Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of rape trials in England and Wales that have been postponed in each year since 2010.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was for rape cases to be completed in court in each year since 2010.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison officers at bands three to five had (a) less than one, (b) less than three and (c) three or more years’ experience at each high-security institution on 1 May (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2024.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of rape trials were postponed (a) once, (b) twice and (c) three times in each year since 2010.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2024 to Question 21508 on Armed Forces: Health, for what reasons members of the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force were deemed medically non-deployable on 1 April (a) 2023, (b) 2016 and (c) 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It has not proved possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of soldiers that took the Soldier Conditioning Review were graded (a) condition, (b) unconditioned and (c) other in each year since that review was introduced.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
In relation to the Soldier Conditioning Review, personnel are marked on the system as ‘red’ when they have areas of physical fitness they need to improve. If they are marked as ‘green’ it means they do not have any specific areas of physical fitness development / improvement and are at an adequate baseline. Personnel are marked as ‘Amber’ on the system if the individual needs to take another assessment in the next two months.
The table below shows the number and proportion of Regular and Reserve soldiers that took the Soldier Conditioning Review who were graded as ‘Green’ or ‘Amber’ and ‘All other grades’.
Year | Number of Pers | Status | Proportion |
01 Apr – 31 Dec 2022 | 74,336 | Green or Amber | 63.98% |
41,849 | All other grades | 36.02% | |
01 Jan – 31 Dec 2023 | 71,945 | Green or Amber | 67.86% |
34,081 | All other grades | 32.14% |
Notes/Caveats:
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of community service ordered to be carried out were not carried out in each (a) local justice area and (b) region in (i) England and (ii) Wales in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison guards left service in the high security estate in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The quarterly HMPPS workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, including leavers, and the latest publication covers data up to 31 March 2024.
Data relating to the number of prison officers who left service in the high security estate, broken down by calendar year, since 2010, has been provided in table 1 below.
In 2021 a new standardised exit interview process was introduced across HMPPS (both prisons and probation) to allow staff the opportunity to convey their reasons for leaving. This, coupled with dedicated retention research has enabled leaver trend data to be analysed. Feedback from the exit interviews helps to shape and determine interventions to better understand and respond to staff attrition. Since April 2022, we have invested in several new initiatives to improve the experience of our new joiners and increase retention of our employees.
These include:
Retention is improving across HMPPS, with prison officer resignation rate dropping to 8.4% as of March 2024, an improvement of 1.4 percentage points on the previous year.
Table 1: Number of prison officers1 across public sector prisons2 who left HMPPS3 from the high security estate4, broken down by calendar year, from 01 January 2010 - 31 December 2023(p)
(headcount)
Calendar year | Number of prison officers who left HMPPS from the high security estate |
2010 | 191 |
2011 | 229 |
2012 | 234 |
2013 | 519 |
2014 | 284 |
2015 | 264 |
2016 | 265 |
2017 | 301 |
2018 | 422 |
2019 | 510 |
2020 | 398 |
2021 | 516 |
2022 | 711 |
2023 | 556 |
Notes to table 1:
1. "Prison officers" refers to staff in the following grades: Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers working in HM Prison Service or the Youth Custody Service (YCS), in England and Wales. Therefore, it excludes staff working in HQ or the Probation Service
2. Only information for public sector prisons in England and Wales. Information for private prisons is not included in this table
3. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However, the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate
4. The "high security estate" refers to the 'Long term & High Security' group in public sector prisons in England and Wales. The "high security estate" categorisation is reflective as at 31 March 2024.
(p) Provisional data. There may be minor changes to figures in future due to additional data being recorded on the reporting system.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred from Category A prisons in each year since 2015, by the category of their destination prisons.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were transferred to Category C prisons in each year since 2015, by the category of the original prison.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The number of prisoners transferred each year is published in table 3_A_28 available at Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The data for which Category prisons that prisoners have been transferred to can be found in the attached table. Prisoners cannot be transferred into a prison with a lower security category than their individual classification. Moves from higher to lower security classification prisons relate to prisoners who are progressing through the prison system as their assessed risk decreases.