Written questions
1,625 written questions tabled, most recent first.
15 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people recalled to prison were recalled due to (a) new offences, (b) a lack of address and (c) non-compliance with appointments in the latest 12 months for which data is available.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department collects data on the number of individuals released on the End of Custody Supervised Licence scheme who have committed a criminal offence after their release.
12 Apr 2024 · Treasury
Sanitary Products: VAT Zero Rating
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 16 May 2023 to question 183900 on Sanitary Products: VAT, what steps he has taken to review whether the zero-rating for VAT on period products is being passed on by retailers to women
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of corruption prevention training are provided to non-uniformed prison staff.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Serious Crime Prevention Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serving prisoners are subject to serious crime prevention orders in England and Wales.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether HM Prison and Probation Service has made an assessment of the safety of (a) prisoners and (b) prison officers in prisons that do not have Tornado trained staff.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 14 of the document published by HM Prison Service on 31 August 2005 entitled Use of Force, whether his Department has previously had a policy of ensuring each prison had a minimum commitmen
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Civil Disorder
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2024 to Question 17880 on Prisons: Civil Disorder, whether his Department previously had a minimum staffing requirement for Operation Tornado teams in each prison.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Resignations
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers who joined in 2023 resigned within (a) 14 and (b) 30 days of the start of their employment.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Written Statement of 11 March 2024 on Update on Foreign National Offenders, Prisons and Probation, HCWS332, whether the new 10,000 prison places include rapid deployment cells.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Heat Networks
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of trends in energy bills over the last 24 months for people living in residential properties with third party communal heating systems.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy: Price Caps
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that people living in residential properties with third party energy supplies can be covered by the energy price cap.
25 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Wandsworth: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the minimum (a) numbers and (b) grades of staff responsible for HMP Wandsworth are (i) during the night state (ii) when prisoners are unlocked.
22 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport
Blue Badge Scheme: Theft:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of blue badge thefts in the last 12 months.
22 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport
Blue Badge Scheme: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has had recent discussions with the Home Office on the theft of blue badges.
22 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport
Blue Badge Scheme: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he as made of the cost to individuals of replacing blue badges lost due to theft.
22 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release entitled First Rapid Deployment Cells unveiled to boost prison places, published on 3 March 2023, how many such cells have been built.
21 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Probation Officers: Termination of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of new probation officers left the service within a year of joining in each year since 2014.
21 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps HM Prison and Probation Service take to ensure prisoners released on end of custody supervised licence can continue to access drug addiction treatment programs when they are released from prison.
21 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have used prison officers on detached duty in 2023; and how many (a) officers were deployed to each prison and (b) times those officers were deployed.
21 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Travellers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the treatment of (a) Romani, (b) Roma and (c) Irish Traveller people in the prison estate.
20 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an estimate of the number of proposed new prison places that will be rapid deployment cells.
20 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the (a) locations and (b) number of places per location of all planned prison places.
19 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were sharing a one-person cell with another person on (a) 1 March 2021, (b) 1 March 2022 and (c) 1 March 2023.
14 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether female prisoners will be eligible for release 60 days early under the End of Custody Supervised Licence.
14 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions his Department had with (a) probation officers, (b) senior probation officers and (c) trade union officials representing probation officers before announcing the extension of the end of custody s
14 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many individuals will be released under the end of custody supervised license scheme in 2024.
13 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Wandsworth: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the positive rate for random mandatory drug tests carried out at HMP Wandsworth was in the latest period for which data is available.
13 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Probation Officers: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many vacancies in the probation service there were in each region on 1 January 2024.
13 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Offensive Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many weapon finds there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year sine 2018.
Source: official written-questions record.