Information between 7th February 2025 - 17th February 2025
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Parliamentary Debates |
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Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill [HL]
7 speeches (1,287 words) 3rd reading Friday 7th February 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
Prison Capacity Review
1 speech (311 words) Monday 10th February 2025 - Written Statements Ministry of Justice |
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Eighth sitting)
150 speeches (18,810 words) Committee stage: 8th sitting Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Justice |
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Ninth sitting)
196 speeches (23,518 words) Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Justice |
Regulation of the Bailiff Sector
9 speeches (3,038 words) Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Westminster Hall Ministry of Justice |
Arbitration Bill [Lords]
15 speeches (4,434 words) Committee of the whole House Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice |
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Tenth sitting)
138 speeches (18,134 words) Committee stage: 11th sitting Wednesday 12th February 2025 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Justice |
Probation Service: Prioritisation
1 speech (980 words) Wednesday 12th February 2025 - Written Statements Ministry of Justice |
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Prison Officers: Pay
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of prison officer salaries given the levels of (a) risk and (b) stress of this role. Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury Prison Service staff are some of our finest public servants. Despite their hard work, the Prison Service has been under immense pressure due to an increasing population and ageing estate. One of the first things this Government did upon coming into office was to accept the independent recommendations of the Prison Service Pay Review Body in full. This delivered a pay rise of 5% for Band 3-5 Prison Officers on modernised terms and conditions. This brings the starting salary for an entry level officer (on the national rate, 39 hours with unsocial hours) from £32,851 to £34,494. Given the challenges of working in a prison, we provide extensive mental health support, including a 24-hour helpline, confidential counselling, and online wellbeing services. Our Trauma Risk Management practitioners and Care Teams provide further support following any incidents while on duty. |
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Prison Officers: Pay
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of prison officer salary levels on staff retention rates. Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury The 2024/25 Prison Service pay award delivered a pay rise of at 5% for all Band 3 – 5 Prison Officers on modernised terms and conditions. This brings the starting salary for an entry level officer (on the national rate, 39 hours with unsocial hours) from £32,851 to £34,494. As of 30 September 2024, there are 23,571 Band 3-5 Full Time Equivalent Prison Officers in post, and nationally across establishments we are at 99.5% of our Target Staffing Figure (when using hours adjusted FTE). We have seen indications of an improving retention picture in the past two years – as of September 2024, the resignation rate for Band 3-5 prison officers was 8.5%, which is an improvement of 3 percentage points since September 2022 (11.5%). When asked about their primary reason for leaving the prison service, Pay and Reward no longer consistently features in the top five reasons for leaving as cited by staff in exit interviews. |
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Knives: Crime
Asked by: Gregory Stafford (Conservative - Farnham and Bordon) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing sentences for knife crime perpetrators. Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury Tackling knife crime is a priority and this Government is determined to do all it can to break the deadly cycle of violence that devastates the lives of individuals, families, and communities. It is important that those who commit violent crimes receive appropriate, proportionate and robust sentences. It is the function of the independent courts to decide the sentence in each case subject to the maximum that Parliament has provided and any guidelines that may be laid down by the Sentencing Council or the Court of Appeal. We have a robust legal framework in place to respond to knife crimes, with the maximum penalty for carrying a knife or threatening with an offensive weapon being 4 years imprisonment. Where someone is actually harmed by a knife or offensive weapon, there are a range of offences that the offender may be charged with, such as causing grievous bodily harm. These can result in lengthy sentences, up to life imprisonment. The Government has launched an Independent Review of Sentencing chaired by former Lord Chancellor, David Gauke. The Review aims to ensure that the sentencing framework is consistent, protects the public and that there is always a place in prison for violent offenders. |
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Multinational Companies: Tax Evasion
Asked by: Lord Sikka (Labour - Life peer) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask His Majesty's Government how many corporations have been prosecuted and convicted for tax evasion under the Criminal Finances Act 2017. Answered by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions for a wide range of offences including for tax evasion under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool. This can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics. Since its introduction, there have been no prosecutions or convictions of corporations for the following two specific tax evasion offences recorded under the Criminal Finances Act 2017 in England and Wales: 1) Relevant body fail to prevent facilitation of UK tax evasion; and, 2) Relevant body fail to prevent facilitation of foreign tax evasion offence. |
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Ministry of Justice: Correspondence
Asked by: Caroline Johnson (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) her Department, (b) her and (c) her Ministers in each month since August 2024 have not yet received a substantive response. Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) For the months of August and September all correspondence from Parliamentarians have received a substantive response. The table below covers October-January.
These figures reflect correspondence sent directly to MoJ HQ from Parliamentarians, and do not include correspondence sent directly to its executive agencies such as HMCTS or HMPPS. Ministers and the Department place great value on effective and timely handling of ministerial correspondence and keep performance of this under review. The Cabinet Office publishes routine statistics on Departmental performance which can be found on GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers(opens in a new tab). |
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Prison Officers: Pay
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the level of pay rise required by prison officers for salaries to be at the same real-terms levels as they were in 2010. Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury Pay for Prison Officers is informed by independent recommendations made by the Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB). HMPPS’ written evidence to the PSPRB for 2025/26 was published on 10 December 2025. This noted that the rate of economic growth since the global financial crisis of 2008 has been substantially lower than in previous decades. Annual real productivity growth (GDP per hour worked) fell by around 1.5% from an average of 2.1% in the decade prior to 2008, to 0.6% between 2010 and 2019. Higher productivity enables higher wages, and only sustained productivity growth over the medium-term can deliver sustainable long-run economic growth and real-terms wage rises. In making their independent recommendations, the PSPRB takes account of the written and oral evidence submitted by Government as well as evidence and representations made by the recognised Trade Unions, including the Prison Officers’ Association. The PSPRB considers a range of factors such as private sector wage growth, inflation, and future Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts. |
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Marriage: Relatives
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay) Tuesday 11th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 902578 on Marriage: Relatives, what her Department's timetable is for the consideration of the Law Commission’s 2022 wedding report. Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) The Law Commission set out that its recommendations would provide greater choice for couples in deciding how and where they get married. Marriage will always be one of our most important institutions and we must consider any recommendations to change weddings law carefully, including in relation to cousin marriage. We will take the time to properly consider their report before setting out our position in the coming months. |
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Magistrates: Standards
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove) Tuesday 11th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of numbers of magistrates. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The Government is committed to increasing the number of magistrates and we aim to recruit up to 2,000 magistrates per year. We are investing in recruitment to ensure that we build a larger and more diverse group of magistrates to meet the needs of our courts. We are also continuously improving our recruitment process collaborating with the magistracy and Advisory Committees. As of 01 April 2024, there were 14,576 active magistrates in England and Wales, an increase of 2,907 since the start of the Magistrate Attraction and Recruitment Campaign in January 2022. The next set of statistics for the period April 2024 to March 2025 will be published in July 2025. |
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Coronavirus: Criminal Proceedings
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay) Tuesday 11th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases relating to breaches of covid-19 laws are (a) awaiting and (b) ongoing in (i) Crown and (ii) magistrates courts. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) According to the best available data from our live management information systems, there are 114 outstanding cases in the magistrates court under Coronavirus Offences as at 30 September 2024. There are no cases awaiting trial or sentencing at the Crown Court (although there are 3 appeals against magistrate court decisions there). |
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Criminal Proceedings: Training
Asked by: Josh Babarinde (Liberal Democrat - Eastbourne) Tuesday 11th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department has taken to stop vetting processes barring those with criminal records being offered peer support roles in the justice sector. Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury The Ministry of Justice supports employment for people with lived experience of the criminal justice system, and we are committed to giving them the support they need to thrive. The Department is responsible for the care, supervision and rehabilitation of thousands of people. As well as reducing re-offending, there is a duty to protect the public, and victims of crime. Security vetting is vital to ensure that we can deliver these objectives effectively. For people with lived experience who are unable to attain security clearance, including for peer support roles, we have introduced two alternative entry schemes: Going Forward into Employment and Standard Plus. Applicants with recent offending history or who have recently left prison are risk-assessed for suitable roles within the organisation. These schemes allow a more holistic approach to risk assessment, taking into account evidence of personal growth and rehabilitation, with a greater focus on how we can mitigate any risks, so that HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) can make use of the skills and qualities that people with lived experience may be able to offer the organisation. There are, however, certain offences that we consider to pose an unmanageable risk to the safety and security of HMPPS, those working in any capacity, for or on behalf of HMPPS, prisoners, people on probation, visitors, and the public. This may mean that individuals who have committed these offences may never be granted security clearance. |
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Marriage: Relatives
