Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cases under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 have been actively considered by the Crown Prosecution Service since 2011 in respect of a death or deaths in custody.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on the number of cases it has considered for a charge of corporate manslaughter in respect of a death or deaths in custody. CPS information systems do not allow for cases involving deaths in custody to be dis-aggregated from the tally of cases in which corporate manslaughter was considered.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord O’Neill of Gatley on 1 February (HL5090 and HL5091), whether they will now provide the direct link to that information, and why they did not provide that link in those answers.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
The relevant information is available at “Box A5.6D : money transmission services ranked in order of choice” in the Treasury guidance on “Managing Public Money”.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what postage type was used by government departments, including their agencies and public bodies, to issue cheques in (1) 2015, (2) 2014, (3) 2013, and (4) 2012.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
The information requested is not held centrally. The Government Banking Service is a provider of banking services across Government, but each Government Department is responsible for setting its own policy in regards to making payments by cheque. Further details are set out in the publication, “Managing Public Money” which is available on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cheques were issued by each government department, including their agencies and public bodies, in (1) 2015, (2) 2014, (3) 2013, and (4) 2012, and what was the value of those cheques.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
The information requested is not held centrally. The Government Banking Service is a provider of banking services across Government, but each Government Department is responsible for setting its own policy in regards to making payments by cheque. Further details are set out in the publication, “Managing Public Money” which is available on Gov.uk.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish the Small Schools Taskforce report relating to the provision of free school meals in small schools.
Answered by Lord Nash
A decision has not yet been made on the publication of the taskforce report.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was spent by HM Treasury in the last financial year on (1) postage and printed stationery, (2) fax machines and supplies, and (3) email services.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
In the 2014/15 financial year the Treasury spent £16,696 on postal charges. Details of spending on printed stationery are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Details on the spend relating to fax machines is not available.
Email services in the Treasury form part of a wider shared ICT provision and costs are not separately identifiable.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of correspondence sent by HM Treasury in the last financial year was sent by (1) post, (2) fax, and (3) email.
Answered by Lord O'Neill of Gatley
HM Treasury does not hold this information.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was spent by 10 Downing Street on make-up and hair products in the last financial year.
Answered by Lord Bridges of Headley
No money has been spent.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prisoners with known mental health problems have been kept in segregated custody for longer than 24 hours in the last year.
Answered by Lord Faulks
Figures recording the number of prisoners with known mental health problems who have been placed in segregation for longer than 24 hours during the last year are not gathered centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost by collating the information from records held at each prison.
Asked by: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the change in numbers of prisoners in the United Kingdom committing acts of self-harm in custody for each of the last 10 years; and what the percentage change has been year on year for the same period.
Answered by Lord Faulks
The government is committed to open and transparent reporting of self-harm in custody and publish statistics on self-harm in prison custody in England and Wales quarterly in the National Statistics “Safety in Custody” bulletin. This statistical series can be found at www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics.
The number of individuals committing at least one self-harm incident in prison custody in each year and year-on-year change is presented in table 1.
Figures are provided for England and Wales only. Figures are not published by the Ministry of Justice for other areas of the United Kingdom as the judicial systems are a devolved matter for the respective administrations.
Around 80 prisoners in every 1,000 in prison custody self-harm.
Table 1: Year-on-year percentage change of individuals self-harming in prison custody, England and Wales
Year | Number | Year-on-year change (%) | Number of individuals self-harming per 1,000 prisoners |
2005 | 5,837 | - | 77 |
2006 | 6,090 | 4% | 78 |
2007 | 6,296 | 3% | 78 |
2008 | 6,586 | 5% | 80 |
2009 | 7,149 | 9% | 86 |
2010 | 6,767 | -5% | 80 |
2011 | 6,907 | 2% | 80 |
2012 | 6,821 | -1% | 79 |
2013 | 6,823 | 0% | 81 |
All prisons have procedures to identify, manage and support people who are at risk of harm to themselves. Prisoners at risk are subject to individual case management and receive support from prison staff, supplemented, where appropriate, by input from mental health services and a range of other sources such as peer supporters and the Samaritans.
Additional resources and support are being provided for safer custody work in prisons and in particular to improve the consistency of the application of the case management system for prisoners identified as at risk of self harm or suicide.