Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department issues on the rights of staff being compulsorily transferred to a new provider under the Prisoner Education Service procurement process to remain as a member of the public sector pensions scheme.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The pension protection for staff, who are currently members of a public sector pension scheme, and who may be compulsorily transferred, is subject to HM Treasury’s (HMT) review of the New Fair Deal guidance as set out in the Invitation to Tender ITT 7790 PES (Core Education) Contract Notice Prisoner Education Services Panel (Inc. Core Education) - Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk). The Secretary of State for Justice, will act in accordance with HMT position and any updated guidance issued, as set out in the Invitation to Tender.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 October 2023 to Question 202800 on Prisons: Education, how many and what proportion of prison education classes in HMP Five Wells did not go ahead due to a lack of (a) teachers and (b) prison officers in each of the last two quarters.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information collected on performance against the education contract does not include the number of classes cancelled. The table below shows the number and proportion of planned learner places lost in each of the first two quarters of 2023-24 at HMP Five Wells, HMP Garth, HMP Bristol, HMP Pentonville and HMP Ranby owing to a lack of teachers (Ed), or for operational reasons (Op). Operational reasons include, but are not limited to, staffing shortages.
Our improved Prisoner Education Service with specialist staff, tougher targets and increased focus on employment will be more effective at cutting crime and keeping the public safe. We have created a new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison, working hand in glove with the Governor to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
Prison | Places lost (Ed) Q1 | Places lost (Op) Q1 | Places lost (Ed) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Ed) Q2 | Places lost (Op) Q2 | Places lost (Ed) Q2 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q2 (%) |
Bristol | 8 | 258 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 552 | 1 | 36 |
Garth | 130 | 96 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 368 | 2 | 26 |
Five Wells | 84 | 374 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pentonville | 238 | 673 | 15 | 42 | 56 | 723 | 1 | 13 |
Ranby | 0 | 365 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 2 |
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 October 2023 to Question 202800 on Prisons: Education, how many and what proportion of prison education classes in HMP Pentonville did not go ahead due to a lack of (a) teachers and (b) prison officers in the last two quarters.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information collected on performance against the education contract does not include the number of classes cancelled. The table below shows the number and proportion of planned learner places lost in each of the first two quarters of 2023-24 at HMP Five Wells, HMP Garth, HMP Bristol, HMP Pentonville and HMP Ranby owing to a lack of teachers (Ed), or for operational reasons (Op). Operational reasons include, but are not limited to, staffing shortages.
Our improved Prisoner Education Service with specialist staff, tougher targets and increased focus on employment will be more effective at cutting crime and keeping the public safe. We have created a new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison, working hand in glove with the Governor to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
Prison | Places lost (Ed) Q1 | Places lost (Op) Q1 | Places lost (Ed) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Ed) Q2 | Places lost (Op) Q2 | Places lost (Ed) Q2 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q2 (%) |
Bristol | 8 | 258 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 552 | 1 | 36 |
Garth | 130 | 96 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 368 | 2 | 26 |
Five Wells | 84 | 374 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pentonville | 238 | 673 | 15 | 42 | 56 | 723 | 1 | 13 |
Ranby | 0 | 365 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 2 |
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 October 2023 to Question 202800 on Prisons: Education, how many and what proportion of prison education classes in HMP Garth did not go ahead due to a lack of (a) teachers and (b) prison officers in the last two quarters.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information collected on performance against the education contract does not include the number of classes cancelled. The table below shows the number and proportion of planned learner places lost in each of the first two quarters of 2023-24 at HMP Five Wells, HMP Garth, HMP Bristol, HMP Pentonville and HMP Ranby owing to a lack of teachers (Ed), or for operational reasons (Op). Operational reasons include, but are not limited to, staffing shortages.
Our improved Prisoner Education Service with specialist staff, tougher targets and increased focus on employment will be more effective at cutting crime and keeping the public safe. We have created a new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison, working hand in glove with the Governor to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
Prison | Places lost (Ed) Q1 | Places lost (Op) Q1 | Places lost (Ed) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Ed) Q2 | Places lost (Op) Q2 | Places lost (Ed) Q2 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q2 (%) |
Bristol | 8 | 258 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 552 | 1 | 36 |
Garth | 130 | 96 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 368 | 2 | 26 |
Five Wells | 84 | 374 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pentonville | 238 | 673 | 15 | 42 | 56 | 723 | 1 | 13 |
Ranby | 0 | 365 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 2 |
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 October 2023 to Question 202800 on Prisons: Education, how many and what proportion of prison education classes in HMP Bristol did not go ahead due to a lack of (a) teachers and (b) prison officers in the last two quarters.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information collected on performance against the education contract does not include the number of classes cancelled. The table below shows the number and proportion of planned learner places lost in each of the first two quarters of 2023-24 at HMP Five Wells, HMP Garth, HMP Bristol, HMP Pentonville and HMP Ranby owing to a lack of teachers (Ed), or for operational reasons (Op). Operational reasons include, but are not limited to, staffing shortages.
Our improved Prisoner Education Service with specialist staff, tougher targets and increased focus on employment will be more effective at cutting crime and keeping the public safe. We have created a new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison, working hand in glove with the Governor to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
Prison | Places lost (Ed) Q1 | Places lost (Op) Q1 | Places lost (Ed) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Ed) Q2 | Places lost (Op) Q2 | Places lost (Ed) Q2 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q2 (%) |
Bristol | 8 | 258 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 552 | 1 | 36 |
Garth | 130 | 96 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 368 | 2 | 26 |
Five Wells | 84 | 374 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pentonville | 238 | 673 | 15 | 42 | 56 | 723 | 1 | 13 |
Ranby | 0 | 365 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 2 |
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 19 October 2023 to Question 202800 on Prisons: Education, how many and what proportion of prison education classes in HMP Ranby did not go ahead due to a lack of (a) teachers and (b) prison officers in the last two quarters.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information collected on performance against the education contract does not include the number of classes cancelled. The table below shows the number and proportion of planned learner places lost in each of the first two quarters of 2023-24 at HMP Five Wells, HMP Garth, HMP Bristol, HMP Pentonville and HMP Ranby owing to a lack of teachers (Ed), or for operational reasons (Op). Operational reasons include, but are not limited to, staffing shortages.
Our improved Prisoner Education Service with specialist staff, tougher targets and increased focus on employment will be more effective at cutting crime and keeping the public safe. We have created a new Head of Education Skills and Work roles in every prison, working hand in glove with the Governor to provide tailored education plans to meet the needs of their jail.
Prison | Places lost (Ed) Q1 | Places lost (Op) Q1 | Places lost (Ed) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q1 (%) | Places lost (Ed) Q2 | Places lost (Op) Q2 | Places lost (Ed) Q2 (%) | Places lost (Op) Q2 (%) |
Bristol | 8 | 258 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 552 | 1 | 36 |
Garth | 130 | 96 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 368 | 2 | 26 |
Five Wells | 84 | 374 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pentonville | 238 | 673 | 15 | 42 | 56 | 723 | 1 | 13 |
Ranby | 0 | 365 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 2 |
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prison education classes did not go ahead due to a lack of (a) teachers and (b) prison officers in each of the last four quarters.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The information requested is not collated centrally, and could not be compiled without incurring disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Written Statement of 13 July 2023 entitled Justice system update, HCWS941, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of and (b) cost to the public purse of closed-grade prison officers leaving employment since 1 April 2023.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
From 1 April to 30 June 2023, 94 closed-grade prison officers left the prison service. The Department does not make a specific assessment of the cost to the public purse of closed-grade prison officers leaving the prison service.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 23 March 2023, Official Report, column 1850, if he will provide a breakdown of financial expenditure within (a) the core programme and (b) special development strategies of the prison education budget.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The prison education budget is broken down as follows: (a) the core programme is £115.7 million, and (b) special development strategies is Dynamic Purchasing System (niche and short-term initiatives): £10.4 million, Information, Advice and Guidance: £7.6 Million, Library (non-Prison Education Framework): £5.8 million, Grants (Open University/ Prisoners Education Trust): £1.2 million, OFSTED: £1.4 million, Virtual Campus: £1.4 million.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of exclusions of prison staff from a prison have led to prosecutions in each of the last four years broken down by role of those staff.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.