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay) Wednesday 12th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Justice on the potential merits of banning first cousin marriage. Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) As I stated in my answer of 5 February, the Government will consider existing marriage law, including the Law Commission’s 2022 wedding report, before publicly setting out a position on this important issue. |
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Child Trust Fund
Asked by: John Milne (Liberal Democrat - Horsham) Wednesday 12th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make it her policy to allow release of Child Trust Funds to family members where those funds are inaccessible to disabled children unable to manage their finances. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) Where a young adult lacks mental capacity, including due to a disability, the law requires parents or a guardian to have legal authority to make decisions on their behalf about financial assets or property. This includes in relation to accessing funds held in a Child Trust Fund. On 9 June 2023, the Ministry of Justice published the Making Financial Decisions for young people: parent and carer toolkit explaining the process by which parents and guardians of disabled children are able to obtain legal authority if no other arrangements are in place. This can be done by making an application to the Court of Protection for an order authorising access to monies held in a Child Trust Fund or Junior ISA. The toolkit is available on Gov.UK. We understand that concerns remain. We are considering the options for improving access to matured Child Trust Funds while balancing the need to maintain safeguards and protect the best interests of individuals that lack capacity. |
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Child Trust Fund: Mental Capacity
Asked by: John Milne (Liberal Democrat - Horsham) Wednesday 12th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she plans to take to resolve the issue where Child Trust Funds are inaccessible to disabled children who have been assessed as lacking the mental capacity to manage their own finances. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) Where a young adult lacks mental capacity, including due to a disability, the law requires parents or a guardian to have legal authority to make decisions on their behalf about financial assets or property. This includes in relation to accessing funds held in a Child Trust Fund. On 9 June 2023, the Ministry of Justice published the Making Financial Decisions for young people: parent and carer toolkit explaining the process by which parents and guardians of disabled children are able to obtain legal authority if no other arrangements are in place. This can be done by making an application to the Court of Protection for an order authorising access to monies held in a Child Trust Fund or Junior ISA. The toolkit is available on Gov.UK. We understand that concerns remain. We are considering the options for improving access to matured Child Trust Funds while balancing the need to maintain safeguards and protect the best interests of individuals that lack capacity. |
Department Publications - Services |
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Tuesday 11th February 2025
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Annul a marriage Document: Annul a marriage (webpage) |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Money and property when you divorce or separate Document: Money and property when you divorce or separate (webpage) |
Department Publications - News and Communications |
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Wednesday 12th February 2025
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Probation Service to cut crime by focusing on dangerous offenders Document: Probation Service to cut crime by focusing on dangerous offenders (webpage) |
Wednesday 12th February 2025
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Lord Chancellor sets out her vision for the probation service Document: Lord Chancellor sets out her vision for the probation service (webpage) |
Department Publications - Transparency |
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Wednesday 12th February 2025
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Accredited Programme Commencements Ad Hoc Document: Accredited Programme Commencements Ad Hoc (webpage) |
Department Publications - Statistics |
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Thursday 13th February 2025
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Mortgage and landlord possession statistics: October to December 2024 Document: (ODS) |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
88 speeches (22,432 words) Committee stage Thursday 13th February 2025 - Grand Committee Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Indeed, the independent review of the traffic commissioner function undertaken by the Ministry of Justice - Link to Speech |
Prevent: Learning Review
19 speeches (5,114 words) Thursday 13th February 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) intervention not taken place.I add that I was in the Home Office from 2009 to 2010, and in the Ministry of Justice - Link to Speech |
Knife Crime in London
14 speeches (4,486 words) Wednesday 12th February 2025 - Westminster Hall Home Office Mentions: 1: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) intervention programmes rely heavily on grants from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, the Ministry of Justice - Link to Speech 2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) We are working closely with the Ministry of Justice to deliver that manifesto commitment to ensure that - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Thursday 13th February 2025
Estimate memoranda - Home Office Supplementary Estimates Memorandum 2024-25 Home Affairs Committee Found: • £35.8m was provided to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) for asylum backlogs. |
Thursday 13th February 2025
Estimate memoranda - HMRC 2024-25 Supplementary Estimate memorandum Treasury Committee Found: . -2 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 4,792 Home Office -9,676 Ministry of Justice |
Thursday 13th February 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State relating to the selection of the UK candidate for the regular International Court of Justice election in 2026, dated 6th February 2025 Foreign Affairs Committee Found: My officials are working with the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice to ensure a |
Thursday 13th February 2025
Written Evidence - Sport for Development Coalition GAM0057 - Game On: Community and school sport Game On: Community and school sport - Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: DHSC, DfE, MoJ, MHCLG etc – this was the ambition of the National Physical Activity Taskforce established |
Thursday 13th February 2025
Written Evidence - London Youth Games Foundation GAM0038 - Game On: Community and school sport Game On: Community and school sport - Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Education, Department for Health and the Ministry of Justice |
Wednesday 12th February 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Minister for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls, dated 6 Jan 2025 Women and Equalities Committee Found: T +4420 3334 3555 F +44870 761 7753 E https://contact-moj.service.justice.gov.uk/ www.gov.uk/moj 102 |
Wednesday 12th February 2025
Written Evidence - HMI Prisons PRI0022 - Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee Found: The latest MoJ figures suggest that there are issues with those recruited – the current leaving rate |
Wednesday 12th February 2025
Written Evidence - Serco Ltd PRI0015 - Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee Found: Privately managed prisons (PMP) have a substantial Ministry of Justice “Controllers Team” on-site, charged |
Wednesday 12th February 2025
Written Evidence - Ministry of Justice PRI0003 - Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee Found: PRI0003 - Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing Ministry of Justice Written Evidence |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Written Evidence - Ministry of Justice ITS0080 - Interpreting and translation services in the courts Interpreting and translation services in the courts - Public Services Committee Found: ITS0080 - Interpreting and translation services in the courts Ministry of Justice Written Evidence |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Written Evidence - St Mungo's RSL0005 - Rough Sleeping Rough Sleeping - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: isolation can perpetuate homelessness or make tenancies difficult to sustain.15 Nacro analysis of MOJ |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Oral Evidence - HMPPS, HMPPS, and HMPPS Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee Found: director for HMPPS and I lead a couple of other teams in the people and capability team in the Ministry of Justice |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Oral Evidence - 2025-02-11 09:45:00+00:00 Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Found: know, to the public sector, whether that is in healthcare, in supporting decisions that DWP or the MOJ |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Written Evidence - The Alan Turing Institute (CETaS) RGE0011 - Review of the 2024 general election Review of the 2024 general election - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Found: Consequently, the Ministry of Justice should conduct a review of such legislation to understand whether |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Correspondence - Letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Home Office relating to the NAO report and the Home Offices’ progress in tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), 31 January 2025 Public Accounts Committee Found: several thematic roundtable meetings chaired by Minister Phillips and Minister Davies-Jones from MoJ |
Tuesday 4th February 2025
Oral Evidence - Professional Publishers Association, Max Richter, and Financial Times Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: know, to the public sector, whether that is in healthcare, in supporting decisions that DWP or the MOJ |
Tuesday 4th February 2025
Oral Evidence - Human Native AI, Liccium B.V., and Startup Coalition Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: know, to the public sector, whether that is in healthcare, in supporting decisions that DWP or the MOJ |
Tuesday 4th February 2025
Oral Evidence - University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, and University of Agder Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee Found: You have the Ministry of Justice on top, which has the main political responsibility for the prison |
Monday 27th January 2025
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Justice, HMPPS, and HM Prison and Probation Service Public Accounts Committee Found: Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Justice, HMPPS, and HM Prison and Probation Service Oral Evidence |
Written Answers |
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Gender Based Violence: Young Futures Hubs
Asked by: Steve Race (Labour - Exeter) Friday 14th February 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking through Young Futures Hubs to help tackle violence against women and girls. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) The government has set an ambitious target to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. To achieve this, we plan to reduce the current levels of offending and reoffending and prevent abuse from happening altogether. This focus on prevention also sits at the heart of the Young Futures programme, which will establish a network of Young Futures Hubs and Young Futures prevention partnerships. Young Futures Hubs will be set up across the country, bringing together services to improve access to opportunities and support for young people at community level, promoting positive outcomes and enabling young people to thrive. Young Futures Prevention Partnerships will bring local partners together to intervene earlier to ensure that vulnerable children at-risk of being drawn into a variety of crime types (including anti-social behaviour, knife crime and violence against women and girls) are identified and offered support in a more systematic way. Officials from across government, including my department, the Home Office, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Justice are working together using their various bodies of evidence of what works to shape Young Futures Hubs.
