Written questions
702 written questions tabled, most recent first.
13 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has for long service medals for prison staff in the private sector.
13 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Christmas
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the recommendations of the Farmer Review, whether prisoners will be able to have a phone call with family members on Christmas Day .
13 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Christmas
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how long prisoners will spend out of cells on Christmas Day.
13 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Christmas
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December to Question 101737 on Prisoners' Release: Christmas, what the offence was of each of the prisoners released on Friday 24 December 2021.
9 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) firearms, (b) bladed items and (c) other weapons have been found in prisons in each of the last five years.
7 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many prisons the Regime Management Plan under PSI 07/2017 requires prisoners to be engaged in work, education or other activities designed to assist their rehabilitation, morning and afternoon from Monday
2 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2022 to Question 88987 on Prisons: Rehabilitation, how many prisoners completed an accredited programme in prison each year since 2010.
2 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Question 88987 on 21 November 2022, what the annual average prisoner's level of (a) numeracy, (b) literacy, (c) skills and qualification has been since 2010.
2 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Question 88987 on 21 November 2022, how many learners have been in the classroom each year since 2010.
2 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoner Escapes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2022 to Question 88985 on Prisoner Escapes, what offences are categorised as miscellaneous crimes against society; and why one offence is listed as unknown.
28 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of women in prison.
28 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Women's Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Women in Prison's 7 October report on The Value of Women's Centres, if he will invest in community-based women's centres to reduce offending rates.
28 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoner Escapes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 88985 on Prisoner Escapes, how many of the 55 people that escaped from custody in the past 5 years received a custodial sentence for that offence.
28 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisons provide planned activity to all inmates who are neither unwell or undergoing punishment which involves morning and afternoon purposeful activity between Monday and Friday.
28 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison and Probation Service: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2022 to Question 87949 on Prison and Probation Service: Sick Leave, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of working days lost as a result of work-relat
17 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many closed prisons are owned by his Department; and how much his Department has spent on (a) utility and (b) other maintenance costs for closed prisons in each of the last five years.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours prisoners spent on average out of their cells a day in each prison in the last 12 months.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Operational Resourcing and Stability Panel
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support the Prison Operational Resourcing and Stability Panel has provided to prisons with the most acute resourcing pressures affecting their ability to deliver full regimes and affecting the stability of t
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Operational Resourcing and Stability Panel
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have received support from the Prison Operational Resourcing and Stability Panelto help with acute resourcing pressures in each of the last 24 months.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Operational Resourcing and Stability Panel
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who sits on the Prison Operational Resourcing and Stability Panel.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Domestic Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons he has visited in each of his tenures as Secretary of State for Justice.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of rehabilitative work in prisons post covid-19.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his Department's definition is of (a) full prison regime and (b) near full prison regime.
16 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoner Escapes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 7 November to Question 74848, what the (a) conviction or (b) matter for which the prisoner was remanded into custody was for those prisoners at large.
15 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
HM Prison and Probation Service: Sick Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many working days were lost as a result of work-related stress in each year since 2010 in (a) HM Prison Service and (b) the Probation Service.
11 Nov 2022 · Home Office
Sexual Offences: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offences were (a) reported, (b) charged and (c) resulted in a conviction in England and Wales in each month since July 2021.
9 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoner Escapes
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November to Question 74848 on Prisoner Escapes, what the category was of the serving offence of convicted offenders still at large; and what the category was of the indicted offence of
9 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many prisons have returned to full regimes post covid.
9 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Probation: Risk Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of risk assessments made by the Probation Service.
9 Nov 2022 · Ministry of Justice
Probation: Risk Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of risk assessments made by the Probation Service.
Source: official written-questions record.