Written questions

1,625 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list how many prisoners who had committed what offences were transferred to Category D prisons as part of the Restricted Open Estate Transfer Scheme launched in September 2023.

23 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Open Prisons: Prisoners' Transfers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reason a pre transfer assessment was not carried out on each prisoner moved as part of the Restricted Open Estate Transfer Scheme launched in September 2023.

23 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Neurodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available in prisons for prisoners with neurodiversity.

20 Oct 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Help to Buy Scheme: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to increase the Help to Buy equity loan scheme regional purchase price cap for properties in Greater London.

19 Oct 2023 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to help reduce road deaths of cyclists and pedestrians.

19 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Sanitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have one or more prison cells that do not contain a toilet within the cell.

19 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Sanitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison cells do not contain a toilet within the cell.

19 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the population was of each male prison in England and Wales on 1 October 2023.

19 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the baseline (a) certified normal accommodation and (b) in use operational capacity of each prison was in September 2023.

18 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation Service: Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department collects on the specific reasons for sickness absences in the probation service.

18 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation Service: Stress

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many work days were taken off by staff in the probation service due to (a) stress and (b) work-induced stress in 2022.

13 Oct 2023 · Treasury

Sanitary Products: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2023 to Question 183901 on Sanitary Protection: VAT, what steps his Department is taking to ascertain whether the savings of zero-rating VAT on period products are being passed on fr

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number of hours each day that body scanners for (a) prison staff and (b) prisoners entering prisons in England and Wales are operated by staff in the last 12 months.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation Officers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people on the Probation Service’s trainee probation officer scheme in financial year 2021-2022 remain in the Service.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Probation Officers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of newly qualified probation officers stay in the Probation Service for more than 48 months.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to end the (a) Horizon and (b) iHorizon programmes within the probation service for sex offenders.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals are being held in prison beyond the completion of their sentence in (a) England and (b) Wales.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many (a) incidents of self harm and (b) assaults on police staff by prisoners held in police cells as part of Operation Safeguard there have been in 2023.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has conducted a recent impact assessment of Operation Safeguard.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2023 to Question 193369 on Prisoners: Police Custody, if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of that £25.4 million spend.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average amount of time prisoners were held in a police cell for under Operation Safeguard in 2023.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many police (a) forces and (b) cells have been used in Operation Safeguard in 2023.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of Operation Safeguard in 2023.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: South Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding was allocated to South Wales Police under Operation Safeguard in 2023; and how much and what proportion of that funding was used to house prisoners in that period.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding was allocated to Essex Police under Operation Safeguard in 2023; and how much and what proportion of that funding was used to house prisoners in that period.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been allocated to each police force in England and Wales for the use of police cells under Operation Safeguard in the latest period for which data is available.

13 Oct 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 each of the last 12 months.

13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Shingles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance entitled Vaccination against shingles guide from September 2023, updated on 22 August 2023, whether his Department made an assessment of the potential merits of provi

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

HMP Wandsworth: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps (a) officials in his Department and (b) HM Prison and Probation Service took to assess security arrangements at HM Prison Wandsworth in response to a prisoner escape attempt from that prison in 2019.

13 Oct 2023 · Ministry of Justice

HMP Wandsworth: CCTV

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the document entitled Annual report of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wandsworth for reporting year 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022, published in September 2022, when work on the CCTV upgrad

Source: official written-questions record.