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Sexual Offences
Asked by: Katie Lam (Conservative - Weald of Kent) Friday 14th February 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds (a) demographic and (b) ethnicity data on the investigation of sex crimes. Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) The Home Office holds information on all notifiable crimes, including sexual offences, recorded by the police in England and Wales and their investigative outcomes. The extent of the data held in each case will depend on what information has been collected by the police as part of their investigation. Statistics on the outcomes of cases are routinely published by the Ministry of Justice, and contain breakdowns of convicted offenders by age, gender, ethnicity, police force area and type of offence. This can be assessed via their outcomes by offence data tool available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2024 |
Gender Based Violence: Young Futures Hubs
Asked by: Joe Morris (Labour - Hexham) Friday 14th February 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking through Young Futures Hubs to help tackle violence against women and girls. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) The government has set an ambitious target to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. To achieve this, we plan to reduce the current levels of offending and reoffending and prevent abuse from happening altogether. This focus on prevention also sits at the heart of the Young Futures programme, which will establish a network of Young Futures Hubs and Young Futures prevention partnerships. Young Futures Hubs will be set up across the country, bringing together services to improve access to opportunities and support for young people at community level, promoting positive outcomes and enabling young people to thrive. Young Futures Prevention Partnerships will bring local partners together to intervene earlier to ensure that vulnerable children at-risk of being drawn into a variety of crime types (including anti-social behaviour, knife crime and violence against women and girls) are identified and offered support in a more systematic way. Officials from across government, including my department, the Home Office, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Justice are working together using their various bodies of evidence of what works to shape Young Futures Hubs.
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Health Services: Prisoners
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot) Thursday 13th February 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to meet the health needs of elderly prisoners. Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) NHS England has the responsibility to provide a full range of healthcare services to meet the needs of the prison population. Every prison will have a health needs assessment undertaken on a regular basis which is then used to locally determine the health needs and requirements of that prison’s population. This includes supporting elderly prisoners on their health needs, such as dementia care. Local authorities also have a duty to support elderly prisoners with their social care needs. As a signatory to the National Partnership Agreement for Health and Social Care for people in contact with the criminal justice system, the Department is committed to working with the Ministry of Justice, HM Prison and Probation Service, NHS England, and the UK Health Security Agency to ensure safe, legal, decent, and effective care that improves health outcomes and reduces health inequalities is provided for all prisoners, including those who are elderly. |
Asylum: Appeals
Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion) Wednesday 12th February 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Official Tribunals Statistics quarterly: July to September 2024, what analysis has been done of the reasons for the increase in asylum appeal cases in the category of Asylum/Protection/Revocation of Protection. Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office) Both the Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2024 to which the question refers, published by the Ministry of Justice, and the latest Immigration System Statistics quarterly release, published by Home Office, explain that the rise in asylum appeals is linked to the increase in asylum claims receiving an initial decision as part of the Home Office’s work to reduce the initial decision backlog. |
Prisoners: Parents
Asked by: Martin Wrigley (Liberal Democrat - Newton Abbot) Wednesday 12th February 2025 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support children who have a parent in prison. Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) The department knows growing up with a parent or primary carer in prison can have a devastating impact on a child’s life chances. These children can experience the trauma of separation, social isolation and shame, and support is often lacking. This government has a key mission to break down barriers to opportunity for every child, which includes better supporting and identifying children affected by parental imprisonment. The department and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are working together to see how we can support children affected by parental imprisonment. We have also closely engaged the sector who have provided us with invaluable support during the early stages of policy development. At the department, we are looking at how best to support children and their families within the community, including as part of our wider reforms to Children’s Social Care. The MoJ is looking at how to improve support for parents in prison and the visiting experience for families, with a focus on strengthening family ties where appropriate. At present, prisons across England and Wales offer a range of services to maintain family relationships including social visits and family days. |
Children and Young People: Protection
