Written questions
580 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison officers at bands three to five had (a) less than one, (b) less than three and (c) three or more years’ experience at each high-security institution on 1 May (i) 2010, (ii)
10 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison Service: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many vacancies were there in the high security estate on 1 May in each year since 2010; and what the vacancy rate was on each date.
10 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison guards were working in high security prisons by grade on 1 May in each year since 2010.
10 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of random mandatory drug tests gave a positive result in each (a) prison and (b) young offender institution in the last 12 months.
10 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times force been used on (a) adult women and (b) female youth prisoners in each year since 2010.
10 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) starts and (b) completions there have been for the (i) offender behaviour, (ii) sex offender, (iii) substance misuse, (iv) domestic violence and (v) extremism programmes in each year since 2010.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders: Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders breached the terms of their community order in each of the last five years.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders: Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders who received a community sentence in each of the last five years had previously received (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five or more community sentences.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many former prison guards were found guilty of criminal offences in each year since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Offensive Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown by weapons type of weapons incidents in prisons since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who had been convicted of offences under the Terrorism Act 2006 and related offences were being monitored by the Probation Service in each year since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of the prison workforce had received training to deal with extremist prisoners as of 26 April in each year since 2017.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown by substance type of the number of finds of controlled substances in prison since 2010.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a breakdown of drug incidents in prison by (a) drug type and (b) class since 2010.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have taken part in his Department's Intensive Supervision Courts pilot.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of members of the armed forces were graded as unconditioned following a conditioning review in each year since 2018.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to join the armed forces were rejected due to poor fitness in every year since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to join the Armed Forces were rejected due to previous criminal convictions in each year since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a breakdown by vehicle type of the vehicles supported by the National Roadside Repair and Recovery Scheme in each year since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 24 October 2023 to Question 202827 on Armed Forces: Motor Vehicles, what the circumstances were that led to a vehicle being supported by the National Roadside Repair and Recovery S
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Motor Vehicles: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which vehicles are covered by the National Roadside Repair and Recovery Scheme.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many callouts the National Roadside Repair and Recovery Scheme has received in each region of the UK in each year since 2015; and what the cost to the public purse is of that service.
1 May 2024 · Home Office
Police National Computer
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many back-up servers are in operation for the Police National Computer.
1 May 2024 · Home Office
Police National Computer: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of security measures in place for the Police National Computer.
1 May 2024 · Home Office
Police National Computer: Outages
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outages have affected the Police National Computer in each year since 2015.
1 May 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison cell fires there were, broken down by institution, in each year since 2015.
25 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Criminal Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the average time taken for (a) drug dealing, (b) domestic violence, (c) GBH, (d) domestic burglary and (e) theft cases to be completed in court in each year since 2010.
25 Apr 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Procurement
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, if he will publish the schedule of requirements for the contract reference tender_403850/1325809.
15 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners sentenced to custodial sentences had previously received at least one (a) community and (b) suspended sentence in each year since 2010.
15 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the unused court capacity was in each year since 2015.
Source: official written-questions record.