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999388

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason the ministerial responsibilities of Edward Argar are not listed on the relevant Ministry of Justice web page.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	186404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>An administrative oversight led to the responsibilities of Justice Minister Edward Argar not being displayed on his Gov.UK profile page. His responsibilities are in line with those of his predecessor and the webpage has now been updated to show this.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/11/2018 16:51:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997141

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost per prisoner in England and Wales has been in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	184896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>An average cost per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales are routinely published by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. This information is produced on an annual basis and is published after the end of each financial year. Information on prison expenditure can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each financial year on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website. Prison unit costs can be found within the Excel document titled Costs per prison place and cost per prisoner by individual prison establishment under the ‘Cost by Establishment’ tab. The most recent published figures for financial year 2017-18 can be accessed on the www.gov.uk website from the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2017-to-2018</a> We are investing tens of millions of pounds extra in prisons to ensure they remain places of rehabilitation and safe for prisoners and staff. This includes the recruitment and training of over 3,500 new prison officers in the last two years which has increased our spending on prisons. This investment ensures prisoners have a genuine chance to turn their lives around and ultimately protects the public from crime.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/11/2018 10:53:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

997148

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants remanded in custody at a magistrates’ court (a) received an immediate custodial sentence, (b) received a non-custodial sentence, (c) failed to appear, and (d) were acquitted in Wales from 2013 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	185087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>Both the above PQs can be answered using the following published data tools from the Criminal Justice Statistics: December 2017 report (published May 2018):</p><p><strong>Remands: Magistrates’ Court</strong> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733986/remands-magistrates-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733986/remands-magistrates-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p><strong>Remands: Crown Court</strong> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733988/remands-crown-court-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733988/remands-crown-court-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p><strong>To limit the data to Wales in the above tools, select Welsh Police forces from the ‘Police Force Area’ filter.</strong> Outcomes of those remanded in custody can be determined using the <strong>‘Outcome’</strong> filter.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 185088 question first answered 02/11/2018 11:11:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

997149

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Trials: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants remanded in custody at Crown Court in Wales in each year from 2013 to 2017 (a) received an immediate custodial sentence, (b) received a non-custodial sentence, (c) failed to appear, and (d) were acquitted.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	185088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>Both the above PQs can be answered using the following published data tools from the Criminal Justice Statistics: December 2017 report (published May 2018):</p><p><strong>Remands: Magistrates’ Court</strong> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733986/remands-magistrates-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733986/remands-magistrates-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p><strong>Remands: Crown Court</strong> <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733988/remands-crown-court-tool-2017-update.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733988/remands-crown-court-tool-2017-update.xlsx</a></p><p><strong>To limit the data to Wales in the above tools, select Welsh Police forces from the ‘Police Force Area’ filter.</strong> Outcomes of those remanded in custody can be determined using the <strong>‘Outcome’</strong> filter.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 185087 question first answered 02/11/2018 11:11:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

997168

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average (a) prison population and (b) number of prison officers was in each of the last 10 years in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	184897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Prison population statistics and workforce statistics are regularly published. Population statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a>. HM Prison and Probation workforce statistics (which contains staffing figures in public sector prisons but not in privately managed prisons) are published quarterly. The latest publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/her-majestys-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Below is a table showing the average number of Prison Officers present in Public Sector Prisons, alongside annual average prison population figures. The population data was based on the 12 month end prison populations apart form for 2008 and 2009. Due to technical problems relating to the supply of data for statistical purposes, month end population data was not available for the period from July 2009 to February 2010, so data for the last Friday of the month has been used instead (except for December 2009, where the 18 December was used). In relation to the workforce data the figures include Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers working in public sector prisons. It should be noted that as with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time to ensure consistency of reporting. However, the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Prison population annual average</p></td><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Average number of band 3-5 officers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>82,572</p></td><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>25,233</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>83,559</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>25,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>84,725</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>25,359</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>85,951</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>24,286</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>86,634</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>22,102</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>84,249</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>19,719</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>85,307</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>17,984</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>85,626</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>18,355</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>85,348</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>18,104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>85,632</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>19,581</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prison officer numbers are at their highest in five years, which is vital to ensuring prisons are safe, secure and decent. We now have over 3,500 additional staff in post compared to October 2016. The recruitment drive will continue until we reach required levels across the prison estate, ensuring prisons can fulfil their purpose - protecting the public, reducing reoffending and crucially, rehabilitating offenders.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/11/2018 17:11:42 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

997198

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much of the proposed additional money for the Advocates' Graduated Fee scheme the Government plans to allocate from (a) existing Ministry of Justice and (b) new Treasury funding.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	184994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>Additional funding for the Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme forms part of the wider funding discussions the department is having with HM Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 02/11/2018 11:03:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 82641 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997199

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the provisions of the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 will come into force.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	184995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the reply given on 3 September by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Justice (Lucy Frazer QC) to the question asked by the Right Honourable Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Harriet Harman) [PQ 166048]</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/11/2018 17:11:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997200

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) rate and (b) cause of deaths was per 1,000 former offenders in the community under the post-release supervision of (i) community rehabilitation companies and (ii) the National Probation Service in the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	184996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below. Please note that offenders may appear both within the caseload figures of court orders (including community orders and suspended sentence orders), and post-release supervision.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Deaths of offenders in the community by apparent cause<sup>1</sup>, and rate per 1,000 offenders, England and Wales 2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>NPS</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>CRCs</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Caseload as at March 2018<sup>(2)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>55,298</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>135,969</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Cause of death</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of deaths in the community</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Deaths per 1,000 offenders<sup>(3)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of deaths in the community</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Deaths per 1,000 offenders<sup>(3)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Self-inflicted</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>207</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Natural Causes</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Homicide</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accident</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unclassified<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>157</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>296</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>659</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(1) Apparent cause is as reported in annual returns and has not been independently verified.</p><p>(2) The caseload volume represents a snapshot of offenders under probation supervision on 31 March 2018, rather than the number of individual offenders supervised throughout the year.</p><p>(3) Unclassified deaths refer to those deaths for which a cause was unknown at the time of reporting.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/11/2018 17:52:22 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997202

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's report entitled cost per place and costs per prisoner by individual prison, published on 25 October 2018, what the reasons are for the difference in the cost of prison places per prisoner in a public sector prison compared with a private sector prison.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	184997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>An average cost per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales are routinely published by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. This information is produced on an annual basis and is published after the end of each financial year in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of factors which will cause differences in costs between individual prisons which are common to both public sector and private sector prisons, such as the size, age, location, design and security category of the prison, the mix of prisoners (including gender and age) and the internal regime and rehabilitation programmes followed. Public and private sector groups of prisons are not homogenous in terms of prison category and these factors may result in a greater impact on average costs rather than whether the prisons are public or private sector.</p><p>Additionally, the costs of public and private prisons may not be directly comparable because of differences in accounting treatment and the scope of services provided. In terms of accounting treatment, the operating costs are based on resource expenditure as recorded in HMPPS Annual Accounts. The different financing methods of PFI prisons mean that in an individual year, overall operating costs are not directly comparable.</p><p>Similarly, there are differences between contracted prisons where variations in the scope of costs for each private prison contract will reflect different contract specifications. For instance, a number of private sector contracts include the provision of health and education services, whereas within the public sector these services are provided by other government departments and so are not included.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/11/2018 17:15:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

997203

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the re-offending rate has been in each year since 2010 for (a) male and (b) female prisoners who have served a custodial sentence of (i) 0 -1 month (ii) 0 - 3 months and (iii) 0 - 6 months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	184998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Adult proven reoffending data, broken down by gender and custodial sentence length, can be viewed in the table. This information is broken down by a custodial sentence length of 0-1 months, a custodial sentence length of 0-3 months, and a custodial sentence length of 0-6 months.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 01/11/2018 17:34:43 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 184998 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon