Written questions
1,480 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
County Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many responses to his Department's consultation on the closure of Hammersmith Court were (a) in favour of and (b) against the closure.
23 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Hostage Taking
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hostage incidents in which a (a) prison officer and (b) prisoner was taken hostage have taken place in each prison establishment since January 2010.
23 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Discipline
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many concerted indiscipline incidents of each type have occurred in each prison establishment in each month since May 2005.
23 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody: Restraint Techniques
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many injuries were sustained by children during restraint in each custodial institution in each of the last eight years.
22 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Freedom of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason not all the monthly announcements of Freedom of Information releases for 2015 have been published on his Department's website.
22 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Knives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2016 to Question 26908, what steps he is taking to improve the recording of knife finds in prisons to ensure that the data is easy to use and analyse.
22 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Knives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2016 to Question 21315, whether the changes to the Incident Report System of September 2015 made any improvements to the recording of knife finds.
22 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Discipline
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents at height in respect of each method of access there have been in each prison in each month since May 2010.
22 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many key lock incidents there have been in each month since May 2010; how many such incidents related to doors of gates left unlocked; and in which establishments those incidents took place.
19 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Representation: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Government spent on The Queen on the application of Rights of Women v The Lord Chancellor and Anr. Appeal of Claimant from the order of Mrs Justice Lang, dated 22 January 2015, filed 12 February 2015
10 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Medway Secure Training Centre
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trainees from Medway Secure Training Centre required hospital treatment as a result of injury from (a) assault and (b) restraint in (i) 2013, (ii) 2014 and (iii) 2015.
10 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Parc: Knives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) knife, (b) shiv, (c) shank, (d) chib and (e) another slang word for a blade were recorded on the Incident Report System in HM Prison Parc in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
10 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Oakwood: Knives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) knife, (b) shiv, (c) shank, (d) chib and (e) another slang word for a blade were recorded on the Incident Report System in HM Prison Oakwood in the last 12 months for which figures are availabl
10 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Wormwood Scrubs: Knives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) knife, (b) shiv, (c) shank, (d) chib and (e) another slang word for a blade were recorded on the Incident Report System in HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in the last 12 months for which figures are
10 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Wandsworth: Knives
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) knife, (b) shiv, (c) shank, (d) chib and (e) another slang word for a blade were recorded on the Incident Report System in HM Prison Wandsworth in the last 12 months for which figures are avail
9 Feb 2016 · Department of Health
Prisoners: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times a prisoner from each prison has been airlifted to receive medical attention in each of the last five years.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) gold, (b) silver and (c) bronze command suites were opened in each prison in each of the last three years.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Seized Articles
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many miscellaneous items as recorded by the Incident Report System were confiscated in each prison in the last 12 months.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Rodents
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners complained about an attack by rats in the last five years.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in compensation to prisoners in the last 12 months.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons and Youth Custody: Hostage Taking
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hostage situations have arisen in each prison and youth facility in each month since March 2014.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Discipline
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents at height have taken place in each prison in each month since March 2014.
9 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints his Department received about the standard of its recent consultation document on court closures.
8 Feb 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Air Pollution: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of air quality in London.
8 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Custodial Treatment: Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fires there have been in each prison and youth facility in each month since May 2010.
8 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in compensation to prison staff in relation to prisoner attacks in each year since 2010.
8 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Police and Crime Commissioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on moving responsibility for the courts, youth justice and probation to police and crime commissioners.
5 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18874, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of knives confiscated in Crown courts between 2012-13 and 2014-15.
5 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18874, on offensive weapons: confiscation orders, how many such confiscations took place in each Crown and magistrates' court in each of those years.
4 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Police Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2016 to Question 23552, how many times police cells were used to hold prisoners overnight who were aged (a) 15 to 17, (b) 18 to 20 and (c) 21 and over in each month in 2014 an
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