We are improving support for offenders leaving prison with a £22 million investment in through-the-gate services which will help to strengthen ties with key partners, including the third sector, local authorities and the police.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time we are investing £6m as part of the Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy in pilot schemes bringing together prisons, local authorities, probation providers and others to plan, secure and sustain accommodation for offenders on their release.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/04/2019 16:31:25 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ242740 v2.xlsx title Table
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones