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date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences: Males
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many men were sentenced to prison for less than (a) one month, (b) three months and (c) six months in the first six months of 2018 by Home Office offence code.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	189756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The total number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody from January to June 2018 for (a) less than 1 month, (b) 1 month to less than 3 months and (c) 3 months to 6 months, broken down by Home Office offence code, can be viewed in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 and Table 3 break this information down by men and women respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Sentencing is a matter for our independent courts, who take into account all circumstances of the case, including any aggravating and mitigating factors.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst there is persuasive evidence that short custodial sentences do not help some offenders turn their backs on crime, protecting the public will always be our top priority. Under this government, the most serious offenders are more likely to go to prison, and for longer, helping protect the public and keep communities safe.</p><p> </p><p>Our message is simple – if you commit a serious offence, you should expect to go to prison. We will not reduce the prison population just to save money.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 189757 189758 question first answered 19/11/2018 17:58:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Copy of PQs 189756 189757 and 189758 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1003762

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Sentences: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were sentenced to prison for less than (a) one month, (b) three months and (c) six months in the first six months of 2018 by Home Office offence code.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	189757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The total number of offenders sentenced to immediate custody from January to June 2018 for (a) less than 1 month, (b) 1 month to less than 3 months and (c) 3 months to 6 months, broken down by Home Office offence code, can be viewed in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 and Table 3 break this information down by men and women respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Sentencing is a matter for our independent courts, who take into account all circumstances of the case, including any aggravating and mitigating factors.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst there is persuasive evidence that short custodial sentences do not help some offenders turn their backs on crime, protecting the public will always be our top priority. Under this government, the most serious offenders are more likely to go to prison, and for longer, helping protect the public and keep communities safe.</p><p> </p><p>Our message is simple – if you commit a serious offence, you should expect to go to prison. We will not reduce the prison population just to save money.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 189756 189758 question first answered 19/11/2018 17:58:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Copy of PQs 189756 189757 and 189758 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1003766

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Birmingham Prison: Prisoners' Transfers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2018 to Question 178353 on Birmingham Prison: Prisoners' Transfers, how many of the 300 prisoners moved out of HMP Birmingham at that time went to each other prison in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	189761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>As set out in my response to PQ178535, one of the measures Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) implemented after stepping in to run HM Prison Birmingham was to temporarily reduce the operational capacity by 300 places. The capacity reduction was not immediate and was delivered over time with the gradual reduction of the prison’s population through a combination of: end of sentence releases, diversion of court allocations to other prisons in the region and routine allocations of sentenced prisoners to other establishments as part of their sentence progression as is normal for a prison with a ‘local’ function.</p><p>Men who were transferred were subject to the same criteria as all prison moves, taking into account a range of factors such as security category, resettlement needs and release address, offending behaviour needs and personal circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/11/2018 15:38:19 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1003768

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the Government's policy is to tackle overcrowding in prisons; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	189763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to making prisons places of safety and reform and have ambitious plans to transform our estate, including reducing overcrowding. We are delivering up to 10,000 new prison places across the country, and recently announced that two new prisons would be built at Wellingborough and Glen Parva where all cells in normal accommodation are being designed as single person cells.</p><p> </p><p>Prison governors are responsible for ensuring the level of operational capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/11/2018 15:30:45 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon