Written questions

2,252 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

National Offender Management Service: Wales

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of returning offender management services in Wales to the public sector.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of returning probation services to the public sector.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether community rehabilitation companies with a record of poor performance will be allowed to bid for future probation contracts.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department’s policy of suspending fines for community rehabilitation companies for poor performance; and if he will make a statement.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many financial penalties his Department has issued to community rehabilitation companies as a result of poor performance; and what the value was of those penalties in each of the last five years.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Community Rehabilitation Companies: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department has taken in relation to poor performance by community rehabilitation companies in the last five years.

13 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that staff delivering probation services through (a) private companies and (b) the National Probation Service are treated equally in terms of (i) pay and (ii) terms and condition

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice,how many prisoners (a) were released before their correct release date and (b) served time in excess of their correct release date in each of the last five years.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were serving an indeterminate public protection sentence in each year since 2012.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who were serving an indeterminate public protection sentence were (a) released in error and (b) subsequently recalled to prison in each of the last five years.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving an indeterminate public protection sentence were (a) released on licence and (b) subsequently recalled to prison in each of the last five years.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect of new prison education commissioning arrangements on the effectiveness of Through The Gate services; and if he will make a statement.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many education staff have been placed at risk of redundancy at each prison since the introduction of new commissioning arrangements on 1 April 2019.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the educational courses on offer to offenders at each prison (a) before and (b) after 1 April 2019.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total value is of all Dynamic Purchasing System contracts for prison education issued in 2019.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons had issued Dynamic Purchasing System contracts for education provision by (a) 1 April 2019, and (b) 1 May 2019.

29 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2018 to Question 198912 on HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Enforcement, what the cost to the public purse has been of the Approved Enforcement Agency procurement exercise.

29 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Disclosure and Barring Service: Welsh Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to allow online applicants to the Disclosure and Barring Service to complete their application in the Welsh language.

29 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Disclosure and Barring Service: Welsh Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made with the development of the Disclosure and Barring Service in the Welsh language.

25 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many walk-ins there were to each Army Careers Centre in the last financial year.

24 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Police: Cross Border Cooperation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the additional costs of back record conversion of Schengen information to Interpol for police forces as a result of the extension to the UK's membership of the EU.

23 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 237103 on Prisons: Security, what selection criteria was used by his Department when deciding which prisons would be the first to be funded to install X-ray body

23 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 237103 on Prisons: Security, what financial contribution was made by (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Sodexo to support the installation of X-ray body scanners at each

23 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 237103 on Prisons: Security, (a) what the cost was and (b) who funded the installation of the X-ray body scanners at (i) Altcourse, (ii) Belmarsh, (iii) Doncaste

23 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 237103 on Prisons: Security, what the timetable is for the installation of X-ray body scanners at the remaining nine prisons in the 10 Prisons Project and the lo

18 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the outcomes of the potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2018.

18 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2018 have (a) been granted residency in the UK as a consequence of their exploitation and (b) agreed to retu

18 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Slavery: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2018 continue to be safeguarded.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadcasting: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Government has allocated to television broadcasting services in Irish and in Ulster-Scots under the (a) Irish Language Broadcasting Fund and (b) Ulster-Scots Broadca

8 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in (a) Wales and (b) England that have lost rental accommodation as a result of universal credit.

Source: official written-questions record.