Written questions

1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Segregation of Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was for prisoners held in a segregation unit awaiting a transfer for each prison.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many category B prisoners are being held in category C prisons.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has undertaken a risk assessment of the unplanned closures of sections of prisons as a result of insufficient availability of staff.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions wings of private prisons have been closed as a result of insufficient availability of staff in each of the last five years.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions wings of prisons have been closed due to insufficient staff levels in each of the last five years.

12 Dec 2017 · Cabinet Office

Grenfell Tower Inquiry

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the date on which phase 1 of the Grenfell Inquiry will be published.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has put in place contingency plans in the event that a Community Rehabilitation Company is unable to perform its duties under a contract.

12 Dec 2017 · Cabinet Office

Grenfell Tower Inquiry

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many days the Grenfell Inquiry has sat as at 11 December 2017.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2017 to Question 111447 on Probation, if he will publish the exit plans for each Community Rehabilitation Company.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of purposeful engagement in activity is required of a prisoner and what the average number of sessions of purposeful activity undertaken by a prisoner has been in each prison in the last 12 months.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average caseload has been for each Community Rehabilitation Company in each of the last 12 months.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children had at least one parent who was imprisoned in each year for the last five years.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many agency staff have been employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service in each year since 2010.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many agency staff work in HM Courts and Tribunal Service.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the £277,000,000 additional funding provide to Community Rehabilitation Centres has been allocated to services specifically for women.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners On Remand

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparative assessment he has made of the outcomes of remand hearings conducted (a) in court and (b) via video link.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of violence against prison officers on the retention of prisoner officers.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Community Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research the Government has conducted on the reasons why the number of community sentences has declined in the last five years; and if he will place that research in the Library.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Reoffenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people lost custody of their children after being recalled to prison in each quarter for the last five years.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of changes to the availability of the early legal help component of legal aid on the expenditure of other Government departments.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Supreme Court's ruling on 26 July 2017, what his Department's policy in on reintroducing employment tribunal fees at a lower level than the Supreme Court deemed unlawful in July 2017.

11 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average hourly payment was to a legal aid lawyer providing early legal help for (a) family court, (b) housing, (c) welfare benefits and (d) employment cases in each year since 2010.

11 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of young offenders in youth custody identified as BAME in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

11 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in excess of Certified Normal Accommodation there have been in the prison estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate the Government has made of that number in each of the next fiv

11 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) male and (b) female offenders who have accommodation found for them on the first night out of prison by a community rehabilitation company; and if he wil

11 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies

Pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 116478 on Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), how many people work in the Contract Management Teams (CTM); what the annual budget is of the CTMs; how many times a CMT notified a CRC that its sta

11 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Custodial Treatment: Private Sector

pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2017 to Question HL 3476, on Custodial Treatment: Private Sector, how much was paid out of the public purse to private providers in each year since 2010 for the management of custodial sentences; what the total planne

11 Dec 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Northern Powergrid: Powers of Entry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the number of times that Northern Powergrid has exercised the provision in section 9(1) (a) of Schedule 6 of the Electricity Act 1989 to e

7 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

National Probation Service: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff have left the National Probation Service due to (a) stress, (b) redundancies and (c) resignations in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

7 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Government has spent from the public purse on (a) hotels and (b) other expenses for officers on detached duty in each of the last five years.

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