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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