Asked by: Steve Race (Labour - Exeter) Tuesday 11th February 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on improving multi-agency teams to improve (a) early intervention and (b) support for young people. Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) Effective joint working, at both a cross-Government and local agency level, is critical to ensuring that effective early intervention and support for young people is delivered. These values are at the heart of the Young Futures Programme, which is bringing departments together from across Government (including the Department for Education, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office), to establish a network of Young Futures Hubs and Young Futures Prevention Partnerships. The Young Futures Programme will bring local partners together across England and Wales to intervene earlier, ensuring vulnerable children and young people are identified and offered support in a more systematic way, as well as creating opportunities for young people in their communities, through the provision of open access to mental health and careers support. Young Futures Prevention Partnerships will look to build on the excellent multi-agency working delivered through Violence Reduction Units and the Serious Violence Duty, and using the strong networks that have been created to improve how we identify, reach, and support young people at risk of being drawn into crime. |
Gender Based Violence
Asked by: Joe Morris (Labour - Hexham) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology on tackling violence against women and girls using the Online Safety Act 2023. Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) Tackling VAWG in all of its forms, including when it takes place online, is a top priority for this Government, and that's why we have set out an unprecedented mission to halve VAWG within a decade. The misuse of technology to abuse or harm others (including online) has a disproportionate impact on women and children and we know this is a significant and growing issue in the UK and worldwide. We will go further than before to deliver a cross-Government transformative approach to halve all forms of violence against women and girls, underpinned by a new VAWG strategy to be published next year. In January 2025, the Government introduced new legislation which will make creating sexually explicit 'deepfake' images a criminal offence. The Online Safety Act designates material relating to child sexual exploitation and abuse as a priority offence. Platforms must put in place systems and processes to minimise and remove this content. The Illegal Harms Codes, laid before Parliament in December and coming into force from 17 March this year, sets out the steps companies must take to meet their duties under the Act to tackle this content." I regularly meet with Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to discuss these matters. My officials also engage regularly with DSIT and the Ministry of Justice to identify the most appropriate legislative vehicles to tackle technology-facilitated VAWG. |
Gender Based Violence
Asked by: Richard Holden (Conservative - Basildon and Billericay) Monday 10th February 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology on the potential merits of expanding the provisions of the Online Safety Act 2023 to help tackle violence against women and girls. Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) Tackling VAWG in all of its forms, including when it takes place online, is a top priority for this Government, and that's why we have set out an unprecedented mission to halve VAWG within a decade. The misuse of technology to abuse or harm others (including online) has a disproportionate impact on women and children and we know this is a significant and growing issue in the UK and worldwide. We will go further than before to deliver a cross-government transformative approach to halve all forms of violence against women and girls, underpinned by a new VAWG strategy to be published next year. In January 2025, the Government introduced new legislation which will make creating sexually explicit 'deepfake' images a criminal offence. The Online Safety Act designates material relating to child sexual exploitation and abuse as a priority offence. Platforms must put in place systems and processes to minimise and remove this content. The Illegal Harms Codes, laid before Parliament in December and coming into force from 17 March this year, sets out the steps companies must take to meet their duties under the Act to tackle this content." I regularly meet with Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to discuss these matters. My officials also engage regularly with DSIT and the Ministry of Justice to identify the most appropriate legislative vehicles to tackle technology-facilitated VAWG. |
Special Educational Needs: Child Trust Fund and Individual Savings Accounts
Asked by: Luke Charters (Labour - York Outer) Friday 7th February 2025 Question to the HM Treasury: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has plans to change the access to (a) Junior ISAs and (b) Child Trust Funds for parents of SEND young adults. Answered by Emma Reynolds - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury) Access to Junior ISAs (JISA) and Child Trust Funds (CTF) for parents of young adults with special educational needs and disabilities is already possible in certain circumstances. Where a young adult lacks mental capacity, including due to a disability, the law requires parents or a guardian to have legal authority to make decisions on their behalf about financial assets or property. This includes in relation to accessing funds held in a CTF or a JISA The Ministry of Justice has published a toolkit on gov.uk explaining the process for parents and guardians of disabled children to obtain legal authority if no other arrangements are in place. The Ministry of Justice has worked with The Investment and Savings Alliance (TISA) to promote the toolkit with parents and carers, and is working with the Department for Work and Pensions on ways to inform parents and carers about the relevant legal processes as their young person approaches the age of 18. The Government continues to keep all aspects of savings policy under review.
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Shoplifting: Prosecutions
Asked by: James McMurdock (Reform UK - South Basildon and East Thurrock) Friday 7th February 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of reported retail crime cases resulted in prosecution in each of the last three years. Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office) The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of shoplifting offences, and their investigative outcomes (including those resulting in charged/summons), on a quarterly basis. The latest information, to the year ending September 2024, were on published Thursday 30 January 2025 and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables Prosecutions are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. Statistics on prosecutions at court are published by the MoJ and can be accessed via their outcomes by offence data tool, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2024 |
Parliamentary Research |
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Government consultations - CBP-10190
Feb. 14 2025 Found: Examples include: • In November 2024, the Ministry of Justice published a call for evidence to support |
Bill Documents |
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Feb. 14 2025
Written evidence submitted by Dr Philip Murray (TIAB307) Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Written evidence Found: As Lord Neuberger explained in R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice [2014] UKSC 38, at [29], the European |
Feb. 12 2025
Written evidence submitted by Dr Isra Black, UCL Faculty of Laws (TIAB190) Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Written evidence Found: unrelievable suffering caused by illness, disease, or a medical condition. 16 R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice |
Feb. 12 2025
Written evidence submitted by Margaret Flynn, Chair, National Mental Capacity Forum (TIAB144) Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Written evidence Found: The Forum is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health and Social Care |
Feb. 12 2025
Written evidence submitted by Ruth Hughes (TIAB161) Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Written evidence Found: I have advised the Ministry of Justice on capacity related issues. |
Feb. 12 2025
Written evidence submitted by Evangelical Alliance (TIAB218) Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-26 Written evidence Found: There were several recommendations to the both the Health and Social Care department and the Ministry of Justice |
Feb. 11 2025
Written evidence submitted by Action for Children (CWSB225) Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-26 Written evidence Found: that tackling this requires a cross-departmental approach that includes DfE, Home Office and Ministry of Justice |
National Audit Office |
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Feb. 13 2025
Local Government Boundary Commission for England 2025 (webpage) Found: Overview Energy and environment Ministry of Justice |
Department Publications - Statistics |
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Friday 14th February 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Heat network zone opportunity reports Document: (PDF) Found: World Museum Non-domestic 1 2,900 ‘Metered’ QEII Law Courts Public Sector 1 2,900 National Dataset (MoJ |
Friday 14th February 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Heat network zone opportunity reports Document: (PDF) Found: required to connect are a mixture of industrial buildings and offices, with the only exception a Ministry of Justice |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Cabinet Office Source Page: Civil Service employment by religion or belief, department, responsibility level and region: 2024 Document: (ODS) Found: Executive Officers 4185 40 125 25 380 100 290 3990 1240 1610 11985 9130 Ministry of Justice |
Department Publications - Policy paper |
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Thursday 13th February 2025
Home Office Source Page: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: equality impact assessment Document: (PDF) Found: serious organised crime measures: - Offending population statistics from the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ |
Monday 10th February 2025
Cabinet Office Source Page: Government Response to the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee report: Enhancing public trust Document: Public inquiries: Enhancing public trust (PDF, 815KB) (PDF) Found: inquiry has the power to compel the production of evidence from uncooperative witnesses. 5 Ministry of Justice |
Monday 10th February 2025
Cabinet Office Source Page: Government Response to the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee report: Enhancing public trust Document: (PDF) Found: unit should update Cabinet Office inquiries guidance and publish it on the Ministry of Justice |
Department Publications - Transparency |
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Tuesday 11th February 2025
HM Treasury Source Page: Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Document: (PDF) Found: Ministry of Justice (MOJ) for Serious Violence Reduction Orders -438,000 (Section B) Homeland Security |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
HM Treasury Source Page: Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Document: (PDF) Found: (MOJ) for unregulated provision |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
HM Treasury Source Page: Vote on Account 2025-26 Document: (PDF) Found: 25 Voted Total to date on which provision on account is based 2025-26 Required on Account Ministry of Justice |
Tuesday 11th February 2025
HM Treasury Source Page: Vote on Account 2025-26 Document: (PDF) Found: account is based Required on Account Table 2: Supply Estimates by Department, 2025-26 (Voted) Ministry of Justice |
Department Publications - News and Communications |
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Monday 10th February 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Source Page: AI and satellites speed up planning approvals by tracking wild habitats across England Document: AI and satellites speed up planning approvals by tracking wild habitats across England (webpage) Found: Ministry of Justice (MoJ) The Effective Proposal Framework: Used by Probation Practitioners at pre-sentence |
Non-Departmental Publications - Policy paper |
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Feb. 14 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: Standford Hill Prison: Action plan Document: (PDF) Policy paper Found: effectiveness of the work of probation, and youth offending services across England and Wales to Ministry of Justice |
Feb. 14 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: Standford Hill Prison: Action plan Document: Standford Hill Prison: Action plan (webpage) Policy paper Found: From: HM Prison and Probation Service and Ministry of Justice Published 29 January 2020 Last updated |
Feb. 13 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: HMPPS Response: Thematic inspection of the recruitment, training, and retention of frontline probation practitioners Document: (PDF) Policy paper Found: (MoJ) and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). |
Feb. 13 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: HMPPS Response: Thematic inspection of the recruitment, training, and retention of frontline probation practitioners Document: HMPPS Response: Thematic inspection of the recruitment, training, and retention of frontline probation practitioners (webpage) Policy paper Found: From: HM Prison and Probation Service and Ministry of Justice Published 13 February 2025 |
Feb. 13 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: HMPPS Response: Thematic inspection of the recruitment, training, and retention of frontline probation practitioners Document: (PDF) Policy paper Found: training and retention of frontline probation practitioners On behalf of colleagues in HMPPS and MoJ |
Feb. 12 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: Durham Prison: Action plan Document: (PDF) Policy paper Found: effectiveness of the work of probation, and youth offending services across England and Wales to Ministry of Justice |
Feb. 12 2025
HM Prison and Probation Service Source Page: Durham Prison: Action plan Document: Durham Prison: Action plan (webpage) Policy paper Found: From: HM Prison and Probation Service and Ministry of Justice Published 18 April 2019 Last updated |
Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency |
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Feb. 14 2025
Government Property Function Source Page: State of the Estate in 2023-24 Document: (ODS) Transparency Found: Ministry of Justice annual rent rates 23887143 Probation 23860957.75 Probation MoJ Ministry of Justice |
Feb. 14 2025
Government Property Function Source Page: State of the Estate in 2023-24 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: (MOJ), and is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family courts and |
Feb. 12 2025
Government Internal Audit Agency Source Page: Public Sector Equality Duty report 2023/24 Document: (webpage) Transparency Found: 2023 - 2024 we offered the following: Mentoring Catapult is a mentoring scheme led by the Ministry of Justice |
Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation |
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Feb. 13 2025
Evaluation Task Force Source Page: ETF Evaluation Academy 2.0 resources Document: ETF Evaluation Academy 2.0 resources (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: Statistics Health and Safety Executive Department for Education HM Treasury Ministry of Defence Ministry of Justice |
Feb. 13 2025
Evaluation Task Force Source Page: ETF Evaluation Academy 2.0 resources Document: (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: deliver an evaluation project Activity: Imagine you are running the following evaluation (based on an MoJ |
Feb. 13 2025
Evaluation Task Force Source Page: ETF Evaluation Academy 2.0 resources Document: (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: broad question at the top of this slide and write down some possible answers. 7 Teaching case study: MoJ |
Feb. 13 2025
Evaluation Task Force Source Page: ETF Evaluation Academy 2.0 resources Document: (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: Cabinet Office: GREAT Campaign DLUHC: Supported Housing MoJ: Reforms to HMCT Does investment promotion |
Feb. 10 2025
Government Digital Service Source Page: AI Playbook for the UK Government Document: (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: HM Treasury (HMT); Home Office (HO); Ministry of Defence (MoD); and Ministry of Justice |
Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics |
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Feb. 12 2025
Office for Product Safety and Standards Source Page: Construction product incident data identification and evaluation Document: (PDF) Statistics Found: Communities & Local Government (now renamed as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities) MoJ |
Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications |
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Feb. 10 2025
Natural England Source Page: AI and satellites speed up planning approvals by tracking wild habitats across England Document: AI and satellites speed up planning approvals by tracking wild habitats across England (webpage) News and Communications Found: Ministry of Justice (MoJ) The Effective Proposal Framework: Used by Probation Practitioners at pre-sentence |
Feb. 05 2025
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales Source Page: Youth Justice Board publishes knife crime insights pack Document: Knife Crime Insights Pack (PDF) News and Communications Found: Knife crime is not just concerned with child populations • The MoJ recorded 18,560 knife crime offences |