Written questions
1,971 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on probation in each of the last five years; and how much of that expenditure was allocated to (a) the National Probation Service and (b) community rehabilitation companies in ea
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people are managed by community rehabilitation companies in each constituency in England and Wales.
6 Nov 2017 · Cabinet Office
Grenfell Tower: Fires
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total amount of funding allocated by the Government for legal representation to victims of the Grenfell Tower fire and their families was on 3 November 2017.
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Reoffenders: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of people who lost their job after being recalled to prison in each quarter in each of the last five years.
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation: Privatisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the risk assessment conducted prior to the part-privatisation of the probation service.
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Lammy Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Government plans to respond to the recommendations made in the Lammy Review, published on 8 September 2017.
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women in prison have received an adjudication for refusing to (a) transfer to a different prison and (b) move to a different wing within a prison.
6 Nov 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Voyeurism
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 September 2017, Official Report, column 18, on upskirting, what recent advice he has received on the creation of a specific sexual offence of upskirting.
27 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Community Rehabilitation Companies: Gloucestershire
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government has taken to address the recommendations of the report on the Community Rehabilitation Company activity in Gloucestershire published by HM Inspectorate of Probation on 31 August 2017.
26 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison and Probation Service: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the forthcoming increases in annual salaries of (a) bands three to five prison officers, (b) all staff who work in public prisons and (c) all employees
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of probation assessments carried out by each community rehabilitation company were administered (a) by telephone and (b) face-to-face in the latest period for which figures are available.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving imprisonment for public protection sentences there are in each prison; and how many such prisoners have already served their minimum tariff.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff worked in the (a) public and (b) private probation sector (i) in each year since 2010 and (ii) on the latest date for which figures are available.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been referred to community rehabilitation companies in each quarter of the last two years.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of its proposal to reduce the cap on the number of claimable pages under the Litigators' Graduated Fee Scheme on (a) historic sex abuse prosecutions
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of offenders are managed by the National Probation Services; and what proportion of offenders the Government estimated would be so managed at the time of that body's creation.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of hours was that prisoners spent on purposeful activity in each day in (a) England and Wales and (b) each prison in England and Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Probation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders the Government projected would be referred to each community rehabilitation company in each quarter at the time of signing contracts with those companies.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate the Government has made of the proportion of prisoners who spend more than 22 hours per day in their cell.
25 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners are serving sentences for imprisonment for public protection in each prison; and how many have already served their minimum tariff for the most recent period for which information is available.
24 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost incurred by the Legal Aid Agency is in means testing applications for grants of exceptional funding in respect to representation at inquests before Coroners' Courts in each year since 2013.
24 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the Legal Aid Agency paid to providers through grants of exceptional funding for representation at inquests before Coroners' Courts in each year since 2013.
23 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, by how much expenditure on legal aid has been reduced in each year since the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; and whether the reduction is in line with the Governmen
20 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of trends in the level of prisoner numbers since May 2017.
20 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Sentencing: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women received custodial sentences in 2016; and how many such people received a sentence of (a) over 12 months, (b) less than six months, (c) less than three months, (d) less than one month and (e) less
20 Oct 2017 · Department of Health
Health Services: Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which prisons in England and Wales have contracted out health services to non-NHS providers; and if he will list those providers for each prison.
20 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received custodial sentences in 2016; and how many such people received a sentence of (a) over 12 months, (b) less than six months, (c) less than three months, (d) less than one month and (e) less
20 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether additional funding will be provided from the public purse to prisons to help them with the rise in prisoner numbers since May 2017.
20 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the 10,000 new modern adult prison places planned will be additional places.
20 Oct 2017 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of the pay rise for prison staff being paid from current budgets on other prison services.
Source: official written-questions record.