Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to remove foreign national offenders from prisons to their home countries.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
It is right that foreign criminals who break our laws are properly punished but this shouldn't be at the expense of the British taxpayer. This government has a longstanding policy to do everything possible to return foreign prisoners to their home country at the earliest opportunity. Since 2010, 29,000 foreign national offenders have been removed from the UK and the foreign national offender’s total population in our prisons is reducing, falling from 10,866 in December 2010 to 9,895 in December 2015.
As announced in the Prime Minister’s speech on 8 February, my officials have been working closely with the Home Office to introduce a legal requirement for defendants appearing in court to provide their name, date of birth and nationality. This will enable earlier identification of foreign national offenders and help with the removals process.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effects on children and families of the parental orders procedure following surrogacy arrangements.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Government has made no such assessment. Parental orders provide a mechanism to enable a couple who have entered into a surrogacy arrangement to become that child’s legal parents. There is no obligation to obtain a parental order but a couple who commission a surrogacy arrangement are advised and encouraged to do so in order to achieve a recognisable transfer of parenthood in the UK. In deciding whether to exercise its discretion and award a Parental order, the court has regard to all the facts of the case and the overriding importance of the welfare of the child throughout their life.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to give greater support to people with mental health vulnerabilities who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
Liaison and Diversion services place clinical staff at police stations and courts to assess and identify offenders for a range of health problems, including mental health, and then make referrals to treatment and support services. Information about their health needs can be shared so that court proceedings, decisions and sentences can be tailored to meet needs. Where appropriate offenders can be diverted towards appropriate interventions.
In April 2014, services were launched in 10 trial areas, and extended in April 2015 to a further 15 areas. This brings current coverage to over half of England. We are also exploring how problem-solving courts can support people with complex needs. A working group has been established in partnership with the judiciary which will make recommendations in due course.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of self-harm and self-inflicted deaths among young people in custody.
Answered by Andrew Selous - Second Church Estates Commissioner
The safety and welfare of young people in custody is vital and we are clear that reducing the level of self-inflicted deaths is of utmost importance.
We have improved the assessment of young people’s risks and needs when they enter custody. We have also improved the specifications for Secure Training Centre and Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) to place an increased emphasis on the management of self-harm and suicide including ensuring the appropriate skills and training of staff are in place to meet the needs of young people.
In YOIs we have introduced new psychological services to better inform risk management and support those detained.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defibrillators are provided in each building his Department manages.
Answered by Mike Penning
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of driving without insurance were fined in Brigg and Goole constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mike Penning
The maximum penalty for the offence of driving without insurance is a level 5 (£5,000) fine. The information requested is not held by parliamentary constituency.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cellular devices have been confiscated from prisons in each of the last five years by establishment.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
Since April 2010, prisons have been asked to send all unauthorised phones and SIM cards found to a central unit for interrogation, or to notify the unit if an unauthorised phone or SIM card has been found but not sent for analysis. Data prior to April 2010 is not held centrally and data for 2013 and 2014 is being verified and is not yet available.
The table below shows the number seizures of mobile phones and/or SIM cards reported by each prison between April 2010 and December 2012. One seizure may constitute a handset containing one SIM card or media card, a handset only, or a SIM card only.
ESTABLISHMENT | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
ACKLINGTON | 54 | 28 | |
ALBANY | 3 | 4 | |
ALTCOURSE (C) | 790 | 609 | 534 |
ASHFIELD(C) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ASHWELL | 2 | 7 | |
ASKHAM GRANGE | 2 | ||
AYLESBURY | 278 | 97 | 29 |
BEDFORD | 27 | 55 | 29 |
BELMARSH | 15 | 25 | 9 |
BIRMINGHAM | 248 | 537 | 302 |
BLANTYRE HOUSE | 19 | 12 | 4 |
BLUNDESTON | 27 | 1 | 11 |
BRINSFORD | 12 | 76 | 45 |
BRISTOL | 54 | 33 | 26 |
BRIXTON | 46 | 67 | 28 |
BRONZEFIELD(C) | 34 | 12 | 3 |
BUCKLEY HALL | 11 | 22 | 149 |
BULLINGDON | 42 | 16 | 6 |
BULLWOOD HALL | 1 | 8 | 15 |
BURE | 5 | 1 | |
CAMP HILL | 98 | 52 | 22 |
CANTERBURY | 22 | 10 | 21 |
CARDIFF | 19 | 36 | 7 |
CASTINGTON | 10 | 11 | |
CHANNINGS WOOD | 64 | 63 | 15 |
CHELMSFORD | 42 | 38 | 11 |
COLDINGLEY | 37 | 52 | 42 |
COOKHAM WOOD | 6 | 1 | 1 |
DARTMOOR | 27 | 16 | 2 |
DEERBOLT | 3 | 15 | 2 |
DONCASTER(C) | 15 | 6 | 24 |
DORCHESTER | 20 | 14 | 8 |
DOVEGATE (C) | 5 | 24 | 15 |
DOVER | 14 | 21 | 10 |
DOWNVIEW | 5 | 5 | 2 |
DRAKE HALL | 10 | 2 | 3 |
DURHAM | 24 | 41 | 23 |
EAST SUTTON PARK | 1 | 5 | 4 |
EASTWOOD PARK | 3 | 9 | 1 |
EDMUNDS HILL | 25 | 22 | |
ELMLEY | 45 | 47 | 53 |
ERLESTOKE | 62 | 176 | 137 |
EVERTHORPE | 50 | 32 | 26 |
EXETER | 14 | 21 | 15 |
FEATHERSTONE | 39 | 29 | 133 |
FELTHAM | 84 | 65 | 45 |
FORD | 61 | 250 | 200 |
FOREST BANK (C) | 122 | 37 | 105 |
FOSTON HALL | 1 | 2 | |
FRANKLAND | 6 | 2 | 7 |
FULL SUTTON | 10 | 4 | 9 |
GARTH | 76 | 32 | 39 |
GARTREE | 14 | 22 | 65 |
GLEN PARVA | 2 | 4 | 8 |
GLOUCESTER | 1 | 4 | 3 |
GRENDON | 17 | 10 | 3 |
GUYS MARSH | 77 | 182 | 175 |
HASLAR | 2 | ||
HATFIELD | 10 | 58 | 154 |
HAVERIGG | 107 | 134 | 291 |
HEWELL | 76 | 289 | 335 |
HIGHDOWN | 23 | 68 | 49 |
HIGHPOINT | 80 | 55 | 180 |
HINDLEY | 1 | 4 | 6 |
HOLLESLEY BAY | 193 | 129 | 90 |
HOLLOWAY | 7 | 7 | 10 |
HOLME HOUSE | 18 | 15 | 5 |
HULL | 23 | 25 | 13 |
HUNTERCOMBE | 2 | 36 | 9 |
ISIS | 8 | 52 | 39 |
KENNET | 4 | 5 | 9 |
KINGSTON | 6 | ||
KIRKHAM | 273 | 390 | 493 |
KIRKLEVINGTON GRANGE | 13 | 15 | 19 |
LANCASTER CASTLE | 18 | ||
LANCASTER FARMS | 89 | 79 | 25 |
LATCHMERE HOUSE | 69 | 40 | |
LEEDS | 53 | 59 | 27 |
LEICESTER | 27 | 26 | 15 |
LEWES | 38 | 46 | 30 |
LEYHILL | 83 | 27 | 30 |
LINCOLN | 28 | 33 | 4 |
LINDHOLME | 164 | 96 | 145 |
LITTLEHEY | 13 | 34 | 4 |
LIVERPOOL | 138 | 118 | 88 |
LONG LARTIN | 12 | 31 | 77 |
LOW NEWTON | 3 | ||
LOWDHAM GRANGE (C) | 27 | 10 | 26 |
MAIDSTONE | 6 | 34 | 22 |
MANCHESTER | 41 | 36 | 23 |
MOORLAND | 111 | 65 | 13 |
MOORLAND OPEN | 10 | ||
MORTON HALL | 4 | 5 | |
MOUNT | 86 | 78 | 182 |
NEW HALL | 2 | 1 | |
NORTH SEA CAMP | 86 | 63 | 67 |
NORTHALLERTON | 7 | 3 | |
NORTHUMBERLAND | 9 | 15 | 109 |
NORWICH | 30 | 15 | 11 |
NOTTINGHAM | 11 | 38 | 17 |
OAKWOOD | 33 | ||
ONLEY | 53 | 68 | 65 |
PARC(C) | 32 | 79 | 16 |
PARKHURST | 6 | 8 | 20 |
PENTONVILLE | 207 | 199 | 124 |
PETERBOROUGH(C) | 141 | 145 | 60 |
