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994345

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total weight of drugs recovered in prisons in England and Wales in (1) 2017, and (2) 2018 to date.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>189 kilogrammes of drugs were recovered in prisons in England and Wales in 2017 and 50 kilogrammes of drugs were recovered between January and March this year. Data for the months since March 2018 will be available on GOV.UK in July 2019, as part of the Annual HMPPS Digest. The volume of drugs recovered reflects not only the number of attempts to convey illicit substances into our prisons but also our success in finding and recovering these drugs.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/10/2018 15:58:39 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

994346

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	National Tactical Response Group
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the National Offenders Management Service's National Tactical Response Group was deployed in (1) 2017, and (2) 2018 to date.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) provides additional support staff or resources to prisons to help them deal with a variety of incidents. The figures provided include incidents where the situation was resolved locally prior to National Tactical Response Groups arrival</p><p> </p><p>In 2017 and 2018, NTRG were deployed the following times:</p><p>2017 – 547</p><p>2018 – 475*</p><p> </p><p>*data accurate up to 31/8/18, the most recently available data</p><p>Note, this figures include deployments to Immigration Removal Centres as required.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/11/2018 17:36:40 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

994353

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they responded to the report on prison policy by the Catholic Bishops' Conference, The Right Road, published in November 2016; and if so, what was their response.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL10997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>We have not formally responded to this report. However, we absolutely share the Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s vision of a prison system that rehabilitates offenders and supports victims. We are working towards this through our reforms to prisons, and indeed probation services.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 31/10/2018 15:23:57 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

993790

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coroners: Armed Forces
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to instruct coroners to record whether a victim of suicide had been a serving or former member of the armed forces.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL10923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has addressed this issue in its response to the current e-petition on the recording of veterans’ suicides. A revised response was published on 30 October 2018. A copy of the response is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/11/2018 17:46:42 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie attachment 1 file name E-Petition HL10923.DOCX title E-Petition
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

993802

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people of working age leaving prison obtained employment following release in the last year for which information is available.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Based on matched MOJ-DWP data on the proportion of working age adult offenders released from prison in 2011/12, 17% were in employment 12 months after release from custody.</p><p>More recent data from 2014/15 indicates that at a national level, 26.5% of prisoners were entering employment upon release, but this data was self-reported and we don’t have a split in this rate for length of sentence served.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/11/2018 17:38:11 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

993803

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many recorded failures by individuals on release from prison on temporary licence were the result of suspected further offences in (1) 2017, and (2) 2018 to date.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>There were more than 350,000 incidences of release on temporary licence (ROTL) in 2017, over 99% of which were completed without a failure on any kind.</p><p> </p><p>Out of these there were 11 recorded failures by individuals on release from prison on temporary licence as a result of alleged offending in 2017. The latest data available shows that there were 4 recorded failures for this reason up to 30 June 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/11/2018 17:40:42 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

993804

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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 granted compassionate release from prison on the grounds of ill-health in (1) 2017, and (2) 2018 to date.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The number of prisoners granted early release on compassionate grounds for reasons of ill-health in 2017 and 2018 to date are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 to date</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures have been drawn from internal records and the Public Protection Unit Database in HM Prison and Probation Service. As with any large scale recording systems, they are subject to possible errors with data migration and data processing.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/11/2018 17:36:28 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

993837

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Race and Ethnicity Board
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Keen of Elie on 1 February (HL4903), what conclusions the Race and Ethnicity Board has reached on how best to engage the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Whitaker
uin	HL10970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>Following the publication of the Lammy Review last year, we are making efforts to explore and address specific disparities among the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities in the justice system, overseen by the Race and Ethnicity Board. Our ability to design and assess effective policies will be strengthened by engagement with representatives of GRT communities with direct experience of the justice system. To this end, we are establishing a dedicated stakeholder forum to inform, review and partner with on emerging work.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 02/11/2018 12:08:57 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	2510 label Biography information for Baroness Whitaker

990466

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Food
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average food budget per prisoner per day in prisons in England and Wales.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) allocates food budgets to prisons on the basis of £2.02 per prisoner per day, which covers the daily prisoner food and beverage requirements.</p><p> </p><p>With increased responsibilities to Governors since April 2017, and devolved budgets to prisons, what is actually spent on food per prisoner per day and the breakdown per meals is ultimately a decision for each Governor and their catering team.</p><p> </p><p>The food budget for prisoners within privately managed prisons is agreed in the contract between the provider and the Ministry of Justice, the details of which are commercially sensitive. This is reviewed regularly.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 01/11/2018 17:42:21 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

990467

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prison officers have been sent on detached duty to fill staffing gaps in other prisons in the last 12 months.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL10800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify how many prison officers have been on detached duty during the past twelve months as some will have been deployed on multiple occasions. The period of deployment can vary from two to fourteen weeks.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 26/10/2018 10:59:24 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley