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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

1061209

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
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 benefit tribunals.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	221635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>It is important that appeals are heard as quickly as possible. The Ministry of Justice recognises that there are delays in the system and is in the process of recruiting more judicial office holders in order to increase capacity and help to reduce waiting times for appellants. In the Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) jurisdiction, 225 new medical members have already been appointed and 119 disability-qualified members have recently been recruited. The SSCS jurisdiction will also benefit from the fact that 250 fee-paid judges and 100 salaried judges are being recruited across tribunals more widely. In addition, we have recently launched a new digital service with a view to enabling speedier processing of appeals and provide a better service for all parties to the proceedings. Information on the new digital service can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/02/2019 13:22:44 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1007870

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 19 paragraph 6 of HM Government publication, The Strategy For Our Veterans, published in November 2018, what steps he is taking to ensure that veterans leave the armed forces with the resilience and awareness to remain law-abiding civilians; and what amount of funding he has allocated to the 2028 outcome.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	191892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Veterans Strategy and the current consultation, which seeks public views to inform the strategy’s implementation, is something to which my Department actively contributed and strongly supports.</p><p> </p><p>The resource required to implement the Strategy for our Veterans will be agreed between Ministerial Covenant and Veterans Board members, which includes the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work with a range of military charities and organisations who have the skills to work with former service personnel entering or leaving custody, or who are supervised in the community by probation services.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/11/2018 18:05:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones