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1729715

registered interest
date	13/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Service: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made for future graduate recruitment into the prison workforce (including for the cohort graduating in 2025).
tabling member printed	Baroness Porter of Fulwood
uin	HL1132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>HMPPS recognises the value that graduate prison officers bring to prisons and is committed to continuing to invest in its pipeline of future leaders. Several options for talent schemes, including graduate programmes, are being explored.</p><p> </p><p>The contract with the current graduate scheme provider will run until October 2026. All participants will continue to receive full support from our staff to thrive in their career with HMPPS.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson question first answered 18/09/2024 10:42:11 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
tabling member	5009 label Biography information for Baroness Porter of Fulwood

1729650

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Sexuality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 12 August (HL426), whether the Ministry of Justice has received such representations from the Public and Commercial Services Union; and what was their response.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL1056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Public and Commercial Services Union has not made any representations to the Ministry of Justice regarding this motion and therefore no response was given.</p> answering member printed Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede question first answered 18/09/2024 10:51:29 answering member 3154 label Biography information for Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

1729058

registered interest
date	11/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Press Recognition Panel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede on 1 August (HL330), on what basis the Ministry of Justice made a payment to the Press Recognition Panel of £430,000 in April; and whether they intend to place in the House of Lords Library a copy of all correspondence between the Ministry of Justice and Press Regulation Panel relating to the payment.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the press sets out that The Exchequer (acting through the Lord Chancellor) will fund the Press Recognition Panel (PRP) until it becomes effective. It also sets out that in the event that the PRP considers its income is likely to be insufficient it will have a right to request further reasonable sums so it is not frustrated by a lack of funding. Whilst the Lord Chancellor is the conduit for the PRP with HM Treasury, they have no policy responsibility under the Royal Charter that created the PRP. The PRP publish their accounts on an annual basis, confirming their annual income of £430,000.</p> answering member printed Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede question first answered 18/09/2024 10:46:01 answering member 3154 label Biography information for Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

1729071

registered interest
date	11/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to enable prisoners with work outside the confines of prison to be paid a wage.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>We know that employment reduces the chance of reoffending significantly, by up to nine percentage points. That is why we have committed to break the cycle of reoffending by better supporting prisons to link up with employers and the voluntary sector to get more people with convictions into work.</p><p> </p><p>Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) allows prisoners to be released temporarily into the community for specific purposes, including to engage in employment. Prisoners working on ROTL are paid the same as their counterparts in the community and are subject to the same income tax, National Insurance and child support requirements, as well as other court ordered deductions.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996 (PEA) gives governors the power to deduct up to and including 40% from prisoners’ earnings on ROTL. Currently, the money deducted is given to the charity Victim Support. An average of £296 per prisoner per month was raised through the levy; totalling £4.2 million raised for the year ending March 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson question first answered 18/09/2024 10:41:17 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1728439

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has had recent discussions with the Victims' Commissioner on the potential impact on victims of her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	4963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that victims have access to information and support they may need.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender that perpetrated crimes against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. This includes providing these victims with the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions that they would like to be in place on an offender’s release such as an exclusion zone.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones grouped question UIN 4964 question first answered 18/09/2024 10:28:42 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728440

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department informs victims when perpetrators of crimes against them are due to be released under her Department's scheme to temporarily reduce the proportion of some custodial sentences served in prison from 50% to 40%.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	4964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Victims’ Commissioner. I can confirm recent meetings have included discussions about the impact on victims of the prison capacity measures announced on 12 July, and the processes in place to ensure that victims have access to information and support they may need.</p><p> </p><p>Victims who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender that perpetrated crimes against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. This includes providing these victims with the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions that they would like to be in place on an offender’s release such as an exclusion zone.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones grouped question UIN 4963 question first answered 18/09/2024 10:28:43 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728654

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
uin	5196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department’s annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 17/09/2024 13:54:08 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	5158

1727954

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Remand in Custody: Women
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of women remanded in custody in each of the last three years were subsequently (1) sentenced, and (2) not sentenced.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the remand status of defendants and subsequent outcomes in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66461215993111924d9d3696/remands-tool-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Remands data tool</a>.</p><p>The attached tables provide the proportion of outcomes for female defendants after being remanded in custody, split by magistrates’ court and Crown Court.</p><p>Defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and subsequently committed to the Crown Court will have separate remand decisions made in both courts and will be included in both totals.</p> answering member printed Lord Timpson question first answered 13/09/2024 13:53:10 answering member 5364 label Biography information for Lord Timpson attachment 1 file name 2024-09-23 PQ HL869 tables.xlsx title HL869 Tables
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1727973

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wills
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to respond to the consultation on the storage and retention of wills and other documents submitted in applications for probate which closed on 23 February; and what steps they have taken to ensure that no such documents have been destroyed in the meantime.
tabling member printed	Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
uin	HL894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The response to the consultation will be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p>No wills or other defined documents have been destroyed. The consultation sought views on changes to modernise the storage of documents submitted in applications for probate. If the Government did decide to proceed with the proposal in the consultation no documents would be destroyed without Parliament agreeing to legislative changes.</p> answering member printed Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede question first answered 17/09/2024 15:33:49 answering member 3154 label Biography information for Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
tabling member	4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

1728041

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending prisoners serving sentences in England and Wales to prisons overseas.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	4586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>We have prisoner transfer agreements with over 100 countries which enable us to send foreign national offenders to serve the remainder of their prison sentence in their home country. We are reviewing the opportunities to strengthen or expand these arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The previous Government explored the possibility of sending British prisoners to rented prisons overseas. There are no current plans to introduce this measure, which we believe carries considerable cost. This Government is in the market for practical approaches that work, and not for costly gimmicks, unlike our predecessors</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 17/09/2024 13:39:34 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes