Steve Reed

12 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the most recent available data on the number of prisoners per prison officer in each prison in England and Wales.

12 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Fraud: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2022 to Question 31123 on Criminal Proceedings: Statistics, how many defendants were (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of fraud offences at each Crown Court in England and Wal

11 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to publish the response to the call for evidence in response to the challenges presented by the increasing use of a form of litigation known collectively as Strategic Lawsuits Against Pu

11 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Trials: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department had made of the cost to the public purse of ineffective trials in each of the last five years.

11 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an estimate of the costs of unemployment among ex-offenders.

11 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court and Magistrates' Courts: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the potential costs of decarbonising (a) magistrates and (b) crown courts in England and Wales.

11 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of decarbonising the prison estate in England and Wales.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison Service: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Prison Service has a target for the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff to be in leadership positions within that organisation.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of prisons that have a process for complainants to state what they want to happen following an investigation into their complaint.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

HM Prison and Probation Service: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has issued on the standard of proof for assessing complaints.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many prisons governors have ensured that use of force committees are not ethnically homogeneous and include a member with an explicit remit to consider the interests of prisoners.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have forums in place for prison officers and prisoners to review the fairness and effectiveness of the incentives and earned privileges regime.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Parole Board report on the proportion of prisoners released, broken down by offence and ethnicity.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Prisons Strategy White Paper, published on 7 December 2021, if he will make it is policy for the new prison level data to be published with information broken down by ethnicity.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will take steps to ensure that the prison system works with the relevant stakeholders to learn from the youth justice system and adopt a similar model to the Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool

7 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Youth Custody: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that leaders of institutions in the youth estate (a) review the data generated by the Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool, (b) evaluate its efficacy i

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Courts: Magistrates

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether magistrates follow an agreed number of cases in the youth justice system from start to finish.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Justice

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of renaming youth offender panels as local justice panels.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken with the relevant stakeholders to develop a method to assess the maturity of offenders entering the justice system up to the age of 21.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Judiciary: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has set a target for achieving a judiciary and magistracy that is representative of the make-up of society.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Judiciary: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has taken steps to work with other organisations to reform the recruitment function of the judiciary.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has taken steps with (a) the judiciary and (b) representatives of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service on establishing a system of online feedback on the conduct by judges of cases.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Crown Court: Publications

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether sentencing remarks in the Crown Court are published in (a) audio and (b) written form.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will (a) expand and (b) update Open Justice to include sentences for individual offences at individual courts, broken down by (i) gender, (ii) ethnicity and (iii) other demographic characteristi

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Magistrates' Courts: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has taken steps to improve data collection on pleas and remand decisions in magistrates’ courts.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to implement the deferred prosecution model trialled by Operation Turning Point for adult and youth offenders.

7 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Rights of Accused

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has taken steps to test different approaches to explaining legal rights and options to defendants.

6 Jul 2022 · Attorney General

Prosecutions: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Attorney General, if she will publish the data her Department holds on the number of cases in the last 12 months where all identifying information is redacted from case information passed to the Crown Prosecution Service by the police to allow

6 Jul 2022 · Attorney General

Slavery

To ask the Attorney General, whether the Crown Prosecution Service has taken steps to examine how Modern Slavery legislation can be further used to (a) protect the public and (b) prevent the exploitation of vulnerable young men and women.

6 Jul 2022 · Attorney General

Aiding and Abetting

To ask the Attorney General, whether the Crown Prosecution Service has taken steps to (a) revise its guidance on joint enterprise and (b) consider its approach to gang prosecutions.