Written questions
1,625 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Probation Officers: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation officers were employed in the probation delivery units in the areas covering Greater London in (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022 and (d) 2023.
29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Probation Officers: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation officers in the probation delivery units in the areas covering Greater London left the probation service in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Probation Officers: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many vacancies for roles in the probation delivery units within the probation service there are in the areas covering Greater London as of 29 November 2023.
29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Bedford: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what maintenance work is required at HMP Bedford as of 29 November 2023.
29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Older Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers are aged over 63 as of 29 November 2023.
28 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Locks and Keys
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions a prison has had to have locks replaced because of the loss or theft of keys in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each incident.
28 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much compensation has been paid by HM Prison and Probation Service to prisoners who had complaints upheld on missing parcels in the last 60 days.
28 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many letters addressed to prisoners went missing in the last month.
28 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much compensation was paid to prisoners for items lost in transit at HMP Swansea in 2023.
27 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether Operation Safeguard is active.
27 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2023 to Question 2339 on Prisons: Overcrowding, how much funding was allocated per police force for the use of police cells under Operation Safeguard between January and Nove
27 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times a police cell was used to house an inmate as part of Operation Safeguard in (a) October 2023 and (b) November 2023.
27 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Wandsworth: Prisoner Escapes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish the report of the Independent investigation into HMP Wandsworth escape, announced on 15 September 2023.
22 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer on 21 November 2023 to Question 2298 on Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, when his Department plans to finish the survey work on the condition of the fabric and critical infrastructure in p
22 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans publish information on RAAC in prisons.
21 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Transfers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Oral Statement of 16 October 2023 on Prison Capacity, Official Report, column 61, which countries his Department has had discussions with on prisoner transfer deals.
21 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Bedford
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when officials in his Department became aware that the local security strategy for HMP Bedford had been deleted.
21 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Bedford
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's timescales are for the completion of the local security strategy for HMP Bedford.
21 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Oral Statement of 16 October 2023 on Prison Capacity, Official Report, column 60, if he will make an assessment of the capacity of the probation service to manage an increased number of comm
20 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many items ordered for delivery by prisoners went missing in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
20 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much compensation was paid to prisoners in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 for items which had been ordered by prisoners but were lost in transit.
17 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the presumption against short sentences on the prison population in the next (a) 12 months, (b) 24 months and (c) five years.
17 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people supervised by the probation service were on post sentence supervision licences in each of the last 12 months.
17 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of planned changes to the presumption against short sentences announced on 16 October 2023 on the workload of the probation service.
17 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Community Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community sentences were issued in each month in 2023; and what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the proposed presumption against short sentences on the number of community sentences issue
16 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding was allocated per police force for the use of police cells under Operation Safeguard in (a) October and (b) November 2023.
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many officers were serving in Tornado Teams at the end of each year since 2018.
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
National Tactical Response Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many officers were serving in the National Tactical Response Group at the end of the each year since 2018.
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times Tornado Teams have been deployed to incidents in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2018.
14 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Justice
National Tactical Response Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the National Tactical Response Group has been deployed in each year since 2018.
Source: official written-questions record.