Written questions
1,131 written questions tabled, most recent first.
25 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Advisory Board on Female Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the Advisory Board on Female Offenders met in the past two years.
25 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Women's Justice Advisory Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Women’s Justice Advisory Group was established and who currently sits on it.
24 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Offences against Children: Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners convicted of being parts of grooming gangs will be released early under the Sentencing Act 2026.
24 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have successfully sued the Ministry of Justice and HMPPS over breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
23 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Winchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Action Plan for HMP Winchester dated 19 June 2026, which underrepresented groups will be given focus under Point 11 regarding personal development opportunities.
23 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Officers: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officer applicants failed security vetting in the past two years.
23 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been convicted of possessing, without authority, a mobile phone inside a prison in the past year.
23 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the removal of transgender prisoners from women's prisons.
23 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Systems: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on how many people used sharia councils or tribunals in England and Wales in the past year.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Systems: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there are sharia councils in (a) England and (b) Wales.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Legal Systems: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department provided funding to sharia councils in the last 12 months.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on the open-source AI model Qwen in the past two years.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Belmarsh and HMP Manchester: Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners held at HMP Belmarsh or HMP Manchester have sued the Ministry of Justice or HMPPS over alleged breaches of the Public Sector Equality Duty in the past year.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Muslim Brotherhood: Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of the Muslim Brotherhood are held in prisons in England and Wales.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals heard by the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) in the last year were brought by sex offenders.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Heating
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons currently have underfloor heating in prisoner cells; and whether any under construction prison places will have underfloor heating in prisoner cells.
22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Terrorism: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in compensation payments to prisoners convicted of terrorism offences in the past two years, broken down by each payment and the reason for it.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to make it a legal requirement for Muslim couples to civilly register their marriage before, or at the same time as, their Islamic ceremony.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether convicted child sex offenders can be housed in open prisons.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
HMP Millsike
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what design features of HMP Millsike are intended to support or address, a) biodiversity, b) social value, c) climate change, and d) the natural environment.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Systems: Islam
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department holds data on how many people used sharia courts in England and Wales in the past year.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Telephones
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in respect of prisoners making international calls from prisons in the past six months, a) which countries were called and b) how many times was each country called.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Crown Court: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courtrooms in Crown courts were not sitting on each day in the last year.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released under the Standard Determinate Sentence 40% Scheme were a) in settled accommodation within three months of their release, and b) in full-time employment within s
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were in settled accommodation within three months of their release in each year since 2021.
17 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners were in full-time employment within six months of their release in each year since 2021.
17 Jun 2026 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Committees
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times did the Domestic and Border Security, and Union and Constitution Cabinet Committees meet between 1 June 2025 and 1 June 2026.
16 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how is the age of an offender determined by the courts; and are any scientific age assessments used.
16 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what process is followed if an individual claims to be a child in a court proceeding and is convicted and sentenced on that basis, but it is subsequently revealed that they are an adult.
16 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice
Women's Justice Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what dates the Women’s Justice Board has met since it was established.
Source: official written-questions record.