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1177947

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to support the operation of the UK internal market.
tabling member constituency	Broadland
tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
uin	900718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK internal market is essential to promote growth, drive productivity and deliver an economy that works for all parts of the UK and the Government is committed to supporting this.</p><p> </p><p>The Scottish Government’s own statistics make clear that 60% of Scottish exports go to the rest of the UK, 1.5 times higher than is exported to the EU and the rest of the world combined.</p> answering member constituency Moray answering member printed Douglas Ross question first answered 12/02/2020 16:05:48 answering member 4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross
tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1177948

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Visas: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the proposals of the Scottish Government to introduce a Scottish visa.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	900719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has made clear we are devising a new system that helps address those challenges, but have no plans to devolve immigration.</p><p> </p><p>The new system will recognise the needs of all the nations and regions of the UK, including Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 12/02/2020 17:27:39 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

1177949

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Devolution: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What the Government’s policy is on maintaining the Sewel Convention.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	900721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government remains fully committed to the Sewel Convention and the related practices and procedures for seeking legislative consent.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to uphold the spirit and the letter of the devolution settlement, as every Government has done consistently throughout the last twenty years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Moray answering member printed Douglas Ross grouped question UIN 900722 question first answered 12/02/2020 16:07:06 answering member 4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1177950

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Devolution: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What the Government’s policy is on maintaining the Sewel Convention.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	900722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government remains fully committed to the Sewel Convention and the related practices and procedures for seeking legislative consent.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to uphold the spirit and the letter of the devolution settlement, as every Government has done consistently throughout the last twenty years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Moray answering member printed Douglas Ross grouped question UIN 900721 question first answered 12/02/2020 16:07:06 answering member 4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1177957

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Homicide: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the total number of offenders convicted of homicide involving children were (a) men and (b) women in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Data on the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted of murder up to 31 December 2018, is published and available in the “Outcomes by offence data tool” at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Detailed information on the age of the victim and broader circumstances may be held on individual court records but to identify such cases would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:36:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177958

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) men and (b) women received each sentencing outcome for each type of offence in each police force area in the most recent year for which information is available; and what the average custodial sentence length was for (i) men and (ii) women for each offence type in each police force area.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Information up to December 2018 on sentencing outcomes relating to specific offences and police force area is published in the “Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool” at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>To obtain the information requested, in the Pivot Table Fields:</p><ul><li>To view data for the latest year, drag ‘Year of Appearance’ to the Filters field and select “2018”;</li><li>To view data for males and females, drag ‘Sex’ into the Columns field; and</li><li>Drag ‘Offence Group’ and ‘Police Force Area’ into the Rows field.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The number of individuals who received each sentencing outcome, and the average custodial sentence length, for each offence type by police force area will then be shown in the table.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:41:46 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177959

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Squatting: Business Premises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of squatting in commercial premises since the introduction of the criminal provisions contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not collect data on the trends in the level of squatting in commercial premises.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:44:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177960

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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, how many offenders released on licence following a life sentence have committed (a) homicide and (b) other offences in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Serious further offences are very rare. Fewer than 0.5% of offenders under statutory supervision are charged with a serious further offence.</p><p>An offender sentenced to life imprisonment is eligible for release on life licence only once he has completed the minimum term (tariff) specified by the Court at the point of sentence. It falls to the independent Parole Board to determine whether to release a life sentence prisoner who has completed his minimum term and the Board will direct release only where it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the purposes of public protection for the prisoner to remain confined.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not keep the figures requested in relation to (b) other offences and to obtain them would incur disproportionate cost. The Ministry of Justice does capture however,</p><p>the more serious further offences (SFOs) by means of the Probation SFO Review Procedures. In accordance with those Procedures, the National SFO Team in HM Prison and Probation Service is notified of an offender subject to statutory probation supervision appearing in court charged with a qualifying offence under Probation Instruction 2018 06</p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Accordingly, there are published statistics on convictions for an SFO on the part of an offender on life licence, arising from notifications to the National SFO Team between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2018. I have provided the link below. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 in October 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows these figures broken down by homicide and other serious offences for 2015- 2018 which is the most recent available data in the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Serious Further Offence (SFO) type </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed homicide</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed other serious further offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 - 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 - 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 - 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Data is taken from published data which captures serious further offending notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS up until 31/03/2018.</li><li>Data is derived from the date of SFO notification to HMPPS. The serious further offence could have been committed prior to the timeframe of the published data.</li><li>This figure only includes convictions for serious further offences by life sentence prisoners on supervision that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.</li><li>The data provided are provisional figures subject to change when any outstanding cases are concluded at court.</li><li>The data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where a Court has subsequently ruled that they were responsible.</li><li>Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>The data for homicide would include manslaughter and other serious further offences involving death. The figures for homicide in this answer all relate to convictions for murder.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>14 offenders have been sentenced to life in the last five years who had received one or more previous life sentence on a separate occasion.</p><p> </p><p>Section 21 of Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out the starting point for the sentencing Judge to impose a whole life tariff in cases where an offender has been previously convicted of murder.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 1215 question first answered 27/02/2020 15:34:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177961

