Written questions

1,480 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 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, when his Department plans to write to clarify the date captured in the other category; and if he will place a copy of that letter in the Libraries of

4 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Police: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many police officers have been convicted of an assault committed while on duty in each year since 2010.

4 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Sarah Reed

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the status is of (a) the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman and (b) any other investigation into the death in custody of HM Prison Holloway prisoner Sarah Reed who was pronounced dead on 11 January 2016.

4 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Magistrates: Retirement

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential costs and benefits of reducing the mandatory retirement age of magistrates from 70 to 60; and if he will make a statement.

4 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement of 28 January 2016, WS499, how much the Government spent on work on the criminal legal aid tendering process before deciding not to go ahead with that process.

3 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Custodial Treatment: Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Question 24706, how many improvised or self-made weapons were confiscated in prisons or young offenders institutes in each year since 2010.

3 Feb 2016 · HM Treasury

Motor Insurance: Competition

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of competition in the car insurance market; and if he will make an assessment of the potential effect on competition in that industry of a 10 per cent cap on market sh

3 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: UK Membership of EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effects of UK membership of the EU on policy areas in the remit of his Department.

3 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: 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 each prison since 2010.

3 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

National Offender Management Service: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the National Offender Management Service's budget was for its allocation of illicit alcohol-detecting dogs in each of the last five years; and how many finds have been made by those dogs in each of those yea

3 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many weapons of which type have been confiscated from visitors to prisons in each year since 2010.

3 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) drugs of each type and (b) other items were confiscated from visitors to each prison in each year since 2010.

3 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the quality of early years education.

3 Feb 2016 · Department for Education

Children: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the quality of early education and childcare available to disadvantaged children.

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were BAME in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent year for which figures are available.

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Custodial Treatment: Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Question 24706, how many toy guns or home-made replicas and imitation guns have been confiscated in prisons or young offenders institutes in each year since 2010.

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February to Question 23959, what contractual commitments are included in contracts with community rehabilitation companies to ensure maintenance of a minimum level of staffing.

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Insurance Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2016 to Question 21806, what commitment he received from insurance industries that savings from government reforms would be passed on to consumers; and what steps he plans to

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Aiding and Abetting

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted under joint enterprise in each year since 2010.

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of a terrorism offence had previously served a custodial sentence in each year since 2010.

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Personal Injury: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer to the Question 21806 of 19 January 2016, on personal injury: compensation, whether the meeting on 8 December 2015 was the first meeting of Ministers with insurance industry representative

2 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Detainees: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will issue a response to the Dying for Justice report published by the Institute of Race Relations in March 2015.

1 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Civil Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether any members of the (a) National Tactical Response Group and (b) Tornado Teams have been injured during a call out in the last two years.

1 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison Service: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of prison staff at each band were BAME in (i) 2010 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available.

1 Feb 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons use animals as part of their rehabilitation schemes; and which animals are used in such schemes.

29 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2016 to Question 21315, how many specially-trained dogs are used by his Department to detect illicit alcohol.

29 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the most commonly recorded item in the Incident Report System was in each prison; and how many times each such item was recorded in the prison concerned in the 12 months for which figures are available.

29 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Home Office: Legal Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has paid in legal fees in relation to criminal legal aid contracts.

29 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many trained dogs have been injured while working in prisons in each of the last five years.

29 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Health Services: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report of the Independent Healthcare Commission for North West London, published in December 2015.

Source: official written-questions record.