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date	01/03/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have systems in place to use the concern and knowledge of family members for the benefit of prisoners suffering from ill health.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>Ensuring the health and well-being of those in its care is a key priority of His Majesty’s Prison &amp; Probation Service (HMPPS). Prisons are required to ensure that arrangements are in place for an appropriate member of staff to engage with the next of kin, or a nominated person, of prisoners who are seriously ill.</p><p>Families who have concerns about a prisoner’s health or well-being are encouraged to contact the prison via the establishment’s safer custody hotline. A separate number is also provided in cases of emergency.</p><p>During 2023-24, HMPPS is providing a grant to the Prison Advice and Care Trust to work with prisons across England and Wales to improve their communication with prisoners’ families on issues relating to the safety and wellbeing of prisoners. This will include introducing more consistent processes for recording, responding to and acting on concerns raised by family members.</p> answering member printed Lord Bellamy grouped question UIN HL6040 question first answered 15/03/2023 12:06:00 answering member 4941 label Biography information for Lord Bellamy
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

711153

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date	14/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many young people have left local authority care in each of the last 10 years; and whether they intend to recommend that local authorities treat them as a priority category for social housing.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>The number of young people who left local authority care in each of the last 10 years, is provided in the table attached.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the Department for Communities and Local Government issued statutory guidance for local authorities on social housing allocations. The guidance makes clear that those leaving care should be treated as a priority group for social housing. In addition, care leavers aged 18-21 are an identified priority need group in homelessness legislation.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, we introduced the ‘Staying Put’ duty, which requires local authorities to support young people in foster care to remain with their former foster carer(s) until age 21. We have also made a commitment to introduce ‘Staying Close’, which will provide many of the benefits associated with Staying Put for young people leaving residential care.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 28/03/2017 16:16:09 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name Children_who_ceased_to_looked_after 2012-2016.xlsx title Children_who_ceased_to_be_looked_after
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

451766

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date	09/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons or family groups have received exceptional leave to enter or remain in the UK, outside the normal rules, for purposes of family re-union, in each year since 2011; and in each of those years, how many of those individuals given leave were related in ways other than as spouses or children under 18.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL6041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The specific information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/02/2016 16:39:54 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton