Written questions

1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Secure Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of segregation have occurred at each secure institution that holds children in each of the last five years for which information is available.

14 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of education on average each week young people received in each secure training centre in each of the last five years.

14 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2018 to Question 189764 on Ministry of Justice: Research, if he will publish the central record of his Department's externally commissioned social research.

14 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Veterans

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many armed forces veterans were in prison on 25 December 2018.

9 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of sexual abuse have had their applications for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme rejected because they had an unspent criminal conviction in 2018.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Personal Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of compensation claimed for loss or damage to prisoners' property held by the prison service in each of the last five years.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost has been of each consultation conducted by his Department since 2010.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Witnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many witnesses have received support from the court-based witness service in each of the last five years.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mandatory drug tests have taken place in prison in each month in the last five years.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Duty Solicitors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the long term viability of the criminal duty solicitors scheme.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Family Courts: Legal Representation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parents had no representation at a family court case relating to a child in each year since 2010.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Arms Length Bodies: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) his Department and (b) his Department's arm's length bodies spent on consultants in 2017-18.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of children in secure institutions were on average confined to their cells for more than 22 hours a day in each of the last five years.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many acts of concerted indiscipline have there been in prison in each year since 2010.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Fines: Surcharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of uncollected victims surcharges in each year since 2010.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Courts: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value of uncollected court fines is in each year since 2010.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims of sexual abuse have had their applications for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme rejected because they had an unspent criminal conviction in each year since 2010.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Human Trafficking

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women in prison who are victims of human trafficking.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the contraband in prisons that enters prisons via drone.

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196269, on Prisons: Contracts, what steps he is taking to establish transparency in relation to (a) the public-sector benchmark and (b) the assessment process

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196269, on Prisons: Contracts, what steps he is taking to ensure that the public sector benchmark against which potential operators’ bids will be assessed is

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196269, on Prisons: Contracts, if he will publish the review that concluded that establishing an internal bid team was unnecessarily complex.

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2018 to Question 199452 on Prisons: Standards, how much of the identified spending was allocated to each of the 10 prisons in that project in each month.

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2018 to Question 200698 on Prisons: Staff, if he will place in the Library a copy of the new model for key workers for women in custody.

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2018 to Question 200701 on Prisons: Staff, how many equivalent staff in privately-operated prisons there were in the last period for which information is available.

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2018 to Question 200701 on Prisons: Staff, whether contractual changes to the required staffing information have been made since 2012.

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2018 to Question 200701 on Prisons: Staff, whether his Department plans to start monitoring the number of equivalent staff in privately-operated prisons; and if he will make

19 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Questions 189756 and 189757 on Prison Sentences: Males, how many (a) men and (b) women were sentenced to prison in the first six months of 2018 by Home Office offence

17 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 19 November 2018 to Questions 189756 and 189757, how many (a) men and (b) women were sentenced to prison in the first six months of 2018 for each offence in the Home Office offence code

13 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether all new-build prisons due to be run by the private sector will have minimum staffing levels specified prior to any tendering process.

Source: official written-questions record.