Written questions

1,447 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Oct 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many drones have been intercepted operating over prisons in England and Wales (a) in 2015 and (b) from January 2016 to date.

7 Oct 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all European funding for schemes to improve the employability of prisoners has been protected for the duration of their funding period.

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Education: Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to fund employment schemes that were launched on 26 January 2016 after the UK leaves the EU.

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

National Offender Management Service: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether employment and skills funding, announced by the Department for Work and Pensions on 26 January 2016, and allocated to the National Offender Management Service, will be guaranteed after the UK le

7 Oct 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

National Offender Management Service: European Social Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his announcement of 13 August 2016 on guaranteeing EU funding beyond the date the UK leaves the EU, whether funding for the National Offender Management European Social Fund Co-financi

7 Oct 2016 · HM Treasury

Concentrix

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Cardiff Central constituency and (b) Cardiff County local authority area have had a tax credit claim stopped by Concentrix; and how many such claims were subsequently reinstated by HM Revenue a

8 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate her Department has made of how much it will cost per head to retain prisoners in extremism segregation units; and if she will make a statement.

8 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons she has chosen to pilot extremism segregation units.

8 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria her Department has used to determine which prisoners are to be placed in extremism segregation units; and if she will make a statement.

8 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has for the provision of education programmes for prisoners held in extremism segregation units.

8 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training her Department plans to provide for prison officers working in extremism segregation units; and how much such training will cost.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost to the public purse of prison officer recruitment was in each quarter since June 2013.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

National Probation Service for England and Wales: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will review entry to employment in the National Probation Service to (a) enable more public sector staff to access the vacancies in that service and (b) ensure that the previous public sector experience of

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Civil Disorder

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) on how many occasions, (b) in which prisons and (c) for what incidents the (i) Tornado Team was called, (ii) Gold Command was opened and (iii) National Tactical Response Group was called in each month since J

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Probation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when her Department plans to publish the findings of the Probation Service Review.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the ability of Working Links to provide a good quality service at Wales, Avon Bristol and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and Dorset Community Rehabilitation Centres since the acquisi

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Pre-sentence Reports

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of whether the five-day turnaround for pre-sentence allows sufficient time for safeguarding checks to be carried out.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to prevent people being released from prison without support because they could not be transferred to a resettlement prison.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to address increases in deaths by suicide among women in prison.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious further offences were committed between (a) June 2015 and June 2016 and (b) June 2013 and June 2014.

7 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has contingency plans for financial failure of community rehabilitation centres.

2 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost of recalling 22,412 people to custody over the last 12 months.

2 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what additional resources were made available to prisons to accommodate the increased number of people recalled to custody following the introduction of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014.

2 Sep 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Oakhill Secure Training Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress has been made on the sale of the contract for Oakhill secure training centre.

2 Sep 2016 · Department of Health

Prisoners: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many external hospital appointments for prisoners were cancelled or postponed in each prison in the last 12 months due to a lack of staff to escort prisoners.

2 Sep 2016 · Department of Health

Prisoners: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prison healthcare appointments were scheduled in each prison in the last 12 months.

2 Sep 2016 · Department of Health

Prisoners: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prison healthcare appointments were cancelled or postponed in each prison in the last 12 months due to a lack of staff to escort prisoners.

2 Sep 2016 · Department of Health

Prisoners: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many external hospital appointments were scheduled for prisoners in each prison in the last 12 months.

30 Aug 2016 · Cabinet Office

Electoral Register

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what lessons the Government has learned about voter registration from the EU referendum campaign.

6 Jun 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences were recalled to custody in each year since 2010.

Source: official written-questions record.