PORTLAND | 24 | 6 | 11 |
PRESCOED | 2 | 4 | |
PRESTON | 18 | 15 | 9 |
RANBY | 90 | 124 | 300 |
READING | 12 | 25 | 7 |
RISLEY | 72 | 12 | 37 |
ROCHESTER | 6 | 10 | 23 |
RYE HILL(C) | 42 | 79 | 70 |
SEND | 3 | 12 | 11 |
SHEPTON MALLET | 3 | 7 | 4 |
SHREWSBURY | 3 | ||
SPRING HILL | 12 | 13 | 34 |
STAFFORD | 12 | 69 | 14 |
STANDFORD HILL | 150 | 186 | 127 |
STOCKEN | 26 | 12 | 30 |
STOKE HEATH | 8 | 28 | 19 |
STYAL | 7 | 7 | 9 |
SUDBURY | 72 | 120 | 124 |
SWALESIDE | 100 | 58 | 107 |
SWANSEA | 2 | 1 | |
SWINFEN HALL | 32 | 44 | 14 |
THAMESIDE | 8 | ||
THORN CROSS | 74 | 79 | 84 |
USK | 2 | 1 | 1 |
VERNE | 67 | 144 | 161 |
WAKEFIELD | 1 | 2 | 3 |
WANDSWORTH | 157 | 131 | 119 |
WARREN HILL | 5 | 10 | 5 |
WAYLAND | 20 | 30 | 17 |
WEALSTUN | 57 | 145 | 155 |
WELLINGBOROUGH | 61 | 195 | 181 |
WERRINGTON HOUSE | 12 | 4 | 9 |
WETHERBY | 5 | 3 | 5 |
WHATTON | 9 | 1 | |
WHITEMOOR | 18 | 28 | 17 |
WINCHESTER | 39 | 3 | 31 |
WOLDS(C) | 104 | 96 | 44 |
WOODHILL | 4 | 58 | 74 |
WORMWOOD SCRUBS | 141 | 267 | 39 |
WYMOTT | 58 | 50 | 11 |
Total | 6756 | 7789 | 7301 |
All figures provided have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with mobile telephone operators on operators terminating accounts shown to be illegally active within the HM prison estate.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
On 5 March 2014, together with my hon Friend the member for Staffordshire Moorlands, I met with representatives from the major mobile phone network operators as part of a new government-industry working group to discuss ways to tackle illicit mobile phone use in prisons. Since that meeting, the National Offender Management Service is continuing to work with the networks to further explore options for disabling mobile phones proven to be operating in prisons.
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many police cautions were issued in Brigg and Goole constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Damian Green
Information on cautions is not held by parliamentary constituency
Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to roll out mobile telephone blocking technology across HM prisons estate.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
The National Offender Management Service is committed to addressing the risks that mobile phones present in prisons. Part of its response is to deploy technology in prisons that prevents mobile phones from working.
In 2012 the government enacted the Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Act 2012. The Act places the use of mobile phone signal interference technology in prisons on a clear legal footing, enabling maximum use of such technology and to enable private prisons to use it.
A number of prisons are equipped with ‘fixed' (as opposed to ‘portable') signal interference technology. Since 21 October 2013 around 300 short-range portable blockers have been deployed to 88 public sector prisons.