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving a custodial sentence work outside prison.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>Between October 2018 and September 2019, 3,858 separate individuals serving a custodial sentence had at least one incidence of ‘Work Related’ release on temporary licence.</p><p> </p><p>All offenders must meet strict criteria and pass a thorough risk assessment before being considered for release on temporary licence (ROTL). Research published in 2018 indicates that ROTL helps to reduce re-offending. It helps offenders to build and maintain family ties and find work, which are a critical aspect of reducing the £18 billion annual cost to the taxpayer of reoffending.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2020 12:03:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1177962

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Life Imprisonment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders sentenced to life in the last five years had received one or more previous life sentences on a separate sentencing occasion.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	1215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Serious further offences are very rare. Fewer than 0.5% of offenders under statutory supervision are charged with a serious further offence.</p><p>An offender sentenced to life imprisonment is eligible for release on life licence only once he has completed the minimum term (tariff) specified by the Court at the point of sentence. It falls to the independent Parole Board to determine whether to release a life sentence prisoner who has completed his minimum term and the Board will direct release only where it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the purposes of public protection for the prisoner to remain confined.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice does not keep the figures requested in relation to (b) other offences and to obtain them would incur disproportionate cost. The Ministry of Justice does capture however,</p><p>the more serious further offences (SFOs) by means of the Probation SFO Review Procedures. In accordance with those Procedures, the National SFO Team in HM Prison and Probation Service is notified of an offender subject to statutory probation supervision appearing in court charged with a qualifying offence under Probation Instruction 2018 06</p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-2018/pi-06-2018-sfo-procedures.doc.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Accordingly, there are published statistics on convictions for an SFO on the part of an offender on life licence, arising from notifications to the National SFO Team between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2018. I have provided the link below. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/serious-further-offences</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish SFO conviction data for 2018/19 in October 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows these figures broken down by homicide and other serious offences for 2015- 2018 which is the most recent available data in the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Serious Further Offence (SFO) type </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed homicide</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders on life sentence who committed other serious further offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015 - 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 - 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 - 2018</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Data is taken from published data which captures serious further offending notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS up until 31/03/2018.</li><li>Data is derived from the date of SFO notification to HMPPS. The serious further offence could have been committed prior to the timeframe of the published data.</li><li>This figure only includes convictions for serious further offences by life sentence prisoners on supervision that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.</li><li>The data provided are provisional figures subject to change when any outstanding cases are concluded at court.</li><li>The data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where a Court has subsequently ruled that they were responsible.</li><li>Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</li><li>The data for homicide would include manslaughter and other serious further offences involving death. The figures for homicide in this answer all relate to convictions for murder.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>14 offenders have been sentenced to life in the last five years who had received one or more previous life sentence on a separate occasion.</p><p> </p><p>Section 21 of Criminal Justice Act 2003 sets out the starting point for the sentencing Judge to impose a whole life tariff in cases where an offender has been previously convicted of murder.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 1213 question first answered 27/02/2020 15:34:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies