Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for which budgets are agreed.
Answered by Mike Freer
The MoJ does not devolve any spending programmes.
However, the MoJ does provide grant funding as below:
Budgeted Grants Figures 2022/2023 | |
Grant type | Amount |
YOT | £88,483,459.00 |
PCC | £136,527,593.19 |
Section 31 | £5,930,576.00 |
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Leader of the House on the timing of the second reading of the Bill of Rights Bill.
Answered by Mike Freer
The Deputy Prime Minister has met with the Leader of the House of Commons, in the course of his duties to discuss all Parliamentary Business for the Ministry of Justice. Business in the House will be announced in the usual way through Business Statements by the Leader of the House of Commons and the Bill of Rights is poised to return to the House for its Second Reading as soon as Parliamentary time allows.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will (a) list the spending programmes his Department devolves for administration to local government in England and other local spending bodies and (b) specify the value for each programme for every year for which budgets are agreed.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
MoJ provides the majority of its funding directly to services with a limited amount of funding going to bodies and local authorities for administration. Where we do make payments to local authorities for activities, such as grants to Youth Offending Teams, we do not consider these to be funding for programmes.
We do provide funding to bodies such as the Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales which cover a wide range of activities to support Victims Services such as Pre-Trial support and funding to Independent Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse Advisors.
We are currently working through the departments financial budget allocations and therefore are not in a position to confirm plans for future spend.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the UK spends on prisons as a proportion of GDP in the 2017-18 financial year; and how that figure compares to the (a) G7 and (b) EU average.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Ministry of Justice is responsible for prisons in England and Wales only and does not hold or collate overall UK prison spend. Responsibility for prisons in Scotland and Northern Ireland lies with the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive respectively.
For prisons in England and Wales the overall resource expenditure, which includes net expenditure met at regional or national level, recorded in the annual accounts of HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) for financial year 2017-18 was £3,180,266,865. This includes public and contracted prisons.
The Ministry does not collate or hold direct economic or international comparisons for these figures.
GDP data is held for the UK as a whole. As prison spend and GDP information are held on different bases it is not possible to use HMPPS prison spend to estimate the proportion of GDP spent on prisons for England and Wales. The Office for National Statistics reports a nominal, seasonally adjusted UK figure of £2,059,331m as at 9 November 2018 which can be used as context. This information can be accessed at:
Additional information on prison expenditure for prisons can be accessed on the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each financial year on the www.gov.uk website. The most recent published figures for financial year 2017-18 can be accessed via the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-performance-statistics-2017-to-2018.
GDP data is also available from the Office of Budget Responsibility and can be accessed on their website at: https://obr.uk/data/.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings that Ministers of his Department have had with representatives of the Legatum Institute in the last 12 months.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
There has been one meeting between current Ministers of the Ministry of Justice and representatives of the Legatum Institute in the past 12 months.
I attended a dinner on prison reform on 31 October 2017. The event took place at the Legatum Institute but was hosted and organised by Catch22, a not-for-profit business. Danny Kruger, a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute, attended this meeting.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in UK prisons were convicted of terrorism-related offences; and how many of those prisoners are scheduled for release in the next (a) six months, (b) year, (c) three years and (d) five years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The information requested is set out in the attached table. The statistics relate to England and Wales only. Other jurisdictions are not the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in UK jails were convicted of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000; and how many of those prisoners may be scheduled for release in the next (a) six months, (b) year, (c) three years and (d) five years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The information requested is set out in the table below. The statistics relate to England and Wales only. Other jurisdictions are not the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.
Table 1: Convicted prison population with their main offence(1) under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000; England & Wales, as at 31 March 2017 |
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Table 2: Convicted prison population with their main offence(1) under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000, by release date band; England & Wales, as at 31 March 2017 | |||||||||||
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Scheduled for release within: |
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Six months of 31 March 2017 (before 02 October 2017) | 5 |
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12 months of 31 March 2017 (before 01 April 2018) | 10 |
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3 years of 31 March 2017 (before 01 April 2020) | 25 |
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5 years of 31 March 2017 (before 01 April 2022) | 27 |
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Other(2) | 6 |
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- Have been convicted but not yet sentenced (and so do not have a scheduled release date) |
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- Have a scheduled release date after 31 March 2022 |
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Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether it is her policy to sign protocol 16 of the European Court of Human Rights, as set out after the Brighton Declaration.
Answered by Oliver Heald
Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights creates an optional system by which the highest national courts can choose to seek advisory opinions on the interpretation of the rights and freedoms under the Convention from the European Court of Human Rights. It will come into force once it has been ratified by ten High Contracting Parties to the Convention, and will apply only to those countries that have ratified it. It has so far been ratified by six countries.
The Brighton Declaration on the reform of the Strasbourg Court covered a range of important measures and was a proud achievement for the United Kingdom. The Government of the day expressed its pleasure that it could help secure agreement for an optional system on advisory opinions in the Brighton Declaration for those States wishing to pursue the idea. However, the Government then and now has been clear that it is unconvinced of the value of advisory opinions, particularly for addressing the fundamental problems facing the Court and the Convention system. The Government therefore plans neither to sign nor ratify Protocol 16 at this time. If and when Protocol 16 comes into force, we shall instead observe how the system operates in practice, having regard particularly to the effect on the work load of the Court, and to how the Court approaches the giving of opinions.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the implications of adopting advisory status of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights for UK membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Answered by Oliver Heald
Protocol 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights creates an optional system by which the highest national courts can choose to seek advisory opinions on the interpretation of the rights and freedoms under the Convention from the European Court of Human Rights. It will come into force once it has been ratified by ten High Contracting Parties to the Convention, and will apply only to those countries that have ratified it. It has so far been ratified by six countries.
The Brighton Declaration on the reform of the Strasbourg Court covered a range of important measures and was a proud achievement for the United Kingdom. The Government of the day expressed its pleasure that it could help secure agreement for an optional system on advisory opinions in the Brighton Declaration for those States wishing to pursue the idea. However, the Government then and now has been clear that it is unconvinced of the value of advisory opinions, particularly for addressing the fundamental problems facing the Court and the Convention system. The Government therefore plans neither to sign nor ratify Protocol 16 at this time. If and when Protocol 16 comes into force, we shall instead observe how the system operates in practice, having regard particularly to the effect on the work load of the Court, and to how the Court approaches the giving of opinions.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what her policy is on remaining a (a) signatory to the European Court of Human Rights and (b) fully participant in the court structure of that Convention.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The Government has no plans to withdraw from the ECHR.